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Maybe this doesn't matter because of ducking and all the ORS this season, but it would be nice to recognize teams and especially individual wrestlers who go out and compete a tough schedule. They should be recognized and rewarded.

Where can I find the team and individual strength of schedule rankings? Who has the toughest schedule? For team SOS, Columbia has been the talk of the town... Columbia at: Iowa, UNI, Army, Cornell, Princeton, Penn vs: tOSU, UM, American, Brown, Bucknell, Harvard neutral site: WVU tournaments: Clarion Open, Cliff Keen, Soldier Salute ... but Oregon State, tOSU, ASU, and Iowa have schedules that look as tough, if not tougher than Columbia's. Oregon State at CSUB, Iowa, UNC, OSU, UALR, ASU, Stanford, Wyo vs PSU, Cal Poly, ns Greensboro, NDSU, Queens-Charlotte ts Cliff Keen, Southeastern Open Ohio State at Columbia, Hofstra, VT, MSU, PSU, Rutgers, UW vs Cornell, Edinboro, Pitt, Illinois, IU, UMD, UM, ns Lock Haven, NCSU, UNI ts Clarion Open, Cliff Keen ASU at Mizzou, OSU, Pitt, Cal Poly, CSUB, UALR, vs ISU, Lehigh, Nebraska Oregon State, Stanford ns Lock Haven, UNC ts Cliff Keen, Journeyman Classic, Midlands Iowa at Cal Bap, ISU, OSU, Penn, Illinois, UM, Nebraska, the Northwestern vs Columbia, Oregon State, Minny, PSU, Purdue, UW ns -- ts Luther Open, Soldier Salute Who else? I think Hofstra had a rough looking schedule, maybe Lehigh too.

Rowing and weightlifting?

What's crazier, AJF's tweet or all the basketball watchers here coming out of the woodwork?

He doesn't make good on his wagers and he posts his takes as stupid questions

Minimum # of matches is just one factor in the rankings. SOS is another to even out fewer high quality wins vs. pinfelling a ton of fishes.

But what will we talk about during the actual offseason? I guess it's an election and Olympic year...

Interesting stuff with Haselrig and Simons. As a side note, this and many other recent threads are usually chatter for the offseason. Why so much of it now? Is everyone bored with the dual season or what? No hate on the OP or this discussion or the others of course, just something I noticed.

There was a documentary that followed Brandon Sorenson in high school and another with the Peppelman brothers.

@Le duke is pretty sharp on PSU news and mentioned the other day that Haines is probably banged up. Multiple injuries going back to last season and surgery over the summer. My theory is that Mesenbrink is Mesenbreaking Haines in the practice room. (kidding, we know PSU doesn't practice like that)

He included Gulibon in the list

Right, I have no problem with students and interns getting some live experience on the mic (maybe camera and production crew too) but it's crazy for BTN+ to charge folks for it

+ Future NIL deal for Will Pinfelldkamp from ISU

All good catches, brother If you and Wkn decide to make PINFELL TO WINFELL t-shirts, sign me up for one!

SIgn off not needed

Interestingly when the 15pt tech was introduced, those who opposed it said it would rob the sport of character-building. A guy might be losing, but there's still bragging rights in going the distance against a much tougher wrestler without getting pinfelled. It also deprives fans from seeing their favorite wrestlers pin to win, and conversely, from wrestlers down big on points from working hard and turning things around with a pin.

I guess it was a one time thing Fujinami did to test herself. Put her 130+ match winning streak on the line, too. https://uww.org/article/fujinamis-pre-paris-prepping-includes-victory-rare-clash-fellow-world-champion-sakurai I also appreciate the no-duck/no seed preservation culture: "What made the Fujinami-Sakurai encounter so unique was that it occurred in such an innocuous event. While NSSU and Ikuei have emerged as the collegiate powerhouses in women's wrestling, no major title nor individual glory was on the line... 'We are in an era now where the strong wrestlers want to face each other... if you avoid each other, you won't get stronger. There was also the pride of representing their university. The tournament organizer thought they wouldn't face each other, but they wanted to do it.'"

Rza was being a diaper baby and might be in the wrong sport. You could tell that ADS was bothered by the protesting and extracurriculars but kept his cool. Dennis looked kind of pissed too. This should all go in the International forum.

I hope the Northwestern is good to go by next Sunday

Wkn or one of the analytics guys probably know this cold, but I think the 15pt tf was introduced in the early 80s, around 1983. IIRC a tech was worth 6, the same as pinfelling an opponent, and there was some debate at the time about techs counting towards Gorriaran Award metrics at Nationals. And weren't techs also adjusted again in the 90s to be 4 points in duals (same as a major)? I think the goal was to incentivize pins. Someone please fact check me here.

No Carstar

Good first period for Fish but it was just a matter of time before the score regressed to the mean I guess

Has Mesenbrink been breaking Haines at practice or what? Levi hasn't looked like Levi.

Was surprised that the locked hands call got waved off

Haines 7-6 TB2, was down 5-6 underneath and hit a late reversal