Bigbrog

Someone's obsession with Trump is very disturbing. Man I can't imagine living my life so obsessed with another person that I couldn't talk about a single topic without bringing that persons name up...yikes!! Poster A: "What did you all think of the New Zeeland volcano documentary on Netflix?" Obsessed with Trump Poster: "Well it's Trumps fault, he colluded with the Russians and the big oil folks that caused the volcano to erupt!!!! TRUMP!!! TRUMP!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Good question...what I have found is when I read a story on either of the two websites (since I don't watch news on tv) i compare what the other site says about the same thing...then the key is to google it and find a source close to where said "thing" happened and it usually fills in the blanks and/or I can piece things from all the news sources I read to garner what is fact through all the opinion and narrative. There are news outlets online that are old school and just tell you the facts without interjecting their opinion...or my favorite ruse, their "analysis".

So, what I gathered from this 12-page thread is if you vote "D" you LOVED how twitter was run before Elon and defend it because "it is a private company" for all it's censorship, and post Elon you HATE how twitter is run, but seem to conveniently ignore the "it is a private company" thing...and thus you criticize Elon for doing the exact same thing Dorsey was doing. Here is a thought...if you don't like twitter, or it's owner, don't use it. If you want to hear nothing but left-wing crap, listen and read CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc....if you want to hear nothing but right-wing crap, listen and read Fox. If you are in the middle (like me), read both websites and then sit back and shake your head at the ridiculousness of each and how people just believe what they read...and I should say, believe the headlines they read. Just find it odd that someone would not want to think for themselves and would rather let a news outlet and/or a politician tell them how to think and act. And then get hostile and call people names because they think differently than you. SMH

All good...My bad for not being more clear. Go Bucks!

Just sharing my thoughts on the topic...there wasn't a question, or any further confusion on my part.

I had to think through this many times so my small brain could wrap my head around what some of you are saying as I am a believer that what sets wrestling apart from team sports is that the wrestler who beats the other guys on his team at a specific weight is the starter for that weight class...period. I think the guy who wins should get the spot, but also understand that if a guy beats a guy more times than not in the room and then loses a close one in the "wrestle off" some decisions would need to be made in who gets the spot. But I have to believe that it is very rare that a guy beats another guy in the room consistently, and in a "wrestle off" that they wouldn't get the starting spot.

Whole heartedly agree with this premise but let's think through what the real problem is and then solve for that. Once you do that you can use the simplest solution possible. I personally haven't heard what the real problem is...I've heard things that people like and don't like but that doesn't always mean something is a problem. Example...are we truly loosing numbers of wrestlers because of the redshirt process as it currently is? Are we loosing college programs because of the redshirt process? What does the data show in terms of correlation versus causation?

Is this argument more about the perceived "have's" and "have not's", or about redshirting?? To me those are two separate arguments and I find it hard to smoosh the two together, but that is just me. I am all for redshirting and really don't see what baring it is if your family comes from wealth, or it doesn't. People can argue all they want until they are blue in the face that this is somehow inherently "unfair" because of one's personal socio-economic situation...seems pretty illogical to base something that overwhelmingly seems like a good thing for college athletes (redshirting), because some may have a situation in which they come from a family that doesn't make as much money as another family. My family was very poor growing up, and I was the first to go to college on both sides of my family and had to take loans out, work a part time job and try and wrestle...never once did I think taking a redshirt benefited the rich kid, and it however somehow hurt me. Everyone's life situation is different, and I didn't begrudge the kids who had money, I instead focused on myself and what I had to do to better myself and my financial situation...whether there was redshirting allowed or it wasn't made no difference because of my lack of money in college, it did make a difference in how prepared kids were for doing athletics and academics in college regardless of income level...in a good way. As for the argument that even NIL is for the super elite and "the privileged" (sure like to know how you define that ), again NIL isn't inherently for or against anyone...it is there for anyone to take advantage of...just because one person may be better at marketing themselves than another person doesn't mean it isn't fair.

So you aren't denying it??

Enter a tournament and to the left of the screen you will see "My Wrestlers", that will allow you to set up alerts

Ugh...Michigan...now I don't even want to use it...

Seriously...sweet! I never knew that and will have to check it out.

Track is ten times better than areana from an end user's standpoint to view brackets, stats, seeding, different results views, etc., but the texting thing is a pretty cool feature that I wish track would incorporate.

So he wasn't a junior world FREESTYLE champion? Or because he was on more greco teams it negates the fact that...again...he was a junior world freestyle champion??

Am I seriously the only one sitting here giggling like a middle schooler and biting my tongue at this post???

I personally like the underdog...nothing against Carr as he is amazing, but Hamiti is just so exciting to watch and the obvious underdog.

I disagree...this isn't on the coach but rather the current state of affairs of college sports and the transfer portal. I would be more worried if a coach didn't take transfers and would rather stick with a kid that has a losing career record in college.

Agreed

I would think OSU would be a sought-after place to coach and would attract a lot of attention, but probably goes without saying that John will have a lot of say in the matter of who replaces him...seems to have earned that at least.

Is this the first official forum "squabble"??? So exciting!!

I think O'Toole will take a step up and further distance himself from an already amazingly talented field. Kid seems like one of those special athletes. Hope Spencer is healthy and wins it this year.

Would love to see Hamiti pull this off!

I agree...Ben is an amazing wrestling mind and love hearing him talk wrestling. But sometimes "celebrity/athletes" think just because they are uber smart in the sport they do, that translates over into other topics such as politics and other issues (ex. Ben, Labron, etc.) when in fact it does not...at all.