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    157 next year

    That's kinda what I was getting at. He doesn't have many (if any) options. The NCAA can't prevent someone from transferring every year that they are eligible, but those guys have to maintain their academic eligibility which means hitting credit hour minimums, GPA minimums, and degree...
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    157 next year

    It's one of those things where he may have some hard feelings, but if he doesn't have any offers of significance, it may be his best option. The other thing that I think people are discounting (to include Williams himself) is that he may have limited options due to NCAA academic eligibility...
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    Daton Fix

    When you look at that lineup with what is currently there and what is coming in between 133 and 157, there are going to be 2-3 top 25 dudes that get squeezed out. I think it's just a matter of at what point do the squeezed-out wrestlers realize it and do they decide that they are okay with it?
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    Portal April 1st

    I didn’t realize he had already gotten that big. That changes that piece but it still means that he’s really only looking at 1 season
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    Coaching Staff Next Year

    I'll take that. That's just the way that it felt based on the moves that they were making/not making. As I've said before, my background is in data analysis and I have almost no wrestling inside information at the D1 level. Lots of contacts all over in football but almost none in wrestling.
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    Portal April 1st

    I think Sealy is either getting really bad advice or he's okay with not being able to wrestle meaningful matches the rest of his career. Here's what Penn State's lineup looks like at just about any weight class he could conceivably get to. Sealy is just too big to get down to 149 and there's...
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    Coaching Staff Next Year

    This feels very much like Iowa is planning on letting Brands retire 2 years from now and is planning on the new head coach effectively cleaning house and bringing in his own staff. I don't think they want to bring in a guy that may want to be on that next staff potentially and risk burning that...
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    Portal April 1st

    There is no way that is remotely accurate. Endene is 5'10" and I'm probably being a hair generous there. He's also going to have a hard time being in wrestling shape above about 220...he's actually probably going to have to fight to stay at 220. He's going to give up 3-6" in length and 25-40...
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    Portal April 1st

    People also tend to forget that Buchanan basically bumped a weight class every year he was in high school (160, 170, 182, 195) and didn't start to get close to college size until he was a senior. He was an above average middle weight wrestler...but as he grew, he maintained the middle weight...
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    NCAA Tournament Performance Recruits Ranked 26-50

    One last thing. There was a request to identify the number of guys in this recruiting range that never made the podium at one school and then did after transferring. Once again, these are not overall wrestlers, just guys that were ranked 26-50. It's a very small list: Ethan Stiles...
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    NCAA Tournament Performance Recruits Ranked 26-50

    So to wrap it up, is there any school that does particularly well with recruits and transfers in this range? This chart shows high school recruits and transfers (in this range as high school recruits) by college attended and the percentage of those recruits that made it to at least the...
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    NCAA Tournament Performance Recruits Ranked 26-50

    Second element. What weight classes from this recruit ranking range actually hit the podium most frequently? There's been some discussion on the boards in the last month or two about weight classes that are easier to crack the podium on and ones that are harder. Looking at the overall...
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    NCAA Tournament Performance Recruits Ranked 26-50

    So first and foremost, how did those recruits do in the NCAA Tournament? Only 55 of the 250 recruits ever made it onto the podium. Of those 55 All-American's, only 19 placed 4th or higher. If you are chasing a trophy, any AA is going to generate points, but guys that finish top 4 tend to...
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    NCAA Tournament Performance Recruits Ranked 26-50

    In the Carl on PSU thread, there was discussion about how programs perform with guys that aren't highly ranked recruits...good recruits but not great recruits. The intent was to see if there was anyone out there that was really good at getting quality performance out of rosters that weren't...
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    Iowa lands Ryan Crookham

    Crookham has some injury risk. No question about it and I don't think that's necessarily a secret. That makes the potential performance floor a little lower than expected. However, there isn't a single guy in the portal at 133 that has a higher ceiling than he does. He has a 40-45% bonus...
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