Hate to say it, but I will believe it when I see it in regard to him scoring more. He says this every year he's been here. But the good news is that, even though his scoring wasn't much better than when he was at 149, Beau won more close matches and went deeper in the NCAA last year. So I am fine with him winning more close matches moving forward. If he scores more, it's a bonus.
I am very hopeful for a new Beau this year. It’s clear, wrestling up at 149, when he potentially could have made 133, had a negative toll on his approach to wrestling and he took a hit to his overall confidence. He seemed to have made a breakthrough at NCAA’s and almost taking out Lee shortly thereafter seems to confirm that. In another recent video, discussing his first 2 years, he was questioning whether he knew how to wrestle at all, mainly from the beat downs he was receiving in the room. Almost all wrestlers entering the Penn State Wrestling room experience this, in the beginning, most are not deterred, they are confident they will improve, some have trouble with not being dominant right out of the gate and some never recover, but others do. I’m positive Beau is the type that will recover, I am very optimistic we see an entirely different approach by Beau this upcoming year. He seems to have rediscovered his mojo. We will see.
Good. It's so stupid to think that taking an ORS will help to make the team. If it's so bad to wrestle folk why is Steveson coming back?
I think it may be more of an issue for an Olympic tweener weight guy, like Carter. It will be a challenge wrestling 174 in college and then trying to make 163 (74kg) shortly thereafter.
Lol. I’ll raise my hand 🖐️ for that vindication. Although I realize this comment was in jest as is my feeling of vindication. 🤣
Fortunately for Carter I think he can start descending during the season and still win a title. Lol
He has multiple Cadet medals that qualify him.
What?
There ya go injecting logic and actual statistics into a discussion…. How dare you!
Below data is from Wrestlestat:
You must be easily impressed with the 2 points difference (1 point difference if you take away the matches near the beginning of the season).
Well, you can parse that data several ways. You choose to say a 2 point increase is not that great. And numerically it sure doesn't sound like much. But when the base was 5.5 points a match and increased to 7.5 points a match, that's a 36% increase. Now, again, that may not sound like much, but for athletes and teams that are already competing at a high level, a 36% increase in production is, in most cases, gonna be a pretty impressive increase.
Smee phrased it very well, and bottom line I am impressed by any of our athletes putting up with all the pressyre and also being a student, and performing. Bottom line he said he has wanted to score more, and he is….. whether you (or myself) are impressed or not probably doesn’t matter to him.
Note: Well, if you take away a few of his losses, it makes his stats look better. Wut? If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. I guess we'll have to set some ground rules on how we're going to selectively parse Beau's match stats.
I already gave Beau credit in my original post in winning more matches upon moving down to 141. But as far a scoring like how Cael wants him to, no, he's not there (yet). That's why I said I will take a wait-n-see mode.
No duh... winning more matches when Beau moved down to 141 wasn't the point. His attack rate to score points was the point. The board has said many times that he has one of the quickest attacks they've seen, but too bad he wasn't willing to pull the trigger enough in a match. Are you disputing this? If so, try to go back to this past season and check out some of the comments from some of the board's well known posters/experts on Beau's matches.
No, I'm disputing this: "I said his score from 2022 to 2023 'wasn't much better,' which implies the differences were not too great. 2 points is not that great." I'm suggesting a 36% scoring increase IS much better and IS great. (although I'd prefer it be labeled "debating" rather than "disputing", but toe-may-toe, ta-mah-toe)
yea, I think he talked about forum participants. Really liked how he said no one knows and even the coaches ask who is doing what when it comes to redshirt
When Beau never lived up to the hype of being able to walk on water, he became dead to me.
Going from 5.5 to 7.5 is 36% (correction thanks to TN). But take away the 20 points and 18 points Beau scored at the beginning of the season, then that's going from 5.5 to 6.6 points resulting in an increase of 18%.
Your math is wrong. Going from 5.5 to 7.5 is a 36% increase. Going from 7.5 to 5.5 is a 26% decrease. To find the % change from the original number, you divide the difference by the original number. As a example, we can all agree that going from 5.5 to 11.0 is a 100% increase: divide the difference (11.0-5.5) by the original number (5.5).
