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Lol yeah looked like a total spaz at the end there. I was like wtf is he doing?

Please don't ever make me scroll that much ever again

No kidding, I was freshman year of high school teammates with a dude who got a full ride to Northwestern. He was literally benching 315lbs coming in to summer workouts FRESHMAN YEAR. 181lber. With that being said, I did see Snyder's clips of him benching and lifting 1 rep maxes, and they're not really that impressive numbers. I expected a lot more weight to be thrown around by him.

He just posted a video of him doing a strict barbell curl with 156 lbs. Impressive, but him doing ego lifts like that always seemed outrageously dumb to me. First of all, who 1 rep maxes barbell curls, second of all... you tryna pop a bicep?

Julian Ramirez didn't look very impressive, either. Pretty sure he's gonna get smoked by Messenbrink if he gets to him.

First time Starocci has been taken down all year... Not sure that means much considering he wrestled 3 matches all year.

Was just about to say this, his legs must be in pretty rough shape. Some questioned whether he was injured at the end of the Messenbrink match - looks like he was. Andddd Hamiti with the pin.

Sotelo takes out Volk, early upset!

Damn that was close at the end. Thought he might pop his foot out and get the TD, but Ramos holds on. This weight is gonna be wild.

Can you link me to the mat assignments? Is this on track or just part of FloArena now? Always scrambling to find the right menu to watch this stuff.

DAMN, okay that should come with big expectations then. As far as the other comments on Bono, I think it's more of a factor of Askren holding a grudge and taking over (and elevating) the state, rather than Bono not performing. I really don't know how he can get out of that hole, or if anybody else coming in would be able to mend it. I'm interested to hear if any insiders have information on that.

I do think the OSU dudes underperformed aside from Logan. Funny thing is, Tom Ryan literally didn't recruit him, he was going to OSU regardless of who the coach was because he was a Buckeye born and bred. I don't think Tomasello overachieved, he was a monster coming in and stayed about at the same level he came in at. As far as Sasso never beating AOC, idk about that one. He was literally winning until like 45 seconds left, gave up the takedown, and almost got a final TD to win it at the buzzer. He blew that one. Speaks to the previous comment of these guys not having the clutch gene.

Manning wasn't calling out Nick Suriano, but Cael. Everyone knows Suriano would've gone out there if Cael let him. He let Nick prepare as if he was going to wrestle when he knew he wasn't going to let him. Wasted his and everyone else's time.

Good points. I just don't understand why more athletes don't out their colleagues who are on gear. It's gotta be pretty common, hell, I knew plenty of dudes in high school on the stuff.

Tough draw for Feldman. He made some improvements vs Kerk last match, but still not very close. He's gonna have to do some work in the consolations.

Wonder if Mekhi would give him some payback and try hyperextending his injured leg just like Carter did last time...

Now THIS is a good interview. Isn't preachy, isn't acting holier than thou, isn't denigrating other religions, and actually talks wrestling. This is how you do it, not how Brooks does.

Siphoning gas is a highly underrated activity these days.

As another person witnessed and said in this very thread, he will get upset and yell over you while saying "I WILL PRAY FOR YOU" over and over and over again. If anyone is saying they want to censor Brooks (they aren't) then that's one thing. People are saying he sounds like an insufferable preachy moron, which he does. His interviews are predictable, lame, and have nothing to do with wrestling. Bring back the Mark Hall flute concerts and Bo Nickal's "that's what we do", that's what gets viewers and is fun, not cramming some religion down people's throats as if you're the next messiah.

Ooof, that's pretty egregious. Dirty move for sure.

First point - I forgot about that, lmao. Second point, where can I find the interview?!

Are you talking about the Spider Verse?

There's something to be said of the placebo effect, and if you are dumb enough to believe God is pulling strings to make you a Big Ten Champ, or that Michael Jordan's Secret Stuff gives you superhuman basketball abilities, then you certainly can have a higher level of confidence that directly correlates to performance. Sometimes I wish I was that dumb.

Aaron Brooks is insufferable on the mic each and every time, he makes himself look like a complete dumbass and anyone who isn't thumping their own Bible at the time knows it. The stuff he said after his last championship was ridic and the fact the NCAA deleted his interview from their tweets immediately due to backlash proves it. If he wasn't talking about God or Jesus, he'd probably be preaching about how the earth is flat. Doesn't make wrestlers relatable or fun to the masses when every time they get a mic in their face on National TV they use it to preach to the audience. Shut up and promote the sport. I don't get this "ergg, don't matter. nothing matters when you think about it" approach either. Let's hear some good ole fashioned wrestling talk about how the wrestler gritted it out and whatnot.

Anyone got a link to Braeden Davis' interview? Heard it was even better than Messenbrink's, but can't find it anywhere.