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Zahid Valencia

Well I am saying we may have dodged a bullet. These guys are toxic. Maybe the younger brother will be different. I like the recruits we have and have signed up. Getting the wrong type of kids into the room is how a dynasty can go down.


Suriano turned out to be a “wrong type” and while we are still, IMO,waiting for a high AA125 replacement, i wouldnt say his being here, or leaving for that matter brought down a dynasty.
 
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FWIW Pat Mineo isn’t always right with what he reports, but he just posted that younger brother Cael Valencia, is not going to go to ASU and is a PSU probable now. Cael is an absolute monster and would be a great get.

Perhaps it's his destiny from birth ;)
 
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For what its worth...Mineo also tweeted this is Zahid's 3rd failed drug test. 2 at ASU and the last one in Italy. May explain severity of indefinite suspension.

That would make more sense. The fact that he was "escorted out of practice" seemed very harsh otherwise.
 
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Valencia would make absolutely no sense unless he is a future 197 guy. We just had Kibe and Facundo commit.

Yeah, it could make sense. Those guys wrestle at 170lb. He wrestles 160 lb now, right? Maybe he projects to be a 165 lb wrestler in college?

Perhaps he thinks he can beat out the Lee brothers. It's not like the Lee brothers were ranked higher than him in high school, and he is worried about his chances to beat them out.
 
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For what its worth...Mineo also tweeted this is Zahid's 3rd failed drug test. 2 at ASU and the last one in Italy. May explain severity of indefinite suspension.

Exactly how severe is an indefinite suspension?
 
Someone posted earlier in this thread that the NCAA rule is to adopt the same suspension length as the international committee suspension length due to the failed test.

Appears that ASU has zero say in the matter.
I think the Fix situation is more interesting in that IF it is true and he does get suspended by WADA he would not be able to wrestle in college either. He could potentially miss the next season or two depending on the WADA suspension. But, again there is no information whatsoever if any of this is actually true. Mineo posted another tweet yesterday that Fix is being replaced for the Pan Am Olympic qualifier with Gilman. USA Wrestling is silent of course. Strangely, on an episode of FRL two weeks ago they mentioned a rumor that Gilman might be replacing Fix.
 
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Someone posted earlier in this thread that the NCAA rule is to adopt the same suspension length as the international committee suspension length due to the failed test.

Appears that ASU has zero say in the matter.

that is all depending on the truth of the situation. I believe Flo said the testing he failed was not a UWW test and therefore it would not trigger any International suspension, It is all on ASU. We really do not know the truth of the situation.
 
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that is all depending on the truth of the situation. I believe Flo said the testing he failed was not a UWW test and therefore it would not trigger any International suspension, It is all on ASU. We really do not know the truth of the situation.
Another thing to think about is that even if it were a UWW test, his suspension hearing likely wouldn't be for months. JO failed a UWW test late April 2017 and his hearing wasn't until January 2018.
 
Another thing to think about is that even if it were a UWW test, his suspension hearing likely wouldn't be for months. JO failed a UWW test late April 2017 and his hearing wasn't until January 2018.
Is it possible that they would have a quicker timetable knowing that it is an olympic year and team qualifiers will be happening? I am just asking, I have zero knowledge about international bodies.

Edit, they just suspended some wrestlers that I believe had qualified spots for countries, France, Syria and Kosovo, though I believe all three wrestlers had Russian sounding names, lol. What was that timetable?
 
Is it possible that they would have a quicker timetable knowing that it is an olympic year and team qualifiers will be happening? I am just asking, I have zero knowledge about international bodies.
I have no idea but I'm not sure the likelyhood of the hearing happening within the next 3 weeks before NCAAs.
 
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that is all depending on the truth of the situation. I believe Flo said the testing he failed was not a UWW test and therefore it would not trigger any International suspension, It is all on ASU. We really do not know the truth of the situation.
Yes, they stated that UWW did not administer the test at the Mateo Pellicone event, the Flo guys also said they did not know who administered the test. They said it could be WADA, USADA or ASU. If it were WADA or USADA it would trigger an international suspension. Also, the hearing for JO was later but he was still suspended from the time of the result through the hearing, right?
 
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Yes, they stated that UWW did not administer the test at the Mateo Pellicone event, the Flo guys also said they did not know who administered the test. They said it could be WADA, USADA or ASU. If it were WADA or USADA it would trigger an international suspension. Also, the hearing for NO was later but he was still suspended from the time of the result through the hearing, right?
Lol, NO or JO? I assume autocorrect...
 
Hard to know. Tom Osborne permanently kicked Lawrence Phillips off the team, only to let him play in the bowl game. I feel like the dictionary should have the word “convenience” in the definitions.
Well, he also hid a gun allegedly used in a felony shooting by his player from investigators....he really liked to win.
 
Exactly how severe is an indefinite suspension?

It's probably more severe than a permanent suspension. Those do not tend to last very long. The indefinite kind will likely last at least until fact-finding, appeals, and any applicable punishments run their course.
 
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It's probably more severe than a permanent suspension. Those do not tend to last very long. The indefinite kind will likely last at least until fact-finding, appeals, and any applicable punishments run their course.
And then there is the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum way out of it.
 
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Yes, they stated that UWW did not administer the test at the Mateo Pellicone event, the Flo guys also said they did not know who administered the test. They said it could be WADA, USADA or ASU. If it were WADA or USADA it would trigger an international suspension. Also, the hearing for JO was later but he was still suspended from the time of the result through the hearing, right?
Yeah, you're right, he was under a provisional suspension until the hearing.
 
It's probably more severe than a permanent suspension. Those do not tend to last very long. The indefinite kind will likely last at least until fact-finding, appeals, and any applicable punishments run their course.
"Indefinite" is one of those non-committal terms that sounds more severe than it is, though it often ends severely.

But it's not as confusing as the legal term "continuance," which actually means about the same thing, i.e., an open-ended postponement that might cease upon some future as-yet unidentified event, at which point the case recommences.
 
Hard to know. Tom Osborne permanently kicked Lawrence Phillips off the team, only to let him play in the bowl game. I feel like the dictionary should have the word “convenience” in the definitions.
A few years ago, Coach K at Duke indefinitely suspended one of his players, it lasted one game.

All indefinite means is that time is needed to assess the situation and determine the correct punishment. With the possibly of lawyers being involved, nothing is definite.
 
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True, I definitely see that point, but he was partially right about Zahid. If it was me and a rumor like that got big enough, I'd want to squash it as fast as possible. Maybe not an official statement from Ok St, but maybe Dayton calls up one of the reputable wrestling journalists and says "Hey, I hear this rumor going around and I just wanted to go on the record that it is 100% false." But hey I'm by no means a PR expert.

He could probably address it without really addressing it. Like an Instagram post saying “getting ready for Pan Ams” or something.

So either he/OSU doesn’t really care about the rumors swirling, or there’s some truth to it. But not sure which. For the record I think Mineo was also claiming they’re trying to appeal it. So for argument’s sake let’s say he’s telling the truth and say there’s a successful appeal, is that something the public would eventually know about?
 
Exactly how severe is an indefinite suspension?
Intended to pause the wrestler's action until enough facts are known to make a call on the consequences, HOWEVER LONG THAT IS. It means to me that there was enough info already available to take this step. Now it's get through the smoke to see if there's a bad fire.

Urgent in this case, as the PAC-12 tourney is 13 days away.
 
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If Gilman takes Fix's place on the team and Fix gives up the chance to earn the #1 seed in that bracket, I think we can read between the lines. I always wondered about his weight cut and how he made it, because he looks huge for that weight. Someone on the Hawkeye forum just posted that Fix is 7 months older than Lee and if he does come back next year Fix will be a Red Shirt Sophomore and Lee will be in his Senior year. Fix must have been an old HS senior..... Working the system in all ways it might seem....
 
Well I am saying we may have dodged a bullet. These guys are toxic. Maybe the younger brother will be different. I like the recruits we have and have signed up. Getting the wrong type of kids into the room is how a dynasty can go down.
You do not want to go down this road on this page. We don't take kindly to speculation regarding athletes without valid sources. Even then, there's no room for disparaging remarks.
 
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A few years ago, Coach K at Duke indefinitely suspended one of his players, it lasted one game.

All indefinite means is that time is needed to assess the situation and determine the correct punishment. With the possibly of lawyers being involved, nothing is definite.
That was Grayson Allen.
 
Someone on the Hawkeye forum just posted that Fix is 7 months older than Lee and if he does come back next year Fix will be a Red Shirt Sophomore and Lee will be in his Senior year. Fix must have been an old HS senior..... Working the system in all ways it might seem....

Fix took a regular redshirt and an Olympic redshirt that he earned. Lots of wrestlers have gone this route, I don't see this as "working the system" at all.

Spencer had the opportunity for both redshirts and he decided against it, which obviously is fine. People in the same graduating class are often 7 months apart.
 
Fix took a regular redshirt and an Olympic redshirt that he earned. Lots of wrestlers have gone this route, I don't see this as "working the system" at all.

Spencer had the opportunity for both redshirts and he decided against it, which obviously is fine. People in the same graduating class are often 7 months apart.
And he was as old as possible in High School is all I'm saying. So many guys are grey shirting in Jr. High to graduate at 19. I just remember guys graduating at 17 early and 18 was normal. I think that's changing now to gain every possible advantage. Nothing illegal, but just working the system to be as old as one can be at each level.
 
Am I the only one that wants to party with this guy and his hot girlfriend's friends? I know a bunch of yall are thinking it.
 
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