billyhoyle

No. Fans actually live near Philadelphia, so a lot of people will want to attend. The only comparable NCAAs to this one are the last time they were in Philly and the MSG one.

I think most would say weight-class rankings should be as objective as possible, but P4P is inherently subjective because there is no head to head across weight classes. Just based on watching Messenbrink wrestle, and watching the other guys in the top 10 p4p wrestle, where would you put him subjectively in p4p? You are an expert in wrestling, I'm curious if your eyes tell you the same thing that mine do.

Rankings can be subjective. You can use your eyes to tell you that this guy clearly is already top 5 p4p. At the very least, you should rank him above Haines, who has more close matches this year, including a loss, and obviously couldn't beat out Mesenbrink at 165.

Because he's level changing. Nobody complained about it during the match.

The athletics programs are separate from the research part of universities. NIH indirects are not going to subsidize athletics programs. Also, the indirect cut isn't actually going to happen. Congress passed a law in the previous budget that explicitly bans cutting indirect costs-the rates are determined through a standard process that calculates how much it costs to run the medical school/research institution. Expect the courts to overturn this decision in the next few days.

If you are a conservative, I don't think you should view the federal government dictating how state institutions run their athletics programs as a good thing. There will be another democrat in the white house at some point, and if the courts do not stop this imposition of executive power, nothing will now stop that person from imposing similar demands via executive fiat. here are some scenarios that would be legal if this is allowed to continue that conservatives wouldn't like. 1. You could have a democratic president require that public schools in the south teach students about the the civil war. 2. A democratic president might require that public schools teach kids about evolution and ban the teaching of "intelligent design". 3. Requiring all states to allow trans athletes to compete in whatever gender they want. 4. Requiring all schools include civics education.

No. I'm using Kyle Snyder's accomplishments as a true freshman to discount the senior years of Kolat and Bassett in relation to him. At the same age that they were/will finish high school, Snyder was beating Gadisov. I don't think it's close between him and those two. I'd say after Snyder, I'd probably have a number of people ahead of Kolat/Bassett, including Schultz, Cejudo, and Steveson (Steveson did not lose in high school matches after age 13 and was a 2X cadet and 1X junior world champion). For Schultz, I'll take the argument against him being that he wasn't peaking until his senior year. But I think peak performance is a much better indicator of how good somebody was in high school than how good they were at 14. That's why I rank him second--because what he accomplished senior year was unprecedented. Having Phillips anywhere on this list is wildly overrating him though. By his senior year, he was the #9 recruit in his class. Everyone knew he had fallen off from his freshman year and he barely wrestled outside of Ohio.

Kolat and Bassett were both held back and graduated/will graduate high school at 19. Kyle Snyder was a junior world champion in high school and senior world champion at 19. That's all you need to know for who the best high school wrestler ever was. Schultz probably is #2. The Chris Phillips talk is misplaced. He was an insanely talented HS freshman, but that was the year that he likely peaked. I wouldn't put him in the same conversation as Kolat or Bassett.

There are a lot of poor people on medicaid/food stamps and old people receiving Medicare/social security. These programs are the vast majority of this government spending/cost.

Your comment shows a failure in the education system, but not the one you might think. You can have particular teachers improving every year, but unless the teaching experience per teacher increases across the system, you would not see better results. In fact, if we are assuming that the total number of teachers increases every year, that means that on average, the teaching experience per teacher is decreasing. So you would expect results to be worse over time.

It's as real as Jackass the TV show.

What do you mean "for whatever reason?" We are talking about Rutgers here. There is zero reason for them to be good. Why would Rutgers be good at any sport? The state doesn't invest in the athletic program to the degree that PA/Illinois/Ohio/Michigan/Iowa do. If you are a NJ recruit, there is zero reason to go to Rutgers. Goodale is doing an incredible job to actually build pride in the program and the state among NJ high school wrestlers. That is something that doesn't exist in any other NJ sport, and the results he has produced are unprecedented (outside of when Rutgers and Princeton were the only two football programs). The only comparison was the brief period of time that Greg Schiano seemed to be building the football program in his first stint.

The great Rutgers men's college basketball team! Everyone who follows basketball knows and fears them!

The double from that match probably gave Saitiev flashbacks to Sydney.

Rutgers being middle of the pack in the B1G is impressive. We are talking about Rutgers. If you are a great wrestler (or athlete in any sport) it's amazing that Rutgers would even be considered with PSU and Ohio State being right there. Have you been to New Brunswick?

I believe that last time, JB was instrumental in bringing the program back by humiliating the CSU admins that tried to drop the program. So I get why they don't want anybody asking questions. The real question is whether we as a wrestling community are willing to fight to save this program. This isn't BU. CSU is a public university in a state with one of the largest fanbases of wrestling, where one of the most powerful political figures is a former NCAA champion. At this point, the Title IX excuse is gone, and it all comes down to $$$. Can wrestling fans in Ohio convince the state that this is a program worth keeping?

I'm excited to see all the immunology experts who became AI experts now become aviation experts.

I'll just throw this out there for consideration.

Can we not just have a national tragedy without everybody arguing and being annoying about it?

Correct. If Iowa beats PSU, you will see Trump using Gitmo to hold immigrants captured on U.S. soil.