Read jto's post several times...
The "breadth" and "depth" words are perfect. Breadth, in my words, as talent top-to-bottom. Depth meaning talent within each weight class.
Cael & Co.'s recruiting has, in this fan's mind, resulted in a 2018-19 team that appears to be it's best, breadth and depth-wise, which was the reason for the original post...to get other fan's thoughts.
Barring injury, the team breadth is excellent. What about depth, in the event of an unforeseen event? The two toughest weight classes, imo, for depth, 125 and 285 seem ok, best ever for us, in fact.
Thanks for the discussion topics, Roar.
I guess to answer "unforeseen event", we have to do some more parsing...into, say:
1. Nationals
2. Duals
And also...Time, as in when did the unforeseen event occur.
For depth talented enough to replace a starter & successfully navigate B1Gs enough to still earn one of the qualifier spots that starter had already earned for the conf at that weight, we're looking at those you named:
125 Teske/Teasdale
149 Bergeleeren
285 Nevills/Cassar
Is it outrageous to add:
174 Manville, for Hall?
157 Could Pipher scoop one of the last slots if Nolf went out?
141 Dom G, for Nick Lee?
Those are prob our most talented non-starters, right? Well, who are
enrolled....
[Enter Father Time, stage right]
Say this hypothetical unforeseen event occurs first semester, could one of our talented Greyshirts, who've been rumored to be residing in State College, have enough time/interest/do it for the team attitude, to become enrolled and begin competing in Semester 2?
184 Brooks (another 4x State Champ, which I'd forgotten amidst his world-level accolades) hasn't relocated to SC yet; he's still doing the cycling through the CO OTC, go win a world medal, come back home to Southern, Southern PA (we 717'ers have decided to usurp Hagerstown now, thanks to Brooks), then back to CO, with tentative plans to rock up in SC sometime next summer (pending Freestyle circuit skej & results again).
165 Could Joe Lee quickly enroll, and sub in for Vincenzo?
285 Unforeseen events would be tragic if both Nick Nevills & Cassar needed to replaced, but could Seth Nevills (yet another 4x State Champ; that's 5 in this year's recruiting class, if you're counting) do the same?
197 Any rumors as to where Michael Beard is residing during his first post-HS year, while not competing & while postponing the start of his NCAA eligibility clock?
That all only touches on our quote unquote elite depth, and in the context of B1Gs and subbing in late to either earn a B1G spot at that weight or to place high enough to qualify in a spot earned by a departed starter.
Duals, I'd guess we have a ton of 'room guys' capable of all sorts of things sometimes required in a Dual Meet:
- go out & fight hard
- minimize Bonus earned by opponent
- Win
Depends on the weight class & particular rosters, but Kent State, Bucknell, Buffalo, Sparty, Indiana, Purdue, NW all could have enough relative weaknesses in their own lineups such that an Austin Clabaugh, a Jack Davis, a Mason Lindenmuth, a Pat Higgins, a Luke Gardner, a Brian Friery, an Austin Hoopes or a James Hoeg could go out in a dual and 'perform well for the team.'
