Unlike the gauntlet that Penn St has gone through. Lock Haven, Rider, Lehigh, Oregon St, Central Michigan, North Carolina and Iowa St. Why no PSU guys at the Scuffle or Midlands?
If you want to go down that route, at least PSU faces two in-state D1 programs every year.
What's your arrival date?
"Let's sell as many tickets as possible before we tell them that nobody really good is coming" "It's gonna work....I swear"
So, PSU has 16 competition dates, and you want them to use 5 every year to wrestle only PA programs? The excitement over Franklin and Marshall and Bloomsburg would be palpable! After you add in the B1G schedule that doesn't leave much wiggle room for other opponents. Then the complaint will be we don't wrestle out of state/out of B1G enough. Much easier to schedule half the state when you only have 3 schools.
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Famous Brands quote, “The challenge is the same every year. The battle is in-state. The battle is the Big 10 Conference. The battle is national. The battle is planet Earth. And if they find life out there, then the battle will be universal."
They might have been invited ... but put them into Ohio State's place, and they would've been in the same Day 1 pool as Northern Iowa.
As far as the starters go, PSU wrestles at Wisconsin on January 6th. Most likely Cael does not want his guys going into B1G competition coming off a tournament where they wrestled 4 to 7 matches less than a week ago. Makes sense. Oddly, PSU is off until the 20th after the Wisconsin match. Had Wisconsin been January 13th, good chance some PSU starters are at the Scuffle.
Iowa is always good to go battle, just so they don't have to do battle in State College, PA. That's just too hard and unfair.
18 trips to State College and Iowa is 12-5-1. It is unfair.
I just want to see one vs. the Hawks in Rec Hall again. May never happen (Iowa would have to be a threat to win the dual for Cael to favor the competetive advantage of Rec over the 16,000 tickets/fans), but that's what I want.
Hey, it isn't me refusing to bring my team to State College unless I am forced to. That would be Coach Brands, and your numbers only enhance the silliness of Brands' fear.
My buddy teaches at Mt Pleasant. For what a 9th graders word is worth, Pitzer’s little brother said if Dayton has a “good tournament” the shirt is coming off.
so true the brands brothers only like Penn State matches in iowa or they try and cancel or change the rotation!LOL
Think that’s a tough matchup for Dayton but if he does the hype train will be full steam ahead.
I think I heard earlier in the year that he was up to 225 but they want him to be around 240-245.
