Wow. Some of the newbies are really puckered tight. This board ran just fine with @TomMcAndrew moderating it.
Why Social Media is enriching our lives, while it eats away at the fabric of our society.
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Newbies. Ha ha!
Here's another graphic. NCAA points at 174 during the Cael Era:
Edit: prior graphic had the incorrect year range.
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Cael era? Surprised it isn’t more pronounced.
I was told there was going to be no math.
You're correct. I messed up my pivot table. That data is from 1996. Update coming...
Edit: proper range of years now shown from when wrestling was invented in 2009 to 2025.
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Whatever the points for places 2-8 add up to, it’s more than the 20 for first!
On rivals, some of the best threads went way off topic. A certain raccoons thread immediately comes to mind. Or maybe some found it annoying. I don’t know. There was a sense of camaraderie that I hope finds its way here.
This particular thread is about social media, and not wrestling per se so no big deal from my perspective. But I do agree some of the wrestling threads have gone off the rails with off topic stuff, but it is the offseason (as crazy as this offseason has been). I think things will level out as we get closer to wrestling season. Personally I wish the tabloid threads (Carter and Aaron) would die down and fade away until more facts come forward, or hopefully nothing comes of any of it and they just die. No thanks to Beau and Syd.
Awesome chart, but why is the Penn State bar purple, or are my eyes deceiving me?
It’ll be interesting to see how they supplement losing Jax, Bo, and crew to graduation in a couple of years. Keegan is good, but he’s not Bo or Melvin. They have another good kid coming up whose name is escaping me at the moment, but it’s almost unheard of to have wave after wave of elite level kids short of being a private boarding school like Sem or Blair.
Also it's not in a population center, unlike Beca and FCA. Far smaller local/commuter base.
Probably Jayden O'Farrill. He'll be a sophomore this coming season. He finished 4th in PA States (AAA) @ 172.
He just won the Junior 175 lbs. weight class @ Fargo, where he took down Salah Tsarni (Maryland). He's in blue in the below video of the final:
Pretty sure they got a few move-ins for the next school year. So it really depends on how much Bill stays invested in coaching. He'll obviously be all-in until Keegan and Jax's little brother are done.
Of note about Jayden, a few years ago he moved from Florida to NEPA to be part of Wyoming Seminary Elem wrestling. He moved up about the same time as the Bacons did, both from the same FL team to Wyoming Sem. While there I secured tickets to a PSU BJC dual, I think Iowa, for both families.
I guess he then moved out to McCort. He is now @johnstownsteel ‘s recruiting responsibility.
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We're doomed.
Hmm, who would you pick from between Ed Ruth, Bo Nickel, and Aaron Brooks? That's a tough one.
What a quandary!!!
I’ll have to think about this one… I think the first seven were no-brainers!
That would make a great 3 man tag team. Bo in the 1st period, Ed in the 2nd and Aaron to close it out.
They might have to switch it up otherwise Aaron might never get on the mat.
I guess this means they're putting Cael at 197.
Speaking of which: Cael, Varner, and Cox. All 3 won multiple NCAA titles and were World or Olympic Champs. Plus Rosholt was a 3x NCAA champ, but went MMA instead of freestyle.
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Yeah, in the 184 article, it states:
"Some of those stars — Carter Starocci at 174 and Cael Sanderson at 197, for example — fell into other weight classes during the Flowrestling All-Quarter Century voting."
I presume from the above that Flo is putting CS at 197. I think (not certain) that the All-Quarter Center team factors in the years 2001 thru 2025, inclusive. As such, CS @ 184 in 1999 and 2000 are immaterial. So they were left with CS @ 184 in 2001 and CS @ 197 in 2002 from which to pick.
I'm torn between Bo and Ed. No offense to Aaron, but those 2 were more exciting, in my opinion of course. I'll go Bo. Him crushing Iowa and OSU fans by pinning Brooks and Martin being the difference.
Windows cost extra.
To specify the donor:
Pretty impressive when you can count a guy like this and billionaire Josh Harris among your donors
Pretty impressive when you can count a guy like this and billionaire Josh Harris among your donors
Eh, cheapskate! Our CEO of Merrill Lynch alum gave $25M to create an Honors College, and another $30M to endow schollies (academic), etc.
An all-world TD, and Heflin was no slouch.