billyhoyle

I don't want to speak for the motivations of others. I agree, that if the only reason a PSU fan doesn't want to support him is that he is representing Mexico and not U.S., it is pretty despicable given what he did to help the program. A perfect example is Franklin Gomez-I hope all MSU and PSU fans (and NCAA wrestling fans in general) supported him to some extent. However, there is a legitimate reason to dislike the way the rule is constructed because it allows athletes to quickly switch nationalities with minimal connection to the country. In my view, the Olympics are meant to represent the best of each country in competition. If an athlete can't make the team for their actual country and then starts to look for an old familial connection to make another team, it takes away from the credibility of this being a competition between countries.

I watch Michael Jordan playing basketball, and I see somebody who is clearly one of the greatest athletes to ever live. I see something we'd never seen before and something we haven't seen since. Deion is great as well, but just not to that level. With Bo Jackson, I see what I see with Jordan-nobody was like him before and nobody has been since-he just never performed to the skill level of Jordan in either sport. But for greatest athlete ever without question Bo is in the same conversation as Jordan.

If your reasoning behind this is because RBY is using the loophole that allows him to compete because he has a grandparent from Mexico and wasn't going to make team USA, I definitely see the logic there. If you have a general problem with a PSU athletes representing their country and refuse to support them because they aren't American, that is a huge issue. As you just said, it's because he is an American and using a loophole in the rules to compete. Just like many Russians or Michiganders do. It makes the Olympics a worse event, just like how the portal has made college athletics worse.

I am sure Jordan could have been a great football player or world class high jumper. Jordan was a better athlete than Deion Sanders. I'd say Bo was more versatile since he was elite at two different sports, but was never as good at a single sport as Jordan was at basketball. Yeah Chamberlain is great too.

They have an Olympic Gold Medalist for that. Wouldn't be surprised if they bring in some RTC guys after this summer too.

Jordan is one of the greatest athletes of all time regardless of sport. I would say it's surprising that he did not transition better to baseball than Tim Tebow did.

Why would they drop him without input from the UFC? If they thought he could be a star in UFC, they would have promoted him and not refused to put him on television for two years. The reality is that UFC is no longer a sport in the same way it was 10-15 years ago-it's now more of a spectacle that is very close to WWE in how they promote fighters.

This is the real problem. UFC has become an extension of WWE, so he may be forced to fight in Bellator for an extended period of time.

Is that also how you got the handle that you post with?

A double burger at In-N-Out is about 5 bucks…Is that unreasonable?

Your post is funny, but this has nothing to do with Dresser and everything to do with the death of NCAA athletics outside the Big10/SEC. I think this is only the beginning.

I think posting that if you were David Taylor, you would kill and eat all the animals on his farm is strange.

I'm not even saying that Taylor will have OSU supplant PSU as the #1 program overall. But as things currently stand, PSU wins every year and nobody else is close. The idea that some PSU fans are throwing around that "nothing has changed" is wrong and is exactly what Iowa fans were saying in 2010. OSU will be able to compete with PSU for the top recruits, in developing them, and some years will have the better program. I hope other programs (..Iowa...) can raise their standards the way OSU has-it will only improve the sport. One of the strangest posts I've seen on this forum.

Windows block UV rays. Otherwise every wrestler would need to wear sunblock in practice and they’d end up looking like 2010 Ohio State.

Why is this a surprise to you? He insulted a billion Muslims on ESPN. That is not smart. The guy also never loses and beat the guy some thought might go down as the greatest US wrestler get….so why wouldn’t he think he has supernatural powers?

“We beat Cael every year and we are the standard.” -Iowa fans in 2011.

For years Cornell built their team around transferring guys in from community college. It also takes two seconds to see that they accept transfers, as do other ivies. https://admissions.cornell.edu/how-to-apply/transfer-applicants

Penn State wasn’t a big time job until Cael. Now, it all depends on who has NIL money.

Was he actually a lifeguard on a beach? If so, saving 6 people does not seem outlandish. A friend of mine would lifeguard in the summers and said they had to go out and save people all the time.

It's very real and it's guaranteed.

You don't like the idea of having one of the most decorated US lightweight wrestlers ever coaching/training with the lightweights? Outside of PSU, Taylor will probably have the strongest room in the country in terms of senior-level accolades.

As long as he managed to put 300K into the stock market, I think he'll be ok based on some things that I've read on this forum.

I hear he's interested in the MFA program in Theatre Arts at Minnesota.

Who cares if it's all PSU guys? They're the best program out there, and none of the others are close.