billyhoyle

Dean is probably 25 or 26 at this point. Guys that age aren't gearing up for an entire 4 month season. I bet he in form in March.

My take on Askren is that he is a genius-he essentially reinvented folkstyle wrestling. The only other person I've seen do it is John Smith, but arguably Askren's effect was even more significant because of how different it was. But like a lot of geniuses/creatives, he is drawn to outlandish conspiracies and nonsense. And because he is so brilliant at one thing (wrestling), he is convinced that even his most ridiculous ideas outside of the sport are correct. So I can't listen to his FRL or read his book because so much of what I have seen from him recently makes no sense to me. I prefer his wrestling opinions.

If this forum grows, maybe give the larger programs like PSU or Iowa their own section to talk about topics that are very specific to the program that the rest of us don't really care about (like recruiting, RTC news, assistant coaching drama, scheduling, etc). I'm not sure a conference-specific board is necessary because at this point, the majority of the discussion in the general section is about the big 10 anyway. But there's a lot of team-specific info that probably isn't posted on a national forum.