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but AJ he's corny, he's horny demon-possessed like Sigourney thinks he can get to your knee his yappin just bores me double bird splits, rips his drawers, you see keep him at home indoors please

Any concerns with Grice's gas tank down at 125? I know it's way to early to tell, but just asking. An Oz-Figs matchup at the ASU dual would be fun to see.

The Mustard Museum's Poupon U. promotions at UW will be wild.

I assumed Osmany would RS to acclimate to the style and maybe the cut. Speaking of, do you think he can manage 125? I figure if he's like 22 and making 57kg, he probably won't outgrow the weight. But hard to tell. Also will Terukina have any more eligibility after this season? Would be nice to see him put some real focus into his senior(?) season and make some noise at 125. Part of the reason for his lack of consistency was discipline, plain and simple, but Dresser has said that Kysen's moved past the partying and hijinks and is doing all the right things.

Was there any update on Sasso's status?

I'm not a huge fan of Stanford in the ACC, but their upcoming schedule looks pretty fun. And by fun I mean also brutal. That's a tough slate of wrestling ahead for the Cardinal!

Contact Track and ask if they have an API available

And his official visit to Cornell is when? Also you just said earlier this month that it'll be Iowa, tOSU, or PSU.

That said, it would be interesting if PSU's AD put in an incentive structure in his contract with bonuses based on home ticket sales or the sound meter exceeding xyz decibels or some benchmarks along those lines. Cael said last season that PSU's home duals are too quiet. His boss should incentivize him to build a better match day atmosphere and see what he comes up with.

Hard to blame for Carl scheduling cautiously. He probably feels bitten by the late season injury bug: Starocci, Nolf, Suriano, Shak, Zain (FS)... They pay him to win matches and bring home hardware, so making wrestling fans happy probably isn't a huge priority.

Was anyone surprised to see Terukina up at 133? In my mind, he's small for the weight and I figured ISU would have a stronger lineup with him at 125. Does that mean their (other) kid from Cuba is won't be RS this season? His name escapes me atm but he beat Richie Figs at Junior Pan Ams a while back.

I'm all for a PSU-Cornell dual, but tbf the regular conference schedule is pretty brutal for any of the B1G schools

Good flip for Taylor. In Iowa, wrestlers flip coach!

Aside from being generally less enjoyable for fans (like in wrestling, when Mesenbrink transferred from Cal Baptist to PSU; or DeSanto from Drexel to Iowa), when athletes transfer out of an Ivy school, the team and student body usually shrinks. And that can cascade down the line into further problems for the school.

A friend in LA is going to a BJJ clinic next weekend and asked if I knew who Jason Nolf was. He's doing a 2-hour workshop on wrestling takedowns for BJJ. $150 a pop.

It's not about whether the Ivies are competitive, but whether other programs can use NIL collective money, which the Ivies don't have, to poach their talent

With a little time to kill before the preseason starts, JOMBO™ visits the College Football Hall of Fame.

Agree that MSP is a nice location with all the amenities. One gripe though is that Minny in March is still a little Tulsa in 2023 wasn't the best city in terms of amenities, food, walkability but the weather was kind of a treat for those who traveled-in from colder climes. I think that's part of the reason why so many folks want to see Nationals down South or West someday. The weather would be a treat.

It was a shrewd and shitty move by the AD. Wrestler keeps the scholarship: they don't get to compete, wrestling program languishes and dies, AD can say it's not her fault that the program can't attract talent. Wrestler doesn't keep the scholarship: they get to compete, but wrester has to support himself out of pocket or through outside funds (NIL, grants, third party scholarships, etc.) but either way the school makes a buck. And both options increases the odds of wrestlers transferring, which works in the AD's favor. Hopefully Sentes can keep his guys out of the portal until they get this figured out.

Re-read the post you just quoted. Third sentence in, if it's too hard for you.

Good for football, but Harvard lost two basketball starters (Malik Mack and Chisome Okpara) who threw their names in the transfer portal to test the waters and were offered NIL deals. Mack is rumored to be getting over $200k and Okpara said he got offers between $300-500k from Stanford, Vandy, and Texas. He ended up going to Stanford. And Yale's 7-footer transferred to Michigan and got his bag. Harvard also lost athletes in non-revenue sports like tennis and track, of all sports, this past year to outside NIL deals. Most of the NIL money is concentrated in football and basketball (although being an Olympian can raise your stock, and Harvard has a bunch of 'em), but apparently they thought other school + NIL money was worth more than a degree from Harvard.

Right. But it's a slippery slope rife with hazards. If one Ivy opts-in, the others will be tempted to follow suit or bail. It goes beyond conferences, too. There's talk at Harvard, for example, about moving to D3 because they can't retain football and basketball talent with D1 academic peers outside their conference. Stanford, Northwestern, Berkeley, UCLA, Duke can offer both classroom prestige and money. Harvard just has NIL, and no collectives (none of the Ivies have or want collectives). On the flip side, I could see opting-in affecting revenue distributions. If a school opts-in and thinks they're bringing eyeballs and postseason dollars to the conference, they'll likely use that leverage when discussing revenue splits.

Doesn't look like it. Bazemore played basketball, volleyball, and softball in hs but didn't compete in college. She was manager of the women's basketball team, then a grad assistant, and a student employee in the athletics dept, but not an athlete. Her parents are also Campbell alums but I don't think they played any sports. IIRC her dad was the Dean of Student Life. Small community.

Yeah, verbals have always been just a gentleman's agreement but they've been honored less and less over the last 20+ years. In football, verbal commitments are kind of meaningless these days and it's common than for a kid to back out and recommit elsewhere. Tbh, I think some kids verbally commit early as a strategy. It cuts the noise from lesser programs or schools who don't have a serious chance with them, and it can create a bidding war behind the scenes. With signed commitments, I think the new financial agreement that replaces NLI will keep recruits locked-in to their commitment. A program would have to buy a kid out of his or her contract, which can get expensive.

It's opt-in.