Beard to PSU
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A tale of 2 head coaches a few days after Nationals:
Cael - in the room at the NLWC helping put the resident athletes through their paces
Tom Ryan - in Aruba working on his tan and bitching about refs on twitter
Lol...Awesome El...Man i am so pumped i have 4 guys coming over to have a little party...This is awesome....
How the hell does a bus even GET to Aruba?
PSU wanted Beard...If they didn't get him Hoffman was coming....Hence: God has a plan....He is a good wrestler too and i am sure he will end up in a decent program soon now....
According to Ryan, Bonaire has average Steel Drum bands so he went to Aruba this year
If I were a Hawkeye fan, I would be praying Cael never learns to coach!
The first will happen and the second won't. If the last 7 years have taught me anything, it is that the HR folks will create a new strawman argument that will eventually be disproved. Then, they will invent another. Facing reality is much harder than making stuff up.
Probably right.
I was chuckling to myself. They have the thread about Perry being a game changer. The recruiting class of 2018 is what a game continuation looks like.
Thanks. Sorry I couldn't tell you more, but I want my kids to have that moment when they announce. I would never want to leak information of where they are going before they announce. Very proud of him and yes my four tickets just became more valuable.
SIAP. According to BSD, Flo 2018 P4P has:
#2 Gavin
#3 RBY
#4 Whittlake
#5 Beard
#10 Neville
#37 J Lee
Holy smokes, I've never seen a more impressive recruiting haul....in any sport
#2 Gavin
#3 RBY
#4 Whittlake
#5 Beard
#10 Neville
#37 J Lee
Holy smokes, I've never seen a more impressive recruiting haul....in any sport
5 top-10 P4Ps!
For comparison, does anyone remember whether the 3 Ns plus Marsteller and Haines were all top-10 P4Ps?
In any event, it's unbelievable to me that that 3-Ns class might be rivaled so soon!
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First Zain and the Magic Man man both dominate. Does anyone think Zain is going to be able to use his go to move on the senior level. ( I think its called a crossbow) But he looked good. DT looked like he is from another world. The man is scary good.
Then the Michael Beard Show is coming to Happy Valley....Can the day get any better?
Then the Michael Beard Show is coming to Happy Valley....Can the day get any better?
^ this. I think JLee is under valued and with a year in the room and a few big matches on the FS circuit he jumps big time.
either way 4 top 5 and 5 top 10 with 6 in the top 40 has to be one of the best wrestling classes ever. its rivals kentucky basketball hauls of the Calipari years.
Thinking the same thing regarding Joe Lee, he looked darn good at Jr. Nationals. He is physically impressive for his age but has a lot of room to grow technique wise. Expect to see him move up the rankings his senior year.
Beard is a fantastic pickup and should hit the ground running at 197. The fact a guy as talented as Hoffman was the contingent plan shows just how crazy good this recruiting class is.
Beard is a fantastic pickup and should hit the ground running at 197. The fact a guy as talented as Hoffman was the contingent plan shows just how crazy good this recruiting class is.
Not sure about the Flo P4P, but here's the 2014 rankings according to the D1CW site:
#2 Chance M
#4 Jason
#5 Nevills
#7 Nickal
#9 Haines
http://d1collegewrestling.net/Top150_2014.html
In their recruit ranking list, they took Penn State out as his commitment school that is now blank.
Does Josh Lowe know something we don't or is this wishful thinking by an OSU fan?
Lowe corrected the article to include RBY.
Usually the simplest answer is the right one, so I'm going with: his records are wrong.
In any case, see the RBY tweet I posted above.
The thing is, Penn State was listed as his school up until very recently in his recruiting rankings. I saw the article was amended to include Bravo-Young's however his school commitment is still blank in the individual rankings. Now maybe he just didn't get around to adding PSU back in but why in the world would he have pulled them out to begin with without something concrete?
RBY is listed as a PSU commitment in the 132lb rankings, not sure where you are seeing a blank in the commitment space.
Their recruiting rankings; it's behind the paywall. Penn State was listed up until very recently.
Not being an alarmist here, just making an observation.
Not being an alarmist here, just making an observation.
I think skipping a competitive sr year may hurt Lee but he is already made up how mind.
Clairon, I'm not going to agree or disagree with you. After watching all of his matches at our state championships this past year, there is nobody in Indiana that could give him a competitive match next year. He beat Noah Warren (state ranked #2 guy whom many felt would give Joe a close match) 19-5 in the finals. The match wasn't even that close!
Great news!!! Being from our area and having had him at our tournament a few times I have followed him closely. Thought we missed out when he committed to Northwestern and was bummed because he is a special talent although Northwestern is a great school. Young for his grade so plenty of time to grow into a full monster 197, he has a great frame.
His top game is very rare for an upper weight and he is made for NCAA wrestling. Great student by all accounts, great character kid, tremendous pick up.
If I had to pick one HS kid in the country at an upper weight - taking Gable out of the equation because 285s are unique - I'd pick him. Over Singletary, Berge, Warner, Labriola, Whittlake - yeah, I would take Beard. Not sure that Berge counts as an upperweight but just including him to make my point even stronger.
His top game is very rare for an upper weight and he is made for NCAA wrestling. Great student by all accounts, great character kid, tremendous pick up.
If I had to pick one HS kid in the country at an upper weight - taking Gable out of the equation because 285s are unique - I'd pick him. Over Singletary, Berge, Warner, Labriola, Whittlake - yeah, I would take Beard. Not sure that Berge counts as an upperweight but just including him to make my point even stronger.
BTW, according to Intermat we now have the #2 Nevills, #3 Whittlake, #4 Teasdale, #5 RBY, #6 Beard & #16 Lee recruits in this class. FLO a little different with 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 37 but as posted above Lee will likely get a boost there this year.
Cael has not yet been at Penn State, for a decade and this is now the third once in a lifetime recruiting class, that after they are gone, Penn State will come back to the pack.
