This article is mostly about football scholarships, but they mention a proposal to get rid of scholarship limitations. They use the example of baseball only handing out 11 scholarships over 32 spots. The proposal would allow you to give all 32 aid (scholarships) if you want. If this went into affect in wrestling, this would definitely favor the big schools like PSU, Iowa, the OSUs, Michigan ect

Years worth of great information in that thread was flushed. Seriously, we aren't allowed to discuss anything here anymore. When this site goes under, the mods will have no one to blame but themselves for shutting down any and all interesting OT discussions.

Coming up in in less than a month. April 19th-20th. I’ll post the entire list of qualifiers but first look at 74kg. Absolutely loaded! Whoever comes out will be battle tested. I’m hoping it’s Nolf but still think Dake wins it. I’m most interested to see how Mesenbrink does against this group of killers though

74 KG​

Sitting To Best of Three Final Series

2023 Senior World silver medal at Olympic weight - Kyle Dake (Titan Mercury WC/Nittany Lion WC)

Challenge Tournament

2019 World Team member – Jordan Burroughs (Sunkist Kids/Pennsylvania RTC)

2023 U20 World champion – Mitchell Mesenbrink (Askren Wrestling Academy)

2023 U23 World champion – Keegan O'Toole (Tiger Style WC)

2023 Bill Farrell champion – Jason Nolf (Nittany Lion WC)

2023 Senior Nationals champion – Quincy Monday (NJRTC/Titan Mercury WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 2nd place – Alex Marinelli (Hawkeye WC/Titan Mercury WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 3rd place – Alex Facundo (Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 4th place – Jarrett Jacques (Tiger Style WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 5th place – Tyler Berger (Pennsylvania RTC)

2024 NCAA D1 champion at 157 lbs - Levi Haines (Penn State)

2024 NCAA D1 champion at 165 lbs - David Carr (Iowa State)

Here are some major class of '24 quarterbacks ranked by their average passer rating against top 40 defenses (as rated by SRS (https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2023-ratings.html)), qualified slightly by strength of schedule where applicable. Only Qbs with at least 3 games against top 40 Ds were included.

One of the better lines in Moneyball was something like, "If he's such a good hitter, why doesn't he hit?" Some of these people - not the Eagles or Chiefs - focus on "tools" or whatever and don't seem to focus on what QBs actually did in college.

Additionally, drafting QBs in the first round, especially if you're terrible (like New England was last year), was always considered dangerous at best. This is not the MLB; you aren't drafting these players to send them to the minors for 3 years. All drafting a project like Drake Maye does is give you a project who will MOST LIKELY just learn bad habits and get the piss knocked out of him. Choosing that over Marvin Harrison Jr or some elite OT is quite a decision.

Unfortunately, the Rookie Pay Scale - aka the JaMarcus Russell Memorial Rookie Pay Scale - has insulated franchises from the consequences of terrible decisions somewhat.

All this to say Drew Allar could easily go top 5 next year. But he probably doesn't even have to be good to do it.....


1) Jayden Daniels, #2 overall:
Played 6 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 19.5. Average passer rating of 189.7 and 3-3 record.
Note: Major Stud Alert

2) Bo Nix, #12 overall:
Played 4 top 40 DSRS defenses (including both games with Washington) with an average rank of 28. Average passer rating of 160.7 and 2-2 record.
Note: He's solid.


3) JJ McCarthy, #10 overall:
Played 7 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 13. Average passer rating of 154.8 and 7-0 record.
Note: literally the typical Michigan passing gameplan was to avoid passing as much as possible, hence why McCarthy has ridiculous stat lines like 7/8 against Penn State. McCarthy is a mystery with often sketchy footwork. Could be anywhere from really good to disappointing. Taking something like that tenth overall would have been considered crazy before the Rookie Pay Scale. It's still kinda crazy.

4) Sam Hartman, UDFA
Played 6 top 40 defenses with an average rank of 21.5. Average passer rating of 148 and 3-3 record.
Note: I like Hartman a LOT but his being this high did surprise me. Hartman played badly against Clemson (70.9 PR), but was merely mehish against Louisville, very good against Ohio State and Duke (considering how good their Ds were), an absolutely trashed surprisingly good Navy and NC State defenses. Hartman may not be quite as good as this looks, but his not getting drafted is pretty crazy.

5) Michael Penix, #8 overall:
Played 7 (including both games with Oregon, that is) top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 13. Average passer rating of 141.5 and 6-1 record.
Note: I like him more than his numbers, and his numbers aren't bad.


6) Jordan Travis, 5th round:
Played 3 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 21. Average passer rating of 142 and 3-0 record.

7) Caleb Williams, #1 overall:
Played 6 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 15.8. Average passer rating of 141.4 and 1-5 record.
Note: I'll give Williams some slack as far as the 1-5 record - his defense was AWFUL - but the passer rating doesn't lie; he isn't better than Penix, McCarthy (!), or Hartman (!), and he isn't even close to Daniels or Nix. Well, okay, I do think he's probably better than McCarthy, but, uh, it isn't OBVIOUS that he is.


8) Devin Leary, 6th round:
Played 6 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 14.6. Average passer rating of 133.7 and 1-5 record.

9t) Drake Maye, #3 overall:
Played 3 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 28.3. Average passer rating of 129.3 and 1-2 record.
Note: New England drafting this massive project QB instead of an OT or Marvin Harrison is insanely laughable. Unfortunately, the Rookie Pay Scale (which was incorporated after the JaMarcus Russell debacle) has insulated franchises from the consequences of obviously idiotic decisions like this one.


9t) Jason Bean UDFA:
Played 3 top 40 defenses with an average rank of 23.7. Average passer rating of 128.2 and 2-1 record.
Note: Considering that Drake Maye padded his stats massively in garbage time against ND, you could argue Bean is better. "Oh, but the tools."

11) Joe Milton, 6th round:
Played 4 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 16. Average passer rating of 116.6 and 1-3 record.
Note: Drake Maye is the White Joe Milton or Joe Milton is the Black Drake Maye. "Oh, but the tools." I can't believe New England drafted both.

12) Jack Plummer, UDFA:
Played 4 top 40 defenses with an average rank of 16.3. Average passer rating of 112.8 and 3-1 record.


13) Tanner Mordecai, UDFA:
Played 3 top 40 defenses with an average ranking of 17.6. Average passer rating of 111 and 2-1 record.


14) Spencer Rattler ROFLMAO 5th round:
Played 5 top 40 DSRS defenses with an average rank of 19.2 Average passer rating of 98.4 and 0-5 record.
Note: this guy was so bad (way worse than 2023 Drew Allar) I'm amazed some idiotic team didn't draft him much higher.

Would love to know how a 27 year old teacher affords two homes..

Something tells me her victims weren't her "only fans" or she moonlighted at Savannahs as a "dancer'.

also this, boys. this. let's have some perspective, huh?

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It "could" disrupt communication and create northern lights for much of North America.

This, coming from a HVI respected and good poster @vhsalum over at GIA this morning. He states:

"Now the biggie - yes. Kyven was right. The AD has plans to talk to DT. She is dead serious about WINNING chips again. She's not particularly happy with Tom at the moment. The gambling, the ferrari situation, and this performance - she's holding Tom accountable and will be looking to do what will have us beat carl. She is VERY AWARE of the legacy of Iowa wrestling and how we're falling further behind. Like I told you earlier, she shut down AJ coming in in January - she's not a fan and isn't a fan of Tom's decision to bring the circus in. She also told Tom to get a hold of Terry - it's why he's been "less" in the corners.

Now how this got out? Not sure, but it likely means there are Tom loyalists who wanted it leaked. Because the plan was to wait until after the Olympics to talk to DT. So now that its out, not sure if this will accelerate talks or stop them completely."

"I've heard he'll (DT) "listen" - basically, the offer would have to be everything and more."

GableBeer said:

How would this work with Toms contract running through 2029? Will they both coexist or will Tom get canned for it to work?

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"canned"


Interesting rumors for the Monday morning after!

A. We’re good with those who’ve stayed. Coaching staff sees something we don’t.
B. We’ll be ok without those who left.
C. We’ll get a game breaker in the portal. Coach Franklin will find a Diamond in the rough.
D. There’s a freshman sensation who will break out
E. ????

We return every DT that has had meaningful snaps plus this.

I thought Askren had some good thoughts on the two major controversies from this weekend.

1) MM-Burroughs - Askren essentially says that's who MM is, he loves to fight, he straddles the line, the head shove was well deserved, and that he's had to choke MM in practice many times to get him back in line. Overall, pretty funny discussion from one of the last people that could be accused of anti-MM bias.

Also interesting discussion about when MM started training with him and how one of the big issues he had was keeping his composure. Ben used to purposely try to get him mad so he could learn to control himself. Reminded me a lot of the process with
Desanto in the Iowa room.

2) The PSU fans - I agree with him on this too. When a crowd gets large, it doesn't behave rationally. It gets swept up in the emotions of the event and sometimes does things that nobody would ever think they'd do outside of that context. I don't think it's an accident that the two notoriously poorly behaved fan bases are Iowa and PSU, the two largest by far. Get everybody together and people get wild and those in the crowd who actually suck become more emboldened to misbehave.