Funny, I had been wondering when (if ever) they last surrendered 30 in CHA.
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Their “dumbness” is so advanced, the dust has already settled by the time the other dummies come along
#levelplayingfieldallequallydumb
We have Happy Ness, they have Dumb Ness and Sad Ness.
133. That was the other weight that was originally left off their list of weights where Penn State has potential finalists. If Nagao is a "hole" in the lineup, oh my. Vito is Vito obviously, and if he's on form like he was at the NCAAs last year, no one is beating him, but outside of him, I'm not worried about Grampa Fix, and there are some other strong contenders like Latona and Orine and some promising freshman in Crookham and Bouzakis, but really, Nagao is right there with everyone outside Vito, so I'm not sure that PSU can't make it 8 finalists if the chips fall right.
With Truax I noticed that he is like Gumby when it comes to flexibility and ability to do a split to avoid TD. The mat last night was fairly small and he is very tall. Led to 3 or 4 stoppages when he was doing a split to avoid TD and his foot would go beyond the edge of the mat. This led to the refs discussing and I think they eventually started calling the stalls. If there had been more room at the edge I am not sure those are converted by PK and may have simply resulted in stalemates eventually or just wrestled out of bound. Which may have given a bit more leash to Truax to not pick up multiple stall calls.
Blast doubles seemed to work pretty well for Cassar...
By that thinking; if you're not a potential finalist you are a hole.
I guess it didn't dawn on them that the same line of thinking leaves them with 9 holes.
OK - that's a new one for me. What happened?
BTW, if you saw the movie Miracle with Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks, there's a very similar scene about half way through the film. Great movie!
Agreed, they did. I'm just saying that the few times we've seen Kerk in trouble on his feet the past few years, it is against larger heavyweights and a result of straight-on shots and getting caught underneath those huge bodies. The first Schultz match comes to mind and the earlier matches against Big Cass. Once Cass cut down, Kerk was able to overpower and finish. Same against Parris. The straight-on shots and moving away from the knee pick that worked so well led to trouble for him.
Yep, I know Bernie wrestled lower weights prior to 197 last year.... OP was implying that he simply ran out of gas due to weight cut - admittedly, I didn't see match, but based on pbp I was reading, it didn't sound like Keck broke him with his offensive attacks as much as he made him completely defensive. Been a couple years since Bernie wrestled 184 and he may not have anticipated the quality and quantity of Keck's attacks (often times, 197 and HWT do a lot of head and hands wrestling - there is an adjustment going back down to 184). Keck getting pretty deep on his shots may have made him tentative and 100% defensive. At the end of the day, it's to Bernie's advantage seeing him here - he now has a full season to gameplan with Cael & Co.
Was just told by one of the great Hawkeye fans out there that 2004, OkST beat the Hawks 30-10 at Carver.
Good thing he’s not coaching against Cael now
The Hawks would be favored at 125 and 141. Although Drake hasn't been lighting up the scoreboard. And Bartlett is close to Woods. A shut out in Carver isn't a far stretch. A blowout loss for Iowa is pretty likely. Passing 30 points is pretty likely.
If this is the case, we also need passivity, the shot clock, and the step out.
Appeasement is the only way to peace with GIA, we just need to accept our position as the village idiots of college and high school wrestling. Obviously, wrestling in Pennsylvania never existed before Carl came to Penn State.
Considering the behavior that has occurred in the past, there is a slight possibility of Iowa's final score being -1
Slow your roll PA. Drake would still be a favorite over Braeden and Bartlett despite being close to Woods is a sizeable dog in that match. The chances of winning both of those is very low. Then add that Carver always adds some potential upsets, hard to say we're slam dunks to win 157/165 especially when stall calls will favor them there.
I might be wrong, but I believe MSU accomplished a similar feat at BIGs one year in the recent past.
I would worry about Fix. In their match in the NCAA, Fix was dominating him.
I get the chances of a shutout are pretty small, but it is a possibility. And a damn exciting one at that.
Nagao got the only takedown and got RT.
Fix got 2 reversals + 2 penalty points -- Nagao got dinged for top stalling 3x.
Van Ness discussion starts at 12:30, Starocci discussion starts at 20:15. They provide video highlights, of each match.
Well, I suppose anything’s possible.
I heard a while back that Austin Gomez was transferring to Iowa. Haven't heard anything recently. But, ff he's on their team by the Iowa dual, he and Van Ness could have a doozy of a match!
Maybe he's coming back 2nd semester. He was pretty dinged up last year, maybe he's still healing.
I mean, he is at Cliff Keen WC. I thought Gomez to UM 2nd semester was a done deal
I think we can safely attribute Starocci's performance to my constant nagging about his bonus rate on here.
