TylerDurden

Cael's real genius is his roster management. He loses two national champs and one runner-up and I'm over here wondering if next season's team will be better than this one.

I agree with this line of thinking. While I have no doubt that many PSU and other wrestlers truly believe in God, studying religion/religious ideas/spirituality is also a tool that can help with self discipline and help people achieve a certain balance in their lives that might be beneficial to challenging endeavors. It's not the only way and it's not for everyone, but these ideologies come with ready-made material that make it easier to follow. Ever meet someone who is really into Yoga? A Buddhist? CrossFit enthusiasts (I kid, I kid, kinda).

Set that line right now for sig bets.

Where is NIL deal?

It absolutely is not. I can show you images of my neighbors' homes that were downwind, yet untouched as well as examples in other areas nearby, they were simply fortunate to be in a better topographic position and/or blessed by a sudden change in the wind pattern. I also can show you homes that were built with the latest fire-resistant materials with miles of buffer that ended up just like mine. But I have only spent the past three years learning about massive fires after living through it, seeing the aftermath and literally observing how the heat and wind patterns dictated what burnt and what didn't. I only saw the actual burn scars though, so clearly you know better because you saw a picture online.

I'm saying this with all due respect - you don't really know what you're talking about. The points you're trying to make are simply what armchair QBs do after the fact in attempt to assign blame. Nothing you mentioned would have stopped or slowed what is happening in California or what has happened in Colorado or elsewhere. During the Marshall Fire: 1. There were water reserves. Water reserves also don't matter is the distribution systems are damaged by the fire and the demand is wide spread and simultaneous. 2. The Open Space was well maintained. 3. Trust me, I know they're difficult to stop. You cannot prepare for something of that magnitude. I'm thankful that people's homes were spared, but it's far more likely they were spared because of the topography surrounding their homes. I'm now going to walk away from this thread because I don't want to type something out of anger that I'll regret later.

My house burned down in the Marshall Fire, near Boulder, in late December 2021. We lost everything but what we could fit in a duffle bag. EVERY-F*CKING-THING, including my high school headgear. I appreciate the things Le duke is saying here, because as much as people are pointing fingers, the reality is that there isn't any amount of water that will stop a fire when you combine high winds and drought with the sudden demand for all of the resources. The systems aren't designed to handle that sort of demand - and no one would support paying for a system that would. We had sustained winds for 10-11 hours, gusting consistently from 60-100 MPH and peaking at around 115 MPH. We hadn't had rain since August of that year. You know what stopped that fire? The approximately 8" of snow that dumped on us the next night. So yeah, it's a bit personal, but any of you acting like Newsom, Trump, Biden, or George Washington could have done anything to stop this are simply playing partisan politics with people's lives. I know it can seem fashionable to rail against everything the government does and you think your internet comments are cute, but I can assure you that you would change your tune about an agency like FEMA if your house and all your possessions were turned to ashes.

I'm taking Kerk by pinfall.

HOT TAKE: Penn State at home = a smackdown 125 Lilledahl dec Cruz, 3-0 PSU 133 Ayala dec Davis, 3-3 141 Bartlett dec Block, 6-3 PSU 149 Van Ness dec Parco, 9-3 PSU 157 Kasak dec Teemer, 12-3 PSU 165 Mesenbrink tech Caliendo, 17-3 PSU 174 Haines major Kennedy, 21-3 PSU 184 Starocci major Arnold, 25-3 PSU 197 Buchanan major Barr, 25-7 PSU HWT Kerkvliet pin Kueter, 31-7 PSU

The practice attire. They all aren't kitted up in UNI training gear like you see at Oklahoma State (and others) as seen in this Flo video: UNI doesn't have many creature comforts.

Flo posted this on YouTube: UNI seems to have a bunch of guys who have bought in. Easy group to cheer for. Grinding it out in a facility worse than many HS, no team gear...just wrestling. UNI Fight!

I can envision the Brands getting stuck and needing a different type of shovel. I retract my statement. Jokes aside, I appreciate the recruiting effort that puts them at his house for the social media-famous 5 a.m. workout out, regardless of the need for shoveling and/or the appropriate tools for the job.

I'm not arguing that Rivera sucks. They guy went 115-20 for his career and finished 6/3/4/3. He's very good. I just think Mendez is better.

Someone get these guys a snow shovel.

For sure. Rivera is/was very good. While I was just thinking about their relative collegiate levels, I'll also be pumped if Mendez ends up with Olympic medals. If he sticks at 65KG it will be tough, but Mendez does have a U20 World silver and impressive domestic wins against McKenna, Green, Yanni and Garrett (TF) at the US Olympic Trials last year, losing to Zain, 3-2.

I think this is the sort of rhetoric people take issue with regarding Feldman. No one is saying he's bad, but he's taken losses to guys many of us don't expect to be anywhere near NCAA titles, thus a reluctance to simply crown him as next in line. Case in point: the 2024 NWCA All-Star Classic. Yes, I know Ghadiali's out for the year.

The problem with this is that I'm not sure Mendez would take out Parco. I say this as a Mendez Stan. He's my favorite current NCAA wrestler to watch. He's a bulldog. He has sought out competition and has some really impressive results. When I read this, I had flashbacks to Rivera bumping up to wrestle Micic and getting absolutely worked over. On a relative scale, I think Mendez is better than Rivera, and Parco isn't quite as good a Micic, but he is a four-time AA and a title contender at 149. So while I don't think Mendez would be beaten like Rivera was, it's a tall task to ask him to bump up and beat a guy like Parco for a dual they aren't winning as a team anyway.

Dee

Ohio State has a wrestling team. They win.

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.

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.