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I thought about starting a wrestling GDT in SAS main, but thought I'd be the only one posting. I wish wrestling was bigger than it is, but I do think it will jump another level when women's wrestling becomes a major NCAA sport within the next two or three years. Penn State is pretty much annihilating everyone.
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I didn't realize it was as big a deal as it is, wiki says there's 78 div 1 teams. I assumed it was like mens gymnastics (12 div 1 teams) or rugby which I assume is about the same.
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I think high school wrestling is due for an increase in popularity in the next decade. I see a lot of kids trying out BJJ these days, most teens can apply a pretty decent rear naked choke just from watching ufc highlights. Considering most of the most effective poo poo in bjj is extremely similar to catch wrestling, I hope kids start taking an interest in it. I wish I had done it.
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trevorreznik posted:I didn't realize it was as big a deal as it is, wiki says there's 78 div 1 teams. I assumed it was like mens gymnastics (12 div 1 teams) or rugby which I assume is about the same. I didn’t think there were a lot of wrestlers on a D I team. So ends up not being a lot of student athletes.
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Hed posted:I didn’t think there were a lot of wrestlers on a D I team. So ends up not being a lot of student athletes. 10 weight classes plus depth, more than the typical basketball team.
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Has Saint Mary's ever done jack poo poo in the tournament? Feels like they're always over seeded especially if they beat Gonzaga during the season.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Has Saint Mary's ever done jack poo poo in the tournament? Feels like they're always over seeded especially if they beat Gonzaga during the season. Buddy, some crazy poo poo's gonna have to happen to get St. Mary's into the tournament. We're gonna have to go wayyyyyyy beyond 12 teams. Also, they will have to start a football team.
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lol I have too many NCAA threads in my bookmarks huh
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trevorreznik posted:I didn't realize it was as big a deal as it is, wiki says there's 78 div 1 teams. I assumed it was like mens gymnastics (12 div 1 teams) or rugby which I assume is about the same. I think a lot of that has to do with the sec having no presence in wrestling. Oklahoma is still going to be in the big 12 for wrestling and I believe Mizzou is rejoining them next year as well.
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All you ever needed to know about the ACC leadership is that they thought Boston College was going to deliver the "new England College football market" when they poached em from the big east.
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I dunno the ACC poaching the best football schools from the Big East and destroying a regional rival conference 20 years ago seems pretty prescient? Unfortunately Miami and Virginia Tech both fell off hard in football and college basketball stopped being a driver of anything in college sports. It’s not like the Big Ten or SEC were particularly better run, they just benefited from having better football schools at the top end.
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trevorreznik posted:I didn't realize it was as big a deal as it is, wiki says there's 78 div 1 teams. I assumed it was like mens gymnastics (12 div 1 teams) or rugby which I assume is about the same. I live in central PA and even though I know wrestling is huge in PA I was surprised when I started paying attention. The matches are super hyped up and a lot of fun. Shame I don't really understand most of the rules. I feel like I've missed out on being a fan for years because of just how insanely dominant Sanderson has been. It's a sport that has really been taking off because of the popularity of UFC and other fighting stuff. Jeremor posted:I think high school wrestling is due for an increase in popularity in the next decade. I see a lot of kids trying out BJJ these days, most teens can apply a pretty decent rear naked choke just from watching ufc highlights. Considering most of the most effective poo poo in bjj is extremely similar to catch wrestling, I hope kids start taking an interest in it. I wish I had done it. Yeah this.
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Spring Portal is going to be action-packed.
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Jeremor posted:I think high school wrestling is due for an increase in popularity in the next decade. I see a lot of kids trying out BJJ these days, most teens can apply a pretty decent rear naked choke just from watching ufc highlights. Considering most of the most effective poo poo in bjj is extremely similar to catch wrestling, I hope kids start taking an interest in it. I wish I had done it. As a former high school wrestler, I kind of hope not. I doubt they've solved the culture around weight loss/cutting that's so pervasive and just not necessary for most kids to do. I'm trying to get my kid into judo just to avoid those issues, as I had some bad experiences with them personally. I've watched the Olympic competitions for years (remember rulon Gardner?!) , but I try to watch any and all events for Olympics. You all should get hyped for it this summer, and just don't sweat the various rules. trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:Has Saint Mary's ever done jack poo poo in the tournament? Feels like they're always over seeded especially if they beat Gonzaga during the season. They knocked off 2-seeded Nova in the second round in....2011, I want to say? Anyway, the Steven Godfreys of the world would have you believe that SEC fans are a Borg monolith chirping SEC SEC SEC and whatever talking points coming out of Birmingham HQ....and every time, I feel like they fundamentally do not understand us. Because I say to you now: loving LOL at Kentucky, Auburn, Florida, and Greg Sankey. Their pants-wetting defeats over the last two days have shone a sliver of sunlight on yet another crummy UGA hoops season.
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trevorreznik posted:I try to watch any and all events for Olympics. You all should get hyped for it this summer, and just don't sweat the various rules. Handball is a ton of fun if you've never watched. I watched a ton two Oly cycles ago. I think last games I watched a shitton of Judo
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I love the Olympics and will watch anything they put in front of me. Like race walking. A few games back, it was the only sport that the US didn't send someone, because no one even tried to qualify. But I'll watch and figure out how to get invested in what might be the weirdest looking sport there is. But ugh literally everything about the agony of how they cover the games
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My Olympic highlight was being a stay at home dad with a baby during the Rio Olympics and just watching hours of live feeds of any and all events. A bunch had ioc commentary which I didn't expect. The feeds were available on Comcast, I think as part of how NBC got the rights. Then my spouse would watch the highlights on NBC at night and would be stuck waiting like 2 hours to see what Raisman and Biles had done
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Sash! posted:I love the Olympics and will watch anything they put in front of me. Hell same. Also finding random small countries who sent like 1 person and rooting for them hard.
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If you could determine permanent OOC games for your favorite team/school, what would they be? In an ideal world Tulane would always play LSU, USM (Southern Mississippi), Ole Miss, and ULL. Auburn, GA Tech, and LA Tech just missed the list.
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The MSU-Notre Dame rivalry was great when both teams were good. An unfortunate casualty of the ACC deal. Otherwise we play Western or Central basically every year as is. Would be kind of funny to have the same football relationship with one of them as basketball has with Oakland.
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Spacebump posted:If you could determine permanent OOC games for your favorite team/school, what would they be? In an ideal world Tulane would always play LSU, USM (Southern Mississippi), Ole Miss, and ULL. Auburn, GA Tech, and LA Tech just missed the list. Clemson, North Carolina, coastal carolina and southern cal. Tempted by NC state too, but never really cared about them.
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Hed posted:I didn’t think there were a lot of wrestlers on a D I team. So ends up not being a lot of student athletes. The biggest issue is that it's a non-revenue sport that doesn't/didn't have a female mirror, so you'd have a Title IX issue where you'd need to find a women's sport to match that number of scholarships. Schools will always sponsor more women's teams then men's due to the number of scholarships football offers, so having to find another dozen to offset wrestling becomes a non-starter outside of the hotbeds or those who sponsor everything under the sun like the old Pac-12 schools. If women's wrestling does become a thing at the NCAA D1 level it becomes slightly less of an issue; it's still not a revenue generator and NIL isn't going to help the schools in that regard.
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Spacebump posted:If you could determine permanent OOC games for your favorite team/school, what would they be? In an ideal world Tulane would always play LSU, USM (Southern Mississippi), Ole Miss, and ULL. Auburn, GA Tech, and LA Tech just missed the list. Texas' move to the SEC has all the rivals I really want to see covered (OU, A&M, Arkansas). TTU I guess would be the next up, but I'm pretty happy to leave them behind so I don't have to watch that Michael Crabtree clip every year. I could say Oklahoma State maybe. It's usually a fun matchup, and we've had some real all-timers with them over the years. Yeah, I dunno, I'm gonna go with USC so I can be an old man reliving past glories every year.
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Spacebump posted:If you could determine permanent OOC games for your favorite team/school, what would they be? In an ideal world Tulane would always play LSU, USM (Southern Mississippi), Ole Miss, and ULL. Auburn, GA Tech, and LA Tech just missed the list. For USA (South Alabama): UAB, Jacksonville State, Navy, and alternating year visits to Alabama/Auburn. Navy being the only out of state school, but they've played before (Navy got the win on two horribly blown calls) and there's a huge retired Annapolis alumni population in the region, with Pensacola NAS being an hour away. For Bama: USC, Notre Dame, Penn State, and Southern Miss for the cupcake.
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My dream opponents: Our six most played (as of whenever i looked last time): Alabama Vanderbilt Memphis Ole Miss Kentucky Georgia Tech Five nearby that culturally vibe: Memphis Virgina Tech NC State Auburn Cincinnati West Virginia I'd be willing to exchange NC State for Appalachian State. I just personally don't like Clemson and don't want them to be included in things, but they might make more sense than Cincinnati. I once had a girl who was half bear and half cat though And then do a couple rotating. I didn't include Florida or Georgia because we didn't really play them often before the east west split (they were very afraid).
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OOC id like to see UF play FSU and Miami every year without exception. Which would be bad because the SEC is just going to keep stacking our conference slate against us in perpetuity.
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At a certain point, would the SEC just say "no thanks, we're full"?
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GD_American posted:At a certain point, would the SEC just say "no thanks, we're full"? That point may be now. At least for FSU and Clemson. I'm still not convinced the SEC or B10 will invite either to be honest.
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https://twitter.com/KirkHerbstreit/status/1771326069750079957 Kirk just log off lmao LeeMajors posted:OOC id like to see UF play FSU and Miami every year without exception. pillsburysoldier fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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drunk leprechaun posted:That point may be now. At least for FSU and Clemson. I'm still not convinced the SEC or B10 will invite either to be honest. They would; that list of the top 17 most watched teams had those two on there; I think it was all teams who would be in the B1G/SEC next season with FSU/Clemson/Notre Dame. No one's going to say or leak anything right now for fear of lawsuits/lack of leverage, but FSU/Clemson/UNC would get invitations from one of those two. Everyone else depends on numbers, I posted a tier list in the old thread on how desirable each ACC team was, so someone like UVA or Miami might get an invite while Wake and BC probably need to hope the American has room.
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drunk leprechaun posted:That point may be now. At least for FSU and Clemson. I'm still not convinced the SEC or B10 will invite either to be honest. I can't imagine the B10 saying no to FSU.
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I wouldn't want to play the same teams. My hunger is for the opposite: to defeat every FBS team. Doesn't matter to me if the last time a given opponent was decades ago, just at some point, Penn State won against them.
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I don't understand the argument for getting Clemson into the SEC, but then here's Oklahoma. Maybe FSU and Clemson should join the Big 12? The Big 12 could really use a marquee name and there's no BC, Syracuse, or SMU to drag down strength of schedule.
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pillsburysoldier posted:Yeah why are they crushing you guys? No idea. We’ve always had a pretty tough slate but the juxtaposition of our schedule with UGAs ridiculously soft schedules the past few years is pretty hilarious.
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I would like to keep Bedlam going and I also like playing Tulsa. OU and Arkansas should have played more than 15 times in the last 125 years.
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dirty shrimp money posted:I don't understand the argument for getting Clemson into the SEC, but then here's Oklahoma. I don't get the appeal of Clemson either at this point. Has everyone in the SEC looked at their new schedules they are murder gauntlets. A 7-5 Clemson is not drawing a lot of eyeballs after a few years. They are such a beneficiary of their schedule, it's actually going to be a huge blow to them having the ACC collapse. I eagerly await the Clemson fan to correct me on this matter.
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dirty shrimp money posted:I don't understand the argument for getting Clemson into the SEC, but then here's Oklahoma. Clemson isn't a marquee name
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LeeMajors posted:OOC id like to see UF play FSU and Miami every year without exception. Typical Gator always ducking UCF. 
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