Actually it's exactly like every other championship team that Cael has: 9 wrestlers go to Nationals and 5 or 6 of them make deep runs or title runs, and we win the thing.
Match Thread 2024 Big Ten Tournament match, PBP, and discussion thread
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So that’s how Carter got back to State College!!
wrqp for day one on site...
- hate being in the upper deck
- Davis is fun... has earned everything
- I think Aaron doesn't look himself
- Beau wrestling a little too cautious
- Tyler - has to get a TD to win, so why start on bottom. Looking forw to him in ncaa's
- Levi - wow, last year he was the great freshman star, now we take him for granted - win baby
- MM - prediction for tonight - whomever gives up backpoints will lose. Should be very fun
- Star - don't blow things out of proportion just yet
- Bernie - cautious as well but same guy we've seen all year. He has it
- Brooks - best wrestler in the bldg
- Kerk - brick wall
- hate being in the upper deck
- Davis is fun... has earned everything
- I think Aaron doesn't look himself
- Beau wrestling a little too cautious
- Tyler - has to get a TD to win, so why start on bottom. Looking forw to him in ncaa's
- Levi - wow, last year he was the great freshman star, now we take him for granted - win baby
- MM - prediction for tonight - whomever gives up backpoints will lose. Should be very fun
- Star - don't blow things out of proportion just yet
- Bernie - cautious as well but same guy we've seen all year. He has it
- Brooks - best wrestler in the bldg
- Kerk - brick wall
Understood. Maybe a case of him being too confident against lesser wrestlers since I’m sure Askren has taught him all about the positions to exploit and to stay away from.
I keep wondering what it must be like for Caliendo to be utterly annihilated yet again by Mitchell. I wonder what It does to the psyche of an elite athlete at the top of his sport, to know that he has absolutely no chance against an opponent who completely destroys him. If the Brands Bros were wise (I know, I know), they’d have been paging the Sports Psychologist STAT by the middle of the 2nd.
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AaronN has had to deal with a tough early injury and then tough bout with the flu late… he hasn’t been his self all yr!
Gibbons commented on Mitchell's uncanny ability to get out of positions and situations that aren't favorable to him. This is gonna come in handy today.
Not sure what you mean about Nageo; he looks to be the same guy at B1Gs that we’ve seen much of the season.
Also not sure what you refer to about blowing things out of proportion with Starocci. The two medical defaults were completely to be expected. Or am I missing something?
Nageo just needs to wrestle with the same urgency in the first two periods that he does in the third.
If MM doesn't get caught he'll wear Hamiti down and win it in the third with a big takedown.
Yeah. I wonder if Mitchell is an orca who just ate great-white-shark Caliendo’s liver with fava beans. 🤔
MM has been like this all season. I think he has a phobia with blood. Which is kinda strange considering he's a straight up killa...
They will be wrestling for 1st, 3rd, or 5th tonight. Three mats simultaneously.
So all 9 PSU guys will be wrestling tonight.
Big Ten Network has posted all semifinal matches without the split screen here:
I thought Aaron looked off, that's all. Maybe conditioning. Star comment was directed at all the commentary and speculation
New team rule. No more game day tourney decisions when injury is the concern. The unintended consequences are completely avoidable. Enough said!
PS - it's Cael and Dan's call, and it was the right one. Better when made on Friday.
PS - it's Cael and Dan's call, and it was the right one. Better when made on Friday.
Do we know the decision wasn't made Friday? It was probably made last Friday. I'd bet Carter knew there was a really good chance he wasn't going.
Cael spouts BS to the media. He isn't going to mislead one of his wrestlers.
Per Cael directly
"“He wanted to wrestle the whole tournament and was planning on wrestling the tournament. It is really tough for him. He’s having a hard time about this. He’d wrestle if both of his legs were hurt, He’s just so competitive...He’s just so competitive. He’s pretty upset, but there’s just no reason, when he meets the criteria to get an at-large (bid), to put himself in a position to set himself back.
He’s not happy, with me, but that’s why he’s Carter Starocci.”
"“He wanted to wrestle the whole tournament and was planning on wrestling the tournament. It is really tough for him. He’s having a hard time about this. He’d wrestle if both of his legs were hurt, He’s just so competitive...He’s just so competitive. He’s pretty upset, but there’s just no reason, when he meets the criteria to get an at-large (bid), to put himself in a position to set himself back.
He’s not happy, with me, but that’s why he’s Carter Starocci.”
So, that pretty much says exactly what most have been thinking. Nothing more.
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