If this is true (hard to tell because he's a quiet kid), I know there's no consolation prizes in recruiting but by all counts, proximity to home is pretty important to the kid as well and PSU is more of the exception (for obvious reasons) The fact DT as a rookie coach got the kids attention to go visit Stillwater is pretty telling in itself.
Move to State College, get trained by Jason Nickal (one of the best), practice with NLWC and Mark McKnight's new club ... I heard it's called M2 or something
Wow - great pick up by SC HS! Jason is a really good guy too. I sat right behind him when PSU did their CA tour in 2016. Turned out we have some mutual wrestling friends from when he lived in Albuquerque NM. They moved to WA state in 2009 which is where I met them. What was really bizarre was that right before meeting Jason, I had been trading text messages with a friend in WA state who also knows them very well. (He was the HS coach in WA) After meeting Jason, I sent my friend a message saying, "You aren't going to believe this. Andrew's HS coach from NM is sitting right in front of me. It's Bo Nickal's dad!" I showed my text message to Jason and told him the guy I sent it to was Andrew's HS coach in WA! He was pretty amazed.
The kid would be fine training on Pluto. But if he's going to get barred from RTCs because of where he's going to college, just saying, other options are there 😊
Jason will do amazing things here. It’s going to be the Stillwater Hs of PA. Get all those wrestlers coming in early. Win win for PSU
I heard he was offered some crazy money elsewhere (Iowa, tOSU (really crazy $$$)
Don't get crazy on us now. There are limits to how far a program will go in this NIL era.
Ryan retained all of the deadlift bars and plates.
It makes total sense that Blaze would not want to mess up his training at tOSU RTC. Its sort of an unwritten rule that you don't train at an RTC but committed to another in conference rival. No they technically can't turn him away at tOSU RTC but it's just a respect thing. You don't train at an RTC but committed and attending a rival school to wrestle. Almost like sleeping with the neighbor, you don't do it.
It's very rare you will see a kid of Blazes caliber continue to train at a rival school. But then again in this day and age you would think the coaches would keep that relationship incase he would ever want to transfer out.
Ooooo, first I’m hearing about not sleeping with the neighbor. Is that a problem?
Until he signs the LOI there is always the chance to flip a commitment.
Yes, I saw the show and referenced to it. Pyles' second hand was from Marcus' relative (grandparent).
Yea, but he didn't even know the guy who told him the scoop and Pyles was acting very skeptical about the whole conversation so much that he was making fun of it. That's a far cry from what you were posting.
A few years down the road they'll still have Levi, Messenbrink, Barr and Davis
Love it but quick question did Josh Barr quit wrestling or something 😜
Apparently he hasn't seen my neighbor
