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Olympic Qualifier in Istanbul, 5/9-12

@zzs006 Here's a head start for you -- a list of the likely competition for Zain and Spencer:

It's just a list with some credentials, but not an analysis of who the biggest obstacles will be. (Zain and Spencer might be the biggest obstacles to everyone else.)

Flo’s 2024/2025 way early rankings

Just saw Flo’s early rankings for this coming year. Looks like they guessing at some weights.

They have PSU at 135points (not including bonus). The next closest team was “transfer portal” at 59 points (I believe this is before Wyatt became official at OSU.

This is in weight order from 125 up to HWY. they have Kasak at 157 and Haines at 174

Davis #5 Figueroa #1
Nagao #7 Crookham #1
Beau #3 Alirez #1
Van Ness #2 Henson #1
Kasak #4 Teemer #1
MM #1
Haines #2 O’Toole #1
Barr #24 Keckeisen #1
Cstar #1
Kerk #1

Inside NIL: CBS analysis of how much starting players are being paid by position in P4 conferences

Link below. QBs are highest -- no surprise there -- with $500,000-800,000 on average but sometimes even north of that. OL and DL are roughly tied for second in cash value at $250,000-600,000.

For many of us who started following college football back in the 1960s, there's still a lot of culture shock associated with the new reality that has overtaken the game in just the last few years:

2024 Waterway Duals

The 2023 Waterway Duals included over 100 teams across high school, high school club, middle school, and elementary divisions. The tournament included over 1300 wrestlers from 18 different states.



The high school club gold pool was made up of Steller Trained (2 teams), Malvern Prep, Team Nauman, Lion’s Den (Faith Christian), Revival Knights, The Compound RTC (Bishop McCort), and Team Shutt. During the 2024 wrestling season, wrestlers on these 8 rosters produced 13 PA state finalists, 5 NJ state finalists, 2 National Prep finalists, and a state finalist from MD, WV, VA, NY, TX, MN, and DE!



Our high school divisions featured almost 200 wrestlers who were state or National Prep qualifiers or place winners.



We hope you consider entering Waterway for the 2024 tournament. The tournament is structured so that clubs in all division receive quality competition.



Here is how you register:



September 7-8, 2024, at Spooky Nook Sports Complex in Manheim, PA



The registration link for the 2024 Waterway Duals is open, see below. Again, we will host elementary, middle school, high school, high school club, and a high school girls open division.



https://nawe.wufoo.com/forms/k3a2dba0g3usor/ - Registration Link



https://nawe.wufoo.com/forms/kffdpoh1or5k73/ - HS Girls Open Link



Thank you to those who have already secured your spot for September 7-8.



Teams registered by June 1, 2024, receive a $100 discount.



High School and High School Club will have limited spots available.



Please reach out if you have any questions.



jcanaday76@gmail.com

Big-10, SEC developing plan to share revenue with players

You knew it had to come to this, and it's probably a good thing. It would hopefully impose some order on the Wild West scene that NIL has become while bringing benefits to players and officially acknowledging the sport's new reality. We're never going back to the Good Old Days:

A (not so) great look by Flo

For those who remember, I used to post videos of matches on youtube back in 2016/2017. TLDR: is that I got banned without any warnings or strikes (at least I was not alerted of them) and youtube has been a pain to use since. I finally took the time to dig up who filed the appeal and it was pretty awful.

I always assumed ESPN/NCAA or a similar giant corporate entity banned the original matches were broadcast on ESPN 3. The truth was way worse.

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It turns out that flowrestling, who never owned broadcasting rights for nationals and had to post clip compilations so as not to violate restrictions, were the ones that decided to flag my account out of spite. Despite not uploading a single match/clip that was behind Flo's paywall (the only time I ever did so was after I asked Willy if he would allow me to use a clip of theirs from the southern scuffle), flo decided to get really petty. I wish they'd just bury the hatchet on this one and remove their claims so I can delete the vidoes and get my ****ing playlists back.

PS: You have to admire the fact that instead of submitting one claim, they made sure to make four separate claims so that I would be banned immediately instead of getting a warning or a 1st strike.

Supersize his casket - RIP Morgan Spurlock

You might not recognize his name, but you're probably familiar with his work. I always thought he managed to put some fun in his documentaries.


“There has been this massive shift and people say to me, ‘So has the food gotten healthier?’ And I say, ‘Well, the marketing sure has,’” he said.
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