Let's start the year off with O/U for the Drexel match ...

Over/Under
40 Takedowns
60 Nearfall Points
3 bouts finish 7 minutes
9.5 bonus point wins
5 1st period falls
56 team points

Might be biggest game changer/influencer in PSU history. Certainly, no one has a greater impact on their team than this guy in 2024...sans Travis Hunter.

This seems unfair. The District 11 champ always gets the District 12 champ in the first round. And we get hammered. It would be nice if once in a while we played District 3 or 1 first.

The information and apparent evidence emerging regarding the conduct of Matt Gaetz several years ago is disturbing to say the least. The new allegations are that he flew 2 females to New York in 2019 to have sex with them on at least two occasions. The attorney representing the girls, Joel Leopard has said that text messages between the girls and Gaetz revealed that Gaetz paid them for drugs and sex. ABC NEWS. Gaetz, of course, denies these accusations which apparently are contained in the Ethic's Report which has not yet been formally released.
When Trey Gowdy came out so vociferously against the appointment of Gaetz one should be concerned, as I am, as Gowdy is a man of integrity. While Gaetz would be a man capable of eliminating the rats in the DOJ and FBI these allegations if true are strong cause for Trump to withdraw the nomination as the AG cannot be a man with such horrid baggage. Garland and his nest of weaponized goons must be eliminated from the Department but there are other capable individuals who can accomplish that task.

I wish @LafayetteBear were here to witness some of this cutting and pasting.... lmfao...

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4998060-democratic-dysfunction/

Democrats just can’t catch a break.

After a bruising campaign season and a humiliating defeat at the polls, this week saw Dems’ internal conflicts spilling out into public view. Party insiders are now engaged in tit-for-tat Twitter battles that do nothing to offer the party a roadmap back to political contender status. Instead, they confirm normies’ worst caricatures of Democratic dysfunction.

Well, pile on the sorrows, because a new poll from Puck and Echelon Insights finds that a majority of Americans (51 percent) now dislike the Democratic Party, and think of Donald Trump more favorably than any national Democrat. That should be a wake-up call to party leaders who spent 2023 and 2024 dismissing concerns about the party’s fracturing electoral coalition.

A larger majority of Americans (58 percent) say they expect Trump will improve the economy next year, and the number of people who think the country is on the right track rose to three in 10. Those are all numbers that suggest voters are buying the president-elect’s optimistic but oversimplified economic ideas.

That poses a real problem for Democrats. Although the party’s post-election unpopularity shouldn’t come as a surprise, Trump’s growing popularity is harder for Dems to untie. The situation is worsened by the fact that no one on Democrats’ national political bench garners much enthusiasm from voters at large. Most Americans don’t even know who these people are.

Interesting take. Blue states are losing citizens. It will be material as some point should it persist.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a..._losing_tomorrows_elections_today_151969.html

Evidently @NJPSU didn't think of that when he was preaching that demographics would send the GOP into the waste bin of history.

America is outgrowing the Democratic Party.

That's not a partisan claim; it's demographic reality.

Blue states are shedding population and will have less representation in Congress and fewer votes in the Electoral College after the next census.

Two nonpartisan nonprofits, the Brennan Center for Justice and the American Redistricting Project, crunched the numbers last year and came to conclusions that ought to shock Democrats into changing the way they govern places like California and New York.

States that voted for Kamala Harris this year are set to lose 12 seats in the House of Representatives, and an equal number of presidential electors, after 2030, according to the two groups' extrapolations from Census Bureau data.

California is on track to lose four congressmen and electoral votes.

New York will lose three, Illinois two, while Oregon, Minnesota and Rhode Island are each going to be down one.

Solidly Republican states will get most of the gains, with Texas picking up four congressional seats and electoral votes, Florida acquiring three, and Idaho, Utah and Tennessee each adding one.

In the first year of the expanded B1G and playoffs, PSU was given a gift of a schedule. Granted scheduling is always, to some extent, the luck of the draw.

2029! Should have been 4547.

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While war rages in the other recruit threads over social media hype, arguably the #1 wrestler in the 2025 class is uncommitted and flying under the radar.

Under 17 World Champ; Defeated Lilly, Nico and Jax on the way to taking 3rd and making the U.S. Olympic Team as a Junior in High School.

Should be making his decision some time in the near future. Projects to 141-149 in college.

May be down to PSU and tOSU; wild card is Purdue where his older brother wrestles.

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

It is a consensus on this board and not on this board that our WR room is lousy and the weakest position group for at least the 2nd straight year if not third? Why??

If we have good WRs or at least a stud #1 then we most likely beat OSU. We were up 10-0 and with at least one WR who can get open it then would have freed up Warren and you have the positive domino effect.

I'm just wondering what the heck happened? It is amazing to me that we have elite level guys all over the field yet we have a horrible WR room. A football program of our caliber and this what we get at WR?? We have recruited decently, I think, at least better than our on field performance. KLS, Wallace, Evans, Saunders were all 4 stars I believe. KLS just disappeared the second half last season but even vs OSU last year he was a complete non factor.

Fleming does very little for us. Yes he caught the 2 huge 4th down passes vs USC but overall has been a disappointment. He was much better at OSU then gets to PSU and very little production. Since WVU the WRs have done very little.

I guess it is a bad combination of no development, overrated coming out of high school/poor talent evaluation and bad coaching.

In my mind it is the reason we are not an elite team. I know our D can be a little suspect but nothing like the WRs.

I have no idea how good Denmark is and Gonzalez got hurt so the '24 class is a big question mark. We have some pretty highly regarded '25 guys but we have heard that empty promise before.

For next season if we could somehow keep Allar and grab the very best portal WR available then we could be right in the mix again. That and making a change at WR coach. These kind of results are unacceptable and there needs to be accountability and consequences.

Zahir Mathis decommited from OSU and it appears PSU is in the driver’s seat for his commitment. I think the combination of Abdul Carter’s dominant season, PSU rising to #4 and on the verge of a playoff berth, as well Deion Barnes becoming a young rising star in the coaching circle got him to decommit. OSU is #2 and still a favorite to win the natty this year so I don’t see that OSU did or didn’t do anything. I haven’t seen anything that any other schools have been hot after him, so I’m assuming PSU is in the drivers seat at this point.

6-6 230 from Imhotep in Philly

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I went into Dune and was surprised when it ended halfway through.

Apparently Wicked is doing the same thing.

Is this a marketing ploy to try and build an audience that typically would say no?

Did anyone here know this film was 2 parts?

My kids want to see it, but 2 and a half hours for balf a musical?

LdN

Was there an emphasis put on officials to not call holding as much this year? You barely see it called anymore. Especially on the OL.

The guy seems to be doing a tremendous job. He was the one key to turning around the debate about the open border and illegal immigration. His budding illegals to blue cities was a genius move the exposed ghe hypocrisy of the liberals. Sending them to Martha’s Vineyard was a wonderful and hilarious made-for-tv event.

In interviews he is very articulate and engaged. Fluent in multiple issues from hi tech to China to national security to energy.

He would be very good at several different positions. And seems a likeable guy while fighting hard.

Not messing around for his second term.

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The democratic party is a national disgrace.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4993320-democratic-majority-bucks-county-lawfare/

American voters are not chumps and what they saw were strikingly anti-democratic positions from those claiming to be the defenders of democracy, including:

• Seeking to strip Trump from ballots under an unfounded theory rejected unanimously by the Supreme Court.

• Fighting to block opponents of Biden from ballots in the primary and general elections.

• Suing to keep Robert F. Kennedy on ballots after his withdrawal in swing states, in order to confuse voters and reduce the vote for Trump.

• Calling for blocking dozens of incumbent GOP officials and legislators from ballots as “insurrectionists.”


• “Protecting democracy” through the most extensive censorship in history and the blacklisting of opponents.

• Engaging in open and raw lawfare in the prosecutions of Trump in places like New York.

Each of these efforts ultimately failed to stop Trump and was opposed by a majority of voters even before the election. So now, Democrats are dropping the pretense of raw partisanship.

That was evident in Bucks County, when a motion arose to reject a challenge to count provisional ballots, including undated or invalidly dated mail ballots.

It should have been easy. To its credit, the majority-Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court had already refused a Democratic push to change the rules shortly before the election and to ignore the plain language of the election laws.

In ordering the rejection of ballots without dates, Justice Kevin Doughtery (joined by Chief Justice Debra Todd) wrote a concurrence declaring “‘This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election.’ We said those carefully chosen words only weeks ago. Yet they apparently were not heard in the Commonwealth Court, the very court where the bulk of election litigation unfolds.”