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Love Tom Brand's interviews. He is honest, passionate and respectful although sometime a backhanded compliment gets in there time to time. One thing he said when asked how do you evaluate year to year. He something like it stays the same year to year but with different recruits coming in. That could be why they are getting these results more often than not. They may need new young blood from outside the program for some different views of what others are doing.
Thx for sharing this link. I’m generally not a fan of Brands’ interviews. This is probably the best one I’ve ever seen.
 
Why do people just make shit up (from an Ohio wrestling board). There are so many levels of idiocy to this (e.g. he was always redshirting, he lost once).


Phaderus said:
Considering Cael lost twice, decided he couldn't win the NCAA Championship and redshirted, I think it's a semantical trick to say he was undefeated. Any true freshmen that won a NCAA championship, like Dake, did something Cael didn't do.
 
Why do people just make shit up (from an Ohio wrestling board). There are so many levels of idiocy to this (e.g. he was always redshirting, he lost once).
This was even better, from the same moron:

"A 220 weight class and if Kyle redshirted his freshmen year, like Cael did, there is a good chance Snyder never losses a match in college."

Or, if Snyder had listened to Cael, gone to Penn State, and wrestled HWT from the outset ...
 
has anyone bought these. I didnt even know they were a thing.
They are not a thing, though it sure looks real. I'd like to know more. Here's the current rule about trading cards...

Player/Trading Cards. An institution or recognized entity thereof (e.g., fraternity, sorority or student government organization), a conference or a noninstitutional charitable, educational or nonprofit agency may distribute but may not sell player/trading cards that bear a student-athlete's name or picture.

Exception -- Olympic, Paralympic or National Team. A national governing body may sell player/trading cards that bear the name or picture of a student-athlete who is a member of the Olympic, Paralympic or national team in that sport, provided all of the funds generated through the sale of such cards are deposited directly with the applicable Olympic, Paralympic or national team.


I did see one homemade card on EBay, but that was it. The whole NIL thing (prior to this year), plus the way the rule is written above prevented any cards from being made except as noted above. The NCAA and a school's compliance group would have been all over anything done against the rules.

I do have a bunch of Zain cards, one Bo card and a Lorenzo card that were university-provided. Not sure of the year.
 
In other good news, Penn State fully dropped its indoor mask policy today.

Will there be mask burning events à la bra burning parties and draft card burning gatherings in the 1960's? 🙂

It will be nice to see the full faces of folks around campus again.

The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has argued that the living face (visage) of the other (its vulnerabilities and expressions) as well as the encounters we experience with it resist possession and generate obligations and responsibilities on our part (forbidding us to kill, for example). In other words, face-to-face encounters are what serve as the basis for ethics in his view.
 
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This was even better, from the same moron:

"A 220 weight class and if Kyle redshirted his freshmen year, like Cael did, there is a good chance Snyder never losses a match in college."

Or, if Snyder had listened to Cael, gone to Penn State, and wrestled HWT from the outset ...
He argues like the guy who says, "if I wasn't ugly, stupid, fat and lazy I would be handsome, intelligent, slim and ambitious." Then acts like he just made some sort of brilliant point.
 
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