Only behind Texas and Ohio State as the favorites next year...tied with Oregon

With NIL and the transfer portal, I think it's time for NFL ready players to enter the draft as Freshman and Sophomores.

Jeremiah Smith doesn't need 2 more years of College. He's NFL ready now. Why should he have to wait? The one PSU player that could have entered draft as a Sophomore was Saquon with today's College football set-up.

What's other's opinions?

But Beau had no choice but to decide almost a month ago....

Last year there was.

Can't spell national champion without NIL.

(Mod - new thread for dual discussion)


I know it is a bit early, but who is going to the Rutgers meet? Myself, @hlstone and my son are going. @matter7172 it would be cool to meet up if you are going.

2 turnovers--low throw behind Andrews (remind any of Allar's pass to Nick) that he couldn't hang on to

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Let's get this party started folks.

Gotta pull for a decisive OSU victory as disgusting as that is.

Can't allow ND to weasel another game out as they shouldn't be there any way. Also they are too arrogant to join a conference so them winning the natty would be horrible.

A decisive OSU win where they clearly demonstrate they are on another level than an ND or a PSU for that matter will take a little sting off our loss to ND.

Cael Sanderson Utah vs Ty Wilcox California

You can see where several Penn State Wrestling Greats got their cradle from.

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For next season:

and there is now way you can say it doesn't." Dang, that had to hurt to say

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My nominations were Why Bother, Current Board, and Ultimately Decides. They all seem to have graduated in 1855. Maybe 2024 would have been a better year.

Thursday.

$200k to winner..easy money if PSU goes. The question is..do they?

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What's Pat Fitzgerald up to these days? He's going to get back into coaching at some point.

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seems like the pressure on the Eagles' run game (i.e.,Saquon) ramps up. If you have to load your whole team on the back of one guy, he is the one I would pick. Eags are being prettty silent about whether JH plays....

(Mod note - locking the Bird thread as it's run its course over the last 4 years. There will be an annual Iowa thread for related news, discussions, rumors, lineups, match notes, etc. before the start of each season.

JOESTROSSER said:

Sorry, if already posted, but with all the off-season changes what is Iowa's projected lineup?

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125 - Peterson
133 - Ayala
141 - Block
149 - Parco
157 - Teemer
165 - Cali
174 - Arnold/Kennedy
184 - Brands
197 - Buchanan
285 - Kueter

So with both Singleton and Allen coming back, is there any experimentation with Martin at WR? Certainly couldn’t hurt and might very well help.

Getting beat pretty good right now by Stanford on ESPN+

At this point 19-9 Stanford thru 165. ISU got 6 with a forfeit at 125.

Thought they’d be pretty good but look like crap. No Swiderski at 141 or Paniro at 157 but still. ISU putting Redding out at 141 and he got pinned by the frosh Aiden Valencia. Stanfords 157 (don’t know his name but fun to watch) pinned the ISU 157 who I never heard of.

Echemendia beat Abas via decision

I don't have access to Flowrestling but Tom Ryan was on talking about a host of things. Here is a summary from Bucknut message board. I'd be interested to know if Tom Ryan really said PSU or was it generic and the poster just assumed he was taking about PSU.

A summary to those that can’t watch-
-Coach gave his views on life and wrestling
-Talked about the year in review with injuries and the teams efforts at nationals
-The possible lineup for next year just saying guys know who’s in there weight and they will settle it on the mat with the exception of the middle of the lineup revolving around if Sasso stays at 149 or goes 157 and that directing impacts Mendez redshirting or not and if Paddy needs to move up and wrestle off Hepner at 165.. just my opinion is I think he stays at 149 and Mendez redshirts -Took an indirect dig at Penn St and others like Iowa saying there is definitely cheating in the portal with illegal contact of kids and money offered but catching and proving it isn’t the best use of his time and resources.. Basically control what you can control and prepare your kids/team
-The rule changes.. He’s not a fan without a trial period and doesn’t like the referee discretion of stalling especially if a guy is working on top or not saying refs like some teams over others and make calls based on that
-Talked about who we have wrestling this weekend and goals for kids in the offseason
-That’s about what I remember but I’m sure I’m forgetting some things

-oh ya also said 133 was a tough cut for Mendez so he is definitely going up to 141 and it sounds like that is regardless of anything else

Could it be any more fitting? The program with the long history of paying players now does it above board and buys a championship.