billyhoyle

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.

This is a publicity stunt meant to make it look like they are being tough on immigration. They could use Gitmo to hold Cartel members that they might capture in raids in Mexico, but there's zero chance that illegal immigrants captured in the U.S. who are awaiting deportation orders will be held there.

Every time one of this guy's recruiting threads pops up: 507445c7-8700-4a22-baf3-294664376ed8.mp4

That is because the southern border is the most porous point of entry, so its easy to use. Once it is blocked, the smugglers will get the drugs in through airports and shipping. There's a strong argument to be made for securing the border, but stopping drugs isn't one of them. You don't pardon a guy who facilitated hundreds of millions in narcotics sales if that is your goal (but having him in jail was doing nothing to stop drug sales anyway because for every person you lock up, others come and take their place). The only way to stop the drugs is to stop the demand. People will always find a way to import drugs into the U.S. if the demand is there because of how lucrative it is, and additional enforcement on traffickers only makes smuggling more lucrative for those who succeed. And it can be pretty much guaranteed that the smuggling is done by U.S. citizens because they get the least scrutiny at the border. Drug smuggling has nothing to do with immigration. It has to do with economics.

I'm all for stopping 1 and 3, but stopping #2 is impossible. As long as there is demand for drugs, there will be supply. Even if the border with Mexico was completely secure from foreign smugglers and every cartel in Mexcio was eliminated, U.S. citizens would smuggle in drugs through airports or through the Canadian border. Drugs would also be smuggled in through the ports just as part of regular shipping (and U.S. citizens working the ports would be paid to help). Neither party actually cares about stopping drugs-probably in part because they know it's impossible. Trump just pardoned a guy who was running one of the largest underground drug markets (Silk Road). And obviously the democrats want legalization or decriminalization of pretty much all drugs. I do think #1 and #3 can be addressed though and hopefully there will be improvements in them.

Probably. Although at one point the jets hired two of the greatest head coaches of all time back to back (Parcells and Belichick).

I know this might seem like a joke, but honest question here. Trump got a ton of support from wrestlers during both of his campaigns. Gable, Jim Jordan, Penn State wrestling... The wrestling community in PA probably shifted that state to him. Could he sign an executive order that puts pressure on universities to add wrestling programs back? Obviously it can't say that directly, but some type of executive order "protecting" non revenue sports, especially those that teach the traditional values stuff that he's all about? Why as a community are we not pushing for this? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.