Why Social Media is enriching our lives, while it eats away at the fabric of our society.
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Some of the topics in this edition of BaschAMania:
- this year's USA Cadet World Team
- Real American Freestyle
- USA vs. Russia at PWL
- WNBA & Wrestling
- Penn Gets $20M Donation
- Ranking Series Cleanup & UWW Notes
- Gable Game to Close The Show
- this year's USA Cadet World Team
- Real American Freestyle
- USA vs. Russia at PWL
- WNBA & Wrestling
- Penn Gets $20M Donation
- Ranking Series Cleanup & UWW Notes
- Gable Game to Close The Show
See iowa faithful still hoping to get negative airtime to cael getting fired. Poster has an inlaw “well connected to PSU”. Said admin and cael had a sit down and got a come to jesus moment for cael. Course claiming all being swept under the rug.
Put this here? Or put it in the PSU Recruiting thread? Or put it in the Non-PSU Recruiting thread?
When the thread cited Bakersfield's HWT but not their 184, red flags went up.
Sure enough, Bakersfield's 184 was 3x NQ Gerrit Nijenhuis. He went 12-10 and DNQ in his only year with Ferrari.
Wow! Nolf wants to run his own college program one day! Brands’s days are numbered!
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This is incredible. The 2 clubs we need to continue the pipeline with are KD and AWA. AWA might be different going forward with Ben’s situation but Max is a great coach as well. Ben will continue being a top level coach it just might take a bit for him to have his focus and energy there. I know KD has another young hammer coming so let’s keep It going.
Haven't heard much about M2 since DT moved on. How is the club doing on the national scene? Are they still able to bring in top-notch kids or has that changed without DT's name on the door?
I think they still get a lot of the better kids from Central PA in, but I’m not so sure they get as many as when DT was at the helm. Chance seems to have a good foothold in the Lehigh Valley/D3 area so that’s obviously going to pull some kids his direction that might’ve gone to M2 when DT was there.
One of the better young kids coming up that I think still goes to M2 is Cael Smith. He made the PJW JH state finals before losing to Teag Sanderson. He was nearly unbeaten at the 14U National Duals too.
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Joan Anderson, who helped create the hula hoop, dies aged 101
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Joan Anderson, who helped create the hula hoop, dies aged 101
Anderson claimed she came up with the name 'hula hoop' and played a crucial role in introducing the toy to the US.
IMO that's a pretty easy call.
2 returning champs (Byrd, Figueroa), a 2x finalist (Ayala), two 3rds (Crookham, Romney) ... Blaze/Ono ... Davino ...
Somebody really good like maybe Ragusin won't place.
now that would be a real shame
He predicts we have seven finalists…
…without mentioning Ono… I’m curious why he didn’t even mention the possibility (at 141)… I don’t know if he thinks he’s redshirting, or not good enough.
I can’t argue against his choices at 197, but I wouldn’t rule out Rocco… like Ferrari and McEnelly, he had a very narrow loss to Carter(albeit when Carter was injured)… but also, he’s getting a different set of coaches!
On Ono, it's probably a combination of 1) not knowing if he'll be 133 or 141, 2) not knowing if he'll redshirt, and 3) never having seen him wrestle folkstyle
With regards to 184, McEnelly seems like a solid choice. In limited action last season, Ferrari looked very good. Picking him at this point seems to be a bit of an educated guess, as opposed to stemming from straight analysis. And while Welsh redshirted last season, he made it to the 174 finals as a true freshman, so it's almost as though he's being slighted by Pyles. (He went 26-5 as a true frosh, with his only losses being to Edmond Ruth, 1-2, Shane Griffith, 1-2, Starocci, 2-4, Edmond Ruth, 1-4, SV1, and the NCAA final, to Starocci, 0-2.)
I had only remembered Rocco’s finals loss to injured Carter… I had forgotten that he had ALSO kept it close with UN-injured Carter in the dual…. so by that measure, similar to Ferrari, though I don’t recall how the dual match looked.
As I recall, Carter wrestled cautiously against Ferrari, but never seemed in danger of losing…vs McEnelly, it looked like more of an even matchup, with Carter gutting out a late takedown, similar to his matches with Keckeisen.
Meanwhile, somehow the up’n down Edm. Ruth seemed to have Rocco’s number!
Yeah, the Ruth results were interesting. But in Rocco's defense (in the discussion), he did defeat Ruth in their 3rd meeting of the season, 4-1, SV-1, at NCAAs that season. (I think I have that right; going strictly from memory.)
Not sure where to put this, but our HS wrestling coach, Bill Bence, passed away this week. His teams didn’t wrestle a lot of top competition, but he had a great dual record (320-15) matched only by his sense of humor. (He once said our undersized HWT was “slicker than a three-peckered billy goat” for a local article) He’s in the PA coaches HOF.
William H. Bence Obituary - York Daily Record
William Harry Bence, 87, entered his heavenly home on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. He was born in Indiana, PA on February 15, 1938, and was the son of...
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Max is the biggest reason for AWA's success, and the better guys are his. Max is the nuts and bolts guy. Their system comes from him.