it's time to start the chatter for 2024-25 Hodge winner!

Is it automatic for the first ever 5x champ?!

Is it staying in Happy Valley for the next 3 years? Mitchell has the potential to be the most dominant! TF after TF after TF ... maybe 3x Hodge Winner?

Are the voters tired of PSU? Will it go back to Mizzou?

Apparently there are proposals in several state legislatures which would exempt income earned through NIL with the intention of not being 'outcompeted'.

This one is from the Louisiana state legislature.

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Without a governing body capable of gaining control of this situation, it will continue to devolve .....

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District four said:

Where's Ryder going?

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184? Someone is going to get the squeeze. If Barr stays at 197, then 184 is open for Ryder as early as next season and either Barr or one of the Mirasolas is out of a spot. Henckel and Asher are in this mix somewhere, too. This is how I see the most likely way the lineup plays itself out (assuming no further additions...).

2026

125 Desmond
133 Lilledahl
141 Davis/Blaze (if he decides not to RS)
149 SVN
157 Kasak/Duke (if he decides not to RS)
165 MM
174 Levi
184 Ryder/Barr
197 Barr/Connor
HWT Connor/Cole

2027

125 Desmond
133 Lilledahl
141 Blaze
149 SVN
157 Duke
165 MM
174 Healey
184 Ryder/Barr
197 Barr/Connor
HWT Connor/Cole

2028

125 Desmond
133 Lilledahl
141 Blaze
149 ? (Bo?)
157 ? (Jax?)
165 Duke
174 Sealey
184 Ryder/Barr
197 Barr/Connor
HWT Connor/Cole

Right now, if that is how it plays squeezed out of spots are Davis, Kasak, Facundo, Henckel, Asher, and one of Ryder, Barr, or the Mirasolas. These are all elite hammers, so it's not inconceivable that any one of them could surprise and win a spot and I don't want people to accuse me of "writing off" whoever their favorite guy is. There's just not enough spots in the lineup for all of the talent either here or coming soon. That 27 lineup is ridiculous and could make Saturday night look like a dual match vs the field.

Posted today. I'll believe when I see it.

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In unrelated matters, what are the chances Ayala transfers out next year to win a title?


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musician/artist thinks the interviewer/influencer calls her a "magician".

Lets see how long we can make this thread last until they have to nuke it!

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Very good 40 minutes or so with Dake to start FRL today. He discussed:

Competing through LA
Ono
The PSU and NlWC room
The Hodge vote (he chose CS)
His father
Upcoming documentary
Thoughts on coaching

It sounds like he plans on staying in the area long term (hope so), but appears to have backed off on college coaching given all the headaches (his old dream was to coach Cornell). It would be great to have him coach in some capacity after LA at the NLWC/USAW or, mayhaps, become a partner in M2 or Zain’s planned club.

I am tired of this portal crap. I am happy with our current lineup. Pretty sure another National Title. That being said: what concerts are you going to this summer. Lots of classic rock guys are passing away. So far I have 2 concerts booked. Doobie Brothers 6/8 in Charlotte and Little Feat 9/16 . Set up a man cave in my bonus room. Set up my 1970's stereo. I found out I have over 400 vinyl lp's. My top albums are Beatles White Album, Stones Exile on Main Street, Zappa Apostrophe, Little Feat Waiting for Columbus, Allman Brothers Eat a Peach and Jethro Tull Aqualung. What say you?

I post this because this has been a topic on this board. They had a data breach and now are having to pay substantial penalties to settle lawsuits. They are cutting 40% of their workforce and need cash. Nobody is ponying up so they may be forced to go out of biz.

Penn State beats UConn in overtime!

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ALLAR PA FILM STUDY

See link above. Original thesis was to figure out why, despite having two 1,000-yard rushers that defense had to respect, Penn State's play action passing game last year was less of a weapon (fewer yards/attempt, fewer Average Depth of Target) than Kotelnicki's play action attack at Kansas in 2023. Unfortunately, the answer was mostly Allar. A lot of the mechanical inconsistencies from 2022 and the hesitation to push the ball downfield (in other words, be detrimentally overly safe) resurfaced in play-action...especially late in the season when the wide/outside zone running game really took off.

Well the transfer portal has started. I don’t know if I’m missing anyone that’s already entered but can track here.

Taye Ghadiali, Heavyweight, Campbell, is in the transfer portal

It's that time of year again, PORTAL SZN! Similar to what we do for football, we wanted to make a dedicated thread to actual happenings in the portal. This first post of the thread will be updated with the running list of notable names in the portal along with guys that Penn State is showing interest in and each player will have their Rivals Transfer profiles linked as well.

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This game was absolutely fire ….

it will be interesting to see if this holds up and if MLB is OK with it.

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Is Cochran returning for his last season of eligibility? He would provide some nice depth, if not challenge to start, at 285 if needed. Might need a meal plan for the latter, but we saw him beat a 285 AA in BJC last season.

D 1 no longer feasible. It will be interesting to see if anyone else will follow.

Figured I’d start this thread …. Off to a good start at 3-1 & Braves are 0-4. Can’t ask for much more than that right now !

The Webb scope will be 100 times stronger than the Hubble. Think how amazing the Hubble is and then try to imagine what the Webb will discover.

The launch date is flexible and can be launched on any day unlike many launches with narrow windows. Then after launch it will take a month to be positioned 1.2 million miles from earth to the second Lagrange point where it will be in a stationary position. Then it it will be several more months before it is fully activated. So next spring we will be re-writing all of our science books!

and it isn't pretty