TylerDurden

Impressive.

I have no idea what other words may or may not have been used. I am not on X/Twitter. But I'm sure that you're aware that people can say and do racist things even if they don't intend them to be racist, right? A person can say racist things and have no idea that those things are racist because their life experiences haven't shown them that they are indeed racist. It might mean that there isn't malicious intent, but those things are still racism. Some might view a situation like this as an opportunity to learn about the historical use of the words of phrases they write on their favorite social media platform and change the way they react to future events, others will brush it off as no big deal. Some will be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to passive/subtle and not-so-subtle uses of racist language, others won't. It's up to each person to make these decisions for themselves. I personally try to treat people with the same respect and dignity that I'd like to treated with. I'm going to give grace to people and allow them to be human and make mistakes, but I can still identify when people are using racist language and condemn it regardless of their intent.

Why not both? Parents are the worst thing about youth sports - regardless of the sport.

I lived in St. Louis for a few years a little more than a decade ago. The only people calling it "The Lou" or any version of that were the people in charge of trying to attract tourists (or their PR firms anyway). I'm sure they thought it was catchy. I thought it was stupid, because the Lou (loo) isn't an appealing thing for most people. The crappy town jokes ensued.

Correct. I have it on pretty good authority that one recent top recruit had multiple $100k+ offers, ultimately selecting a school that offered in the $150k range. What do those numbers mean? Tough to say how they were structured or what ultimately came to fruition, but there's definitely a market for top guys. The proven commodities (transfers) likely will continue to attract higher values.

I'm all for unlimited transfers.

Careful. I suggested the same thing and was told there's no chance Cael would ever do something like that because he didn't explicitly say that was the reason for holding Brooks out in a presser.

He needs to call Spencer Lee for some advice. You don't need an ACL to win an NCAA title.

I'm assuming it was to suggest that the match was close because of familiarity.

This is the correct answer.

No. I'm not joking. Coaches say a lot of things, that doesn't make them true or the actual reason for a decision.

I could be wrong, but I wouldn't be shocked if Cael was letting Beard have a moment during a dual at Rec Hall that was never in doubt.

Was last year's freshman class at Ohio State not ranked number one?

I'll admit I was concerned about the weight jump, but Mendez has been fantastic so far at 141. That's a really nice early-season win. That kid has a bulldog mentality.

College wrestling is fun

This is starting to feel like Decatur2.0

Whether or not this consideration is worth $4 million, I don't know, but how many awards vendors/manufacturers can handle the NCAA's awards volume? They can't just run into the local shop and ask for Little League trophies. I'm sure they get gouged, but if there are only a few vendors who can fulfill your order, those vendors do have some leverage. It could be even worse if they have a exclusive agreement with a vendor and no one bothered to list price ranges/restrictions, i.e., a bad contract. Either way and for whatever reason, it stinks to lose a trophy.

Is Hendrickson healthy?

Did he flop or was it a scramble? I'm confused now. I have so many questions: If only one guy is scrambling, is it a scramble? If one guy lets another guy roll to his back, is it a scramble? If you try to create a scramble but no scramble happens, is it a scramble? If no one claims that it was a turn, can they be pretending it was? If the top guy doesn't secure the bottom man, can he pin him? Did he pin himself?

This is not a scramble. Labriola had been ridden for nearly a minute at that point. On the restart, he was trying to do something/anything against a guy who beat him in progressively more dominant fashion in every bout of their college careers, including a demoralizing defeat at the B1G championship less than two weeks before the NCAAs. Let's not frame this as if Labriola and Starocci were on level terms and one guy got caught. Back to the topic: Arnold isn't ready for Starocci, Twitter/X bravado aside. He might be able to keep the score closer than a tech fall by not engaging, holding and blocking - much like he did in the third period and most of the match against Feldkamp, but that doesn't mean the version we saw against Iowa State is in any way ready for Starocci.

Yep. Arnold managed one successful offensive attempt against Feldkamp, refused to take bottom and spend the third period stalling to run the clock out. If Arnold takes that approach against Starocci, he'd be destroyed or DQ'ed for stalling. He might think he wants some of Starocci, but that would end up worse than it did for Mason Parris when he thought he wanted some of Gable Steveson.

Worse. The Arnold I watched last night gets teched by Starocci.

Nah. Escobedo has won more B1G duals in his first five years than Goldman won in his last eight. Escobedo is 8-34 over his 5 years in the B1G. Goldman went 6-62 in his last 8 years, five of those were winless conference seasons. Goldman would beat the likes Bellarmine, Eastern Michigan and Manchester in duals.

It warms my heart to see how the rule change to a three-point takedown has people discussing the relative value of all things wrestling.

Can he make 65kg?