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Gotta take the good with the bad!

Consider who retweeted Hrovat in the original post.

I don't really buy the defeatist, niche sport argument. MMA, beach volleyball, and sport climbing were niche sports until they weren't. A big challenge imo is that wrestling doesn't really have any big charismatic personalities that have broken through outside of the sport. JB and Chamizo are popular, but they're not household names like you see (since women's sports were mentioned) in women's swimming, gymnastics, tennis, basketball, and soccer. Even non-sports fans are able to connect with names like Katie Ledecky, Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Diana Taurasi, and Alex Morgan. That gives them a reason to tune-in and watch. Wrestlers otoh tend to be more subdued and humble, stick to generic talking points, and don't amplify rivalries as they should. So there's little reason for the media to pick up on wrestling. I mean, there are a lot of reasons why wrestling doesn't get more mainstream attention. The lack of personalities to love or hate just doesn't do the sport any favors.

Dang. Out before the game even started. That's rough, like losing the pigtail matches of recruiting.

AJ's t-shirt: Bono is my homeboy Starocci's t-shirt: Ferrari is my ride

Kind of a boring tactic to stay relevant over the summer, but maybe he's doing it for more than attention. 7 is a strange number of schools to cut each week, but doing so gets him down to a top 10 around the start of the school year. That gives him some time to spread the word and get people to start paying attention as we turn our focus back to college wrestling after the Olympics. Then if he eliminates 1 school per week from his top 10 he could build enough engagement to drive up his marketing valuation and create an NIL bidding war among his top 3 or 4 schools, which I'm sure he already has in mind. At least I'm hoping he's being strategic about this social media stunt.

Saw an announcement today that Northwestern's AD will be appointed as its new VP of Athletics Strategy to advise the president and athletic dept on the House vs. NCAA settlement, pay for play, NIL, and conference realignment, among other things. Unclear who he will report to, and if it's a university or athletic dept role. But schools are making moves to get in front of all this.

Buckle up GMU fans, because Dean Heil is gonna bring the team a whole new level of exci... Zzzzzzzz...

Anyway @Dark Energy why pay to put a bounty on Starocci when you can do it for free

Oh, I thought the guy was paying guys for each time FSU's (or Florida's?) QB was sacked. But I don't really remember the details of the case.

Don't remember the details, but there's a Miami Football booster who caught a 20yr sentence in part for paying bounties on other team's players

Just askin

Fair take. When I originally posted the question, my gut feeling was that our Women's team had a better chance of bringing back more medals overall while the MFS team would bring back less hardware but more gold. But that's probably wrong.

Thanks. On the livesteam it looked like his shoes had the New Balance logo on them!

Details of the settlement have yet to be finalized, but it sounded like programs would be able to selectively pay athletes by sport. They'll use roster caps on all sports to keep a lid on expenses. One question (can of worms) will be the statutory definition of employee vs. contractor in the context of college sports, which category athletes fall under, and what the legal rights both players and athletic departments will have, from unionizing & collective bargaining, striking, at will employment, right to work, subcontracting, and more. @steamboat_charlie: couple of other threads here https://intermatwrestle.com/forums/topic/4680-ncaa-and-power-5-agree-to-allow-schools-to-pay-players/ https://intermatwrestle.com/forums/topic/4681-college-wrestling-is-cooked/

What's Alirez walking around at these days? He looks bigger than I remember

Lmao, "the ref!"

2 minutes Should we be angry or thankful that they're not livesteaming people eating their dinner?

Are they doing the panel discussion before they start the second half of the card?

What kind of shoes was Dunia wearing?

Quick first match - over before folks got into the ballroom!

Right. A federation could get stacked with transfer talent, but if Worlds was held every year for individual titles (with 1 rep per country) that would limit the # of switches. The current rules also only allow athletes to switch nationalities once at the Senior level, and I believe they cannot change allegiances if they've competed for their home country within the last 3 years.

Who would have ever guessed that we might see a Cass vs. Starocci in college?

You haven't fooled us, we know the difference between a new-forum TBar and an '82 Bordeaux, and our boy Hamms is the only one who spells asinine with a double S!

Or maybe after a year in the wrestling room he heads into spring football practice in the best shape of his life (or maybe with a headwrap and limp, who knows), right before pay for play kicks in for Fall '25