Mason Parris to Meatchicken
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Bump Bump Bump.......Another one's off the Board. Great get by Michigan. You can't do better than the highest rated College-Bound Senior remaining on the Big Board. Turned down full football scholarships to wrestle. Cool..... Best of luck!
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The B1G wrestling, as good as it has been, just keeps getting stronger. I have said that the B1G giving NS a waiver was to keep the best wrestlers in the conference.
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They set a precedent with it. Any wrestler can now transfer within the B1G and wrestle right away. They might have kept one of the best in the B1G but now they have to deal with the repercussions.
Well, they have granted every wrestler transferring within the conference a waiver with one exception. No need to point out who that team was. Penn State proud. This school has bucked all of the odds and comes out on top. BTW, I am not a Penn State grad. So, I can't be labeled a homer.
Well to be fair, we don't know whether Jered Cortez lawyered up, or even asked for that matter.
To be fair, we do not know the rationale for the waiver request nor it's approval by the B1G. I have a hunch that the approval was based upon Suriano missing last year's post-season because of injury, requiring him to sit out would mean that he would miss two NCAA's tournaments. Could be as simple as that.
Huh, "he would miss two NCAA tournaments". Are you saying his injury was so severe that he would have had to sit out another season at PSU but could wrestle at the Rugrats?
I am saying, he missed the 2017 NCAA tournament because of injury, if the B1G rule was enforced he would miss a second NCAA tournament in 2018. Leaving him only two NCAA tournament appearances. He was leaving PSU no matter what, bad fit for him, would never be the star of the show which is was he craves.
That was the point of my post. He would have lost a year. If not granted the waiver he would have left the B1G.
Except there's already a mechanism for injury waivers. I agree that him facing the prospect of missing two NCAA tournaments makes his case more sympathetic than if he sought the waiver after having won the tournament, but it still doesn't sound like a legitimate reason to grant the waiver. But again, there's no stated criteria by the B1G for granting/denying waiver requests; and the process itself is a mystery--we never learn why a request was granted/denied, so in a sense your speculation is no less valid than anyone else's because we'll never know. But I still doubt Nick's representative made that argument because it seems weak relative to what else has been rumored.
Don't know if you heard Nick Gravina from Rutgers was granted a sixth year of eligibility, even though he had two reasons for failing to qualify a medical redshirt because he wrestled in over 30% of the team's duals and wrestled in the second half of the season (actually wrestled in both halves). So I have no clue how the NCAA makes decisions. He will have wrestled in B1G duals in five seasons with this ruling and continued wrestling.
You have it wrong. It's not about "30% of the teams duals", and somehow you don't have the "second half of the season" correct either.
By my math, Gravina was under the 30% requirement for COMPETITION DATES, at 29.4%, and was very close, maybe within a day or so of the mid-point of the season. Looks like a reasonable candidate for a 6th year to me.
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