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15 weeks 4 days ago	PSU Wrestling should have always been great	They produce more talent year in and year out in Pennsylvania than any other state. It was kind of impressive that they went so long without being a top teir program
21 weeks 6 days ago	I'm going to have to squeeze this one in	I usually try and listen to any of the Ringer podcasts where they talk about lineman, as Mays is awesome when discussing O-Line, but I'll have to fit this somewhere in between Mbmbam and the Hardcore History series on WW1
22 weeks 1 day ago	Massa can beat I-Mar	I don't know if he will, but he can. I-Mar damn near lost to Anthony Valencia a few years ago, and Massa is clearly a step above him. I-Mar is probably the second best wrestler in college right now if he's locked in, but he's not always locked in. He gets flat footed and sloppy at times, and someone as talented as Massa could take advantage.
29 weeks 1 day ago	The flip side is	Next year, Michigan gets Coon and Abounader back, and only has to replace Murphy and Youtsey. That's 5 guys, half the lineup, that you can expect to compete at an All American level next year.
1 year 5 weeks ago	How are they going to do that	If Ken Holland fills the roster with 4th liners locked up for the next 3-4 years?
1 year 5 weeks ago	Whens the last good move Holland made?	He dumped Pav's to clear up cap space....to pay Neilsen until he's what, 37? He's managed to sign a bunch of 4th liners outside of that to prevent any of the young guys from getting any playing time. He still hasn't addressed the defense, though I fucking shudder to think of how that's going to look. Mantha, Smith, and Jurco for Fowler? Sure why not. The Wings were in a unique position to rebuild quickly with a ton of forward depth and tradeable older players, but Holland held tight to the fucking streak, trading top 6 forward prospects for 3rd line centers so they could eek out a 7 or 8 seed. He's squandered all possible cap space, creating a future nightmare where they can't resign the youngers kids and lose them while trotting out Justin fucking Abdelkader at 5 million a year until 2023.  He's proven time and time again that he's very good at listening to Hakan Anderson, and god awful at managing a roster that has a salary cap or understanding how to properly evaluate his own players. He's turned into a bad Gm, and I hope he's fired before he can fuck this teams future up too badly. Other than that he's doing great
1 year 11 weeks ago	This seems like a lot of nothing	Perhaps some kids parents help them get nice cars in a pretty reasonable price range because they don't have to pay for college? I mean, those are like 20k cars
1 year 13 weeks ago	I don't think they go that way	People in Westeros never get what they deserve. I think I can say most of us wanted terrible things to happen to Theon after his betrayal of Rob and the burning of the farm boys, but Ramsay went above and beyond, so much so that he became a sympathetic character. Joffrey wasn't tortured by prostitutes as revenge for what he did to Rose, or slain in single combat by Stannis following a one liner, he was poisoned in front of his mother by Baelish, who has torn the realm apart because he's butt hurt over Cat Stark not wanting to marry him.  The worst thing that could happen to Ramsey is maybe eating  some of Wyman Manderley's pies.
1 year 22 weeks ago	Youtsey is a weird case	He had a relatively dissapointing year this year, but he is a returning AA
1 year 25 weeks ago	whatever you say	Teams now score like 10 points a game less than they did back in the good old days of the 80's with all it's defense and grit.
1 year 26 weeks ago	Georgia doesn't produce a lot of wrestlers	Most Big Ten level wrestlers are multiple title winners in wrestling states, like Ohio or Pennsylvania. A one time champ from down south would have difficulty even placing in Pennsylvania.
1 year 27 weeks ago	Mayhew isn't a tire fire	He has no idea how to hire coaches, but he has some value strictly as a talent evaluator. He built an incredibly dominant defense, one that could have made a serious playoff push if he hadn't hampered the offense with his coaching choice.  He hit well on the d-line in drafts, and that's what New York is going to focus on. He's not terrible in free agency, and as long as he has nothing to do with coaches it will be hard for him to fuck up that badly. He definitely deserves a job in the league, just not running the Lions. The bozo he left behind coaching the team is a different story, but he'll get his soon
1 year 32 weeks ago	As a Kenny myself	I can tell you that is pretty common
1 year 32 weeks ago	Broke the mold?	She did exactly what WCF did to Millen, right down to the half ass statement that the team is dedicated to performing better As long as she can keep hiring her kids friends, that is.
1 year 35 weeks ago	100% Agree	Him and McNeil are roughly the same to me. Both lost a ton of talent at schools that can't stockpile the depth that top tier programs can. Mullen managed to have a decent year anyway, McNeil lost a Qb to injury, IIRC, and struggled just enough for an athletic director to make a regrettable decision. Though it we had hired either, right now we would be kicking ourselves for not getting Herman.
1 year 39 weeks ago	You can hire your kids and their friends when you win	You better damn well find some good people when you don't
1 year 40 weeks ago	Babers isn't going to Maryland	With the amount of jobs open this year, guys like Babers, Herman, and Holiday are gonna get snatched up by much better teams than Maryland.
2 years 3 weeks ago	Oddsides Ale's	It's in Grand Haven, so it's close, and everything i've ever tried from them has been excellent. When you're there, you have to try Bean Flicker, which is a coffee flavored blonde, and the Black Citra IPA if they have it on tap.
2 years 12 weeks ago	Nope	According to Forbes, the Lions are the only NFL team to lose money last year, and have done so for 4 straight years.
2 years 17 weeks ago	Filpulla would be 5th in points on the wings	And they could easily fit him in if they weren't paying the corpses of Franzen and Weiss to not play hockey the last 2 years. They signed Weiss to literally the same contract as Filpulla and got zero out of him. That's a giant fuck up
2 years 17 weeks ago	They gave up a top 50 prospect	but if you are OK with just throwing those guys away for literally nothing, then it's a fine deal
2 years 17 weeks ago	That's being a bit generous	either that or you've forgotten about signing Weiss, or trading for Legwand, or lettting Filpulla go, or going half a decade needing to add defense and somehow not managing to do it once. He's drafted well and managed to not make any super nova fuck ups with a core of established players but it's a stretch to say he's done a particularly good job lately, especially considering his great drafting is due in large part to Andersson's excellent scouting. It's probably time for him to move on to greener pastures and let someone who can actually go out and get some free agent or trade help take over. He's set them up nicely for the future, but the team is going to need a change of leadership from the top down if it wants to bring this young group of players to cup contention.
2 years 20 weeks ago	It's Grey	Which seems a little dumb to me. Schools with a lot of green probably should avoid this.
2 years 23 weeks ago	Steiber is a beast	Like, historic beast. He's a 3 time champ already, going for 4 this year, and he would only be the fourth wrestler in history to win 4 NCAA titles. I'm not sure on an exact count but I'm pretty sure he's lost less than 10 matches since starting high school, and most of them were close matches to older, multi-championship winning wrestlers like David Taylor.
2 years 24 weeks ago	Finally, I contribute something of value	I'm pretty sure that is a scene from the movie Dogma, and time is frozen around the main characters whilst some dilemna or plot point is laid out.
2 years 28 weeks ago	They've won a single playoff game in 57 years	It would, in fact, be surprising if the Lions made the super bowl.
2 years 31 weeks ago	Yes	Dom lost to the youngest Rizgallah, 4-3.  I hope Coon makes the Olympics, almost entirely because that means we would get to enjoy post olympic redshirt year wrestling, which is always awesome. That's how you end up with guys like Jake Herbert teching the #2 kid in the country
2 years 31 weeks ago	All you need to know about MSU wrestling	Is that you could damn near walk from campus to St. Johns, and yet every single wrestler from there goes to Michigan.  They were OK as a team when they had the Simmons and I think Boudro, they've had a few scattered AA and a champ since then, but that's almost entirely a result of being in a wrestling rich area. I would like to say that a big part of why that gap is starting to grow is Michigan's willingness to spend. McFarland was able to hire 2 huge name assistant coaches a few years ago from the olympic program, and Michigan has probably the nicest wrestling practice facility in college.
2 years 34 weeks ago	Fun fact	My phone is trolling me with that feature, as I will now demonstrate by typing a name. Brady Hoke is a very innovative and visionary offensive mind.
2 years 35 weeks ago	I was terrified this was Coach Schiano	Sorry man, if you end up here, but the thought of Greg Schiano in a Michigan polo makes my skin crawl, and I puke a little in my mouth

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