Gable Steveson saga
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Gable has to go straight to the top of the favorites, but how loaded in heavyweight this year? Veteran seniors Gable, Kerk, Yonger, Hendrickson, and Schultz mixed in with up and coming guys like Feldman and Kueter. Heavyweight is going to be on of the best classes at nationals this year.
We have all seen the Senior+ drop off from several wrestlers during the NCAA season So, who knows.
Theres going to be someone really good not AAing. Obviously that happens every year but usually its because they had a bad tournament or someone had a surprising tournament and went on a run. At heavyweight this year, theres just more than 8 AA caliber wrestlers.
Edit to add: Regardless of what he does in college, I'd really like to see him commit to the freestyle game for the next few years atleast. Some really great wrestlers are heading in different directions and having an Olympic champ back on the team can't hurt.
Edit to add: Regardless of what he does in college, I'd really like to see him commit to the freestyle game for the next few years atleast. Some really great wrestlers are heading in different directions and having an Olympic champ back on the team can't hurt.
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Unless that drop off involves a limb......not a bet I would make.
No I'm not, and I get it. Everybody is throwing this HEW on senior+ but we got three of them ourselves.
Not to put a jinx on it or anything but everybody talks about it on other teams and completely ignores it when talking about PSU.
I just think the one sided thought is a little nieve, is all.
Here's the difference. Penn State's guys remained engaged over the last three years.
Steveson put his shoes on the mat.
Then he went to the WWE, but didn't make it, for whatever reason.
Then thinking he'd be the next Haselrig or Neal, He became the latest Lesnar or Coon. Inexperience and size was the killer, no doubt.
Now, instead of moving with life, he will no doubt enroll with the minimum number of credits necessary to qualify as a student too take advantage of however the hell he qualifies for an OLY redshirt while being neither a student or pursuing the Olympics and will no doubt wrestle the minimum number of matches to qualify for the BIG 10 Tournament.
You don't have to be a clown to know when a circus is coming to town.
It's hard to bet against him, but I'm really, really hoping Greg beats him. It would be so sweet if another Lion tarnished his record. Greg's been dedicated to the sport and has continually improved and he's not a publicity seeking BEEP.
I fear his lack of a mean streak will cause Gable to win a close one. Gable never big bothered him like he has some others. Now if the Natty championship was on the line it might be a different story....
Gable is not close to the success Brock Lesnar has achieved outside of wrestling. Brock was dubbed the next big thing in WWE and become one of their biggest stars in the early 2000s. He got tired of that and went on to be a star in UFC, and then when he lost the belt he went right back to being the headliner in WWE. Gable hasn’t succeeded in anything outside of college and freestyle wrestling.
Honestly this guy is annoying. Retired a few too many times. Can’t wait for Kerk to beat him.
Um anthony has some eligibility.LOL not really.
I’m sure someone in this board knows the rules much better than the little snippet (see below) that I plucked off the NCSA College Recruiting platform concerning the 5 year rule. Please excuse my ignorance as I’m really just trying to understand the limits of compliance with nCaa rules.
EXCEPTIONS
The NCAA’s five-year rule stipulates that a student-athlete cannot compete in any one D1 college sport for more than four seasons. These four seasons must fall within a period of five calendar years. That said, the NCAA can grant exceptions. These include:- Studying abroad
- Internships
- Military service and/or religious missions
- Pregnancy
- Circumstances beyond control
Did he graduate?
Division I
- 40 percent of required coursework for a degree must be complete by the end of the second year, 60 percent by the end of the third year and 80 percent by the end of their fourth year.
- Student-athletes are allowed five years of eligibility and athletically related financial aid.
- All Division I student-athletes must earn at least six credit hours each term to be eligible for the following term and must meet minimum grade-point average requirements related to the school’s GPA standards for graduation.
I'm pretty sure he's already wrestled the minimum number of matches to qualify for the B1G Tournament.
I meant in the NFL only. Lesnar couldn't make it-and he was better suited to the D-L than Gable.
Otherwise, I agree-and the last sentence is absolutely true and the reason he's now college a wrestling mercenary.
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His last year he wrestled was 20-21 , he had one year left due to the free COVID year. he was eligible for a redshirt and eligible for Olympic year and that brings us to this year where he can use his last year of eligibility. Think this has been posted a few thousand times.
Truax. Hildebrandt. Shakur Rasheed. Conel (injured in 6th year). Cassar (injured in 6th year).
It has actually worked out as well for Penn State with 6th+ year guys as it has for Iowa. We just put a lot less emphasis on it as a core strategy.
last wrestled year was 21-22 acc. to andegre
WrestleStat | Gable Steveson (Minnesota) Profile
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Too bad he's not going to Rutgers.
Ok. I obviously know those guys wrestled for PSU, but I thought the ones that transferred in were 5th year grad transfers. I don't recall Shak and Cassar being here for 6 years, but that seems like a long time ago.
With Gable coming back, I think it just bumped up Carters bonus point percentage...
Cassar was at Penn State 6 years without making it to his senior season.
Shak and Cassar had med RS years in addition to the traditional RS years. When Cassar was injured in his 6th year, there was talk of whether he would apply for another Med RS and come back again, but he quickly squelched that discussion.
Truax and Hilde were 5th year plus a Covid year.
Edit: With Cassar, if he got a Med RS for 20 when he was hurt in the third match, he could have come back for year 7 in 21, which was a free year and then again in 22 for his 8th year.
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Brooks but he won. No othetlrs in the starting spot, so we are 1 for 2, 50% ain't so bad but that 50% looks to be lowering after this season. Imo.
285 not looking good
141 up to Bartlett, said he's gonna let it fly we will see
Starrocci favored but is not at all next topic
He's been around longer and knows more so, yeah what he said.
Aaron and RBY wrestled 5 years without ever shirting.
Dean is a better comparison to Steveson in that sense. Max competed for 4 years with a 2-year break in the middle. Unlike Steveson, he continued training for those 2 years. Also unlike Steveson, he grayshirted his first year on campus.
This is the most interesting thing that came out of the media appearance to me. Beau Bartlett talked about it being mental. It certainly seemed that way to me when you consider how he let it fly against Nick Lee, a familiar/comfortable situation, but was so conservative in his approach to folkstyle.
And wrestled about 9 or 10 bouts, filling in at just about any weight Cael needed him from 125 to heavy….
