Bigbrog

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.