billyhoyle

You want to train in the airport?

Exactly, except it is possible to go to a community college or state school that admits almost everyone (like Arizona State), work hard in college, and be very successful as well. But the real problem is when you have predatory colleges convince people who probably aren’t interested in college to take out a ton of debt. But you’re right that this whole thing is solved if students were better prepared coming out of HS. It’s a huge problem at the ivies and other elite universities. Not really a problem at what I consider to be the “very good” universities. Legacy admit is a bit of a misnomer though because it’s not really the students who are children of alumni that get a big advantage, but the ones who are kids of the very rich that make donations to buy admission spots.

Qanon/flat earther level content right here.

Are you spike cohen?

It all depends on the university. As many on this forum will tell you, a degree from Cornell is well worth the sticker price-even if it is in agriculture and even if it takes you seven years. The same is true for most big universities. There are now too many shitty colleges though-these are the ones that often struggle to enroll enough students or are predatory/for profit. People graduate from these in debt and are no better off in finding jobs.

There is a de facto bankruptcy in student loans in that after 20 years of IBR payments, the loans are forgiven regardless of the remaining balance. Paying through IBR (now at 5% of disposable income), nobody should be driven to bankruptcy with federal student loans. Student loan forgiveness is already built into the system through this channel. The entire reason these loans are government-guaranteed is to enable people with limited financial means to have access to the funds needed to receive an education. You don't want to take that away-it is really the one guaranteed way for class mobility in this country. The problem, as you point out, are predatory for profit universities that encourage people to take out loans for degrees that won't actually result in a job.

This isn't a logical move to increase revenue. The people who subscribe do so to increase eyeballs on their content. I imagine that has just dropped significantly-if anything fewer people will subscribe because the analytics for their tweets are about to get much much worse.

Ok, so twitter is clearly unusable in its current form. I'm surprised by how incompetent Musk has been running this company. Do we all plan to just transition to the platform that Meta will release soon if things don't improve?

I'd say Metcalf is more likely to be the HC of Iowa than Lee. But Iowa would be better off going for JB or Taylor.

The Edinboro guy with the mullet.

You're all right to fear him. John Smith isn't actually his real name. He took that alias while using the bathroom at Smith's roadhouse in Oklahoma. His real name is Keyser Soze.

A great scouting binder.

Smoked Hams?

There is no way to let athletes make money off of endorsements without it being abused like this. The disaster that is NIL was obvious since day 1. Once the idea of a free college education was devalued to the point where people viewed college athletes as needing significantly more $$ on top, the entire concept of NCAA sports became pointless. I agree that the courts forced this on the NCAA, but there is no way more to have a functioning version of NIL without socializing it across all athletes regardless of team, which would also be illegal.

People like trashy content. If you don’t, don’t watch it.

They never gave him time to heal. Every single year it was get him onto the mat by NCAAs, and sometimes it was having him wrestle despite having torn ACLs. It was the single worst mismanagement of a college wrestler’s health that I’ve seen, and as a fan of his, it has been sad to see. You’re right though that now it may be too late. I hope not, but he may never be the athlete he could have been had things been handled differently.

It seems like you're trying to play a semantic game, but I don't think you understand what the word heal means. The word you are thinking of is regenerate. Obviously, the human body does not regenerate a new ACL once it is torn, but many athletes have shown that you can heal from a torn ACL through reconstructive surgery and physical therapy to strengthen the surrounding muscles.

Jordan Burroughs and Ronald Acuna seem to be ok.

If Spencer Lee didn’t wrestle through torn ACLs for the past five years and took the time to heal, is he going to Belgrade?

Tired of these attacks on Cornell. Everyone knows he sent those kids to community college to help them with their education so they could graduate in 7 years.

I think this is fair until the point where there is an official public accusation (maybe a reporter writes a story about it). Until then, going the "He who shall not be named" route seems appropriate.

How expensive is it to pay a couple people in Azerbaijan to stream an event with their phones? 10 years ago, Flo was doing a service for the community and $150/year was a great deal. Today, it is horribly overpriced given the content they offer and where technology has gone. The exception is if you like watching youth/HS wrestling. In that case, Flo provides an incredible wealth of content. Otherwise, $150 for WTT is pointless. Add in that a VPN, which is legal, can be purchased for much less money than a Flo subscription to watch the exact same feed that Flo is broadcasting for worlds.

I always thought the shoes on the mat tradition is way overdone. It made sense at the Olympics like Rulon did after he won a medal, where he knew it was over and it was a truly iconic moment. Doing so at Final X without some deep thought about whether or not to keep going doesn't make sense. Same thing when people do it in the consi bracket of the olympic trials...it just seems like a strange moment for it. If JB decides he is done, I'd love to see him be invited to Nebraska and leave his shoes on the mat at halftime at one of their duals. Even if Taylor ends up more accomplished on paper, JB is the most iconic wrestler since John Smith IMO and really brought USAW wrestling back from a bad place.

This is hilarious. I wonder if they replayed the video of Martin from the Okstate/Iowa dual after this saying he takes full responsibility and it will never happen again,

JB gets a similar level of respect from international refs and fans, which helps him there too. I also think his style is very well suited for international competition. Marsteller could get it done, or he could just matchup favorably against JB. We’ll find out.