He decided to quit playing with his food and pin them . In the past he was focusing on techs . He could've been pinning guys all along he just decided not to
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Pinning, turning and top skills is something he worked hard to become better at. Not something he just decided to do this year.
Some people like to take credit for things 99.9 percent of this board already knew .. must be an Iowa fanboys thing .. go figure!
As someone with an 11yr old boy, you lost at Halo because the other guy was "spamming" (pre-teen boys have a different definition of this word than I do) or there was a glitch. It's a small percentage of males who understand personal accountability before their mid-20's and a growing number of them never comprehend this (integral) life concept.Mendez was only up 4-2 until a desperate attempt by Hardy gave Mendez a last-second takedown. Should have ended 4-2. Now...where is my Cocoa Pebbles mom? The teacher hates me. Why do we get pimples? I hate girls. I lost at Halo because my controller sucks. It's your fault....I wouldn't have cracked the TV screen if you had bought me a better controller. No I wasn't mom.....my worn socks are always crunchy! How am I doing?
I am an autism spectrum, straight up objective stats guy. If you Google "Hodge Award", the description is "the nation's most dominant wrestler". By every metric, Messenbrink is the most dominant college wrestler in the country this year, and Mendez is a distant third. I wonder what the average riding time is in Messenbrink's 5 major decisions is? It's got to be around 3 minutes, as he clearly was working on pinning combinations, in match - in essence playing with his food, to improve his overall game. He hasn't had a remotely close match all season and the gap between him and the #2 guy in his class has only widened. Gotta love Mendez, but he's a step behind in every single statistical way and had two close ones with Hardy. If the Hodge was a lifetime achievement award, it should be in the description and Starocci should have won it last year, by possibly the widest margin in history. Unfortunately, the world isn't strictly based on logic like I wish it was and "feelings" determine a growing number of things, apparently including the Hodge Award. Clearly there are a lot of people in the wrestling community who are all up in their feels about how PSU has dominated the sport for the last decade-and-a-half.
It's a shame that probably the most dominant NCAA wrestler of this generation will likely end his career with a (single) loss (in the NCAA final, as a RS freshman against a 6th year - 5-time AA - RS senior, when it appears he wasn't aware of riding time) and probably (at most) a single Hodge. I doubt Messenrbink is losing sleep over it.
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If freshman of the year was voted before the Big Tens, I would think Blaze would have bested Davino since Blaze was undefeated and beat Davino head to head.
Good point, I didn't think that one all the way through.
I think someone posted that Cael said afterwards that they could only submit one wrestler for consideration and that they had submitted Marcus since he was the only undefeated frosh - PJ had one loss.
This just emphasizes the stupidity of this award process. If PJ and Marcus were both undefeated, Cael would be required to choose one of them without knowing who would win a big 10 championships.
And ironically, if the coaches had to select 1 wrestler for hodge, Caels selection would have a better chance because our guys wouldnt split votes.
List of average mat time for the remaining undefeated wrestlers. The top four are Forrest, Mitchell, Mendez and Barr. Just one more category where Mitchell leads Mendez.
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5 in the top 12. Nice.
Shoot me, but I’d almost trade a surprise Braeden AA for a surprise Mendez upset (Vega or Stanich?) just to secure Mitchell’s Hodge. Otherwise, with this year’s fix all set, I could see next year’s plot building for a mutant spider named Jax.
I say almost because if Braeden recreates his TD flurry against Brock and somehow hangs on, he has a solid shot at the semi’s. Now, that, I would never trade!
I say almost because if Braeden recreates his TD flurry against Brock and somehow hangs on, he has a solid shot at the semi’s. Now, that, I would never trade!
Now that would be awesome, can't wait to see the rematch - thought about it filling out my bracket. I agree that he has a shot a semi's if he beats Hardy, but IDK, I don't see it happening...
