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That would be so awesome and wholesome, and would be the official end of the angry head coach era in US wrestling.

Well, he's basically the guy who Cael built the binder around. Even if he can't bring it with him, he lived most of it, and was part and parcel for a good part of the pioneering of a lot of what led to the 100 point spread this year. He just needs to bring himself, he is the binder.

This will 100% save the sport in the long term. Taylor is bringing knowledge of the entire PSU playbook, and it is at least going to be available in two rooms now instead of just one. This just saved the quality of NCAA wrestling 5 years from now, and US international competitiveness 8 years from now.

DT, Kennedy and either Askren as an Assistant would be an electric coaching staff. That would give Cael major problems going forward. I'd also like to take a moment to acknowledge that DT has just spent his last day wrestling and training in the Penn State room. That is truly the end of an incredible era. I will enjoy what's to come, and I am happy for the health of the sport, but this is really going to be some anakin-->vader levels of transition for some of the biggest people in the sport. Also, lol...coleman scott has also just been informed that he was in fact the squirrel beneath the tire. Sorry to say it but he's not going to have a place in that room besides scheduling buses. I'd start shooting my resume around to those open positions in a serious hurry if I were him.

Can we please take a moment to once again reflect on how marvelously wrong CP and the Flo clowns were once again.

Same...I did not see that coming in a million years.

Lol, it was the ASU athletic department that did it in house...

Zahid always gives off major wanderlei silva "duck out the side door" vibes, and I still have a sneaking suspicion that Zeke Jones enabling him the whole way through was another contributing factor to Sunkist becoming past tense. The fact that ASU, arguably the nations largest party school, had to step in and take him off the team for partying too hard says everything we ever needed to wonder.

I hope that’s not the case, especially with the incredible double standard the US enforced (or pretends to enforce) on its athletes in international competition. This would also smell so badly of home cooking.

Always remember, don’t sleep on Kale. In the 90’s pizza hut was the biggest purchaser of kale because they used it as decoration at their buffets. Now look how far the humble leafy green has gotten…

I am surprised at how bummed I am to hear DT might turn down the OSU job. That would be such a boost to the sport. My family members who know comparatively little about wrestling were pumped to hear about this interview process happening.

Someone will take him onboard no problem. He’s a big enough name for a tier 1B team, and he did some serious development at UNC. Someone will be interested. Maybe he can be the next head coach at stanford. The move is starting to look worse and worse for him though.

I very much anticipate this happening. And really, the administration has already soured their relationship with him, and continue to do so with each passing day that they don’t name him head coach. Schools and admin teams know when they have their guy, bc they pull the trigger. This really is an all or nothing deal, bc if they don’t get taylor, now coleman undoubtedly has to have some feelings about this, may even be putting out feelers, because taylor may have designs on who he wants in that position as well. Oh the irony if CS is the USAWrestling freestyle development coach a year from now.

There is no more heart button, which is exactly what this should be for. Couldn’t agree more.

Please remind me....how did the US do in the 1980 olympics?

Hopefully we see a Sun Devil RTC popping up, minus mr jungle nose candy and mr grabby grabs. I hope zeke is a nice coach, but that dude is also an undeniable enabler.

Hard to say it, but probably a lot of input from Lesnar early on, and then insufficient guidance/Lesnar hanging up his boots around the time Steveson really got going. It’s no coincidence that lesnar is from the same program and steveson decided to try WWE. The tough part is steveson has the athleticism that you would expect from lesnar, when lesnar was just a pincussion who got paid to yell at a crowd a couple hundred times a year.

Yeah, that’s my bad, I thought we were just talking about coaching credentials. Please excuse me while I go have a conversation with my reading comprehension teacher.

I don’t mean to nitpick, I think Jrob deserves to be in this conversation

Does make me feel a bit bad, but that’s also part of the game, coleman 11th houred his kids at UNC, which was shitty of him to do, so…I’m more inclined to feel that karma is real and is a bit of a bitch when it comes back around. He could have been so much more above board about it, but he chose to be selfish with his decision, and left his guys hanging. Had a coach do that in college, and it basically ruins the season. From a wrestling perspective, that stuff needs to be communicated in the spring, anything later than that has a real cost for the team you leave. So, for CS, sucks if it happens, but you also get what you give.

The difference here is that Taylor has built guys who’ve reached the top level. Dion hasn’t worked yet because people underestimated the speed and physical aspects of top D1 schools. Colorado was too small and beat up all year. He also just social media’d his way into the position. Taylor has the ability to coach his guys to be good at all levels, because he started as a tiny guy and built himself up. Dion was never a lineman or a backer.

I did not expect to like this idea so much, but it would be undeniably excellent for the sport. David would bring so much of that room’s knowledge, and would put his own spin on it, potentially also disseminating some of that on down the line to the broader wrestling community, this would improve wrestling across the board below college as well.

Extra special considering CS is from Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately, this would be a very unsurprising result. Ultimately, this is a Higher Ed position, and Higher Ed is only matched in its ruthlessness by its self-serving politicing and total lack of morality. They already threw espo out a window, and he gave them more than 20 years between competing and coaching, it would only be the 10,000th time that a coach who took a position based on underhanded decision making also got boned in the 11th hour at the altar of the same lack of transparency or honesty. Considering J Smith’s accolades, CS would be a big step down on that front. One NCAA title, one world/olympic team and one medal? Okie State is a bigger program than that. CS may be a legacy cowboy, but he’s not blue blood USA wrestling by any stretch, and as crappy as Okie State has been the past ten years, it is still one of the two OG blue blood programs in the country, even if they both play second fiddle in this era, the AD is very likely looking for a coach who is at least in J Smith’s ballpark in terms of accomplishments and who can pull together a real RTC roster, not just a college team. Burroughs, Taylor, Dake, or Casey Cunningham are the only ones who can really fill J Smith’s shoes from that perspective. Too much of that Perry weight, Tarheels may be looking for a real Head coach again pretty soon.

There’s got to be an aspect of “mark to market” with the portal at this point, just a part of negotiating NIL rates after a good season.