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I hate when scholarships are used as an expense - they aren't a fixed cost. It's just sending money from one part of the school to another, while the part that takes gets the money to the school from the walk-ons doesn't get any credit for bringing kids in to the university bottom line. It's a one-way transaction that's a failure. Shell games. And don't tell die-hard football fans their sport doesn't make as much as they think they do - they'll automatically turn into some revenue seeking realist about our sport, but not their own. Distrust the admins until they take away your precious football.

they said it was likely. it's a weird way to conduct your business as a governing body to be sure but it was information that eligible wrestlers had to act on. as someone who both thinks it's crazy that they are holding wrestling meets during a pandemic and also will watch any wrestling that's available i know that there is a lot screwed up about the whole process but "I didn't know" isn't a compelling argument to me for anyone who feels robbed of an opportunity to make the team.

my granpappy used to say... if god didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep... admittedly, i get a little too much pleasure in making the monkey's dance... i know it is a character flaw...

qualifying tournament and body of work are both valid ways of picking a team. i prefer qualifying tournament, but tbh, if there's going to be a qualifying tournament i'd also prefer that be made clear not framed as "likely." there's no right answer here because i think many wrestlers expected that either there would be no worlds and even if there were, USAW may not send a team. That said, Snyder showed up (to his dismay), so it's not like there was nobody there who would have been selected for the team if they opted out of an event they expected to be an optional event. This is a long and roundabout way of saying there are going to be angry people no matter what the final decision is but all possible answers have reasonable justifications. Sometimes life is funny like that. Apropos of absolutely nothing, Russian Nationals were held indoors to a packed house and nobody was wearing masks, to which I will give a rueful "lol". And as one final note, LJB is (a) not particularly wrong here since it is totally reasonable to want to reward the winners of a "likely" qualifying event and (b) it is completely irrelevant that he didn't wrestle. Neither did I. Polk High is in the rear view mirror, Team Al Bundy. A smelly old singlet in the bottom of a closet is not a requirement to talk about wrestling much less a requirement to talk about team qualification policy. However annoying his rejoinders are it is also at least clear that it is intentional because it is hilarious to him to watch the rest of you flail in response. Everyone else is going insane because they can't help but respond, which is a sickness. You actually can leave him hanging with the last word and you won't turn to dust. I promise.

Trent talks about what he needs to do to beat guys like Gable and Parris, his performance at Sen. Nationals, the variety of styles in heavyweight right now, and more. Was great having him on and he's a fun guest to talk to. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDDo0BS5co&ab_channel=MatAwareness

According to Wikipedia, yeah. But 80+% are Muslims, so that tells me there probably aren't that many Russians there (ethnic Russians tend to be Orthodox if religious). Also Ossetia weren't slouches either, per the chart above. It looks to me like non-Russian "Russians" are the guys dominating wrestling over there. Is Dagestan the Pennsylvania of Russia, or something?

There are also more than a handful "Russian" wrestlers who have won for non-ex-Soviet countries as well. Batirov for Bahrain and Shahin for Turkey come to mind

I think as a 2X AA he has a chance. I'm not saying he will be favored anytime soon, but I think he has the potential to beat both these guys.

This doesn’t directly answer your question but I did this research a couple months ago and found it interesting. The USSR had some talent! It’d be a whole separate project to go through each medalist and find his specific ethnicity.

Hilgers good, he just isn't as good as his contemporaries.

Put the pom poms down. Hating on a kid for doing an interview isn't a great look.

That's not in my plans right now...maybe in the future. Currently I'm working on expanding the database with help from a web developer/software engineer. We'll have all match results from all of the international tournaments. So rather than just a database for the top 20, it'll be for every men's freestyle wrestler (beginning in 2018). After that, I'll expand rankings to non-olympic weights. And I am factoring in the Pro-events...Massa stays outside of the top 20, but man he's really close to top 20... Bekzod drops a few spots but stays in because of his overall resume.

@ILisSTILLgood, Kozak and JHRose gave some solid advice. This place is a great start and add on from here. FLO is worth the fee in my opinion. Track serves a purpose. Not sure about ROFKIN. I don't have Twitter but I'm able to read much or all of what is written on there, just can't respond. ps Don't get into a, 'tug of war' with an immovable object.

Jason Nolf VS Bubba Jenkins Jarod Verkleeren VS Brock Zacherl Roman Bravo-Young VS Shelton Mack Jaime Espinal VS Brett Pfarr Greg Kerkvliet VS Demetrius Thomas Carter Starocci VS Devin Skatzka Beau Bartlett VS Bryce Meredith Bekzod Abdurakhmonov VS Nestor Taffur Jane Valencia VS Vayle-Rae Baker Alejandra Romero VS Alexis Porter Terrell Barraclough VS Kyle Shoop Michael Beard VS Greg Bulsak A couple were added and a couple were changed. https://mobile.twitter.com/NittanyLionWC/status/1318341546786291713

OKC was by far the worst venue recently IMO. Cleveland was FAR superior. I would look forward to going there again. Philly also did a good job. I will give Tulsa a chance and hope they do much better than OKC. I have been out of the loop for quite awhile due to being at my hunting cabin and bagging 600 lbs. of boned out vacuum sealed Moose meat. It was GREAT not hearing what was transpiring in this CRAZY world.

The award was announced at a political rally right before an election. Hard to not view it as political.

Why are you trying to pretend that a political move isn't political? Do you see any hypocrisy in starting the post with a partisan comment and then scolding others for being partisan? Unreal..... Happy for Dan. This should have been given to him years ago. Its still politically motived, but I doubt it swings any voters anyways.

Who cares who gave it to him? Well deserved and I’m glad he received it in his home state. All you heard from Obama was basketball.

I'm guessing (hoping) that you are pointing out correctly that the Orange Agent will use anything or anyone as a means to his pathological and narcissistic ends. It would great if Gable accepts the award but refuses to meet with the liar, racist, corrupt, and incompetent Fool and Con Man.

Extra special that the annoucenment of this award will take place at presidential rally in Iowa right before the election.

This effectively kills California college wrestling at the D I level. It leaves 3 schools, Bakersfield (who is self funded) cal poly and cal baptist. How long those 3 schools will be around, nobody knows. the only thing that could be done is to get these private D I schools in Cali to add wrestling. There are some in the west coast conference. Otherwise, it’s pretty much over. Where will that leave Oregon st and Arizona st?