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    POTUS executive order -- 5 total years + 1 transfer limit starting Aug 1?

    All true. I don't have solutions.
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    POTUS executive order -- 5 total years + 1 transfer limit starting Aug 1?

    Payments went on for decades, for star players who legitimately had name/image/likeness value in the market (to boosters). Now it is everybody at the college level, including walk-ons. Along with individual deals for the small minority of collegiate athletes who actually have marketing value...
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    Transfer Portal 2026 + Other team movements

    He absolutely would wear AJ out, as he did to Merrill. Barr wears everybody out. Playing contrarian, I'm just not certain that results in a bunch of points against a wrestler whose offense is little more than trying to stop the other guy from scoring. A fresh 240+ Bastida has a ton of...
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    POTUS executive order -- 5 total years + 1 transfer limit starting Aug 1?

    +1 Speaking only for myself, my interest in college (and high school) sports has dramatically reduced. That connection to the schools and the young men who play the game I once did is pretty much gone. I hardly follow college football or basketball at all anymore - maybe 2-3 hours total in...
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    Transfer Portal 2026 + Other team movements

    IMO Barr vs. Ferrari would look just like the Merrill match.
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    POTUS executive order -- 5 total years + 1 transfer limit starting Aug 1?

    It's not just ruining college sports, it's rapidly leaking into high school. I can only imagine what it's (transferring, $) like in California, Texas, and Georgia, as my (recent) anecdotal experience is primarily with high school sports in Utah. I've become a progressively bigger fan of...
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    Transfer Portal 2026 + Other team movements

    I have my doubts that he wins an individual title during his time at PSU, but I 100% agree that the talk about getting a transfer HWY to take Mirasola's spot is ridiculous, and it has been nonstop all season. Feldman and Mirasola are pretty close right now, except Feldman is two years older with...
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    EARLY 2026-27 lineup projections/discussions

    Not certain he'll reach the finals, but Rocco is among that group of 4 that is just better than everybody else. I'm not sure I can say the same thing for Van Ness next year. His best shot to win an individual title was this season.
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    EARLY 2026-27 lineup projections/discussions

    I'd pencil in Jax and Vega. Robideaux and Merrill?
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    '26 Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic thread

    Didn't expect that.
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    Why Social Media is enriching our lives, while it eats away at the fabric of our society.

    My wife actually went to junior high and high school in Brigham City - I refer to it as a "township", being from Los Angeles, it's a tiny backwoods village to me. One of those places where everybody knows everybody. She's a bit too old to have known Brock, but was friends with one his cousins...
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    Transfer Portal 2026 + Other team movements

    Looks great on a resume (at least it did until recently), but you have to actually live there.
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    EARLY 2026-27 lineup projections/discussions

    Who does Nebraska have to take over 174? Minto would be a betting favorite to stand atop the podium next year at 174, but 184 is a different animal. Minto does look absolutely enormous at 174. For certain, I'd just fast forward through the first 9 minutes of any match he has with Rocco and...
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    What was Cael referring to about "the rules"?

    It's something very dear to me as well. I was diagnosed with Asperger's (now, just high-functioning autism) about a quarter century ago, when hardly anybody had ever heard of autism. I've spoken at countless autism conferences, been a mentor for autistic teens for years (not at the moment, as I...
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    What was Cael referring to about "the rules"?

    I know this a lot more from the football angle, specifically because my stepdad is an assistant coach of a successful high school program. I believe it's now ~45 states that allow NIL for high school students, and I'm sure there's some backdoor stuff going on for the top recruits in the handful...
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