PencilNeck

Dumb idea. Those national trophies in a school's trophy case probably do some amount of good for recruiting, and they certainly enhance then NCAA brand overall. Also, theyve been adding sports over the years and even increasing the number of athletes in various sports who would be considered "all-americans" (another great brand/recruiting/marketing tool). Why take honors away? again, dumb.

I heard he was considering changing his name to Rick Resilite next year when the B1G network expands into more west coast TV markets...

Frightened Stallini assistant coach receives awards from North Carolina prior to the start of a 4:00 pm Dual meet (picture below). This picture taken at 3:59 pm. Looks like we know the reason why this meet started a couple of minute late of schedule...Yep. Stalling as usual. Unfortunately, his stalling prowess has failed to rub off on the Illinois team, as the U of I freshman squad managed to stay in control of this dual against UNC. North Carolina obviously still thinks of itself as a basketball school as their athletes misinterpreted the new 3 pt TD rule to mean that they would have to set up all of their shots with their feet planted outside the arc (that's actually just a circle, people!). When the refs punished that behavior with stalling citations, the tar heels resorted many instances of blood time to needlessly drag out the evening's inevitable conclusion. AOC was introduced at his little ring ceremony as a 5-time All-American. Most mortals can only stall their way to four of these, but apparently some people can stall so well as to get an entire NCAA tournament cancelled!

Let's not forget that comparing D3 studs to D1 studs is obviously going to be lopsided, but there are plenty of crappy D1 teams out there in basically every NCAA sport.

Maybe G.S. will ORS in order to drag this out into next year as well?

especially dropping down to the easiest weight!

I don't like the idea at all either, but you could only allow the 0 pt when it's in a restart where the offensive wrestler elects to go back to neutral.

sorry, just thought that given your handle, you'd be for the new rule as some have posited it might increase the amount of on-the-feet wrestling we see at the college level. I do think this short changes reversals to an extent, though a reversal followed by an escape is still net 1 point. This gimmick won't change many win/loss outcomes, so it's pretty minor except that we may see a lot more major decisions (a good thing), but yeah, this is not solving any real problems, so i agree completely with your first post. However, i don't think it's causing any problems either.

So, neutral is down on the 3 pt TD. I guess I'll just have to defer to your judgement. Thanks for staying on top of this issue.

You'd think more short but decent wrestlers would consider converting to a sport like basketball where lower height guys are typically underrepresented. I know that there's a stigma being a pumpkin pusher (especially this time of year), but there are just so many scholarships available there, and can you imagine what an athlete like Brooks could do for PSU's below-the-rim game?

Nelson?

weighing in involves stepping up onto a scale and holding still for five seconds. The 30-60 minutes of jogging around in a sweat suit is completely optional, and actually not recommended if you can avoid it.

If that's a problem, the kid can always, you know, wrestle one weight class higher. But that conflicts with his goals of cutting a ton of weight! Ah, the matside weigh ins are meant to discourage cutting weight Why would you want to discourage that?

I don't know is working mat 3.

Probably easy enough to shift one parent volunteer from the concession stand to do the weigh-in table since there will be a lower demand for nachos.

don't lose the first round of a tournament if you don't want to be making weight that many times. also, remember that now everyone is presumable wrestling at a more natural weight, so making weight shouldn't really be a chore at this point.

I was proposing 1 pound total until finals, not for each round. again, just an idea. skip the allowance alltogether if that's better you could do weight ins while you are on deck, not necessarily immediatly prior to match good athletes won't be missing weight, and if they do, they will learn to cut less. coaches and athletes would figure it out.

its just an idea to allow for fluctuations. Why is there allowance now in the first place? I'm also fine with it without the allowance, but we tend to weight our lightest of the day first thing in the morning, or after an intense workout. Make wrestlers carry extra ankle bands and put them on prior to getting to the mat. Boom, you just saved your theoretical 3 minutes. I dont think there would me many more forfeits once people figured out how to plan for this. We already see medical forfeits in tourneys...maybe matside weight in would decrease those.

Matside weight ins are a good idea. For tournaments, you could have an allowance for subsequent rounds (1 pound for second round through semis, maybe an additional half to full pound for finals?). People in power probably like the idea of cutting weight, so it will never happen though.

I think many took issue with his comments on TV after winning the NCAA title this past spring.

Lots of athletes do multiple sports in high school and focus on one on college. Lots of athletes do sports in high school, but don't continue through senior year (seniors are often the smallest class on a team). The attrition starts well before college. Not everyone even goes to college! I can see why wrestling might have the lowest number just by my intuition that wrestling is probably one of the least fun sports to be mediocre to poor at when competing against better athletes. In a team sport, if you suck, you can sit on the bench, and get some minutes when your team plays a shitty team. In track, if you suck, you can lose, but still have fun and set a personal best. In wrestling, if you suck, you'll just mostly lose.

Has Bono signed off on this change?

Hello my name is Jimmy Pop and I'm a dumb white guy I'm not old or new, but middle school, fifth grade, like junior high

absolutely. but when you look at a lineup and see an athlete who has been wearing your team's singlet for over a year, is he a transfer or a returner?