Offthemat

How bout Konner Doucet? He didn’t win this weekend but kept it close with two big guys.

Surber wrestled Ferrari in their first ranking match. Ferrari won, but not by much. John Smith said he would find a way to get him on the mat. That turned out to be hwt. last year. Surber said he’s trying to break the habit of wrestling like a hwt. Looks like he managed well today. He beat Zack Elam at the Big12 Conference Tournament last year.

I understand and applaud the scheduling of the match, but not the venue nor broadcast. If is a big word. In defense of espn, the Fairfield-Quinnipiac game drew almost twice the attendance. I have no knowledge of Consuelo money or tv.

I thought it meant death, destruction, and mayhem.

Doing a good job D3.

Espnu carried the Fairfield-Quinnipiac game instead.

Televised? On pay per view? How big was that audience? I wonder why they bothered to have it at all. The announcer said the crowd was small.

Yeah, well, OSU had a backup for Blankenship.

Nobody’s intimidated to wrestle them at 125.

Now I’m hungry.

It’s out of the bag now.

Probably wasn’t for the snow.

I think if it was a season ending situation, they’d announce it. Otherwise, they won’t say much and they rarely, if ever, speculate

I see you’re not using the coach’s poll.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Yellow? Pages?

How did last year’s end of January rankings relate to actual results?

Tournaments account for the difference.

A healthy Mastro would have helped.

Yes, it was. I guess I’ll have to add that their away matches haven’t been stellar, either.

Sounds about right. I think they reviewed it, but it seems the Cowboys have had some questionable refs for their home matches.

And the added fact that not coming back out to shake hands cost his team a point.

I think that was the original rule. Not the ncaa, but Athens.

You’re right. I heard that and I won’t tell you what my reaction was. It was well described in a link in an earlier post. Iowa wrestling like PSU might step on a banana peel and PSU wrestling like that was okay with them. It was not the kind of match that would promote more interest in the sport. It was barely interesting to us replete connoisseurs, much less to the maddening crowds. Maybe it’s because it didn’t mean anything. Conference duals don’t mean anything anymore than non conference duals. The only thing that matters is the conference tournament, to a degree, and nationals.

That’s a timely good point because I was just going to suggest that because so many of today’s wrestlers can’t get in good enough condition to wrestle seven minutes, shorten the first period by one minute and have a 30 second break between each period. Let the wrestlers catch a breath and let the coaches coach.