billyhoyle

Are these confirmed legal? I thought it's illegal to bet on U.S. elections as a U.S. citizen? And wouldn't they only be legal in states with legalized gambling?

Yes, because they're going to keep the corporate tax rate low.

I don't think there was even much polling done in FL, TX, and VA because those states weren't even contested by either candidate.

The election is over, Trump won. They have to wait to officially call it until they are 99.9% sure, but it's obviously over just like it was over days before they called it 4 years ago.

That poll was an outlier. There was another Iowa poll with Trump up by like 10 released that same day.

The polls were basically spot on. It looks like they were accurate within like 2%.

Anybody else remember when he used to go around and ask everyone, "What percentage of wrestling is mental and what percentage is physical?" Times have changed.

Right, but who cares if somebody at one of the Ivy programs wants to go somewhere else? The programs aren't competitive and the universities don't need basketball/football revenue to fund the athletic department (like you see at some D1 programs).

People love to hate on Cornell here every time their fans point out how worse schools like Oklahoma State and Penn State are in comparison and how idiotic recruits and transfers are to go there instead. But who else is offering the opportunity to spend a year at community college and then graduate from a top 25 school in 7 years with an undergraduate degree in Aquaponics?

The Ivies will win a game in the NCAA tournament every once in a while, but have they actually been competitive since Bill Bradley?

Harvard hasn't been competitive in football with Stanford, Northwestern, Berkeley, UCLA, and Duke since 1920.

Terrible. I agree with the sentiment that other programs will follow in the new landscape.

1. Of course the ads make the site impossible to use. There's a popup video on every page. Nobody can deal with that. 2. Some people still are using the site. How can 1 and 2 both be possible?

Multiple time NCAA champion.

Please don't ruin the ending!

If you ever watched the show, "are you smarter than a fifth grader," you would know that the answer is almost always that people are not smarter than a fifth grader. Speaking at a fourth grade level is a pretty good idea.

Next, please run 1000 simulations of the NCAA tournament to tell us that PSU has a 98.3% chance of winning it.

This is an overlooked point. We have all been viewing AJ as a criminal with the shooting of guns into the dark, reckless driving, sexual assault allegation (s?), etc. But he keeps facing zero legal repercussion, so what if he is really just a brilliant practitioner of the law and has been simply testing the bounds of the legal system as a means to demonstrate his legal chops. In this instance, he has demonstrated the value of the 4th amendment.

You're right about Cincy not having an indoor arena suitable for NCAAs. I overlooked that, so it wouldn't be an option. Great city though if you've never been. But I don't follow the logic of purposefully having the event in places where fewer people want to attend. The tickets being difficult to get isn't just good for resellers-it shows that the sport itself is popular and it allows the NCAA to get more revenue for the event by charging more for the tickets. I'm not saying hold it in the northeast every year (I like cleveland, and it should still be in the midwest sometimes), but I do think it is currently in Missouri way too often. Minnesota isn't a great location, but I understand the idea of using it as a testbed to have it in a football stadium like NCAA basketball does. The highest density of NCAA wrestling fans is now located on the east coast, so I think the event should be on the east coast more than it currently is (although not every year). NJ would be great, so would having it in NY again. There are many options for both. Boston or Washington could be good as well to try and see the interest. The single best location is probably Philadelphia though. Hopefully it's back there in 2029 and remains a mainstay. If this year is anything close to last time in terms of popularity, it should probably be there more than every 4 years. With all that said, it's possible the east coast stadiums are too expensive to rent and Missouri just offers a great price so the event is more profitable even with the decreased attendance and lower prices. I think something like this would be great assuming they don't want to repeat in the four year cycle: Rotate between 1. Philadelphia, 2. Cleveland, 3. New York/NJ, 4. St. Louis or test out new locations like the Minnesota football stadium or maybe a west coast/south option.

If the coaches cared about the health of the sport, there would be a national dual championship. They care about winning, that's it.

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The hottest tickets recently have been Philadelphia, Cleveland, and NYC. I get that a return to The Garden might not be feasible, but it would be great if they were to have another NYC or even NJ event. Cincy could be a great location as well. I think because of the dominance of PSU, the fanbase has become more based in the Ohio/PA/NY area than Missouri/Iowa/Minnesota. To channel Kinison and The Little Mermaid-GO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE.

Once again, I'm going to point out that the entire purpose behind why he's doing his version of "the decision" is to engagement farm using rage bait. The people getting mad at his tweets are only doing exactly what he wants, which is to get attention. So you posting that it would be best for people to not say anything if they don't like it is doing exactly the opposite of the purpose of his post, because unfortunately, today's society values attention more than anything else.

The first question is about admission standards. How much leeway does the coach have with that. If the answer is very little, there isn't much scholarships will do or that anyone can do. If the answer is that admissions are similar to Duke Lacrosse, Cornell wrestling, Princeton/Penn wresting, etc, then it is on the coach needing to sell the program better. Trying to fund scholarships comes next (and would likely go together with negotiating admission standards).