billyhoyle

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).

Yes-Russia's decision to invade has been a boon for weapons manufacturers. Unfortunately, the only options are to either purchase weapons and send them to Ukraine to stop the Russian advance or allow Russia to conquer Ukraine followed by Poland, Estonia, and Moldova.

Even without scholarships, why can't Duke compete with Cornell and Princeton for recruits? They have similar levels of financial aid. There is an argument to be made that Duke should be much better than it is. And the way these programs work is that it is on the alumni to fund the program. That's what Princeton does with Novo and Cornell with Friedman and others.

The progress is that Russia failed to carry out the full takeover of Ukraine and is now entrenched in a situation even worse than what the U.S. faced in Vietnam. Ukrainians get to defend their land so that they don't become subjects of Russian tyranny. And the support has essentially prevented the invasion of Poland, Estonia, and Moldova, which are other countries with territory that Putin claims is actually part of Russia. On top of that, the defense of Ukraine has been a deterrent to China who would like to invade Taiwan. Lastly, it has further isolated Iran from the entire world because they have been supplying weapons to Russia. I think we are mostly sending weapons, not money, and my guess it they are being fired at the invading Russian army.

I don't know if you're being facetious, but those are awful names for a movie. Now that is a good name for a movie and very fitting.

When is Glengarry Glen Ross a stupid name? What would a better name have been? Death of a Salesman was already taken when David Mamet wrote the play.

How is what the U.S. is doing in Ukraine any different than what the USSR did in Vietnam to fund and arm North Vietnam? How is it any closer to WW3 than when the U.S. provided arms to Afghanistan when the USSR invaded Afghanistan? We were much closer to war with the Soviet Union then than we are with Russia now. There is a long history of proxy warfare not leading to direct war between countries, and the war in Ukraine is just another example of proxy warfare. Russia is trying to fulfill its own imperialistic goals of conquest, and the Western countries are arming Ukraine to prevent that conquest because they recognize that Poland, Moldova, and Estonia would be the next countries to be invaded. Some in this country unfortunately believe that Russia, Iran, and China are just in this conflict, and the U.S. is a force for bad in the world and should withdraw its support. It's analogous to how many in the U.S. took the side of the USSR throughout the cold war.

I don't dispute that Trump denounced the KKK and Neo nazis. However, that does not make up for him claiming that fine people attended and marched in a KKK/neo nazi rally that was filled with nazi flags and anti semitic chants and ended up in the murder of a counter-protestor. I don't think a single person there marching with nazis was a good person, and the fact that he has never walked back the claim that fine people attended that rally makes voting for him a non starter for many people.

That is only true when taxes are extremely high. They aren't high historically, and more tax cuts are going to screw up the debt even more. So will more spending. I would like a political candidate to run for office that was honest with the public and actually cared about the debt, and unfortunately we don't have that. The sad thing is historically that would be the candidate for a conservative party, but Reagan, Bush2, and Trump all ballooned the debt. Obama and Biden did as well.

They do the opposite. Tax cuts decrease revenue so would undo any gains you make from decreasing spending. What we need to address the defecit is to either raise taxes or decrease spending. People who want the opposite of those things don't actually care about the debt/defecit and fit in the category of wanting free stuff. And I think both political parties refuse to address the debt because it's easier to get elected by promising people free stuff.

What good person would march with those people in a rally organized by people who are known to be neo nazis/members of the KKK? Nobody in that crowd is a "fine person." The Charlottesville protest was a KKK/Neo nazi rally.

You're thinking like somebody from the year 2010. Today, what matters for being the face of a program is how many followers you have on social media. The classes can be online now for D1 athletes anyway.

Blaze seems to be the elite of the elite in terms of prospects. I'm curious to see what happen with Bassett because the guy seems to be very focused on marketing himself based off of HS and U17/U20 results. It's kind of an experiment of sorts. JB was the first wrestler to really market himself on the senior level and it worked out very well. Doing it this early is interesting and is adding a ton of pressure.

What's the point of posting about wrestling on a message board? Nobody is going to convince a PSU fan that the sport would be better off with more parity, an Iowa fan that their team shouldn't be so reliant on transfers, or a Cornell fan that their athletes shouldn't evade the ivy league rules by taking a community college redshirt year. But without those types of posts, the forum would much more boring and more like a list of factual statements. I think if anything, this is a much better place for the discussion than on social media because the people are coming to this section of the forum specifically for it. People can skip threads they don't like without much issue. Somebody could post about the wildest conspiracy theory about a vaccine containing recording devices embedded within it, but then also have a really good point about Oklahoma State's prospects to win a team trophy in 2027 in the college section. As opposed to being on facebook or twitter and seeing somebody constantly post about politics or some conspiracy when you are friends with them for a different reason.

Who were the fine people that attended the protest organized by neo nazis that had people marching with nazi and kkk symbols? The Friday Night and Saturday events were not separate-it was part of the same protest and the same hate groups showed up to both. There weren't good people who attended on Saturday. I'm not claiming that everyone who goes to trump rallies is a bad person. In fact, if you show up to a trump rally with a nazi flag, you will be kicked out and booed by the people there. The unite the right rally in Charlottesville was a very different type of rally-it was literally a neo nazi/KKK rally organized by neo nazis where people openly carried neo nazi flags and chanted "jews will not replace us." This is from Saturday-I know there is no way you (or most Trump supporters) would attend this type of march. Or if you showed up thinking it was just a regular march against the removal of a statue but seeing it was actually KKK members, you would leave. The people there are the worst parts of society.

I don't know if I can pick a favorite, but three obviously great ones to me are Godfather I, Godfather II, and Schindler's List. If I had to pick a single favorite movie though it would be Once Upon a Time in America. It is a movie you can listen to without watching and enjoy. And OP, I agree that Tenet is a great movie. That is a rare opinion, but I agree that it and Interstellar are Nolan's two best films.

I think we are getting close to understanding each other's perspective. What you have in bold above is exactly what I take issue with, that he would suggest people who marched with those chanting "Jews will not replace us" and attending a rally organized by known neo nazis were very fine people. I'm sorry, but anyone in a crowd with others chanting "jews will not replace us" who kept marching is not a fine person. Anyone attending a rally organized by known neo nazis, when the rally had many confederate and nazi flags flying (yes, there were nazi flags among the protesters) and not leaving that protest is not a fine person. Trump has many followers, and most are not marching with people chanting "jews will not replace us" and flying nazi flags. Ok, so are we now agreeing that the people who attended the march the night before were neo nazis and bad people? If so, that is progress, and I'm happy to hear it, but I don't think Trump agrees with that. Trump condemns neo nazis but is adamant that there were very fine people at the Charlottesville protest. Given that, in what world were the people who attended the second day fine people? They attended knowing that the night before there was the tiki torch march organized by the exact same people. So they attended knowing it was organized by neo nazis. Then when they were there, the protesters had a bunch of confederate and nazi flags flying amongst them. Why would "fine people" march with them and not leave a protest after realizing there were nazis there on your side?

Maybe there are points there that apply generally, but Soccer is a sport that billions of people around the world like, and is the #1 sport for almost every country. In the U.S. it's not close to one of the top sports. I think you might even have better athletes playing lacrosse than soccer in the U.S. That's the main issue. The issue is wrestling is different. We only have to beat Russia, Iran, and Japan, and none of those countries consider wrestling to be their #1 sport (maybe Iran does, but they have next to no resources to support it). The problem is that most of the time here is spent training a different ruleset that doesn't penalize back exposure. If all we did is change the rules of folkstyle so that neutral back exposure results in 3 or 4 points from the feet and 2 from a grounded position, the U.S. would develop the best freestyle wrestlers in the world.

Which children died from the exploding pagers?

That statement standing alone is great, but when has he ever said he was wrong to say that there were "very fine people on both sides" ? Yes, he condemned the KKK and Nazis, as he did in the press conference as well, but he never once was willing to say that the comment about there being "very fine people on both sides" was incorrect. If you say that there are fine people attending a neo nazi rally, it isn't enough to just say nazis are bad. He needs to say that he was incorrect to suggest that "fine people" marched among those chanting "Jews will not replace us."

Why did he say there were fine people there "on both sides" when everyone there was attending a rally organized by neo nazis? He said that he wasn't talking about the neo nazis, but everyone attending a rally where they are marching and chanting "jews will not replace us" is a neo nazi by any definition.

I agree with everything you are saying. People want to pay nothing in taxes but also have great roads, great schools, strong military, free healthcare, free IVF. Politicians from both political parties are willing to drive up spending/cut taxes because they know it won't be their problem, and their only goal is to get the votes of these people. You even have posters here saying on one hand they care about the national debt, but on the other the most important thing is to pay as little as possible in taxes. There is nobody trying to actually put together a responsible economic plan-it's government of handouts (No tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, free down payments on houses for all, free IVF for all).

I'm not suggesting that everyone who wants to keep the confederate statue is a neo nazi/KKK member. I am suggesting that everyone who shows up to a specific rally organized by neo nazis is also neo nazi. I doubt you have gone to a rally organized by neo nazis. The entire reason that there was a huge counter-protest to Charlottesville was that it was known to be a Neo Nazi/KKK rally-it wasn't a counter protest against keeping the statue. You don't see counter-protests like the one at Charlottesville at Trump rallies or rallies for republican politicians. You do see it whenever the KKK has public events though. There is an effort to redefine who showed up to Unite the Right at Charlottesville, but it is not disputable who organized it. They had a Tiki Torch parade where they chanted, "Jews will not replace us" over and over again. Was anybody marching in that parade while "Jews will not replace us" was being chanted somebody you would consider a "fine person" or somebody you would consider to not be a neo nazi? Or was every single person marching while that was being chanted racist? Do you think that any "fine people" were marching with tiki torches while people around them chanted, "Jews will not replace us"?

Nobody, including Biden, wants to deal with the crying that would happen from either raising taxes or cutting spending. There is all this talk about how nobody can afford groceries, yet many people (who are not rich at all) are shelling out thousands for Taylor swift tickets and designer bags, overpriced uber eats delivery, a million different streaming services, etc. I don't buy at all that things are difficult right now for the middle class-in fact I think we are spending out of control and selling out future generations so people today can live beyond their means.

When Obama was President, there was pressure from the republicans in congress to bring the debt under control. They actually did their job. Same thing happened when Clinton was president. The problem is that Bush cut taxes rather than focus on the debt, and then Trump both increased spending AND cut taxes. Biden then overdid the stimulus following Covid without raising taxes. Now Trump is proposing billions in tax cuts and spending increases, and Harris is proposing slightly less in tax cuts/spending but still a number of irresponsible policies. Nobody gives a shit about the deficit/debt. What would happen if a Republican candidate actually ran on decreasing the deficit? isn't that something that would be nice where you could compare the policies of tax/spend democrats vs a fiscally responsible conservative? Why have the Republicans become a party of even more debt than the Democrats?