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    Interesting Facts and History of Penn State Wrestling

    So you went to Boiling Springs? They never had a state champ until Joe Eremus. But the very next weight class that year was Larry Karper, who was BS's 2nd state champ for that year and forever. And they didn't have another one for decades! Back then, D1 + D3 made up the SE Region. Karper and...
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    Interesting Facts and History of Penn State Wrestling

    I was a counselor at Sprig Garner's wrestling camp. Since you wrestled for him, you know he was a legend. He left LI to come to Gettysburg to coach, but almost immediately had a heart attack and was forced to retire. He brought a couple of LI wrestlers with him to Gettysburg, and they were NQs...
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    Fun Review Of Vision Quest By Bill Simmons

    In the mid-80's I was stuck in Oakland, CA on some project I was doing. I was there for 6 dreadful months. And I saw Vision Quest at some mall in Oakland. I'm trying to remember, but I thought I caught some kind of error in the scoring or timing or something like that of the big bout in the end...
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    3 questions

    yes, all the Lions are great stallers, but MM makes an art of it.
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    The Morning After

    I was sitting eating breakfast when I mentioned to my wife that PSU had done so well last night, with 4 champs and 2 all-timers and 6 in the finals. She said, "I thought they must have lost, the way you were swearing at your computer." Oh well.
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    1997 Iowa vs 2024 PSU

    It's not the kids that are better. It's the coaching. It's the preparation. These kids today have been wrestling year-round since they were 6 years old. They've had professional-level coaching for most of their careers. There were kids that I wrestled with and knew in HS and college that given...
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    2024 NCAA's - Day 3 - Match/discussion thread

    I've been watching wrestling for a very long time and have seen most of the greats. Aaron Brooks may be the most technically sound wrestler I've ever watched in college. And he has terrific balance. And his strength must be awesome, cause he wrestles guys that regularly hammer others with their...
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    Other Teams You Love

    I lived and died with the Phillies for the first 15 years of my life. Then I was obsessed with the Eagles for the next 30-40 years. My son learned most of his swear words by sitting near me on a Sunday afternoon watching the birds. My son tells me the Union sucks this year. He's one of those...
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    2024 NCAA's - Day 3 - Match/discussion thread

    My best friend in HS lost the semi-finals of states because he lost track of the score. I was on the side of the mat screaming, "Your losing. He has riding time." It did no good. My friend stalled out the end of the bout and lost on RT. A couple of years later he was wrestling for Penn and did...
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    Most impressive thing you’ve ever seen?

    1) Frazer-Ali 1 2) Back to back to back to back to back 2018
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    Bartlett gets offensive

    Mea culpa. Beau has accomplished a tremendous amount so far. And he may well win this weekend. But he's boring. That's a word that hasn't applied to a lot of PSU wrestlers over the last decade. Yes, I'll concede that Beau is not boring for about 10 seconds of every match. It's just that those...
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    Starocci keeps getting better

    I've been following Carter Starocci since his freshman year in HS. We heard about the new hotshot fromErie, but he was something of a disappointment. He lost to an Upper Darby kid early on and wrestled back for 8th place, being hammered on the way by Sammy Sossa. His Soph year he placed 2nd, and...
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    Bartlett gets offensive

    first period: Minny kid, 1 offensive shot Bartlett 0 second period: Minny 0 Bartlett 0 third period: Minny 1 or 2 Bartlett 1 major shot when it looked like he was going to get beat Bartlett easily turned the...
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    2024 NCAA's - Day 1 - Match/discussion thread

    We sent practically my whole wrestling team to Fitz's camp in the early 80's. My kids loved him, and he loved the kids. Prior to Cael's coming, a lot of people felt PSU was never as strong as it should have been. We knew PA was the center of wrestling in the USA. Tracking AA's, just like this...
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    2024 NCAA's - Day 1 - Match/discussion thread

    otoh: the way CS stayed inbounds was really cool. He kept one part of his body in bounds while both of the rest of the two bodies were out. And the kid was decked. What's it take to call a fall? At the end of the bout, CS could have gotten a td easily. The other kid was kinda shooting wildly...
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    2024 NCAA's - Day 1 - Match/discussion thread

    Kasak wrestled stupidly. As someone noted above, he defended against a takedown for so long, did it so well. And when he broke free from that problematic position they had been in, he allowed himself to give up a weak takedown with little or no fight. I don't get it. Then in the 3rd, he rode...
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    Day 1 multiscreen coverage...

    When I was a kid, Thanksgiving dinner was nuts. We had maybe 10-12 people sitting around the table (depending on girlfriend situation with the 4 brothers) with a huge turkey. And sitting around the table on whatever surface was available were 3 or 4 TVs. Penn State-Pitt, Nebraska-Oklahoma...
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    PA HS Wrestling thread

    I've been following wrestling since 1958, when I wrestled my first bout in 5th grade, and my brother was 3rd in the Region as a 9th grader. In all that time I think I've seen 2 or 3 defensive pins. I thought anyone pinned that way must be an idiot. Watching the PIAA states the other day, I saw...
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    Best Wrestler (ever) from each D1 Wrestling Program in PA

    As an eyewitness, I can say that Temple in the 60's was competitive. They had a good program with some very tough kids. Wayne Boyd was good enough to win nationals. He decked a kid from Iowa or Oklahoma State in the finals, using a move I like to think he saw me use--- a kind of chin whip. My...
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    PA HS Wrestling thread

    Nelson is Ridley's first state finalist. They've had wrestling since 1959 and finally have a finalist. (Carl Schnellenback student taught in my HS in '58, the next year hired by Ridley and started their wrestling program.) My logical reaction is the same as above: Sidun could/should hammer...
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