PSU - Lehigh Match Thread
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The Founding Fathers' genius proven yet again: the First Amendment enables idiots to self-identify.
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Aaron Brooks is an athletic nightmare for Nelson Brands. I’d love to see that one be the key match.If the tweet gets deleted, it disappears here as well, so here's a screenshot.
Midway through the 3rd period of Nick Lee's match my 13 year old son says to me, "Dad, Lee is creating all the action, why is he the one not sweating?"
Lee is looking beast-like. Love watching that kid, always have.
Lee is looking beast-like. Love watching that kid, always have.
It’s hard to dumb myself down enough to understand that low-wattage take. I guess so, but Murin is good enough to just lose a dec. Maybe DeSanto moons the BTN guys and gets dinged
I don’t think it was the plan until the staff saw how ineffective Conel is. At that point the plan changed.
Pure genius on Cael’s part. Brooks 184 and Shak 197 better than Shak 184, Beard 197. Again IMo
Cassar appears to have a much tighter snap on his headgear this year. Maybe it's gorilla glued on, and he wears it 24/7.
BOOOOOOO!Does the chicken have 11 Herbs and Spices, and is it Conel Quality, Guaranteed?
I understand that Verk can keep it close against top wrestlers, but I think he has yet to register a win over a ranked wrestler.
He needs to show me before I believe he can actually upset a top-10 type kid.
Great night at Stabler tonight.
DID NOT expect to see Brooks come out of red shirt tonight.... but very lucky to see the official debut. And impressed.
Mr @Johnbrooks , me and @OldPAwrestler were looking for you to have a BWI Forum meet up.... j/k Great job by AB tonight. We are a lucky fan base. Great wrestlers and great people.
I did meet @OldPAwrestler who sat in front of me. Always good to meet a fellow forum poster... except maybe @GogglesPaizano lol just kidding Goggles.
Anyway, I told Old Pa my real name and he said "You'll always be dbldoofus to me"... I wouldn't have it any other way.
DID NOT expect to see Brooks come out of red shirt tonight.... but very lucky to see the official debut. And impressed.
Mr @Johnbrooks , me and @OldPAwrestler were looking for you to have a BWI Forum meet up.... j/k Great job by AB tonight. We are a lucky fan base. Great wrestlers and great people.
I did meet @OldPAwrestler who sat in front of me. Always good to meet a fellow forum poster... except maybe @GogglesPaizano lol just kidding Goggles.
Anyway, I told Old Pa my real name and he said "You'll always be dbldoofus to me"... I wouldn't have it any other way.
I imagine it can't help one's wrestling very much.
And apparently it just destroys any ability to predict dual meet outcomes.
No doubt our buddy Gripster calling that dude out for his stupidity.
not sure this was the plan but KC struggling and knowing they wanted Beard to keep his RS intact, I think they came to this conclusion. Shak up to 97 and AB at 84.
put him on the Anthony Cassar diet and workout plan.
I think he predicts RBY wins by tech over Desanto but he does a throat slash afterwards and gets a team point deducted!
AB looks like a blown up version of RBY and I'm good with that.
The assumption is that Shak will be at 197 but is an undersized Shak better than Beard? Going up 13 pounds in-season is not easy. Also, is he 100%? Have to wonder if the spot is undecided at this point.
Brooks looked great in his first match. Young man has all the tools to be the next big thing.
Let the major slip away by being a bit over aggressive but still real nice performance in hostile territory. Like most freshmen, bottom game may still need some work.
Great to see Berge back on the mat. He will be a tuff out now that that he is at a better weight.
These road matches are always going to be difficult and a few of the guys looked a bit lethargic. Penn State has reached the point where they are everyones Super Bowl and the wrestlers really need to maintain focus and not take anyone lightly.
Brooks looked great in his first match. Young man has all the tools to be the next big thing.
Let the major slip away by being a bit over aggressive but still real nice performance in hostile territory. Like most freshmen, bottom game may still need some work.
Great to see Berge back on the mat. He will be a tuff out now that that he is at a better weight.
These road matches are always going to be difficult and a few of the guys looked a bit lethargic. Penn State has reached the point where they are everyones Super Bowl and the wrestlers really need to maintain focus and not take anyone lightly.
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Ah, yes. Me dumb too as that would take 1 point from Iowa, not give us a point in the scenario.
Okay. Cassar techs Cass but wrestles with a toothpick in his mouth the whole time. Official discovers it at the end and takes a point from us.
Kinda agree with most of above comments. I was down at Stabler sitting 6 rows from mat adjacent to coaching staff.
It looked like a lot of guys wrestled afraid to give up points.
RBY waited too long to get going from his feet, should of majored the kid.
Verk and Berge did not want to push offense. Verk is hard to score on but does not have any lower leg game. Berge had one good double. I would think Berge will show more from feet knowing how good of freestyler he is.
Hall had tough match against a good wrestler. He struggled to finish some moves. He was lucky ref didn't see the attempted roll thru. He was decked.
Brooks looked really quick for his size and has great frame. Oddly I saw Casey more animated in coaching a kid during this match than I think I had ever seen before. When Brooks went under, Casey was on his feet giving instructions to get out. I think under might be a weakness for Brooks.
It's a shame that this lineup didn't wrestle at Arizona State.
It’s filled with similar gems.
Usually it’s some guy in Iowa who thinks Tony Hager and Chad Leistickow are bards of the highest order and can’t fathom that there’s wrestling outside Iowa. But this guy’s some enraged Marin County wacko
Hard to understand what happened to him. He obviously is wrestling with no confidence and just waiting to counter. He is not the same wrestler we all saw through high school and even into last year.It's hard to believe that Verk is our 49 this year.
I thought Berge had 3 great attacks—he didn’t score on the double, but that was due to Humphreys’ insane D. The single he did score on was a real beaut too. His strength has always been his short offense reattacks, that’s where he makes the most hay, but I was very encouraged to see straight up attacks from space from him. All in all, IMO, a great first match back. Against a really tough guy too.
Agree. I was very pleased with Berge's quickness, strength, and ability to keep the train on the tracks late. Humphreys is tough, and currently ranked much lower than his worth because of a bad weekend. I'll take this 2019-20 debut from Berge all day. Plenty of time still to get up to full speed.
Young is a squirrely one, and so being crisp on TD conversions and both savvy and persistent in scrambles should be a point of emphasis for Berge in the meantime. You know, if I were coach.
if I remember correctly Humphries wrestled a nice match against Nolf last year.
We were at the LeHigh match, heading to Happy Valley this morning. See you guys at Rec Hall. We are very excited.
You should be! Aaron looked great! The season's possibilities look very bright
Regarding Aaron’s work from bottom last night: Guy he wrestled was a 197 last year. AB was 174. Also: he scored 4 or 5 points (2-3 stalls, and a reversal). If that’s his liability, I think we better suit up for a bright future folks:
man I hope he is a 4 time finalist
He has the tools
when do we expect Shaq back. Surgery for acl in April. Should be soon , no?
Regarding Rasheed's weight -- I'm wondering whether 184 was a tough cut after some offseason build and played a small part in the decision to pull Brooks's shirt. Regardless, I'm figuring Rasheed will not be as undersized at 197 in 2020 as he was in 2018, and he wasn't too shabby there in 2018.
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