Hammerlock3

"I don't always get poked in the eye, but when I do I immediately abandon all semblance of toughness and freak out."

money liking jerk....

its an individual sport. You can't hold Walter Johnson responsible for the Senators being terrible, you can hold him responsible for howmany people he struck out. Hey sorry i somehow just saw you made this point, but i think its pivotal. Maybe I could ask this to clarify, what is Fix great at?

don't people normally get jobs before selling their house? Guess the announcement could be imminent.

if i took that view I'd be leaning towards devil worship.

I'm trying to wonder how i would feel if he showed up, won, and ran through the olympics.

Even children who encounter one form of wrestling or the other for the first time know they are completely different. There is no competition between the two.

yeah what is he talking about.

The huge factor no one mentions is the difference between being a club coach and even a diligent highschool coach, let alone college. If Askren wants to be engrossed in wrestling and really in the thick of a competitive enterprise, a college position is where its at.

I know you can't see that he liked it based on that image, but that should enough info to confirm if you want. @nhs67

he "liked" a tweet asking him when he's taking over at wisconsin.

does retherford have plans post olympics?

ok i can play that game too. PSU is playing by its own rules, should be stripped of all trophies.

can someone take the "pin falls" joke out to pasture already....

I was just saying Iowa might have had some pretty insane teams if they could have recruited the other colleges. Also in 1997 Iowa didn't have anyone with 6 years of eligibility.

tranfer portal makes it like comparing dead ball era pitchers to modern ones....and PSU isn't Bob Gibson in this analogy(yet).

a sense a little bit of cronyism among elite athletes....

If you do it the right way (notice I didn't put right way in quotes), you lose the 2/3 matchup, which is the most contentious one typically. I'd disagree with you slightly about getting the best guys into the finals. No one is gonna be annoyed when the one seed makes it, and overloading the bottom means whoever emerges is gonna seem legit. But yes if i was in charge i'd make em seed the whole thing and sit no one out, then seed the whole thing with the alein in an empty quarter, then your way, fourth best would be the way they're doing it apparently.

Another thing that occurred to me which is maybe part of the rationale but still is not good, no matter what happens the seeders are vindicated. Alein beats 2? His spot in the bracket is justified and the procedure was right (even if its because he didn't have to wrestle that morning)! He loses, well the seeds held so the seeders were right." Lets say you seed everyone, drop the alien in at the 3, and he gets teched in the first round cause he can't move....who looks stupid then?

Yes this is true and bad. The benefit of it however is that preserves the integrity of of everything the seeders are willing to take responsibility for. Not saying thats good, just guessing as to the logic. My biggest problem with this scenario is that you are giving someone who is probably enormous a weigh in completely dissimilar to what they have at worlds. Shouldnt we be screening for whether or not these people can move after a 2 hour weigh in? Conversely, if Marstellar had placed and gone up, we'd be dropping someone with NO chance of winning into the semis. Anyway as evidenced by the way we need to resort to guessing and inventing new pseudo sciences to exaplain it means dropping these people into the semi's is stupid.

Robie has been pretty good at pulling in high profile guys from a variety of places...very difficult to predict, doubt he'll jump at a tech guy. Seems likely a smaller guy who can be a practice partner is a priority, or maybe midsized depending on how much frayer is wrestling these days. Another concern might be if they are worried about Henson getting portal swooped, maybe you get someone to challenge him.

I talk about this in another topic, I think the core idea is that they have to treat the alien from another weight as a wild card. There are good reasons for this. I likely haven't had a lot of recent head to heads, and most of all, there is no way to tell for any them whether they are gonna be a juggernaut or a skeleton at the new weight. Even if we knew how much they were cutting it would be hard to tell what aspects of recovery would be compromised, bad weight cuts can come out of nowhere. So if you've made that decision, which is sort of a punt but also sort of prudent if you acknowledge that seeding them in would be even more of a crap shoot than usual, the smart thing becomes preserving the integrity of the seeds and keeping the wildcard as far away from the one seed as possible.

yeah yeah only saints involved I've heard.

oh now I see you're just misinformed.

hidlay and brooks were both 184 last year, taylor has been at 189 for what 5 years? Doubt there is a strength advantage. I'd go more of an "overall youth" advantage.