Lordnelson

Does he preach to others? or does he just attribute his success to his faith?

There's some real brilliance in this thread. PD3 and Snyder are on two totally different wavelengths. Comparing the two based on a simple credit system, it is insulting to even point to PD3 as a viable comparison. Media outlets can't say much, because there are still a ton of legal implications, the hunger for people to hear "takes" and "moral outrage" speaks to how far our media has fallen in general. People think moral outrage is actual journalism. There is still a lot out there to be determined. Prostitution is not a good look, I get it, but unless the person in question is underage it is a victimless crime. Feeling great about calling Snyder on his outward faith is certainly on the table for those that like to dunk on people when all they have is a keyboard in their win column. Can't object to it but it's low hanging fruit. Snyder needs help. He also has a mountain and a half of personal issues to resolve. I hope he figures things out. To me the whole thing is just a bummer. 1. He embarrassed himself and worse his family. Tied in secondarily is the representation of wrestling he carries with tOSU and now NLWC. No winners here. 2. The further embarrassment of the sport on socials by mouth breathers coming out to dunk on him for the behaviors or his faith.

Yes he did. Not arguing his greatness. But doing it 5 times is no more impressive to me than when he hit his 4th. Parker is a hammer, but it really can't be argued that beating him as opposed to beating Kerk, then Gable is more impressive. PSU fans are so irrational, and Pyles is straight gaslighting for clicks.

It's also not a "granted a 5th year because of a logistical anomaly" so he stayed to get paid award. Starocci is an all time great, but this year did nothing to enhance that already established fact.

The NCAA can be trusted to do no such thing. They are as corrupt a group of bureaucrats possible. The best idea on this thread is to treat them like pros, because that is what they are, sign contracts and let the free market run the sport. Currently, the mafia is winning. Those that have will, those that don't will be railroaded and falter.

The answer to rules open to interpretation/misinterpretation is never more rules or caveats to the rules. Officials have a difficult time in many of these positions judging PD vs "the kid put himself there" and letting it play out. I wish High School would adopt the 1st injury time resulting in opponent choice rule. It literally plays no role in "athlete safety" to allow an opponent a "free" injury time that almost always results in: a. the athlete returning to wrestle b. coordinated pit stop to catch a breath, get coaching **Really it's about coaching and encouraging your athlete not to put themselves in those positions.

Great work here. Some teams really struggled this weekend for whatever the reason. A lot praying at the wildcard altar.

The kid makes it impossible to actually genuinely like him. It reminds me of kids in school that were doing dumb things at parties but we all couldn't stop watching so we never intervened, just watched it burn. Top talent, top self destructive behavior. Need him in the UFC now so Dana can call him an idiot.

PSU's first multi-day weigh in. Every season they blip at the Big 10's. Whether it's one or two guys or they cede the team title to tOSU or IA like they have occasionally in past couple of years before blowing them out at the show. Nothing to see here, move on.

Jax wanted OkSt long before Taylor was hired there. Bo went to Iowa for the money, the end. Kid is a wrestling lifer and good on him for getting the money that so many before him never had the opportunity to having lived out of their cars to chase world and olympic level dreams with hopes of maybe landing a College Coaching Gig somewhere. PSU is the best overall setup in our sport. 1. They have, if not the best, one of the best Coaching staffs. The athletes that stay always develop 2. They recruit extremely well 3. Their RTC has evolved into the best, therefore all kids have exposure to multiple looks at top tier excellence and have a natural transition post graduation 4. They have financial backing that supports the changing landscape of NCAA Sports You can look at other programs and find obvious dents in one of the 4.

Much ado about nothing

If you're asking me about NDSU, none in my opinion. My point is that if in theory he's on the hot seat as another poster insinuated then he should have time to reboot the program and be able to choose his staff with autonomy....if it is all "on him".

I think Coach Blanc still should get a couple of seasons to reboot. As for where his assistants fit in to the future, that's another story.

Notable to include the support system that surrounds programs. RTC's are a big one, and the biggest prior to the mystery of NIL. I took these snapshots from @afellars01 on Twitter. I believe he FOI'd the information. The University v RTC v NIL support system tells the story of the programs as a whole. You could logically deduce that OU is a great place to coach because of the support given directly by the University. You could could also logically draw a conclusion that Oklahoma Schools are way off the mark in using multiple avenues to support their athletes and are still coaching in the 1990's. Cornell is doing more than 2.5x in budget yearly than the Oklahoma RTC. They have no scholarships, IVY League Education, and give aid on Financial need with very little NIL support. A look into this information may give you a clue as to why Cael was for NCAA regulation on NIL, he cornered the RTC market.