how bout some rasslin talk - pretty cool review/predictions for the upcoming season

[GogglesPaizano]

Maybe, but it just seems awful early to call it a career just yet. With little brother coming in and 1/2 a year of recovery time - assuming the surgery rumors are true, he had a real shot at a NC this year. If true he must have been really hurting towards the end of last year. His tourney was disappointing but I rewatched several matches and other than the bandage, I didn't see any overt signs he was in a lot of pain.

Gable is still an unknown, who might even red shirt, Stoll had a bullet in his knee, and along with Stoll, Nick has beat most of the rest already. If he was rolling around on the mats in October and made the decision, that would make a little more sense. It's just brutal how little reliable intelligence we can get alas aside of this board, flo, Intermat and a few other places, amateur sports just don't justify investigative journalism, trench coat, dark allies to get the real skinny.

Other than Bo moving up to 195, this would seem to be the other main catalyst for Cassar's rumored jump. I worry about Cassars shoulder if he has to go a full season vs 250+ lb guys all year, but with his skills I think his potential is interesting. Well regardless, we have a studly 265 lb insurance policy on redshirt just in case.

 

[lionlover]

Who is going to beat him? He has already beaten one of the best P4P wrestlers twice in the NCAA finals.

Iowa has a wrestler that could beat him.

 

[Gray52]

Well, yeah, he already blew his shot to win at 4 different weights like a real 4-timer would.

And he certainly won’t be finishing his career undefeated... so at best he’s 3/5! Pfff. Amazing how we’d praise a guy for being third at something.

 

[Diego Badman]

Though this doesn’t fit with the theme of this thread, I happened to notice that Pat Duggan’s stay at Iowa was short-lived. He’s transferring to D2 Shippensburg.

If I recall, he started his career at Lock Haven and transferred to Iowa while trashing Lock Haven. I guess at Iowa, he was humbled a bit.

 

[D3wrestler]

Though this doesn’t fit with the theme of this thread, I happened to notice that Pat Duggan’s stay at Iowa was short-lived. He’s transferring to D2 Shippensburg.

If I recall, he started his career at Lock Haven and transferred to Iowa while trashing Lock Haven. I guess at Iowa, he was humbled a bit.

Didn't he just get to Iowa?

 

[Diego Badman]

Didn't he just get to Iowa?

I thought he was there for the 2017-2018 season.

 

[lockhavenlion3]

"Strong talk from various PSU fans on various facebook wrestling groups that Nevills is done wrestling. Unconfirmed, yet to validate or repudiate, rumor has it that he had a final surgery and that was it."
-JT

Guess I missed that. I need to pay closer attention

was told that at the final x in sc by a pretty reliable source. however, until it's confirmed, it remains a rumor.

 

[El-Jefe]

Duggan went to West Virginia before Lock Haven.
https://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/06/patrick_duggan_seeks_to_reinve.html

Note this from the article, and ponder what Duggan might have thought about Iowa courting Downey:

Duggan offered a scathing review of the Lock Haven coaching staff on his way out the door. He said he was conflicted by some of the choices Scott Moore and his staff made, one of which was Duggan's assertion that they opened the door for Chance Marsteller on two separate occasions.

"I just didn't want to be part of the Lock Haven program," Duggan said. "I really don't like the coaching staff. I'm not sure they want to do the right things. I think they have a terrible moral backbone."

Marsteller landed at Lock Haven after he left Oklahoma State on unfavorable terms and was booted from the Lock Haven team last August following an ugly incident. He got seven years probation after pleading guilty to charges of simple assault and open lewdness. Marsteller resisted arrest and repeatedly banged his head on the floor at Lock Haven Hospital, causing himself to bleed. He was also physical with arresting officers and spat blood at them, police said.

"[The Marsteller incident] is just icing on the cake," Duggan said. "I really hope he does well. I wish nothing against him. I think it's great he's doing what he loves to do, but he also got in trouble at Oklahoma State and the coaches knew about that. He came onto the team. He messed up once, 'Oh, well.' He came back on.

"What he did was absolutely terrible. It's just the fact they allow him back on the team. They started getting recruits that would have been cancers to the program. I just don't know what these guys are thinking. These kids shouldn't even be there because of grades or they've gotten kicked out of other schools because of crimes they committed. I just don't understand why."​