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Stalling on top

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Our esteemed head recruiter has an opinion. Curious what the hive thinks. In the RBY case, Millhof had pretty much completely given up at this point. Roman maybe could've worked for a turn but he was kind of already celebrating. I think our team would adjust if stalling was called more in this position--but we do do it.
 
In general, I thought the AZ guys were cautious on bottom and were focused on getting to a position of strength (see Shaq's match) and didn't risk moving.... so I saw a lot of stalling.
 
Shocker. Iowa fan pointing to RBY stalling of all people.

But Cash Wilkie handfighting for 5 minutes is Iowa Style.

 
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Yes, watching RBY is like watching paint dry.

Maybe paint in mid air before it gets to the ground. He is that fast. I get the point that you should always try to continue to score, but......that match was over. Happens all the time. If PSU was going to need the team points, you continue to score.

40 seconds of boring is definitely a first world problem.
 
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for christ's sake it's not an iowa-psu thing. and it's not an RBY thing. it's a situational thing.

far too often there is a guy on top not working for much and he's either allowed to just ride and/or the bottom guy gets dinged.

if you watched wrestling before Cael got to PSU you'd know that they used to call it opposite.

ZING! :p
 
Stalling while ahead is never acceptable, if the match is out of hand or not. Also, a match isn't out of hand until the clock reaches 0.00.
 
for christ's sake it's not an iowa-psu thing. and it's not an RBY thing. it's a situational thing.

far too often there is a guy on top not working for much and he's either allowed to just ride and/or the bottom guy gets dinged.

if you watched wrestling before Cael got to PSU you'd know that they used to call it opposite.

ZING! :p
He brings up RBY of all people though. Maybe since his own team didn’t wrestle this weekend, he couldn’t find 15-20 better examples of doing nada.

Lee Weber is about as objective as TBar - just different teams
 
Maybe it was clickbait for me to put RBY in the thread. Still, a worthy discussion I think. From my untrained eye, forehead on the mat seems to be what most refs are looking for in this situation, but top has a responsibility to improve too, right?
 
just bustin your balls, CT.

to be clear my take is not that RBY was stalling (though he wasn't exactly trying turn the last seconds there) but how all too often you see stalling called on bottom in ways I 1) disagree with and 2) completely contrary to what it was 10-15 years ago. And stalling on top has completely disappeared.
 
I agree and hopefully the next time Milhoff chooses to bump up, maybe RBY cat and mouses him for a TF instead of just sitting on him and saving him the embarassment.
 
just bustin your balls, CT.

to be clear my take is not that RBY was stalling (though he wasn't exactly trying turn the last seconds there) but how all too often you see stalling called on bottom in ways I 1) disagree with and 2) completely contrary to what it was 10-15 years ago. And stalling on top has completely disappeared.

Give it up Liam, college will never be freestyle. ;)
 
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just bustin your balls, CT.

to be clear my take is not that RBY was stalling (though he wasn't exactly trying turn the last seconds there) but how all too often you see stalling called on bottom in ways I 1) disagree with and 2) completely contrary to what it was 10-15 years ago. And stalling on top has completely disappeared.
Well, duh, Zain graduated.
 
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for christ's sake it's not an iowa-psu thing. and it's not an RBY thing. it's a situational thing.

far too often there is a guy on top not working for much and he's either allowed to just ride and/or the bottom guy gets dinged.

if you watched wrestling before Cael got to PSU you'd know that they used to call it opposite.

ZING! :p
The parallel ride was once forbidden but over the last several year it has become commonplace.
 
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