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Re the Iowa culture, the departure of Zach Glazier should say everything. Dude was the soul and resident exorcist of the Hawkeyes last year, and is putting on his south dakota shoes after his coaches recruited over top of him for his final year of eligibility. Glazier is the epitomé of an in house program guy. How are the Brands any different from Jerry Jones at this point? I’m curious to know now, what is the going rate per win at NCAA’s nowadays? How much can wrestlers make per team point earned?

T&T are not creative enough thinkers to compete with the top guys. We’ve rehashed this a few times, but they are the last holdover from a previous era. The Iowa brand has only ever been Gable, T&T have their positions bc they remind people of Gable, and the support they receive comes from keeping those memories alive. The sport is not what it was, training definitely is not what it was, and I would hope that Iowa would be daring enough in another 5-10 years to make a move similar to what Okie State did, completely wiping the slate clean and starting a new era and a new dynasty. We are just in the second Gable post-script era. Now, in T&T’s defense, they have a top 3 domestic brand at their fingertips, and rightfully so, the Iowa room certainly isn’t a bad one. We can reference prime’s interview about barely taking high schoolers anymore. Points towards the top always help. But until they put that development piece back in (they are 20 years behind on technique development), they won’t close the gap.

Lol sorry, I shouldn’t type while sleep-deprived.

This is a fascinating knock-on effect.

Realistically, should read “CSU the next program to sell its soul at the alter of a head coach’s ego”

This is my favorite comment in a very long time...

At least in wrestling. He may very well be working towards the MMA route.

Well, he's an exceedingly good grappler, ADCC finalist, hair away from tapping gordon ryan (his old training partner), but he's also hands down the biggest social media name in jiu jitsu because of his tireless Australian sense of humor. He effectively comes from the Jiu Jitsu version of the Dan Gable Hawkeyes, but he didn't forget how to laugh and poke fun at people, jiu jitsu, and himself.

Yes, $10,001 to be precise. ADCC gives champs $10K, so Craig decided to give all entrants $10,001 to be able to say “you’ll earn more just by stepping on the mat here than you will if you win the whole thing over there.” CJI was just a well funded and very successful grass roots assault on a rigid monopoly, and really just Craig (and now everyone) flipping the bird at ADCC.

Also in this edition, "people in the know" announce that water is lighter than air, eating more food helps you lose weight, and humans don't need oxygen to breathe.

Everything on here, plus 50% of all greco calls, just coin flip who do we feel like we want to win this match. Totally arbitrary.

I am so envious, you are about to go on a journey. For starters look up the Danaher Death Squad, B-team Jiu Jitsu, and then look up who craig jones is.

Kerk predictably did nothing. Pat Downey actually had some pretty good outings. I really like the way they arrange criteria, with creating action as the only criteria for being awarded the round. It really makes this style much more forward moving wrestle-jitsu, takes all the boring edges out of jiu jitsu, 300% improvement over the way things have been done. I would not be surprised to see this ruleset really catching on.

I did not realize they scheduled this for the exact same weekend as ADCC’s (this weekend). Having watched the entire CJI first day on youtube for free, the product is WAY more interesting than scored no-gi. In an ideal world, they influence the UFC to start releasing scores round by round this way. Makes for a WAY more entertaining match progression. That plus the pit style is a tremendous idea for managing the boundaries. This has been very successful so far.

There's a million dollar prize to win, and you get $10K just for stepping on the mats. It's an easy, rather lucrative day for both of them. Also, keep in mind they will be employing the same skillset as one of craig jones' main training partners. Wrestling and the ability to control top position will definitely be given weight.

Great point

This is wishful thinking. There will be turnover, but DT is the one able to demand quality, OSU is going to be right at the top for recruiting. PSU has shown it’s better to not put up with behavior. The “this is a privilege” approach engenders the gratitude that keeps PSU at the top. If you could go back, Cael would probably take a different tack with the Alton’s. They didn’t exactly work out as recruits. Having a reputation for hitting the fizzy wheat juice and potato water has a way of limiting progress.

Um, having spent a lifetime with wrestlers, these are gently inaccurate percentages. Also, this is great for OSU, just part of continuing to signal and reinforce the culture shift. There is a lot of pent up bad blood from the end of J Smith’s coaching tenure, you hear it in every interview coming out of that time period. There's also no question that the room culture DT wrestled in and brings with him is polar opposite to what happened under J Smith. Some guys want, even need, an outlet for their wild energy, they are by no means rare in wrestling. But, that’s not welcome at all programs. This is great for the sport. Slowly chipping away at the meat head d-bag public image that so many people assume when they hear you wrestled. I am NOT calling jordan williams that, or any other names, at all. At that age partying is exceedingly common, especially during the summer. He will find a home no problem.

“We have unresearched question by blue, basic googling not executed, we then have pushout and exposure by other posters…we have one red, then two red, and one more red for unseccusseful challenge, so score 4 red, 0 blue AND…shallenge loast!” I saw that our kind board host changed one of his social media tags to this on some random post of his. Almost made me spit my drink out when I read it. If you missed the olympics, there was an obnoxious donk who narrated every challenge throughout the entire tournament, and who exerted some rather blatant abuses of power in a few cases to try to sway matches in one direction or the other. At best he was really bad at his job, he also had an exceedingly thick accent, and was very exuberant in his proclamations of “challenge won!” or “challenge lost!”

This is hilarious, nicely done @Husker_Du

We absolutely should. The adjusted medal count from Russia shows the insane surplus of talent coming out of their training camps.

I have never seen one short post so completely encapsulate the college wrestling experience more than this.

A motivated Taylor would have. The guy who showed up and wrestled Brooks would not have. He didn't have the sparkle in his eye anymore (zero judgement, just part of progressing in life, wrestling is not life).

I will take that bet trading places style for one imaginary dollar. Messenbrink basically does what JB did early in his career, technically flawed gas pedal in your face in a way guys haven’t seen before, creating action to stay even in the first and pull away in the second period with his lungs. I think he will make a team and get some sneaky medals, primarily bc his mindset is so much better. He doesn’t care, he just goes. Big match, small match, not respecting your opponents beyond just them being another wrestler is a BIG mindset thing that 99.99% of guys struggle with. Messenbrink doesn’t which is huge. This is also the era of the lanky wrestler, tazhudinov started it off, the gangle is coming back to form.

Petriashvili gets my vote. Dude hit peak lifetime form and outgunned an absolutely stacked weight class in terms of medals and accomplishments. Close second for me is Jamalov, cross body far side cradle for the pin in the olympics is the coolest thing since adam saitiev decked yomero with an inside trip in the finals. Third would be that young buck in greco at 86kg who won gold while actually scoring points and creating exchanges in greco.