My family is from down the road..a little town named Hyndman
PA HS Wrestling thread
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Back when you were Johnstoddlersteel?
Time for a PA wrestling news thread and a separate recruiting thread. Too much to roll through at this point .
Brady Collins (clfd) is going to do great things before he leaves.. Side note Clearfield’s junior high team is very solid also. Are little town of clearfield, is very proud of those boys.
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I had Crookham's years switched in the other thread. He's back in time for the postseason.
Depending on his postseason weight (he was at 138 today, but not sure if he'll go 132 in the postseason), there are only 2 guys in PA AA who might test him at all. His former NDGP teammate Brandan Chletsos (Rutgers commit) is at 132; Muncy state finalist Scott Johnson (M2 guy) could be at 132 or 138.
If Crookham is on, he'll win states either way.
Depending on his postseason weight (he was at 138 today, but not sure if he'll go 132 in the postseason), there are only 2 guys in PA AA who might test him at all. His former NDGP teammate Brandan Chletsos (Rutgers commit) is at 132; Muncy state finalist Scott Johnson (M2 guy) could be at 132 or 138.
If Crookham is on, he'll win states either way.
Yes, please. I come here for the Recruiting talk. Would be nice to have a separate thread for PA HS discussions (which ultimately may or may not be related to PSU).
I’ve been going through my Topps 1964-1967 old baseball cards. Several hall of famers in pretty good shape. 4+ cigar boxes full of cards. Any advice on how to get appropriate value without investing dozens/hundreds of hours?
Clearfield has always been AA and opted up. Seems like they are staying down next cycle. Off topic question, is there a religious reason a lot of the Chestnut Ridge kids wear leggings and short sleeves or a fade that hangs on through the years with their kids??
always meaning the last few years or the past 80 (since the start of aaa and aa)?
Consider sending them to a 3rd party sports auction house.
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Always as in as long as I can remember, at least 10 or 15 years. If you know different let us know.
Thought there was a family tree going straight up joke coming.Having lived in the school district and having children graduate from Ridge....and having a business in Bedford.....I can tell you that Ridge, Bedford and Claysburg have many kids with the same last names....and not unusual that some have the same first as well. A lot of the same last names spread out through all 3 districts....even into Northern Bedford as well. Many extended families in the area.
Well....normally I would have said send them out to be professionally graded.....but no more. Last year mid Covid.....spurred by the Pokemon craze and resulting foreign card investors....PSA was overwhelmed with cards....millions. They raised their rates to 25.00...then 50.00...and now 100.00/card. They are still swamped. Same day service is 1000.00 per card and people are paying it. I know people who sent cards in 13 months ago and haven't got a single card back. I just started selling again on Ebay. Got a good scanner...put pics on and set an opening bid. Sold almost all of my 86-87 Fleer basketball in a week. Really nice cards bring good $. I got some good magnifiers just so I don't waste time with wrinkles or rough corners. Good luck
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OH....get a Beckett Baseball guide. Topps always made a 3rd series..also called High numbers. They made less of them. Sometimes a High Number Nobody will bring 10-20-30.00 because some people need them to fill sets....so check the values for High # "Commons" Surprisingly they often bring the high book value because of need where others you are lucky to get 30-40% of book
There is only one way to find his full potential. Go to Penn State.
Jake Herbert recently said his biggest regret was not going to Penn State and he said the difference between him and Varner was Cael and he has to live with that difference the rest of his life.
Honestly highschool kids live in some pretty small bubbles, but I don't know why the most elite kids at every weight don't see this. I wonder who is advising them as well.
I think 2 out if the 3 tOSU best class ever will have similar thoughts when all is said and done. Feldman will do great anywhere he goes IMO
I remember the Cappeilo's & Prechtl's back in the 80's. I am sure I butchered the spellings.
Regarding the Ridge kids... Yes, their is a portion of the population there that do not wear shorts or anything above their knees (maybe lower???), and it is for religious reasons. They will also wear a T shirt beneath their singlet.
The women in that religion will only wear a dress or a special loose fitting pants, including sports uniforms. I can't remember the women ever wearing regular jeans. One of the nicest, sincerest and prettiest girls I went to HS with was in that religion. I would have ran though the brick wall of the school if she had any interest in going out with me. She was way above my league though.
I can't remember their particular religious affiliation, but having closely grown up with them I can say their dress code the only "odd" or different thing about them. It's not some strange cult or anything like that.
Any team can only put out 10 guys at a time. Plus the 9.9 restrictions. Even if in the best of cases every top kid wanted to go to PSU, there is only room for so many.
Plus these kids are fans of wrestling also, not everyone is a PSU fan and their families may not be either.
Factor in international goals with the above and you get some parity in a big arms race.
When Jake was graduating from North Allegheny Troy was coaching Penn State, Bobby Douglas was coaching Iowa State and Cael was Bobby's assistant.
Clearfield has not always been a AA school. In the 70s and 80s Clearfield was a fairly large rural school district. Not exactly sure of population numbers, but it wouldn't surprise me if Clearfield's k-12 2022 population is half of 1980's.
Based on PIAA website, continually through 2016-2017 Clearfield enrollment placed them well above AAA classification parameter. 2018-19 and 2020-21 they fell just below and opted up. They had a drastic drop off in numbers projected for 2022-23.
Herberts career didn’t start and stop in college. I think he was referring to afterwards, but thanks for the fact check.
No, not a direct relation. That’s definitely a question asked all the time. Wouldn’t be bad thing, if the kid had a little WV twang to him 😉.
At the time I was hoping Herbert would go to PSU, but was told there was no way in hell he was coming here. I figured a couple national titles and a NW degree he had made a good choice for himself.
The year Cael came out of retirement he beat out Jake for the USA team spot.
With that all said, Jake was damn good but wrestling for Cael probably would have made a significant difference. Jake Herbert wrestled 84 kg and Jake Varner wrestled 96 Kg. If Herbert had shown interest in training at PSU they would have found room at the in.
@El-Jefe any interest in possibly renaming this thread either Recruiting News or PA High School Wrestling Info, and then starting a 2nd new thread? A few of us think the 2 topics should be separated and deserve their own thread. Thanks...
