Hammerlock3

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.

I lot of people agree with you. I'll confess I feel softer on the subject then when i started, though I still think "corrupt" isn't too strong a word.

I'm not saying he's lying I'm saying he is being consciously misleading

I've seen him say a few times that "we stuck with our guys" in reference to the portal. He's either saying this as a non-sequitur, or its a rhetorical device designed to imply that he is more loyal than other coaches.

you can't make this stuff up. Someone pay attention to this man!

I'm should point out that i'm glad pyles is mixing it up with Ryan, which flies in the face of my usual characterization of Pyles.

Ryan's implication, that he isn't using the portal cause he's so ethical, is a joke. He just happened to have a young talented team and it makes no sense to shop for seniors over them.

are they? I'm blocked....

I think they are legal but you can't lose them to cut weight or something?

Dresser enticed a big recruit by giving his father a job.

If my suspicion isn't obvious i doubt i'll be able to explain it in a way you could suddenly understand.

the timing of the hire doesn't have to be concurrent with when David committed to be part of a corrupt deal. I'm fine with someone saying that as convenient as the situation was there is no smoking gun, I'd push back on the idea that its in poor taste to point out how convenient it was.

Why did michael bay make Pearl Harbor?

My general takeaway from you in this topic is that you might be more pragmatic in your thinking on this subject, and less inclined to criticism...at least than I am.

I'm not aware of any college level experience, beyond his stellar athletic career of course.

you give off the horrible impression of someone who stumbled upon the complexity of the world late and is now talking about it like they were the first.

so are you saying no one back out on verbal commitments, or that it doesn't matter if they do?

unless he didn't want people to think he backed out on his verbal....

because if the position wasn't being leveraged corruptly it might have gone to someone else.

Fair enough on question #1 #2 why couldn't he verbal to Minny and then change his mind? J Rob's comments don't make any sense unless he did verbal and back out.

who says he's interested in the sr level?

so you think hiring a recruits father at a pivotal time is ok if they are "qualified"(according to who and for what would be my quetion), but not if they aren't? And I can't speak for headshuck, but how can you justify saying he "clearly" made it up?