More Lineup Movement?
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I am pretty confident you will see him for more than a year......and doing well.
Me, too. He's got a great attitude and approach from what I've seen - and a ton of upside.
Mark Hall turns 22 in January. If he wrestles for PSU in 2022, he would be 25 years old at that time. Seems well beyond unlikely.
Haha, this brings back so many terrible memories of message boards discussing Hall and his age.
I think Nomad said it best on FRL, I am glad the PSU guys are having a little fun if they are trolling. And/or if it is real, I find it hilarious they'd be breaking the news on IG.
The cornhuskers are just trend setters in every way. Quite the word smiths, they are.
I hear you.
But I also think we've entered a new age of how the wrestlers themselves and we as fans can consider the variety of wrestler career options. America appears to be improving internationally, at all three age group levels, and the elite almost all state World & Olympic medals as career goals.
With the growth of the RTCs, usually geographically centralized around top-tier college programs, the various college eligibility clock options, and now the wide-open college transfer rules, I think the wrestlers are now starting to look at their college-eligible competition years holistically, in the larger context of their world medal aspirations.
Functionally, it all can be considered to be melded together into simply "training" for world medals.
Nico took a year off when he was 22, and competed collegiately at 23 (I might be a year off there). Alan Waters did the same. Andrew Howe took off two years after JR year of college and before SR year. I think he was 23 or 24 when he lost in the college finals to Chris Perry. Nico's now stopped traveling to State College, b/c the Pitt RTC has bolstered itself into a solid training room option. Nick & Joe Lee skipped their senior years of HS, to train, without impacting their college eligibility.
Age doesn't need to be a deterrent to the possibility of competing collegiately, with eligibility that was saved up via any of the various clock-pausing devices, later in what historically has been known as a the college part of a wrestler's career.
I just think it's time we fans catch up to the wrestlers in being less dismissive of all the options, and give them more consideration as viable choices. The rules are there to give wrestlers more options in how they train & compete both collegiately and internationally.
It's time to consider those options more seriously.
Wait, does this mean Pitt is now a viable option?
Just goes to show that there is no problem that can't be solved by adding 2 Penn Staters (in this case, Ging and Nico).
Right.
2008: HSSR, age 18?
2009: TRFR, redshirted at Iowa State, 19?
2010: Angola, 20?
2011: Angola, 21?
2012: RSFR, PSU, 22?
2013: RSSO, 23?
2014: RSJR, 24?
2015: National Champ, 25?
Possibly even the word cornhusker as well, even though we outproduce their butts by a lot here in Iowa!
yeah. Sounds right. I remember that psycho Ficker guy at Maryland bellowing about that at a PSU - MD dual.
A Mark Hall redshirt would not be a surprise at all. A reshirt this year and Olympic RS next year puts him on the freestyle mat for two years trying to make the team. Good strategy.
Sure....and if he can knock them out, I'm all for the better USA wrestler taking the mat at the Olympics.
I doubt Mark Hall cares a single bit what people think about his age... and is completely focused on whatever it takes to win Olympic medals.
It is true that he won every NCAA finals match that he wrestled.
Has he ever lost a finals
Yes it is, but they were all for different schools (of thought).It is true that he won every NCAA finals match that he wrestled.
Finals Week.Has he ever lost a finals
It is true that he won every NCAA finals match that he wrestled.
PD3 and Joseph combined are undefeated in title matches.
Did you just get a job with the Minnesota Athletics Dept?
Well, he DID win a JUCO title.Has he ever lost a finals
