Any update on Nolf??? Anyone with insider info?
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Don’t take this the wrong way but Nolf is a defending champ and two time finalist.......which makes the situation different. There would be a litany of other things I could list, but you get my drift.
If he MFF at BT, there may be some blowback from other coaches......based on the Situation from last year.
I agree with all of that. And what I have heard was that Suriano's dad wasn't going to accept Nick just being on the podium at Nationals. I think Cael felt he'd still be an A-A, regardless, but that wasn't going to reconcile with those 4 national title sugarplums dancing in the father's head.
Crap happens in life, sometimes you cannot control it. They did not handle it well. The PSU and tOSU dual, that is something he will never experience at Rutgers.
And he'll never get that 4th title anyway. So he transfers, with the possibility of losing a year of eligibility. Still makes no sense to me.
The B1G did not do themselves any favors by allowing the waiver to wrestle this year. There is now a precedent that you can transfer within the B1G and compete right away for wrestling. They have to let anybody do this now.
I believe the decision will be made more on the assessment of risk for further damage rather than a percentage of his knee's health. There is difference. If the standard is that the knee be at least 99% healthy, there is no way he's going to be wrestling in March. Short of his eye lashes, no part of his body has been 99% healthy for years.
I get first dibs.With the open invitation for all to crash at your State College retirement villa, it has been decided you can be wrong as much as you desire.
Two things I've learned:
1. Don't bet against Jason Nolf.
2. Don't question Cael and his staff
Nolf is absolutely amazing. Even if he isn't at 100%, I certainly wouldn't bet against him.
I'm extremely confident Cael and his staff will do the right thing in regards to how much he wrestles at BIG's.
1. Don't bet against Jason Nolf.
2. Don't question Cael and his staff
Nolf is absolutely amazing. Even if he isn't at 100%, I certainly wouldn't bet against him.
I'm extremely confident Cael and his staff will do the right thing in regards to how much he wrestles at BIG's.
He practices with Zain. I wouldn't bet on his eyelashes being that healthy either.
You are right about last year with what was said. But dont forget the 1st interview that NS gave at RU--he was asked about the injury--he said that he was not able to wrestle until May of last year. If that is the case how can the PSU coacing staff or the PSU medical staff be be faulted for him missing NCAA?
Im not stating that you are faulting PSU either---just putting my 2 cents in.
I disagree I think Cael and company cared a lot! that staff/team does not like to lose period. With that said they will not throw caution to the wind when if comes to Nolfs health.
Would Cael have liked to have won B1G's last year, no doubt. I bet Cael can accept reality that without Suriano able to wrestle winning B1G's was going to be very difficult, little margin for error by our guys and needed Ohio State to under perform. Ohio State over performed, no Suriano, Ohio State B1G champs.
Did not need Ohio State to under perform, just needed both PSU and OSU to hit their seeds.
A day or two before the B1Gs I posted on here that without Suriano the PSU guys needed to be spot on because it was going to be close.
PSU did not wrestle a poor tournament, OSU did wrestle a great tournament.
Moreover he gave up the chance to potentially break an NCAA team scoring record and go down in history. That sure as he'll ain't happening at Rutgers!
My son reminds me that people are different and make different choices than we ourselves do, and would, make. But I made the point about the Ohio State match early on and totally agree with this one. I get that people are different, but these kinds of opportunities in life don't come along often, if ever, for *any* athlete - and to turn your back on even one of them (for what?), is something I'll never fully understand. It's like leaving the Boston Celtics of the 1960s to become the top guy on the Detroit Pistons. Yeah, you'll get more shots, but the team you left is one of the true dynasties in pro sports.
Right and they won the best team in NJ trophy.No but there's always the Rutgers Princeton dual to look forward to
#itsthelittlethingsthatmatter
I had a different perspective at 19 - although a bit shallow and sheltered. Need guidance and some wisdom to accept it.
They might have a trophy, but they're not the best team in NJ.
Looks like some sort of nasty fungus growing off Eastern PA.
Suppose JON D. Scrub from Chicago School of Canine Podiatry qualifies by being the best of a 5 team conference that only gave an allocation to the champ at the weight because no one earned one... and by best I mean he won two matches at the conference tourney with the last via headlock as he was closing in on being tech'd by a guy with a losing record. If Jon got hurt according to you it would be his back up (well utility back up because the guy is 2nd on the depth chart at 174/184/197/Hwt) that would go to NCAAs, not Cassar or even the 34th best 197 but some guy wrestlestats has as the 112th ranked 174 cause as much of a "scrub" as Jon is, he can't beat out Jon.
Pass.
Because of an abberation of extra loaded talent like we have at one weight....that should be the rule??
Hit closer to home....and I mean zero offense. Keener qualifies, and gets hurt. Carpenter goes? George is happy but How on earth would that be fair?
I guess it comes down to arguing which undeserving guy should get in. I would let a guy from the team of the injured guy wrestle. It is not like you are replacing an injured guy with a deserving wrestler in either event.
I suppose the best way is to allow the teams backup be considered for criteria. That would be fair. In this case Cassar would get in, since he could have at least 2 of the criteria for consideration for an at-large, and then would have the best qualifications.
But like anything else, you can see abuses. Suppose you wanted to get more recovery time for Suriano so you wrestled his backup who qualified and then magically got injured.
Always looks for unintended consequences.
But like anything else, you can see abuses. Suppose you wanted to get more recovery time for Suriano so you wrestled his backup who qualified and then magically got injured.
Always looks for unintended consequences.
The 34th guy at most, if not all, weights will have put in more work and have a better resume than most teams back ups. In most cases the 34th guy is better than some of the other guys that are already in the field. Some of the field caught a break along the way whether it was during the season and/or at the conference tournament (last guy in at B1Gs if Nolf MFs out) that is no different other than timing for the 34th guy. As the next guy in line they are indeed deserving of the chance if it becomes available.
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We all know the answer to that. NO. It stinks but we will just have to wait and see come Big Tens if he will take the mat and wrestle. I have no clue but my gut tells me to give him the extra two weeks.
I have posted this comment before. I have knowledge that the Suriano situation and transfer was more to do with a non wrestling issue than his treatment of his injury. The Suriano's used the injury issue as the key factor to circumvent the Big Ten rules on transfers.
For Christ's sake, just say it instead of pussyfooting around.
That last time I posted some more specific details the post got taken down by the higher ups. I've said enough. I just was trying to make everyone aware that assumes it was a wrestling/injury issue, that it is more than that on what led to the transfer.
Stinks? I treat it like Christmas. When I open the gift, if it's what I wanted, I'm ecstatic. If it's not, what we've got is still pretty good, anyway.
I researched for about 5-minutes, then slapped myself silly for being so easily led down a rabbit hole.
It's scary how much you can find out about an individual in no time flat with the internet.
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