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Did anyone really expect Iowa fans to run a recruit out of town over a sexual assault allegation when their head coach had one of those back when he was a recruit? So long as Ferrari beat the charges the assault wouldn't be the thing that keeps him off the mats in Iowa City.

It would be at least the third such mistake of Cael's tenure. First Bubba J. then Beard. I think his judgement was good here.

Discussion on the college forum about wrestlers dodging opponents during the regular season and coaches using this not to prevent a loss for seeding but rather as a method of keeping information from potential future competitors, reminded me of the match between Nick Simmons and Radoslav Velikov from the 2011 Ziolkowski tournament. Velikov, a Bulgarian, was world champion in 2006 and Nick Simmons had recently made his first world team. They wrestled in the tournament in a somewhat early round and Simmons pinned Velikov in a spladle. Simmons ended up finishing 5th in the tournament and like all USAW matches at the tournament it was posted on Youtube and also circulated other social media as Simmons pinning a world champ was a big result even if he failed to medal. The video of the match was later removed from YouTube and scrubbed from USAW's social media. The story at the time was that it was taken down at the behest of then national freestyle coach Larry Jones with the thinking that they didn't want potential opponents of Simmons at the 2011 World Championships seeing it and working out counter measures for Simmons's spadle. At the World Championships in 2011 Simmons pinned his second round opponent in a spladle before falling to Velikov in the semifinals and ultimately finishing 5th. I don't know that the video removal was a factor at all in his placement. I think he would have defeated the Moldovan in the second round regardless and his semifinal opponent, Velikov, didn't need the video to know about the spladle. Some 12-13 years hence I tried and couldn't find video of the Simmons-Velikov match from the 2011 Ziolkowski. It is available anywhere on the internet? Simmons's matches from worlds (second round spadle vs Moldova and semifinal vs Velikov) are readily available but not the spladle from Ziolkowski.

Pitt was up 6. Pitzer defaulted which made the final 20-20 and ASU held the advantage on criteria #2 (most 6 team points victories) giving them the dual. Not sure the score of the bought at the time of the default.

I am sure some coaches have used that line of thinking at times. I don't think it was a factor in Brooks not wrestling Beard nor Starocci not wrestling Griffith. The merit of the strategy hinges on whether or not you feel you will gain more knowledge of your opponent than they will of you and who you think is likely to make better use of the knowledge gained. Because the obvious other perspective is that it a risk for Starocci to take on someone as dangerous as Griffith for the first time on the biggest stage. Historically throughout his career Starocci has been the one that either reversed a result (Washington, Kemerer) or separated himself from his competition (Labriola, Lewis, Massa) in subsequent matches. I kind of think PSU might be immune to this kind of thinking. Nolf and Rasheed skipping matches were likely injury management more so than keeping tactics mysterious. I think Nick Lee missed Seabass in a dual a couple years ago, but that was COVID related. These most recent two are the most suspicious, but also unlikely. There is no obvious example of them doing it and there are tons of examples of PSU wrestlers dropping a match and then reversing the result at a later date, often on a bigger stage: Ed Ruth (Amuchastegui, Dean), Wright (Hamlin, Wilps), Joseph (Imar, Subjeck, Isaac Jordan, Lewis), Hall (Bo Jordan, Kemerer), Nickal (Jackson, Martin eventually), Cassar (White), RBY (DeSanto), Lee (Eiereman), Brooks (Venz, Amine), and Dean (Caffey). The best coaching staff in the country probably thinks if there is information to be gained they will likely gather more of it and make better use of it than the other guys.

The only other time I can think of a PSU wrestler missing a big match this season was in the Lehigh dual where Brooks didn't wrestle Michael Beard. At the time some people speculated Brooks skipped because he was wrestling in Senior Nationals/Olympic Trials Qualifier a week or so after that and focusing on freestyle. That ultimately didn't happen (Brooks didn't enter Senior Nationals) and I don't recall any alternative explanations like injury. I don't think the too many feels angle would be relevant for Beard, since being a former teammate, he likely wasn't lacking feels.

According to Starocci it was a combination of health complications and leveling up in life that kept him off the mat last night.

Why did the announcers make a point of when DeAugustino turned to face Davis? DeAugustino was on top! He is really in control of Davis standing with his back to him? Davis was facing him the entire time! It made no sense to show that freeze frame.

Jomboy is a YouTuber that primarily covers baseball, but has branched out into other sports after blowing up during the Astros cheating scandal. He is known for detailed fight breakdowns and lip reading. In a recently video he broke down the ending of the Glazier Ferrari match at the Soldier Salute. I think this is the first time he has done a breakdown for an NCAA wrestling match. In it he points out that Ferrari's strike after the match missed Glazier and actually struck the official. That was a detail that I had not previously realized and I don't think was pointed out by wrestling media. He also noticed an anomaly in the post match handshake. That Kabaddi sport he covers later in the segment looks interesting. Could be an interesting game to play in wrestling practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtclP75Y5Pk

Unclear from the go fund me if he was using one or not, but always use a jack stand before getting under a vehicle. Don't trust your life to a jack. If possible put some kind of backup in place too in case it falls off the jack stand. For example, if you are taking the wheel off to do the job, place the tire/wheel such that if the car falls off the jack stand it will hit that before it totally crushes you.

Past tense of expose. I image they were using it in one of the following ways. Though I guess I recalled incorrectly. CP exposed himself/Flo on CoC. 1. make (something) visible by uncovering it 2. reveal the true, objectionable nature of (someone or something). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YowvHASAdo

I think Navy has a better chance of finishing undefeated in duals this year than getting an AA. They might be a top 10 dual team without a top 10 wrestler on the team According to intermat they are the #15 dual team and they only have two wrestlers in the top 20; 149 (20) and 285 (13).

Tom has been known to extend a lifeline to a wrestler with a troubled past - DeSanto, Downey, Ferrari, etc. Not all of them ultimately ended up on the roster. He's also given a second chance to some wrestlers on the team that have found themselves in trouble - Stoll, Lofthouse, Dzewia, Meyer, ect. I don't think he has ever given a second chance to someone who he ultimately had to boot off the team. Downey never ended up on the roster and I don't think any of the Ferraris have yet. That fact might show the strength of his process. The fact that Brands initially had an open door for Ferrari might have less to do with desperation and more that he could relate to his situation. There was once a time when Tom Brands was a brash young man with a checkered past that included sexual assault allegations looking for a college wrestling program along with his equally talented and less troubled brother.

Wasn't he exposed by Clash of Combat a couple months ago?

Softball.

I wonder what this would have meant for the great Anthony Gizoni. I recall reading that he won an NCAA tournament without scoring an offensive takedown. He would deliberately let people take him down, and then reverse them with his signature move. That description is a little hyperbole as there was no such thing as points offensive or defensive back in his day. Matches were either won by fall or riding time/referees decision. Still I wonder if this kind of rule change would Dean Heil him or not.

What is the criteria for the Olympic redshirt? I'm a little surprised Facundo would be eligible. I thought they used to be pretty liberal in allowing anyone with a remote chance to get one. I recall guys like Pataky making use of them more out roster management than having a legit shot at the spot. The last two cycles I thought there was a pretty high bar like needing an age level medal or having made a former senior world team to qualify for one.

Before being absorbed into Flowresting, Rev Wrestling had college rankings that were "all division." They were mostly identical to just regular D1 rankings, but at most 5 or so wresters from lower divisions would be featured sometimes none at all. 285 was the weight with the most lower division wrestlers. There were several years 2004-2008 or so where a number of lower division wrestlers were featured (Les Sigman, Tervel Dlagnev, Ryan Allen, Blake Gillis). That is probably true in some cases, but perhaps not for Sigman and Dlagnev who both won Midlands wrestling at D2 schools. They both later made world teams wrestling against all the D1 heavies

I'm not sure how many kids he has. I put 5 exemptions into the calculator assuming a wife and three kids. He may have more. If he has a larger than average family he was likely spending more on average on housing in Chapel Hill and that will continue to be the case in Stillwater. You were asking about how it could only be 13% higher cost of living in spite of the 34-36% difference in housing costs, not Scott's specific situation. I used rent instead of the home purchase because it was a more straightforward calculation and it should illustrate how the math could work out. It is advised that housing payments should not account for more than 30% of a household's gross income and many people spend nearly all they make especially those near spending 30% on housing. If someone were spending 30% on housing and that went down by 36% (diff in home purchase cost) and the other 70% of their income was all spent on other stuff that didn't chance in price then their overall spending would only decrease by 11%. If some stuff went up and some went down, but more went down than went up perhaps 13.4% is not impossible. To calculate the cost of owning a home the purchase price doesn't tell the whole story since typically you can sell the house for what you paid for it and its not incredibly unusual to even be able to sell it for more than you paid. The only real costs that you cannot recover when you sell are maintenance, taxes, HOA fees, interest on any loan you used to purchase the property, insurance, closing costs, realtor commission, and opportunity cost in having so much $$ tied up in a home. It is unclear that if the purchase price decreased by 36% that all of those things would similarly decrease. Finally having to produce $47k more for a downpayment doesn't mean you had $47k more housing costs since your will likely get that $47K back when you sell. All you really lost was the opportunity to do something else with the $47k in the interim. I have a feeling that if Scott bought a home in Chapel Hill sometime around when he moved there in 2014 and sold it this past summer he does not kicking himself for wasting money on overpriced Chapel Hill real estate.

Ha that was the example Smith gave. "Enough to be able to fly fish" or something like that.

Maybe he got that fromo John Smith. The first several episodes of the Wrestling Changed my Life podcast were about the Smiths. In one John Smith said that he felt the comfort he had after he started making real money from the shoe deal, camps, and instructional VHS had a negative effect on his wrestling. After the loss in Cuba he set himself on a strict $1,000/month budget. Not poverty level, but not enough to make himself too comfortable. That would have been back in 1990 so it would be more like $2350/month adjusted for inflation. I wonder if he is going to do something similar this year. With his coaching performance slipping will he put himself on a strict $2,500/month budget to keep his edge and save the rest of his $500k salary.

There were a lot of other categories that were cut out and whilst the cost of a gallon of gas is less that doesn't mean your monthly spending on gas will be less. The average cost of gas in NYC is probably higher than Stillwater, but the average NYC resident probably buys far less gas. It's possible the average Stillwater resident drives more than the average Chapel Hill resident negating/partially negating the difference in gas prices. Bank rate says the average household in this country has an annual income of $94,000 and annual expenditures of about $73,000. The difference in rent was $530/month or $6,360/year. $6.360 is only 8.7% of the average American household's annual spending. Suppose other categories are split with some being 0-10% higher in Chapel Hill and a handful of others be 0-10% higher in Stillwater with all the other stuff being on average 5% higher in Chapel Hill that would more than do it. Keep in mind that a lot of stuff has nationwide pricing like electronics and more stuff is going that way because if its shippable and your charge more people will just order it online. An iPhone/PS5/MacBook costs the same in Stillwater and Chapel Hill, and New York City, and Los Angeles. For all items like this they will be more expensive in Stillwater where sales tax is 1.83% higher. Mobile phone plans also have nationwide pricing with the localization being limited to taxes, so I'm not sure how Stillwater has an 11% edge there maybe the taxes are different or they are including landlines. Below are some other categories.

It was on online calculator that I used. Here are the results from bank rate that says 13.4%. it says it takes into account taxes. They used $639k and $406k for home price and $1550 and $1020 for apartment rent in Chapel Hill and Stillwater respectively.

Similarly, Karchla MFFed out of the Clarion Open and Wrestlestat has his record at 4-1 only counting the Lewis loss.

I'm not sure about that. In this thread I posted his actual contract that ran through 2021. His base in that was $150k although he signed an addendum (also posted in this thread) cutting his base salary by 10% to $135k during COVID. I could not find his most recently contract. I think based upon various websites that had salary info his base was $170k in 2021-2022 and $180k in 2022-2023. I can't be 100% sure on that since no signed contract is publicly available for those years. I posted his actual contract. Some of that was in there for years up to 2020-2021. I suspect the head coach gets some benefits assistants/associates do not. At UNC he had a transportation benefit. The university was supposed to supply him with an automobile for personal use or a comparable annual stipend. He also had a bonus structure based on team/individual performance built in. Austin O'Connor won him $20k with his first NCAA title. Probably a similar amount with the second one. I don't think it is typical for assistants to get bonuses based on stuff like that or the academic progress/GPA of student athletes like what was in Scott's UNC contract. I suspect differences in insurance or retirement benefits don't really move the needle. If one has a dependent tuition benefit and the other does not that could make a difference. I think Scott has three kids and college is expensive, though I don't think any are real close to graduating high school yet. Such a benefit would be more valuable at UNC in my opinion. I looked this up and previously posted that the cost of living was 11.4% lower in Stillwater. lm not 100% sure what went into that but tax difference should be included. In any event the difference between state income tax between the two is not great. I put $160k married 5 exemptions into a calculator for both and NC was about $300 more. The effective rate was 4% in OK and 4.19% in NC. He would be in the highest bracket in either state which only differ by 0.24% (4.75% OK vs 4.99% NC). Sales tax is higher in Stillwater, 9.31%, vs 7.5% in Chapel Hill. Im not going to bother with property tax as that is most likely rolled into cost of housing. All of this should really be in the cost of living number. $180 in Chapel Hill is likely a wash with $160 in Stillwater taking into account cost of living.