Transfer Portal 2026 + Other team movements
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Stanich would fit in nice at 141, Ono is not a 141 , Desmond is more of a 133 ,nagao is retired, Davis is on the bubble and Blaze needs to put on 8lbs of muscle,if he does than ok he can handle 141.
Please dont bring that sh#$ over here. Leave it in the cesspool.
that may be correct... my understanding that it is not the cut for him it was the timing of the cut. I think he stated hat his goal is still 57 kg...
Maybe i am wrong but I thought that was the goal and the he is just needing a longer runway to get there!
Thats big... hope it is not Iowa (for his sake)... anybody know that nature of those injuries?
I feel like that Portal has changed some of this for a lot of teams... but Pitt may not be one. I just hope that they can retain guys like Augustine, Mac Stout and Pitzer
I dont agree with that.... It is just like us. We are not recruiting over anyone... but the door is open if you can come in an earn a spot, we owe it to the team to give you that chance!
The issue with Pitt is that I feel like many of their guys went backwards. Last season... Stout was neck and neck with Ferrari, and this season clearly took a step back. Same as Pitzers trajectory going in the wrong direction... I can keep going with their lineup but when the biggest recruits landed show success then go backwards, that is concerning
If they at least have success and a positive trajectory.... you can recruit off of that alone!
If they at least have success and a positive trajectory.... you can recruit off of that alone!
Folks, please show a little discipline. This is a thread for the 2026 portal, and OTHER team movements. It is not for PSU.
Unfortunately, it's really easy to divert threads into different directions. But if people just refrain from replying to every post that goes in a non-Subject direction, collectively, the thread doesn't become a mess.
I'm constantly being pulled in conflicting directions: 1) let discussions evolve, and allow people to feel comfortable having conversations that interest them, and 2) removing posts that have little to do with the Subject line, or are tangentially related to the Subject, but divert the thread into areas that other threads are fully addressing. More often than not, I'm not removing posts, as I want folks to be happy and comfortable. But it gets frustrating, and if I don't step in then too many threads just become repetitions of the same issues.
1. please, DO NOT REPLY to this post
2. do not discuss PSU's team, or PSU's portal actions. Just keep this thread focused on other college wrestling teams, and the actions (portal related) of wrestlers on college wrestling teams that are not PSU
Thanks
Unfortunately, it's really easy to divert threads into different directions. But if people just refrain from replying to every post that goes in a non-Subject direction, collectively, the thread doesn't become a mess.
I'm constantly being pulled in conflicting directions: 1) let discussions evolve, and allow people to feel comfortable having conversations that interest them, and 2) removing posts that have little to do with the Subject line, or are tangentially related to the Subject, but divert the thread into areas that other threads are fully addressing. More often than not, I'm not removing posts, as I want folks to be happy and comfortable. But it gets frustrating, and if I don't step in then too many threads just become repetitions of the same issues.
1. please, DO NOT REPLY to this post
2. do not discuss PSU's team, or PSU's portal actions. Just keep this thread focused on other college wrestling teams, and the actions (portal related) of wrestlers on college wrestling teams that are not PSU
Thanks
I got a text this morning about Crookham from a insider from Lehigh. He does not know on destination.
I had posted mid season that Santoro and staff were fed up with his health issues. Lehigh doctor would say one thing Crookham's doctor would say something else .
I think he might be a grad student. If I had to take a guess I would say Michigan. Not sure of their lineup for next year .
I had posted mid season that Santoro and staff were fed up with his health issues. Lehigh doctor would say one thing Crookham's doctor would say something else .
I think he might be a grad student. If I had to take a guess I would say Michigan. Not sure of their lineup for next year .
Any chance he would want go to a school due west of Lehigh?
Crookham's degree was in Finance.
Seems to me U-M has landed a couple grad students.
Below would be an option.
- U-M Ann Arbor (Quantitative Finance & Risk Management): A 3-term, 36-credit program jointly overseen by the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics.
I can think of worse careers than being a quant in the field of Finance.
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Michigan absolutely needs a 133 next year. Botero should've shirted but was the best option, and went 5-18. Maybe incoming FR Haakon Peterson will be better next year, but he won't be nearly Crookham.
Offhand, Illinois also needs a 133 with Byrd graduating. Rutger needs a 133 unless Knox moves up.
Crookham will have options.
Crookham maybe to Columbia? Can't beat that for a grad school.
Difficult for me to believe he doesn’t end up at Iowa. It’s a perfect fit. Iowa needs a 133 and they can blame the inevitable Iowa injury problems on his pre-Iowa history.
I think him being a grad student would preclude him from athletic eligibility at an Ivy league. Unless it only applies to grad students who spent undergraduate years in the Ivy's as well.
Looks great on a resume (at least it did until recently), but you have to actually live there.
The Ivy League does not allow grad students to compete in athletics. You get 8 semesters to play, and they must be done as an undergrad.
Here's an article from The Columbia Spectator in 2022 explaining the situation:
Karpen: The Ivy League’s graduate student athlete policy is causing it to fall behind
The Ivy League announced this January that it would revert back to its precedent in banning graduate student athletes from competing in varsity athletics.
www.columbiaspectator.com
Ohio State’s Fisher School of business has a very strong post grad business school M.B program.
Just saying.
Bob should probably make the NIL payments weekly...
I know they allowed a waiver during covid. Penn had a kid transfer in for basketball but he is a JR who was at Duke and Virginia 1 year each. My understanding is you can't participate after 8 semesters. If you know something different please fill me in.
Not to be a pain in the *** but I can easily (for me) see why people would respond to " the 2026 portal, and OTHER team movements" with comments about PSU team portal moves. I separate the line as anything portal related and then other teams. Now if the headline was 2026 Portal for other teams, that would be different just wanted to show how I interpret the headline and how it may not be a lack of discipline to mention PSU portal moves in this thread.
What did crookham ever do to you