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Anybody know anything about super secret updates on how Askren’s doing?

Nickerson got hired as the head coach at Army

“He abuuuuuused-ah! The power of the looooord-ah! And the power of the looooord did free their souls oh yes it diiiid-ah! But not…from the evils of this tiny message board-ah!”

That’s not what democrats want…

Lol, or AJ put in a transfer application without talking to Kohl, and Kohl went to the AD and said “no, reject him please.” Kohl doesn’t strike me as a Ferrari bandwagon type of guy. Sure he’s understands the business of coaching and has had a trip on the carousel recently, but nothing about him has ever made me believe he’d permit that sort of individual to be on his team.

Nah dude, they were just good enough to draw scrutiny at the wrong time. That’s every athletic department in every major school. Insert cartman “stooodent atholetes” here. US universities are corrupt as f*ck, they just were the gatekeepers to the job market prior to the internet, so now people ask more questions since the oligopoly has been defanged.

Aight, @Husker_Du, it’s time to zap this thread

This right here has been the single most…umm…revealing…aspect of this thread for me.

The US continues to have the most restrictive (read dumbest) enhancement testing policy globally. US athletes have to pretend to do double the trouble because US olympic trials are major commercial events, and the desire to maintain sponsorship rates runs things. But again, facade, bc they don’t want slower times or achievements than the 80’s when athletes were the most beautiful fusion of chemistry, determination, and insanity. Keep sponsors happy and have a happy career, just be sure to actively hide how the sausage is made, bc reality doesn’t sell product, but whatever nonsense Jim Nantz will be told to tell the world about you does. ”The american dream, brought to you by Nike/Pepsi/Chase Financial.”

?? Dude I don’t care what he does, it’s up to him and absolutely none of my business. I just grew up kinda close to the school and had a bunch of buddies have the “oh wow are you catholic” just dominate their high school experiences because they went there for sports.

Oh I get that, I almost went there. It was wild being in Biology class with an old monk up front teaching the class all decked out in full regalia. My point was about the lots of non-religious reasons for going.

The only michigan guy who has a tank is Amine the larger. They are a very good international squad, but lungs aren’t their forté. They are the most technically and strategically sound from an international perspective though. Woods has amazing training partners in that room and gets access to people from a lot of different corners of wrestling globally with that program.

What is this evaluation based on? Please don’t say his high school. That is one of the best athletic/academic combo schools in North Jersey, the fact that it remains catholic is an odd relic that remains basically for nostalgic reasons. People of every religion go to the school, they really don’t care.

I understand your point, that AB is a phenom and it’s dumb to hold someone else to that standard, but considering AB is clearly Trent’s roadblock, and Trent’s worst loss to AB came in their senior year, wouldn’t that serve as a decent indicator that innovation and evolution is overdue for trent? Trent would be an amazing (and at this point sorely needed) ambassador for USA wrestling, we have certainly gone feast to famine in all of 12 months. But he would really benefit from some more attacks. He has the most unique underhook certainly, but he’s been doing it forever. His underhook is like Andonian’s bodylock, 9 out of 10 can’t stop it, but those who can don’t really have a hard time winning the match otherwise once that particular technique is sidelined.

I think Trent is one of the best personalities in the sport, so this is not meant to just bag on trent for the sake of bagging on him. That said, if he truly didn’t need to evolve, he would have NCAA titles and some senior world medals in his trophy case. He doesn’t. The game is different, and even at NCAA’s multiple people have figured him out.