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Ok, I guess then we will still be between steps 3 and 4 of the cycle if that happens. The preseason tape was not impressive at all, and there’s no chance he becomes an NFL DT, but their coach likes wrestling a lot so might do it.

And so the cycle starts again. 1. Steveson is going to try to do X instead of wrestling. 2. People will come here and post about how it's probably a worse idea than winning world/olympic gold medals at the sport he's incredible at doing. 3. Other posters will complain and say how dare you question his dream to do X and compare him to whatever the equivalent is to The Rock and Aaron Donald in X. 4. Inevitably doing X won't work out. Repeat.

Some things are worth more to your program than 10 team points at NCAAs.

The motivation is very simple. What else can they do? They haven't gotten the elite recruits (since Lee), and developing their talent isn't working and is more difficult than buying it.

It was great, and we were ready to win a team trophy.

As the head coach of the defunct Folkstyle Sim League CSU Bakersfield squad, I would like to officially distance the simulated CSU Bakersfield program from this decision.

Do you think the Republicans should hold another convention? It's kind of unfortunate that they had their entire one attacking the wrong candidate. Maybe they should just do it again and possibly pick a different VP?

Do you really think MMA is better today than it was 15-20 years ago?

What's the deal with calling this thing the Craig Jones invitational? Is Craig Jones an active BJer or is he being honored in some way?

The idea that MMA is accurate as to "who the best fighter really is" is nonsense. There are tons of arbitrary rules in MMA, just like there are in boxing, kickboxing, and slapfighting. Not to mention that the way UFC is set up in pay and how they advance contenders incentivizes their "fighters" to put on a show ahead of anything else. Fight with a boring, yet effective style? Good luck advancing in the sport. Fight like an entertaining idiot and you will get an easy path to a title shot. Obviously, I'm not criticizing that approach from a business standpoint, but the fact that UFC was purchased by WWE is not a coincidence. You are watching a show, not a combat sport that is any more legitimate than any of the others. As to what the pinnacle of combat sports is...The answer is obviously boxing in the 70s. But even MMA 15-20 years ago was 10X the product that UFC is today.

Are the Russians eligible?

Has there ever been a wrestler in USAW history that is as competitive as this guy? He has had nothing left to prove for a decade and still goes out there every chance he gets. Without a doubt, the greatest American wrestler of this generation.

MMA is not the pinnacle of combat sports, at least not the MMA that exists today in UFC and is modeled more after WWE than actual sport.

The other counter is student visas from Iran and Russia are not likely to be easy to get. You also don’t usually see many Japanese students in undergrad or grad school because English is not as commonly taught there as it is in Korea, China, and Europe, although maybe some of the better youth wrestlers would try to learn it to get a scholarship.

PSU commitment incoming.

Romania doesn’t want 2 bronze medals. They want them to award only one or three so their fourth place gymnast gets one as well. I imagine if they failed to return it, they might face sanctions from the IOC and the governing body of gymnastics.

For a guy named threadkilla, you’re pretty much the only one posting in this thread and keeping it alive. I think you need to rebrand your handle.

Did she have federal or private loans?

Did I say that Cael didn't make exceptions and was lenient for his star athletes? When he took over the job, he was strict on drinking so he could clean house. Obviously he wasn't going to kick his best wrestlers off of the team, and neither will Taylor.

Is it too late though? Imagine the reaction of the Democrats if Trump were to step down and have Desantis take over. It seems like some of the stuff he has been saying may be to set the stage for that tradeoff. The Democrats have spent billions with negative adds against Trump, which would be a complete waste if it were Desantis.

No he won't. Cael did the exact same thing when he started at PSU.

It’s really not that difficult to just quit the team and go to college as not an athlete if you find the experience to be so terrible. When you have 50 states with 2-3 divisions feeding into about 200 total programs in D1/D3, yeah it’s going to be more challenging to start and be an above .500 wrestler than it was in HS. Competing at the NCAA level doesn’t need to be a terrible sacrifice or “suffering.” The training is difficult, but people do CrossFit “for fun.” Some people enjoy training and competing. If you wrap your entire identity around being a great wrestler and find it to be more difficult in college, that is a personal failing of needing some other interests-not a failing of the experience of college wrestling.

The problem is that Trump was up 5-8 points against Biden in swing states and is now down 2-4 against Harris. That’s a huge swing, and he went from more likely to win to more likely to lose. If they switch to Desantis or Haley-they turn the tables completely and gain all the momentum back. They could do it right after the democratic convention in the exact same way the democrats did. It’s not even Trump’s fault. He made the entire election against Biden about age, which was a winning strategy, but it has completely fallen apart because now he’s the old one.

Trump drives just as much turnout for Harris as he does for Republicans. If he were off the ballot, a lot of Democrats wouldn't turn out either. I think Desantis and Haley are both more popular than Mccain/Romney. Also, it's not a fair comparison with Obama as the Democratic nominee. Obama was very popular among democrats in a way that Harris/Biden/Hillary Clinton never were. I think Desantis or Haley vs Harris would look like Bush vs Kerry. Obviously Harris would win some states, but not PA, OH, or Michigan. I think if Trump does this, he will look brilliant for one upping Biden and delivering a win to Republicans, the prosecutions against him would stop, and he could still be highly influential behind the scenes and publicly through his endorsements.

What do you mean? I'm pretty sure Desantis and Haley would both beat Kamala by a wide margin because most of the former republicans who just don't like Trump would move back in large numbers.