Ohio State Sweeps Big Ten Wrestling Awards

LB99

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This is great news for PSU! Let Tommy have his award he has 1 year left on his contract. Hopefully they give him a longer contract extension at Ohio State like Iowa gave Brands. Rather have old Tommy at the helm than Ohio State go get someone like Okie State did.
Maybe Tommy bolts for Iowa?
 

a_mshaffer

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Yeah, the whole notion of Cael being pissed off about this is hilarious. 100% fans imposing their beliefs on the program.

This weekend was not the goal. It was a necessary step toward the goal, but not the goal.

So what if somebody else won awards for Not The Goal. Why would Cael get bothered about something so trivial?
Cael is hoping that it means Ryan has to go to the Coach's press meeting at the NCAAs :)
 
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Sportfan2017

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The Nicholls thing became the biggest curse I can think of, and in a way I believe VV getting the nod was a middle finger to the whole state of the program's dependency on the portal.
Tom said that VV got the nod over Williams because VV showed "More Fight". I thought that was telling. I took it as "Williams got the bag as a Senior and is having fun spending it" It seemed like Nasir was heading the same way during parts of the season and got pulled, but he re-dedicated himself and showed up ready at BIGs. Good on Bailey.
 
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Sportfan2017

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I posted this elsewhere, but it seems more appropriate here:
Cael can't be coach of the year because all he does is recruit the highest rated wrestlers. If Tom had recruited the best wrestlers.......he would have no legitimate claim to being named coach of the year. Wait....I am getting a call from Snopes......It seems that when this years' Ohio State senior class were freshman recruits.....IT was overwhelming voted the best recruiting class.....some said best EVER. So..............Nevermind
 

jack66

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When one person is dominating the field, they are not going to give them the award every year... that's not how it works.

They will instead recognize the next in line for a job well done. This year was TanTom.

From 5-3 to 7-1 dual record and from 6th to 2nd at Big Tens. Hats off to you, Tom. Here's your participation trophy.

Meanwhile, everyone knows who the coach of the year is.
 

Corby2

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I posted this elsewhere, but it seems more appropriate here:
Cael can't be coach of the year because all he does is recruit the highest rated wrestlers. If Tom had recruited the best wrestlers.......he would have no legitimate claim to being named coach of the year. Wait....I am getting a call from Snopes......It seems that when this years' Ohio State senior class were freshman recruits.....IT was overwhelming voted the best recruiting class.....some said best EVER. So..............Nevermind
Bailey was hurt and was out until he healed up. He's as healthy as he's been in awhile
 

Matter7172

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So what. Does anyone on the PSU team care if they get the Hodge or OW? I listened to Messenbrink's interview after the Bigs and he could care less about this sort of stuff.

You guys are starting to sound like the Iowa fans when they were dominating. "everyone hates us!" "It is not fair!" "They are jealous!"

It reminds me of an old song - nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. I'm gonna eat a worm!
No one likes us. We don't care - we are Penn State.

 
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El_Jefe

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Tom said that VV got the nod over Williams because VV showed "More Fight". I thought that was telling. I took it as "Williams got the bag as a Senior and is having fun spending it" It seemed like Nasir was heading the same way during parts of the season and got pulled, but he re-dedicated himself and showed up ready at BIGs. Good on Bailey.
Poor Williams must be confused. First he got into trouble in the preseason for having too much fight in a bar. Now he lost his starting spot for not enough fight.
 

gslachta

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Complete Joke. We all know the Big Ten Network favors OSU. Just like they do with football. Ask Ryan who the Best HC in the World is. Bet he tells you Cael Sanderson. ”Everyone“ Knows it too. Yes w Crowned 7 out of 10 Weight Classes to there 2. Cael is by far the absolute Best On and Off the Mat. Haters gonna Hate because no one can beat us….
My guess is they are setting up Sparks, Gibbons and Johnson something to praise OSU next year. Otherwise they got nothing!
 

gslachta

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Yeah, the whole notion of Cael being pissed off about this is hilarious. 100% fans imposing their beliefs on the program.

This weekend was not the goal. It was a necessary step toward the goal, but not the goal.

So what if somebody else won awards for Not The Goal. Why would Cael get bothered about something so trivial?
Think he relished it. Bulletin board material. Motivation against complacency. Thank you BIG!
 

Sportfan2017

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Bailey was hurt and was out until he healed up. He's as healthy as he's been in awhile
That is true. But....I do believe in Baileys' FLO interview he said that in addition to getting his body healthy....he needed to reset his mental approach...or words to that effect. Of course...it could be the beer remembering for me :)
 

Corby2

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That is true. But....I do believe in Baileys' FLO interview he said that in addition to getting his body healthy....he needed to reset his mental approach...or words to that effect. Of course...it could be the beer remembering for me :)
I believe his mental approach was my finger is gonna hurt the minute he grabs it which made him not attack and compete
 

RockyChi

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So what. Does anyone on the PSU team care if they get the Hodge or OW? I listened to Messenbrink's interview after the Bigs and he could care less about this sort of stuff.

You guys are starting to sound like the Iowa fans when they were dominating. "everyone hates us!" "It is not fair!" "They are jealous!"

It reminds me of an old song - nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. I'm gonna eat a worm!
It seems odd to care about whether or not other people care about something

And you must the point of the post it’s not “boo hoo they hate us cuz they ain’t us!”. It’s a splitting of the vote which is an entirely different thing
 
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Efejle

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None of this is relevant: Neither any of our coaches nor any of our wrestlers give two ***** about any of this.

Next topic. Literally.
 

LB99

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Ask Tom Ryan how much rev share $ he gets?
When has ohio st wrestling raised 30 million?
It's not even close actually your Iowa hate is blinding you
Then Iowa does the worst job in the country in turning that money flow into success. Absolutely atrocious job actually. I hope the Brands bros stay forever. They fall further and further behind every year without changing anything.
 

El_Jefe

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I believe his mental approach was my finger is gonna hurt the minute he grabs it which made him not attack and compete


 
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BaccaFarmer

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The Coach of the Year thing really is a joke. Cael’s team won the regular season championship, the BIG tournament championship, had 7 champs, set the consecutive dual meet winning streak record( which is going to go up next year) and outscored his Competition by a mile, but Tom Ryan is Coach of the Year??? They must have this confused with figure skating and the Russian judges were involved. But seriously though, this is why I hate things that get voted on or judged; often times the most deserving person gets screwed. If they really looked at the results, it’s not even close. Cael should’ve won, not that he really cares, but he should’ve won. Anyone saying otherwise is full of $h!t.
Aw come on! Ole Tom was in dire need of
A boost to his self esteem. Let’s all toast him with a little of our Champaign. This is literally no skin off our back. The Big Ten capo has no reason to protect any credibility.
 

Dogwelder

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Then Iowa does the worst job in the country in turning that money flow into success. Absolutely atrocious job actually. I hope the Brands bros stay forever. They fall further and further behind every year without changing anything.
Can we get the Brands Brothers declared as national monuments? As holy relics of the past? So that nobody is allowed to interfere with their historically accurate operations?
 

Cholley Vandine

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When one person is dominating the field, they are not going to give them the award every year... that's not how it works.

They will instead recognize the next in line for a job well done. This year was TanTom.

From 5-3 to 7-1 dual record and from 6th to 2nd at Big Tens. Hats off to you, Tom. Here's your participation trophy.

Meanwhile, everyone knows who the coach of the year is.
Cael should be ineligible, and the name of the award should be, “Big 10 Cael Sanderson Coach of the Year”
 
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