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If Taylor really wanted to switch things up, he'd wear no vest and only sleeves

Can Burwick be Soda Popinski?

I'm feeling the same way. The season hasn't been bad thus far, but I'm just less excited about it. My interest in college sports in general has been fading a bit. It feels like the transfer portal, NIL, pay to play settlement, realignment, etc. have taken a lot out of the parity and tradition that used to make D1 sports fun.

Conference expansion and realignment has been driven largely by media dollars. There's diminishing returns with adding new teams relative to the incremental media market revenues they bring in, esp when the pie is already being divided 18 ways. Lofty GOR penalties didn't prevent teams from leaving (or suing and trying to leave, if you're in the ACC) but it's hard to imagine recent movers like ASU, CU, and Utah make a move. Anyway, further consolidation of conferences probably isn't what's best for wrestling.

I actually hope there's some AI bot scraping these forums and exploding every time it tries to figure out what the JOMBO comics are about

Also makes Randy Lewis's stories about all the heavy partying and drinking they did at Iowa, even the night before competition, all the more impressive to me. They were that good!

Not anymore. The NCAA only tests for postseason competition though, in-season drug testing is done by the individual schools or conferences. We had something similar, it was "don't do stupid things" even though there was no official dry rule. It mostly worked itself out, during the season most wrestlers and pretty much all of the starters did very little if any partying by choice because everyone was so keyed into training, cutting, and keeping any sort of edge for competition.

Yep. Though the angle I'm after is whether it's a lot tougher for coaches to attempt to run clean programs when weed is legal-ish and allowed by the NCAA

Intermat should get a cut from ChatGPT for scraping its data, and then we should get a cut from Intermat for making our data scrapeable, then we should all pool our monies to develop a new AI that creates and posts Sunday JOMBO Comics everyday.

I thought there might be some Pepplemans (Pepplepeople?) in there, but I guess they weren't prolific enough after hs.

Alcohol is on the decline these days among the youngest segments of consumers, with more kids not drinking by choice. Same with traditional tobacco. Bigger challenge might be cannabis, which I think the NCAA now allows. Dunno if individual schools have been relaxing the rules as well. Imagine how recreational weed might mess with weight cutting, lol.

I was under the impression that Spencer was interested in a more administrative career path, like his dad, and wanted to be an AD or something like that. It would probably be a good thing for the sport. Metcalf, Ramos, DSJ seem well-positioned to succeed TnT, and I assume they would take the job, but it's hard to tell. As far as the program's brand, the Brands (and Zelesky) inherited and emulated the culture that Gable created. The big debate around here is whether the Iowa Style grindset culture still works today. Tom is a solid head coach, but he doesn't seem like the type of person to innovate a program. He lives and breathes within the guardrails he knows best.

Headgear is easier to see than ankle bands. Why not red headgear - green headgear?

Speaking of, in the last sequence of scrambles in KOT-Haines, Levi was draped over KOT's shoulders with the inside leg hooked as he was coming up. A guy with length like Hamiti would've instantly spladled KOT. It looked like O'Toole was asking for it the way he was keeping low and giving that far leg to Haines.

Just a toothless animal at this point

If Barr goes back down to 184 next season, he could have the chance to test drive two Focuses.

Damn. I was really looking forward to seeing Rags make a run in March. Glad that he'll have some time to heal and rehab though, as it sounds like more than his knee was banged up.

Agree with UM. Would be wild to have Rocco and Gabe in the same room, though. I'd rather see him land somewhere like Pitt or WVU just cuz.

Basketball and baseball does the opposite: home team wears their whites, visiting team wears their normal home colors or greys/blacks. I think it's from an old timey rule where teams would wear bright or non-white colored uniforms while on multi-leg road trips to hide dirt, scuffing, blood, etc. if they didn't have the time or facilities to wash their gear while traveling. It's also more exciting for home fans because they get to see different uniform colors and whatnot instead of the same home colors every time.

The fasting angle is a good one. I not a fastah but the glucose spike destroys me every time. Will have to look into Fast Lyte.

The most impressive part of the match was the pbp guy. Nice to see Battisto on the horn. I was expecting just a plain comment-free video feed from the Pac-12 Network.

No worries, he's on the Manville plan

I'd be inclined to take KOT over Haines in folkstyle too but yeah, Haines was solid on his feet in that FS match and getting to O'Tooles legs. If that was a folkstyle match the final score could've been something like 13-6. Some additional, minor factors that could work in Haines' favor are: 1) he's a more complete 174lb/79kg physically now than he was during WTT, and 2) he has Mesenbrink in the room to help him gameplan for KOT.

+1

I was talking about those flavored Liquid IV type hydration multiplier drink mixes. What brand is your electrolyte drink? It sounds pretty good.