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I think it was an automotive joke which only lacked a theory about how Marco Vespa would join the team with them

funny but true

Is he too good to ride the pine? Maybe that's why they named him Ryder?

I've been to many Welsh bars

by similar logic, it didn't "make sense" for Dean to go there either with Beard as a freshman AA, but sometimes things happen.

My kids were lucky enough to have Jamill stop by their youth team practice and go through a couple of moves! Really nice guy and generous with his time, giving back to the community

I could be wrong but Rocco Welsh seems to be a higher pedigree talent than Zack Ryder (all due respect to Ryder). Who is Penn State to refuse an upgrade even at a position of strength?

I noticed in the finals he and Steveson both have the lion

good tattoos are not cheap. not sure how so many kids start college with an entire sleeve unless mommy and daddy were paying or they decided on tattoos instead of having a car or something with their summer jobs.

That's awesome!!!

If we are measuring this by cumulative quality wins - although he never made a finals - I would throw in Sebastian Rivera.

good to know thanks. any idea why he wrestled at 197 in tournaments last season? maybe he's working his way down?

Echemendia is coming back, and the Frost brothers are rumored to be bumping up even with Chittum and Swiderski leaving I think they still have a log jam 125: Meza / Castillo 133: Diversent / Grice 141: E Frost / J Frost 149: Echemendia / J Frost / Paniro 157: Paniro / K. Naaktgeboren 165: Euton / Riggins 174: Gaitan 184: T. Naaktgeboren 197: Bartelt 285: Bastida

I didn't save down at different points in time, but this is the completed list from last year: Transferring From COUNTA of Athlete NDSU 16 Buffalo 15 Iowa 10 Pitt 8 Columbia 8 Oregon State 7 Northern Colorado 7 Missouri 7 Oklahoma 6 Northern Illinois 6 Cal Baptist 6 Bloomsburg 6 Arizona State 6 Stanford 5 Oklahoma State 5 Nebraska 5 Michigan State 5 Lock Haven 5 Kent State 5 Iowa State 5 George Mason 5 Virginia Tech 4 Rutgers 4 Morgan State 4 LIU 4 Clarion 4 Chattanooga 4 Bucknell 4 App State 4 Wyoming 3 Wisconsin 3 Minnesota 3 Michigan 3 Davidson 3 CSU Bakersfield 3 Central Michigan 3 VMI 2 SIUE 2 Rider 2 Presbyterian 2 Penn 2 North Carolina 2 Navy 2 Lehigh 2 Franklin & Marshall 2 Edinboro 2 Drexel 2 Cornell 2 Campbell 2 American 2 Air Force 2 Western Wyoming College 1 West Virginia 1 Wartburg 1 Utah Valley 1 Sacred Heart 1 Queens 1 Penn State 1 Ohio State 1 Northwest College 1 North Idaho 1 NC State 1 Iowa Western 1 Indiana 1 Illinois 1 Gardner-Webb 1 Army 1 0 Grand Total 247

I copied and pasted Kozak's list into excel and ran a pivot table to show number of portal entrants per team: Transferring From COUNTA of Athlete Cleveland State 29 Campbell 15 Iowa State 8 Penn State 6 Little Rock 5 Pittsburgh 4 Ohio State 4 NC State 4 Virginia Tech 3 Rutgers 3 Rider 3 North Carolina 3 Missouri 3 Lock Haven 3 Kent State 3 Virginia 2 Sacred Heart 2 Princeton 2 ND State 2 Edinboro 2 Duke 2 CSU Bakersfield 2 Cornell 2 California Baptist 2 Buffalo 2 Bloomsburg 2 Binghamton 2 App State 2 Wyoming 1 Presbyterian 1 Oregon State 1 Nebraska 1 Navy 1 Morgan State 1 Michigan State 1 Michigan 1 Long Island 1 Iowa 1 Hofstra 1 Franklin & Marshall 1 Clarion 1 Chattanooga 1 Central Michigan 1 Bellarmine 1 Grand Total 138

Much more exhaustive list courtesy of Jon Kozak: https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/13994973-2025-ncaa-d1-wrestling-off-season-transfer-tracker

Kelin Laffey and Grant MacKay are in the portal from Pitt

If Spidle wants to do a 2 year program at Michigan for a masters, maybe he can use his redshirt for Ragusin's last year and then plan to start the year after? WrestleStat shows him using his redshirt during 2021 - which would not have been required for that year anyway.

I was curious about the progress made on the funding status. Anyone aware if they are close at all to the original 2 million dollar goal?

Camacho got hurt - if they give him a medical for last year, he could be back for season number 8 next year.

we are lucky to have him here honestly

Some are great at handling certain aspects of a program. Maybe he wasn't meant to be the overarching generalist.

They recruit very well though. Is that his doing or the doing of others? If its him that is influencing the recruiting success and he is interested in supporting the team in a role that steps back responsibilities, maybe they can accommodate that while promoting another fresh face to head coach. I'm not advocating for this but just brainstorming