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The Pico haters ignore how good he was at such a young age and what the sport lost by him becoming lower-tier MMA fighter. Not only did he have Retherford's number, but he also was very close to making the Olympic team at 19. He also had multiple junior world medals at a time when those were harder to come by for USA wrestlers.

PSU gets the best recruits, best transfers, and they also are the best at developing wrestlers. I don't think they will consider passing a year again unless something significant changes in the landscape.

What happens to businesses that lose money (with the exception of Tesla)?

The transfers definitely make the dual matches more difficult to get into and mask coaching deficiencies. Some of these programs can barely develop their own wrestlers.

That makes zero sense because you need money for insurance, travel, scholarships, putting on events, paying coaches, etc. Every wrestling program loses money. This type of thinking is fantasy land cognitive dissonance. NCAA wrestling must be saved or there is no more college wrestling as we know and appreciate it.

Something needs to change.

Every power 5 school not in the big ten or sec will end up cutting sports. I expect more schools to join those conferences though if this split happens. And places like Cornell and Harvard will be ok. It would be a huge shift in the wrestling landscape though, and a terrible one if you don’t want to see programs dropped.

This is obviously terrible for wrestling. Any university that doesn't join the Big10 or SEC will end up with a huge drop in revenue, which will result in the necessary cut of sports. Even rules that have protected the sport like a required minimum number of sponsored sports will likely change as a result of the new financial landscape.

Online classes at Ohio State University? Sounds like a transfer.

The attacks have been going on for years. Remember the attack on a U.S. military base in response to killing Soleimani? What is your solution?

How do you propose doing that? Sending the military into Yemen?

Those guys are "on" the team but not actually putting up points at NCAAs....Or maybe they are the ones who were on the team before Cornell got really good. The elite guys from the past couple decades are mainly coaching, training for the Olympics, or spouting conspiracy theories on twitter/fox news. Nothing wrong with any of that, and honestly probably a more enjoyable career than working in finance.

Come on guys...Corniowa is never going to happen unless you can all get along.

I know somebody working at a Children's Hospital in Ohio...In practice it is much more severe than what the law says because of the potential legal and insurance issues. They won't be able to even refer people out of state to get care when it takes effect in April, although they are saying it will likely be held up in the courts (just like it has been in Arkansas). I think the bolded section above re medicaid might be causing a lot of the issues, since they won't be able to treat anybody on medicaid for this.

What did Israel do to violate the Geneva conventions? We celebrated and then made a movie about the U.S. "illegally" entering Pakistan to kill Bin Laden. We accept that the military is allowed to kill members of terrorist organizations-is that such a terrible thing?

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And Costanza wanted to name his kid after Mickey Mantle.

I wouldn't say anything if the people above him were also undefeated, but they've taken losses. At a certain point, the people doing the ranking should trust their ability to watch the matches, otherwise, why are there even humans ranking these guys? I'm not saying to put him #1. I'm saying put him #4 above the guys with losses who haven't looked nearly as impressive. Only KO and Carr proved it against world-level competition with similarly impressive results. And of course, I wouldn't say rank him solely based on that, but if you watch his matches, it's so obvious that having him at #7 is a joke.

Are we going to ignore that he won junior world’s? This guy isn’t coming out of nowhere and has demonstrated success at a level only matched by KO and Carr. Sure you can’t count that in the criteria, but the margin of victory in his ranked wins along with his undefeated record put him to #4 ranking-wise in my opinion.

What kind of speech do you give to the locker room after you lose 47 to -1?

Corniowa is a great name but redundant. Iowell could also work, but it is an oxymoron.

I'd prefer if they let trans men compete against men. Texas has a similar law and the result was a transgender wrestler demolishing the women's bracket a couple years ago-it was a level of imparity that only a PSU wrestling fan would enjoy watching.

I compared him to another great wrestler and multiple-time NCAA champ in RBY. I just think guys like Taylor, Nolf, Ruth, and Starocci were more dominant. I get that "earning" the ranking is how it's done-but I think he has earned it by being utterly dominant on the mat against very strong competition. And yeah, I think he beats Carr. Have you watched Mesenbrink's matches? They are absolutely unreal.

I listed Hall next to other NCAA champions, so I do think he lived up to expectations-he had many doubters because of his age/being seemingly undersized. I just think there is a tier above that you can't predict or expect a recruit to be (outside of Lee or Snyder)-MM seems to be in that tier. I said that in wrestling there is a tradition to require people to beat somebody ranked ahead to move ahead-so I get that is how people currently do it. But rankings are inherently subjective. This requirement doesn't exist in any other sport. Without subjectivity, rankings should just be done by an algorithm. It's very easy to see how dominant MM has been and also his results internationally and recognize that he should be in the top 4.