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Infectious disease Doc on Rogan today

For those saying this is nothing or just like the flu, he seems to take a different approach. The medical community seems like it will be strained here in a few weeks. The email from the Doc in Milan is pretty telling. I’m glad they are canceling all of these events after listening to the first 20 minutes.

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2019-20 PSU Schedule Video & Audio Streaming Availability

Fellow Wrestling Fans,

The long off-season feels like it is over now with the publishing of the long-anticipated 2019-20 schedule!!

So that folks do not panic this year and send poor Roar Lion on a rescue mission to find me, I thought I would get this season's initial post out early, even though I will need to do several updates as most of the media deals have not been made public. (That should not surprise us given the schedule has only just come out :cool:)

Punchline first, below is the link to this year's spreadsheet on video & audio streaming opportunities. I have also combined in a second tab the six-year rotation schedule for easy access:

==> Click Here <==

Now with that said, there are a few big changes already known as some of you may have discovered in following Lion Football.

1. The former BTN2Go link/app that used to provide access to both live/replay BTN events & BTN+ subscription events has changed.

2. BTN Live & Replays are now only available at FoxSports.com or the FoxSports App. As in past years, you will need to have BTN on your current cable subscription/sports package and use that ID & Password when logging into FoxSports.

3. BTN+ remains the subscription service of BTN and is now found at BTNplus.com and the BTN+ App (formerly known as BTN2Go). At this point in time I do not know how these changes may or may not have effected the BTN+ & FloPro relationship. Hopefully Flo or B1G will make that clearer as we get closer.

4. Lehigh I would expect will be on the Patriot League Network (PLN) via the WatchStadium.com or Stadium app. In the past this was free, but that was two years ago.

5. We also have ASU on the schedule this year, and I anticipate the PAC-12 network to cover this. PAC-12 Networks (plural since each school seems to have one) works similarly to the B1G network in that if you have it included in your existing cable/sports package extra, you should have access to this via PAC-12.com or PAC-12 Now App.

6. The tournament at West Point has not had an arrangement announced, I am assuming it could be either FloPro or ESPN+, but we'll have to wait. (While Army is covered by PLN, I do not expect that they will run an all day tournament)

So it is early with a lot of questions... but if I have reduced any of your anxieties or concerns over my long off-season hibernation & absence than I am contented. :D

More to come as more is known.

WE ARE.....

To Kerk or not to Kerk, that is the question

A question that UFF can answer for you. I got the modifications to WrestleSim done so now I can lock in certain results and simulate the rest, pretty cool stuff! After each round I will be able to give you the updated probabilities for the rest of the tournament. It will need a heavy spoiler alert in the title. Anyway I was following the Kerk discussions and wanted to give you some quantitative input. I have no idea how good he is but people seem pretty pumped about him.

Base simulation (intermat rankings as of now used as seeds): Iowa 96%, PSU 4%
Base with Kerk as a #3: Iowa 85%, PSU 15%
Base with Kerk as a #1: Iowa 78%, PSU 22%

Now I looked at what if PSU has a good BT tourney (Hall gets #1, Brooks wins and moves to #3) and Iowa has a 'meh' BT tourney.

Post BT: Iowa 72%, PSU 28%
Post BT with Kerk as #3: Iowa 43%, PSU 57%

It isn't going to take much to make PSU the favorite.

Fun fact: Alex Marinelli has 11 career losses, 10 of them are in tournaments.

SIAP: Former track coach Harry Groves

I received an email as part of a former athletes’ distribution that 38-year (1968-2006) PSU track coach Harry Groves passed away last evening. I think he would have been 89. He was a very sarcastically funny guy, and coached dozens of All America athletes, particularly middle distance. R.I.P., Coach Groves.

Here is a release around his retirement.

https://news.psu.edu/story/203664/2...y-and-track-and-field-coach-groves-set-retire

Nick Lee: Feral Manimal

Oh man . . . "Manimal Nick Lee is tearing up his opponents this year. He seems to have upped his game to the next level with additional ferocity, tenacity, and consistency on his feet and with top tier technique (turns and punishing rides) a la predecessor Zain.

In the US Open, he took out both Eierman and Molinaro handily to finish 3rd and qualify for the Olympic Trials.

He is undefeated.

He has a bonus rate this year of 93.3%, having only failed to bonus in one match that he won 11-5 easily and early in the year.

He leads the team in tech falls, dual points, dual majors, dual takedowns, and dual near falls.

He ravaged and "rag-dolled" #6 Chad Red and #4 Tristan Moran, two top ten guys.

In terms of PSU team records, he is now 7th in career tech falls. With one more, he will be tied for 7th in career majors.

He is 6th in career bonus percentage at nearly 70%, behind only Zain, Ruth, Nickal, Nolf, and Taylor (pretty good company I would say).

Today, he gets #5 McKee and then #1 Pletcher this coming Friday.

Keep it going "Honey Badger" Nick.

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What’s left

So obviously with the Facundo and Kibe commitments ( though verbal, we’ll assume for now they’re on board ), the upper weights are taken care of for years to come. So “what’s left”?

Once again we need a 125. Figs and Stevo come to mind first. Hopefully one of them end up in Happy Valley and that will take care of that. Howard and Bartlett coming in help the situation but are they career 25 and 33. I don’t believe so.

Moving to middle weights, the big pickups are gonna be Van Ness and Crookham. I’d like to see a commitment by a combo from one of the lightweights mentioned and one of the middle weights. ( Id love to see all 4 but not sure it’s realistic ).

I have definitely learned to never doubt Cael, but bringing in Facundo and Kibe really raises questions. To have that many great wrestlers in the upper weights, is it even possible to refill the lower/middle weight area. It’ll be great to watch everything unfold. We Are!
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What surprised me most in MH v MK match...

....was not that Mark didn't wrestle that great - it happens (many things can cause it), but the lack of scrambling ability by Mark. Kemerer finished quickly on so many shots - was really kind of shocked by that as Mark has been a premier scrambler in the past. Mark looks like he has put on quite a bit of muscle - I wonder if it has diminished his scrambling ability to some degree relative to his first couple years.

PSU - Maryland 2020 Dual Thread

please use this thread for pre-match, in-match, and post-match discussions. As always, when replying to another post, please use the Quote function.

I will not be able to provide PBP for today's match. Hopefully, one or more of you will be able to step in and provide some analysis and description of the action. A reminder that if you do PBP, please provide scores for each match, and also the team score following each match.

The details:

When:
2 pm EST

Where:
Rec Hall

TV:
none

Video Streaming:
BTN+ subscribers, and FloPro subscribers, will be able get video of the dual

Audio Streaming:
Jeff Byers will provide radio PBP on the PSU Wrestling Network. His broadcast will also be streamed for free. The pre-match portion of the show starts at 1:40 pm EST, with the actual match starting at 2:00 pm EST. You can access the audio stream at:

https://gopsusports.com/watch/?Live=630&type=Live
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