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Hopefully they don't do what they did with Spencer and actually let him wrestle freestyle before they burn him out.

Well I hope he at least let's his Hawkeye wrestlers touch their 3rd and 4th place trophies before he slams them into the trash can. "third place ***ducking** sucks!"

That was pretty stupid, not gonna lie. No suspense.

Damn, Iowa came in with that big ole bag of cash. Only explanation.

Does Spencer Lee have the mentality to be a head coach? Love his wrestling, but half of his interviews are spent on him whining about people talking crap on social media.

No way

Yeah, we're in the wild west these days. Apparently Dave Portnoy helped arrange the deal to get him. I do think the deal is spread over 4 years though, so he might still be behind Arch Manning (who just got another ridic Red Bull deal).

A LOT of outlets reported it. He flipped from LSU to Michigan last minute from a very sizeable NIL package. https://www.si.com/fannation/name-image-likeness/nil-news/michigan-wolverines-received-nil-funding-from-billionaire-to-land-bryce-underwood

$1mil is chump change to today's NIL. Michigan's new QB commit is getting $10-13mil.

I thought the same thing, like DAMN he's 100% confident he's going to win. Imagine if he lost, got injured, or something else. Obviously not hoping for that but sheesh going directly from a match to wrestling's "The Decision" is interesting.

Could this be the actual reason? The days of bronzed and chiseled Lance Palmer and Logie Bear are long gone.... I think you're onto something. Get that tanning bed working in the new facilities Tom!

Not to mention that Ohio State is the only ranked D1 wrestling program in the state and there's very few in general. What is there, Kent State, Cleveland State (on the way out), Ohio University... Anyone else?

I'm genuinely baffled that Ohio State doesn't have the funds to compete with the heavy hitters considering how much $ the school brings in in general. It's like a money printing machine. I thought the NIL era would benefit the Buckeyes if anything, not hurt it...

This had me dying, thank you sir

You know the Iowa fans are gonna say this and much worse if Bo chooses PSU...

Y'all wanna get rid of Stieber?

It just seems like, aside from Mendez and Welsh, the rest are underperforming. Feldman looks to be regressing this year. Davino looks promising, but he's also not starting over a lackluster Bouzakis relative to his expectations. (BFosr - sure hope these aren't your thoughts I'm plagiarizing - I'm sure you're the only who thinks this).

"What a coincidence" lol after the bucks just whiffed again on the last actual recruit they had a chance on in the class, you're surprised somebody besides you decided to complain? You're giving yourself too much credit to think that whatever post you wrote is a novel thought, there's about 10,000 pages of people saying the same stuff on various forums. I did not see a post here discussing it. Thanks for thinking ChatGPT composed it though.

Isn't Iowa about to land Bassett for 5 milli?

Going from landing the top recruit in 2021 (Paddy Ghallagher), a historic 2022 where they swept the top 3 (Mendez, Bouzakis, Feldman), to now whiffing on every top recruit, including in state Marcus Blaze, is not a good trend. Not being in Bassett's top 4 is a bad look as well when they obviously put the full court press on him. Not to mention the only sure bet AA out of the Buckeyes listed above is Mendez, they don't seem to be developing talent like they need to be. What are y'all's thoughts? Is the development (or lack thereof) of past blue chippers hurting the Buckeyes? Are they short $ and can't compete in the NIL era? What's the deal?

Also, what the hell were they calling that tilt? A chee-chee?

That was fun to watch. Looked like Bobby Weaver's ribs were hurting! Announcers referenced wins of 42-0 and 36-0 that year, damn. And that's only with 2 pt near falls. Wowza.

Gene Mills was known to get some ridiculously high scores in his matches. FILA president said they were invented because of him, he scored 70+ multiple times against world competition. https://www.flowrestling.org/video/6520717-tech-falls-were-invented-because-of-gene-mills

Tom Ryan made sure to call out Cleveland State during the OSU / MICH dual. "We gotta save Cleveland State wrestling". Glad he's being vocal!

Reading this out loud is quite commical. Blonde cooter.