Yep. Amos had Yonger nearly beat. He is no slouch.
What’s the over/under win total against PSU Friday??
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Yeah but Blaze will have no answer for Ayala's elite scrambling ability. That's really the X factor.
Isn't Ayala 4-4 this year? Whatever is going on makes me think he isn't at 100%.
I don't think LL is banged up at all, so he should be going. PSU doesn't have a backup 125 right now. Nate Desmond is technically the backup at 125, but he weighed in at 138 on 12/20 to cover for Nagao at 141, so I don't think he's allowed to be back to 125 yet. There's no one else on the roster there, so it's either LL or forfeit.
That line just increased.
Barr will get 5 or 6 against whoever Iowa throws out now.
Barr will get 5 or 6 against whoever Iowa throws out now.
Phil keddy and it ain’t close.
Thats fair. But I have never seen Caliendo have any trouble getting out from underneath
Barr is an animal and we have an extremely undersized Gabe or Ludington, who gassed hard against WI. Barr may have teched Mo anyway but he's going to ragdoll whoever we throw out there.
I don't see it happening although I also considered the possibility. And now with the Endene development, it might further smack of desperation. Desperate is not a good look.
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Momentum won't matter. It's not like any of PSU's wrestlers will somehow be affected by that . The guy across the mat matters.
Ok. I will remember that next time someone uses the “carvered” excuse.
Does "Carvered" mean the combination of uncontrolled adrenaline dump and home fan influenced referee calls affecting a visiting wrestler?
Angel Rivera can address the latter.
I never interpreted it to mean anything about officiating but yeah the adrenaline dump, crowd getting in their head, momentum, etc. all things that don’t mean much if the guy across the mat is what matters.
> Angel Rivera
> "home fan influenced referee calls affecting a visiting wrestler"
Laughable
If the team comes out flat like they did against Wisconsin, it will be ugly.
Ummmm it’s going to be ugly regardless
It's not like these guys haven't wrestled at say other big time meets or places like say worlds.
Again if you need to be hyped to perform you're the wrong game. You should be able to self motivate and block those things out. You act like these guys have never had big matches or been in big meets before.
Ok, glad to know where you stand on it. I am not taking a side one way or the other but atmosphere and big matches are two different things.
Wrestling a dual in front of 15,000 people and wrestling a big match like world trials or worlds in front of 2,000 can elicit different responses. Never know until you are there. The guys in question like Luke, Blaze, and Duke are elite of the elite though so they would seem less likely to be impacted by it than most.
It impacted Mark Hall, who was pretty much the Blaze of his time. So, it could happen, but I wouldn’t expect it from the current guys. They seem to have maturity and professionalism well beyond their years.
I agree with you, and I know some of the matches people are referring to because if I'm not mistaken I believe Mark Hall lost there to Kemmerer. Sorry if I misspelled it.
And didn't he lose his first match there to him also. I mean his first match in college division one? But obviously mike was a very talented wrestler as was Mark so I don't put it as much as the crowd but the quality of the opponent.
To me the Home field advantage comes more while you're in your home you don't have to travel and worry about weighing in while you're on the road and such like that and I agree that can't play a part.
Pretty sure he won the Scuffle a few weeks prior, back when that was a good tournament. But may have been his first dual.
It wasn't Mark Hall's first competition that year, but they pulled the shirt for that dual. He was previously unbeaten wrestling unattached that year including winning the Scuffle