Recent content by Blast82.5

Tommie Rolands? Luke Fickell? Jamie Kaser, Licking Heights? Rob Johnson, Watkins Memorial? (Obviously I'm guessing, not investigating!)

Personal story: I went to college in VA, and wrestling alum get together at NCAAs every year. some years ago, one of the guy's sons was a successful coach in VA, perhaps even had a state championship team. Note that in VA, the divisions follow football for all sports, so there are SIX...

This. Larger people have an advantage in EVERY sport other than wrestling. That includes even "non-contact" sports such as tennis, golf, baseball, soccer, swimming, etc. I understand being less enamored with "total wins" than with, say, SQ or SP results. But for christ's sake, let the...

While I generally agree with your point, I suspect Iowa wrestling will be just fine.

Huh ??? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Indeed I do ... I had two simultaneous thoughts upon seeing that live: (1) pretty impressive, and (2) what a jerk.

133 - Neither Arajau nor Fix ... a bit disappointing.

Agree with some criticism of current FS exposure rules. The rules have changed over the years, but at one time the rules were: -- 2-pt exposure meant that the defensive wrestler went "elbow-to-elbow" or lower. -- 1-pt exposure was "hand-to-hand," but there was still a requirement that the back...

JMO: I don't think you could possibly have more stalling in college wrestling ... the very existence of riding time ensures stalling. I think takedowns should be rewarded by more than 1 point greater than an escape, so I like the 3-pt TD. I've seen way too many HS matches where one guy gets 3...

I actually thought that Koll could build Stanford into, say, a perennial top 10 competitor, and that such success just might be a catalyst for a resurgence in west coast collegiate wrestling. I'll take him at his word that the UNC job was the one dream job that could remove him from what seemed...

Guys delay enrollment for a year, and instead enroll at the local community college and wrestle for the club team (Spartan RTC).

I think Blades is about the most athletically gifted woman, but I fear she has too many mental hurdles to get over. Just seems very fragile since the concussion. I hope she gets past it all, as she could dominate that weight.

Not that they didn’t try their hardest to gift it to JB again though….. Glad to see a 3rd match.

So, two matches now decided on (IMO) bs, after-the-match dissection of replays. Wow, just wow.

Anyone else fuming about the reffing inconsistencies? Yianni got Cautioned-and-one for grounding himself, but Richards did it about ten times in two matches while the ref observed. Vito’s throw clearly 5 … etc etc. Oh well … maybe I’m just sore because the stream fails every 30 sec.