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I look at this from a program-wide historical perspective and think it's gotta be Cornell (NY). They've finished high many times and as close as second, and have had so many great individual champions who have contributed so much to the sport. And it's pretty impressive to do it in the no-scholarship Ivy League (although I'm not naive enough to think they don't have a lot of help from the admissions and financial aid offices for their top recruits that Joe Normal Applicant doesn't get).

Just having f*n.

I think part of their victory celebration next week should be shaving Nick Lee's head.

Really good point which explains something to me. I remember being struck over the weekend by Ethen Miller's hair when he took off his headgear after a match and now I realize why it was notable - because he had hair On this trend, I think Cael and Casey were the trailblazers. As always everyone is following the top dogs.

Glad to. The title is "Keck should not have done the all-star classic," which is wrong. As amply documented above, wrestling the exhibition did not harm Keck's seed. Starocci earned the top seed by the criteria. Then the question becomes would Keck have been better off next week if he hadn't wrestled Starocci in the exhibition. I can't see how. Participating in the exhibition and not getting injured doing so got him the best competition possible for the season, which can only help. And he also got to wrestle the guy with 4 titles who wrestles a very cagey, discrete style designed around the folkstyle rules. I would think that it would be advantageous for Keck to not be seeing this for the first time on the sport's biggest stage next week, and to have had several months to think about and plan strategies around how to manage the match and break through just once, that once being when it matters most.

Not sure why. Starocci and McEnelly have already wrestled. Wouldn't it be better to have Keck and Mc wrestle each other for the first time, then whoever wins (is better) gets to wrestle the 4x champ?

3-0 if you include his win over Iowa's 4x guaranteed champ.

And all their horses.

That f'er, too.

It's because they were sane enough not to go to U of C if I remember one of your prior posts correctly.

Him and Pletcher and Moore really got a bad deal. It was particularly harsh for them, unlike, say, Mark Hall, who had already won, because they had all improved year by year and that last year was their one chance to win a championship, and they had all stepped up big time and were primed to finally break through at NCAAs, and then there careers were summarily terminated (unlike, say, Rivera, who got another chance).

Screw you, your buddy, whoever he got it from, and your commitment to logic.

A new, beyond trolling, credibility busting, low. This doesn't even work as self-satire.

I just think he wrestles hard and leaves it on the mat.

Respectfully - but firmly - LMAO at the idea that Ferrari could have made the finals this year.

KOT mad props

Sorry don't know how to edit. They're 3.5 out of third.

Apologies if already addressed. Is there (stlll?) a uniform uniform rule? Minnesota Askey wearing red singlet on 5th place nat with the first place guys wearing gold. Team point deduction? Only up one point for third and only 3.5 behind second.

As one would expect in the national tournament. The point is that you're pointing out that if the table gets run in a negative way against Penn State, and Nebraska runs the table itself, Penn State could theoretically lose. OK, fine, that's what message boards are for. But Penn State has never had the table run against it -- not even close. Instead, they usually do very well or run the table themselves. Particularly at NCAAs, they have often been a little flat at Big Tens, even losing, and then hit a higher gear two weeks later. Taking heart in yesterday because of the back to back Bartlett/Van Ness losses? Really? How about the pin that Kasak quickly responded with? How about the true freshman majoring the top ranked guy? How about Messenbrink spotting the hottest wrestler in the tournament a takedown and then breaking him and scattering him into itty bitty tiny little pieces that are still floating around beautiful modern Welsh Ryan Arena? And is there anything to suggest they'll do WORSE at NCAAs?

Wait. Are some of you guys suggesting the four intervening national championships might be more relevant than the (avenged) loss from four years ago to the currently 24th ranked wrestler?

If I read Manning's bio correctly, in a quarter century as a head coach, he's coached two guys to national championships and has had two team trophies, both 4th place. Hard to say he's the third best coach, clearly I'd put Koll and Tom Ryan over him for starters.

I was going to chastise you that there was already an open Ferrari thread for this but then clicked the link and saw what your (good) topic really was.

I am probably missing something, as usual, but I didn't think this interview was bad at all (by his standards). He didn't come across as psychotic and didn't say anything particularly offensive. His manner seemed relatively calm and somewhat professional. He seemed to acknowledge he had some personal work to do. His dig about practice room competition wasn't exactly teammate of the year stuff, but it was delivered low key and quickly and obviously it's true and the elephant in the room if not addressed. I do agree that the 3 point stance line was quite ironic and comical. Again, I began this with the caveat "by his standards," and if I were a coach I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole, but given who we're dealing with, I didn't think this interview was particularly negatively notable.

Between your Nebraska frolic and crypto mining no one is going to be able to charge their phones.

Of all your data driven, tour de force deep dive analyses, this is surely your most insightful.