TylerDurden

To be fair, he pretty much called the only way Van Dee could score - through exchanges. He hit a seven-point move in the first period and put Davis in a chase position the rest of the match. He just did it on a counter instead of a bad shot.

You do have to appreciate the dedication of the fans selecting Nebraska to win four of the first five considering they didn't win four matches total against UNI.

There's a better chance Penn State shuts them out than there is Nebraska being up 15-0.

I feel like this is a text message exchange with my elderly mother.

It's part of the deal with B1G+. The Student U broadcasts are hands-on learning that happens to be broadcast on a relatively large outlet. It's also a way for BTN to make some money with a cheap broadcast production. Sometimes you get guys who know what they're talking about, but other times you'll get a complete noob. The only way you can "hold their collective feet to the fire" is to not subscribe.

Because that's what it is this year and it's where I would likely have projected Carroll's ceiling to be if he went to HWT as opposed to 197. Next year obviously could be different, of course. Feldman and Carroll were basically dead even as HS recruits. The difference is Feldman stayed in one spot, committed to HWT and has slowly grown into the weight class after his injury. Carroll went another direction. Call it a Tale of Two Tweeners. Carroll's body needs time to adapt to the lower weight and it may never adapt so that he's consistently able to perform at a high level. If it doesn't, we might see him at HWT anyway. Time will tell.

Perhaps and I think that might be a better weight class for him, but he'd basically be Feldman, but a tad shorter. Some some mid-to-low AA ceiling. He *could* adapt his body to either weight given time, but being as how his best weight is probably 97KG the cut to 197lbs isn't likely to be kind to him for at least this year. I think that's reflected in his results to date. Also, I think we sometimes forget how good DI wrestlers are and expect all of the top recruits to come in a dominate.

He's a tweener Edit: Didn't see the previous reply saying the same thing...but it's still true.

Can someone translate, please?

In no particular order: Nick Lee, Penn State Lincoln McIlravy, Iowa Ben Askren, Missouri Leroy Vega, Minnesota Reece Humphrey, Ohio State Chris Fleeger, Purdue Travis Lee, Cornell Ed Ruth, Penn State Jason Nolf, Penn State Spencer Lee, Iowa Alex Dieringer, Oklahoma State Logan Steiber, Ohio State Adam Tirapelle, Illinois There's a ton more I enjoyed watching.

You must be new to the internet.

I heard he wanted to go to a football school.

I'm not a PSU fan. The issue was that they dropped him to the No. 9 seed, which was as asinine now as it was then. It screwed up the entire bracket by punishing him (everyone else) for not wrestling twice (and the missing RPI). They didn't need to give him the No. 1 seed, but there wasn't a rational argument for him be the No. 9 even if you act like he wrestled and lost - which is what I said then and is still true today.

Agree about Sasso. It's a great story and I'm happy he's back competing, but with the way he looks right now, he's might not get an auto spot out of the B1G.

Interestingly enough, I think both Goldman and Escobedo tried/is trying to be more than a bottom feeder in different ways. Goldman hoped that podium finishes would lead to building a stronger team (it didn't - his dual record was abysmal, especially toward the end of his tenure). A top-down approach. Escobedo seems to be taking the opposite approach, while still trying to hit the home run in recruiting, by building the room depth. He's undoubtedly built more room depth than Goldman - which is a good thing - but the problem is that it still puts you in the bottom half of the B1G and the record is still something like 3-5 in duals. I mentioned this in the previous post, but unless there's a ton of money about to flow into IU Wrestling's NIL fund, they're going to have a hard time ever competing for high-end portal guys and recruits. At the current investment level, IU's ceiling is probably 8-9th at the B1Gs. Heck, they had 6 NCAA qualifiers last year and finished 12/14. They had more NCAA qualifiers than Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan State, Maryland, Northwestern and Illinois. Having said all of that, IU is now a football school and football money is huge, so you never know!