Z gives us a history lesson. How very hawk like.
But you won't fool me. I know you're one of us.
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But you won't fool me. I know you're one of us.
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Cael does not seem particularly happy ...
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Thanks for that response.
Yeah, it was 2017, right before NCAA's I believe. I still believe my sig line is accurate. It amazes me how grown men can get so worked up over such little things at times. It doesn't matter what program it is, happens in all of them.
I had an opportunity, back in 2002 I think, to move away from Hawkeye Report and potentially take over as editor of a different site. It was being discussed. PSU did not come up, Wisconsin did, a couple others. I just couldn't see myself on any other site and giving the effort it would require to make it great, like @TomKakert has done at HR (along with @Blair Sanderson , who is maybe the best in the business). I was a booster to the program, and Rivals made a switch towards non-boosters only that could be on the payroll, due to an issue on another team site that had come to light. So, I was out, unless I wanted to go to a different team. Couldn't do it. So, I hung around, helping when I could with opinion articles, an in season football piece that changed focus over the years. And as a mod. Tom and I have been friends since back in like 97/98, so I'm cool to help out.
Been doing this a long time. Even had a PSU guy help develop a Hawkeye Site called Hawkeye Planet back in the day.
Been around since the Big Ten Fan Forum days......I think that was still back in the dial up internet days, 96 or so. Jesus, 25 years. Doesn't seem possible.
Mike
Hear hear! I have never understood the attraction to frequenting, let alone stirring up conflict on a rival team's message board. I wish those so inclined would create their own wrestling thunderdome forum to exercise their daily demons and leave the rest of us to talk wrestling here in peace.
So many insightful and knowledgeable wrestling folks here. It's a downer to have to skip over certain poster's comments altogether or occasionally put someone on ignore just to enjoy a thread.
Good to read your background. And great that you stopped by. I’ll be honest, had an entirely different view of you before today. Only wished you would have done this years ago. If you did, I wouldn’t have created so many headaches for you throughout the years. Really, I’m glad to have talked. Wish you well!
The other thing to keep in mind is that Penn State hadn’t been in the Big Ten that long before Cael’s arrival. We won the EWL tourney 17 times in its 20 year existence before joining the Big Ten.
Edit: I was off by a decade (in my head). We were in the Big Ten a good while before Cael. 16 years.
Edit: I was off by a decade (in my head). We were in the Big Ten a good while before Cael. 16 years.
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Btw, I’m gonna stop referring to you as “no balls”…
Oh wait, maybe you didn’t know about all that. Forget I said anything….lol
Thanks Roar, and yes you are correct I have been edgey and very cranky recently.
the rhetoric does get old. First of all the presence on this and any board is a far cry of representation of the total fan base. Wrestling isn't all based on college. I would venture to say Pa has always had a rabid wrestling fan base in the HS arena (always = before the 60s). AAs represent that a lot. I like the board for some good point / counterpoint but when one states I'm right and you suck, then why bother. I am certain a lot of the fan base does not come on the boards as a result. Sometimes it appears that the board commentary is simply too meaningful (not) and makes one wonder what they do with thier lives 
Iowa High School wrestling is about as intense as it gets. I'm sure its very similar in PA.the rhetoric does get old. First of all the presence on this and any board is a far cry of representation of the total fan base. Wrestling isn't all based on college. I would venture to say Pa has always had a rabid wrestling fan base in the HS arena (always = before the 60s). AAs represent that a lot. I like the board for some good point / counterpoint but when one states I'm right and you suck, then why bother. I am certain a lot of the fan base does not come on the boards as a result. Sometimes it appears that the board commentary is simply too meaningful (not) and makes one wonder what they do with thier lives
Z
Now Mike… check the NCAA qualifiers by home state that they put out each year.
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2021: PA 49; IA 14
2020: PA 48; IA 13
2019: PA 61; IA 11
etc.
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I'm sure you have intense fans and wrestling, it's in the water out there.
But Iowa as a state does not come close to PA. And....don't give me the tired argument about population its boring and wrong.
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Pa State AAA wrestling bracket at 106 lbs in 2012. (Mind you, that AAA is just one of the two divisions in PA)
Mike Kemerer - 4x AA
Ethan Lizak - 3x AA, 4x NQ
Vincenzo Joseph - 2x Champ, 4x AA
Scott Parker - 2x AA, 3x NQ
Dom Forys - NQ
Jake Gromacki - NQ
+ at least Four other D1 wrestlers
Just checked the weather report for Texas. The rains are gone but one angler filled his creel during the downpour. Beware of strangers bearing gifts.
Own that your post could easily be read exactly how I took it - yet another Iowa fan insinuating that Penn State fandom arrived only after Cael arrived. If you didn’t mean it that way, I accept that. But I didn’t have to twist anything to take it that way.
Yeah…it’s crazy. About 20 years ago, the father of one of my son’s kindergarten friends (an Oklahoma transplant) felt the need to “educate” me on the dominance of wrestling in OK as compared to PA. I was flabbergasted. He had no idea about the dominance of Pennsylvania wrestling compared to their states nationwide.
I often wonder what he was thinking when I started giggling.
They literally wrestle a match ever year of the best wrestlers from 49 states against our best SENIORS. And we win it often enough.
I ALWAYS keep one eye on @jmadden1998 …
In defense of our guest, he said "Iowa wrestling is about as intense as it gets". He didn't say Iowa wrestling is about as good as it gets. The two terms are not synonymous.
After reading more of you're responses I may have been off. My bad.
No they can't there isn't even a comparison. If I said some of the things they say over there I guarantee someone would call me out and they have. Jefe, pawrestling hell even Johnstown will call me out if I go off road. HR is a cesspool because nobody calls anyone out or if they do they are drowned out by all the loonies who think they something about wrestling which they don't sorry. You seem like a level headed guy and there are some great Iowa fans some come over here quite often. They won't let me over there they don't like the truth they can't handle the truth lol
I was going to quote him but you got it covered! Nice work
BTW- Nick Cage is terrible! But I do like Face/Off
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the last ten years we are the party. You and okie dokie state quit drinking and went home in 2000. You come back a knocking a couple years here and there but we're too busy partying it up to answer the door. Only one party in town and the lion is the bouncer
... and "one ball" is because JTS is a huge John Kruk fan.
I was banned, but probably not you, unless you do a lot on the football board. I was banned for just pointing out their celebrating over our win was short lived after the Purdue game.I actually came here to find you. I wanted to see if you and @MorleysDawg were one in the same....
Did I ban you too? Because, apparently, I've banned everyone that has ever been banned.
Z
You did that? My god you are one cold hearted bas***d. lol
Mcpat if your talking about the Pittsburgh wrestling classic its 30-17 USA I believe. But most yrs the USA brings in multiple time state champs at each weight and Pa only let seniors wrestle, most 1 time state champ and we’ll have yrs with kids who placed or even just qualify for states at some weights. Plus some weights we have 2 champs, aa and aaa that only one gets or choices to wrestle.
Join the club I actually got banned for complimenting Marinelli. Thin skinned idiots on that board. I'm still banned lmfao. Like I said bunch of wussies who need big brother to keep them safe from truth and facts
There is a comparison. These are anonymous boards after all. I have seen people on this board repeatedly trash The Brands, Ramos, Evans, The Bull, Gilman, DeSanto, Stoll, the Iowa fan base, you name it.. without being called out for it. (Roar and others will call them out occasionally)
The same type of imperfect, judgemental, upset people exist on this board aswell. Just like at HR. That's a fact.
If a couple people say something off the wall on HR, some of you guys repeatedly drag it back here and say "Look what HR just said" as if those couple guys represent all Iowa fans there.
The amount of whining that goes on here about HR is far worse than what people on HR complain about this board. How often do you even see Nittnany Nation/BWI even get brought up over there? And don't say it's because asinine posts don't exist here.
Btw, we are not guilty by association if someone doesn't get called out for a terrible post. It doesn't mean we agree or support what they said. I called out a poster a few years ago for some Sandusky garbage and i got the "get f***ed, you are a Penn State fanboy" response. Wonderful. They did get banned FYI but I'm sure they just came back with a new handle.
Banned for complimenting Marinelli.. Why do I find that hard to believe? What did you say exactly?
