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He was involved in at least 3 other vehicle thefts and the dad did not think he deserved to go to prison? It never should have gotten to this point. Why was he running the streets after the prior vehicle issues? Our judicial system really pisses me off most of the time. Criminals need to be held accountable for their actions.

Wrestlers now have to weigh-in wearing their singlets.

There is no chance of this dual happening. I wish it would, but if Cael will not go to the duals that Taylor is setting up, he is not going to dual him anywhere else. We can all wish though.

Wow, everyone is talking about how Barr needs to put on muscle, but as soon as he does; people are going to explode and say that he is on the roids or taking PED's! He will definitely be staying at 197 though. Why bring in Welsh just to have Barr drop down to 184?

This may be a little off topic and doesn't get into the argument on should boys switch to Free Style in High School. It is more about why I do not think states should or will switch to Free Style I do not like the idea of what NY is doing with their HS girls. I think it will have a very hard time promoting the sport and keeping it relative to what the boys will get and be able to do. Are they going to have separate tournaments? Trying to run a freestyle girls tournament and a Folk Style boys tournament would be a nightmare. Two different sets of officials among other things. Girls wrestling is exploding all over the Country, but I think this will take a step backwards for their state. Not bashing girls wrestling at all, but if you were to hold a girls tournament at the same time as a boys tournament in two different locations (which is about the only way that I could see them accomplishing two styles), who is going to have the bigger crowd and fan base. By keeping the girls the same as the guys, more people are at the tournaments and more people pay attention to the girls and see what they are able to accomplish. Like I said, I'm not bashing girls wrestling at all. In fact 10 years ago, I did not want to be near it, but now that the sport has grown and I see the accomplishments and hard work that the girls put in, I appreciate the sport and support it.

This is a very touchy subject and only fed by accusations. Shapiro saying what he said, did come across to me as him accusing Kasak and being a little salty, but he did not go overboard about it. The steroid accusations about Kasak that are flying around I think are a generalization, but I also think they are horrible. I'm a High School teacher and coach and I see students with horrible acne quite often and most of them are not even athletes. My own daughter who is a freshman wrestler in college has horrible acne right now and she is definitely not taking steroids. Sometimes it is just unfortunate that these young kids get it and personally I hate reading about it.

This entire thing is a complete mess and it will always be talked about. I don't have much of an opinion on it, but I do believe that rules are rules and something obviously happened. Be where you are suppose to be, be doing what you are suppose to be doing, be doing it when you are suppose to be doing it. I did talk to Jamison's dad and he said that his son was very lucky and thankful that he was able to wrestle. His story, and I have known Jame for a long time was that Tagen went through skin checks and went back over and was setting on the bike waiting for weigh-ins to begin. He said that he went and was talking to some guys as he was waiting, but he should not have left the weigh-in line. He also said it was a stupid move that could have easily cost Tagen his season.

What was said and done was wrong, but Tom Ryan is not losing his job over this. She he apologize, I definitely think he should. In the heat of battle, (which does not excuse it) coaches are going to say things and this definitely was one of those bad situations.

What a sad situation and I hate this for Sammy. Those punks that shot him, took away so much from this great young man. Good luck with your future and I hope it still involves the sport of wrestling.

Most programs are dry during the season. I know we had the cut off date of November 1st. We always hosted a huge Halloween party and then we were done. Of course you would have some guys that would party occasionally, but the starters would stay true to it and we definitely did not put up with others partying during the season if we found out about it. If programs are able to hold their athletes to it and the athletes want to be in a program ran with those rules, more power to them. Personally I enjoyed being able to enjoy college life during the little bit of time that we had off the mat. Wrestling is such a grind and it was a good break during that time to be able to be a college student.

There's 3 TX state champs in the 133lb bracket and two of them are from Allen this weekend.

I would love to see DT there, but I think people are dreaming.

Like said above, I think most of the Iowa wrestlers do like Tom and Terry. As far as the mat side antics, Gable had quite a few of those himself. Wrestling against the Hawks and being mat side, we would always be entertained by the Iowa bench. With that being said, we all loved it and respected the program and the man in charge. Just during competition we would use it to our advantage to fire ourselves up.

I miss read the article. The Cuban should definitely be in the semi's then.

Not receiving a medal is part of it. I feel bad for her, because it has to be crushing, but one of the first requirements is that you have to make weight. I feel worse for 2 other people in her weight. 1. Sarah now does not get to have a true Olympic gold medal match. People are always going to bring that up and that is not her fault. 2. I might even feel worse for the Japanese wrestler who lost in the semi's, but now does not get a chance to move on to the finals. It doesn't make sense to me that they would not advance her instead of advancing the Cuba.

Todrank now trains and coaches in TX. He coaches at a club called WAR. To put it lightly this guy rubs everyone wrong. I have not talked to him and I will not talk to him, even when coaching against his club team, because I would probably lose it on him. He is a guy that has a lot of passion, but his immaturity is horrible. The way he acts during matches is rediculous. At first I wrote it off as a young coach with a lot of excitement, but he will start taunting wrestlers, saying comments to other wrestlers and coaches, and it is a sh*t show. After reading the article, it is probably just his personality, but moving into coaching, I hope for his sake he can clean it up and mature into acting like an adult.

I personally have nothing wrong with people raising money for their family to go to watch them in Paris. How many people have that amount of extra cash lying around for a trip to the Olympics? You don't have to like people reaching out and asking for help, just shut up and ignore it. You have problems with RBY and some of the things he has done? Fine. Move on. Personally if I was a Olympic Athlete, I would love to have my family there to watch and I would bet that there would be a lot of other family members, fans, and people in the community that would love to get them there also.

How in the world does this make the Olympics worse? Getting more qualities competitors in does not make it worse. Whose to blame someone wanting to be an Olympian? I don't find anything wrong with it. If I was good enough to have a shot, but through other means than not making it for the US, I see nothing wrong with that.

Say what you want, these guys can't let themselves give any credit to Iowa.

Zeke is a very nice guy, but would you care to elaborate on your undeniable enabler comment? I'm not attacking you for saying that, but I'm curious as to why you would say it.

So you are saying that Coleman Scott wants David Taylor to have the Head job? I'm pretty sure Coleman Scott thinks he is a better fit than DT. Plus, this has to be a big kick in the balls to Smith. He hand picked Scott to come in and replace him. It sounds to me like Ok St. kind of went around Smith. I'm not saying that DT is a bad hire at all. In fact I think he is going to be great. It just feels to me that OK St. did Coleman really dirty.

First of all, this is a great hire for OSU. Going out and getting Taylor, but it is a total screw job to Scott. I think it is a big kick in the nuts to Smith also. The entire coaching carousel at OK St. has been confusing to me and there were a lot of things that have led up to this that I would have never seen coming. The surprises to me started when Smith let Eric Guerrero go. He had been Smith's right hand man for many years. Then Esposito is gone. Next they lure Scott from a Head Coaching position at UNC to come in and coach with Smith in his final season. I can't believe people think that Scott would leave a Head job at UNC for just a chance at becoming the Head Coach at OK St. I would think that the only way he would leave is if he was told that he would be the man once Smith did retire. To me it seemed like a done deal and he was Smith's choice to replace him. I may be wrong here, but I wouldn't think that Scott would leave a Head Coaching job and move his family half way across the country if he was not told that the job was his and he is the one that legendary coach John Smith hand picked to continue the Oklahoma State legacy.

I would think that being the AHC at V-Tech would be a step up. I'm not sure, but I doubt the pay at Columbia for a Head Coach would be great. V-Tech is a program that has some pretty good backing and money and I think Robie probably just went out and brought someone in that he thinks will help the program. I do not see Robie going anywhere for a while. Plus the cost of living in Blackburg compared to NYC has to make up for a pretty good chunk of money. Blackburg is a great College town also. I hope Columbia finds a good replacement, but I don't think it will be easy.

Greco for me is very hard to watch. I know it is a very technical type of wrestling, but to me there is very little action besides two guys trying to beat each other down to the ground. Here is another take on it: My wife was watching the trials with my son and I. My son is a top level HS wrestler and has placed in the top three in FS the last two years in Fargo. My wife loves to watch him wrestle, but since she attends almost all of the Folkstyle season, she tends to be working more and has not made it to Fargo or any of the Regional tournaments that we attend. While watching Greco, she asks my son, "why don't you start specializing in Greco, since it seems like it would be easier to make the World and Olympic teams?" Of course my son did not like that she was implying that it is easier and he took it to heart and thought she meant that he would never make a World or Olympic Team in FS. My son's response, " Greco is stupid and why would I even want to wrestle it at that level when I think I can be the man in FS?" She asked him a few other questions in which he did not reply much and it was obvious that he did not want anything to do with Greco. He does wrestle Greco at most tournaments and he has done very well, but last year in Fargo, we let him only wrestle FS and that is what he wants to do from now on.

For me it really sucked watching Taylor lose and that is not taking anything away from Brooks, I hope he goes and wins it all. Still at this moment, I cannot believe Taylor lost. So I got to thinking, why is this bothering me so much? I don't personally know him. I have met him a few times and he has always been awesome to fans and very approachable, but why is this so difficult to accept? Then it hit me. David Taylor to me, was the first kind of superstar in our sport since he was just a young kid. There have been plenty of others, but he was the first wrestler that I was able to really follow with all the new Social Media. Magic Man of the Mat was awesome and it really caught my attention and I started following him from there. He has always had that star power and his style of wrestling really made me a fan. I don't know what his next step will be in his wrestling career, but I wish him well and I hope he will stay actively involved with the sport.