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PJ Duke commits to PSU
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Exactly. HWC has improved, but still less than half of NLWC. And in prior years it was worse, allowing a decade long trend. One article a few years back showed NLWC having more $$$ than the next 10 teams combined.
Level playing field? BS.
Are there any schools besides PSU who can claim to have 3 top 20 P4P recruits on the "B" squad? Facundo #3, Barr #6, Kasek #17
Everyone with half a brain knows it's more than just money, But as you stated 3 guys in the top 20 p4p that will not even be in their starting lineup! Nobody is remotely close and the question still remains to be answered, how do they keep all of them? Having a PSU diploma is def not worth riding the pine for the better part of your college career for such talented kids.
5 star quarterbacks commit to play for Lincoln Riley because they know he produces NFL results. Not starting immediately may not be important if getting to the NFL (eventually) is their dream. Wrestlers want to be coached by Cael and Company for the same reason. His staff produces champions. Agree or not, that is what the kids say when they commit.
LOL, you need to re-read what you wrote! IF, for a "star" QB, the goal is to be an NFL QB. Signing at a school that produces them certainly makes sense, BUT at some point. The people in the NFL are going to want to see results! Sitting on the bench, will not get you them!!!!
Wrestling, does not have an NFL to shoot for. Winning championships, getting to the next level would seem to be the goal of ever top tier kid I have ever talked to or heard about. I would even make a bet on your comment that a TOP kid, goes to F*** st, to be coached by the great Kraleure???
It is, and has been, very obviously, fat $$$$ mans slush fund and a compliance dept wiling to look the other way. The $660K in "camp expenses" that was well documented, tells you this! Very nice if a kid can make a years tuition over the summer working at wrestling camps!
Now the matter of having top kids ride the pine, was another of the great Failures achievements! Grey shirts, deferred enrollment etc...I guess he saw what Ivy schools did and just added it in at F*** state. Just a round number, but say 5 years of F*** st cost 250K. Normal for many wrestlers.
Now obviously 6-7 years adds 50-100K, NOT chump change!!! BUT if someone else is paying, well then it becomes a non-issue. Plus if you are not losing eligibility, well you could always transfer, which has happened several times now and will many more times just watch!
You can also look at the , "recruiting over" 2 top kids at the hardest weights to recruit Heavy and 197 with Beard and Nevilus. A REMARKABLE feat that has NEVER been done before in the HISTORY of the sport! Was nice to see the KerKIN and ButterDean put on the magic Fraleure weight so quickly too!
Poor MS Murphy! She was trying to teach you about adverbs …. and you turned out this piece of unintelligible crap. You should never have been promoted to 3rd grade.
Like I said before, every time a PSU fan comes on here to chastise me, it puts a GIANT smile on my face. Mission accomplished!
Now that line, I wholeheartedly agree with. Self denigration happens on the regular in my work setting. You just have to make sure everyone knows when and how to separate fact from fiction!
It's a little disingenuous because Barr and Kasak are taking redshirts this year. I made the assumption that the guys on shirts could wrestle for the B team. Facundo is eligible for an Olympic RS, but who knows if he'll take that. He doesn't really have a snowball's chance in hell of actually making the Olympic team. It's also possible Mesenbrink takes an ORS and Facundo starts at 165 again. Mesenbrink seems more likely to actually train for the Olympic trials (although probably more likely for 28).
Regardless, they are going to have a huge roadblock in the middle weights in a year or two with Kasak, Haines, Mesenbrink, Facundo, Duke, Healey, Ryder, and E. Gibson vying for 3 or 4 spots.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out? One thing is certain, the great fraleure has set himself up. With this many top guys, 1/2 could sh*t the bed, and you are still sitting pretty!
How many will transfer, waste their eligibility, not pan out, use the slush $$$$ to stay in school for 8 years, all remains to be seen?
Ohio State had 3 top 20 recruits on the B squad last year
Bouzakis and Feldman, redshirting (like kasak and barr this year)
Jordan Decatur, lost his spot in the lineup (like Facundo would have if he's on the B squad)
Slight difference is Ohio state will have their redshirts in the lineup this year and Decatur has been there and just has not leveled up. There will be several non RS top 20's sitting at psu at any given year.
Yeah, there's more than a little irony in that statement from a fan of a team that had Grampa Kemerer and career family man Marinelli both out there as 25 year old 7th year seniors. LOL.
For the sake of accuracy, Marinelli was 6, not 7. Mind you, that ALL came down to the ridiculousness Covid caused wrestling. Do you not think those 2 would have traded A LOT to have been able to wrestle that 2020 NCAA Tournament. BOTH guys were probably wrestling their absolute best that season and BOTH seemed to be the most healthy coming out of B1G's than they ever have.
Let's not act like Iowa has had some crazy track record for keeping their guys on the roster for ever using crazy ways to use multiple redshirts. Kemerer was simply a case of 2020 and a major injury screwing him up...
1 is the starter until we hear differently, and eligible for an Oly redshirt, the other 2 on freshman redshirt. These kids aren't even from the same class.
3 big recruits in one class is hardly unprecidented. Take a look at Ohio state's most recent best recruiting class in a decade. Their B squad last year looked pretty strong. meh.
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Yeah, that's all true, and it's a shame 2020 was cancelled. Regardless, the irony of IB's post still remains.
Irony, satire, sarcasm are often the main points of his posts. I mean the fact that he spells his crazy nicknames differently in nearly every post is a good indicator to not take everything he says too serious, let alone personal...
I did not want to start a new thread so I figured this one is as good as any to be off topic. Looks like Austin Gomez will be wrestling for Michigan this year. This is quite the haul from the transfer portal for Michigan, 5 All-Americans(DeAugistino, Cannon, Gomez, Griffith, and Davison. They will have 7 AA's in there line up, 3X NQ Ragusin, blue chip recruit Rylan Rogers and a huge hole at 197.
125 DeAugistino
133 Cannon
141 Ragusin
149 Gomez
157 Lewan
165 Amine
174 Griffith
184 Rogers
197 Bullock
285 Davison
If healthy they will contend for 2nd place.
125 DeAugistino
133 Cannon
141 Ragusin
149 Gomez
157 Lewan
165 Amine
174 Griffith
184 Rogers
197 Bullock
285 Davison
If healthy they will contend for 2nd place.
ya think? I mean, that thing had every box that our it security department sends around to us on their 'watch for suspicious email" checklists.
I guess if he is serious about freestyle, Michigan is as good of a place as any to go. They had 3 world medalist in the club this year. The real question is - "how many times is he going to retire"? He is pulling a Michael Jordan on us all.
I don't know about contending for second. Yep, a lot of names we've seen before but how many points are each of them really going to score in their weight classes. Gomez if healthy and at the top of his game could be huge and after that you have Griffith and Amine who might/probably make it to the semis, but I don't see anyone else on Saturday night. I think whoever is going to take second has to get some Saturday night points or have 4 or 5 high AAs,..and looking at Michigan's names I just don't see 4 or 5 high AAs or any Saturday night points. Just my thoughts.
It would not shock me if Shane Griffith placed 2nd. I also wouldn’t be shocked if Amine, Gomez, Lewan, DeAugistino, and Davison all placed in the top 5. Rylan Rogers was the #13 ranked recruit in his class. Cannon and Ragusin are both fringe AA types. This team has the potential to score a lot of points. If I were a betting man, I’d put them in the 3-5 place as a team. They most certainly will be competing for a trophy
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