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  1. https://www.cornnation.com/2024/3/18/24103868/wrestling-nebraska-in-the-trophy-hunt-going-into-ncaa-championships
  2. Pretty excellent week last week. No real qualms splitting the series with Wichita State as they should be a pretty decent club this year and it allowed Harrahill to get an early taste of big time baseball. I expect him to be sharper in his next outing if they give him the ball again this week against NDSU. The schedule is shaping up really, really nicely so far. The early season losses don't sting as much as Oklahoma and Texas Tech both look solid and even Baylor won 2/3 from TTU this weekend so if they could get back to respectability that would be huge. This week is sneaky massive, not because the opponents are tough, but because the opponents all STINK this week. This is the worst Omaha team I've seen in the past 5+ years and NDSU is just not great either. Two sneaky landmines on Tue/Wed, the weather is going to be kinda sucky, just big time 'gotta take care of business' games. New Mexico State not as bad, they at least have a pulse. After this week, the non-con is pretty solid. You midweek games outside of SDSU are all against teams having solid seasons. KU/KState/Creighton all have pretty solid clubs this year and won't be RPI black holes if Nebraska drops a game to them.
  3. Really nice job getting the series win over a scrappy Nicholls team. Man, you'd have to pay me a whole lotta money to go to the game today. Plenty of good seats available! It's gonna be nastyyyyy.
  4. Anyone else cooking through The Gentlemen on Netflix? @teachercd show would probably be right up your alley. IIRC you mentioned that you liked the Guy Richie style British crime shows. I'm halfway through so far and I've enjoyed it quite a bit. It's pretty slick, has some good humor, pretty much a classic Guy Ritchie program except it's a TV show which is great because it's 8 hours of fun versus 2!
  5. I kinda like Sears moving to Saturday as he's been just nails this season. With him in the Saturday spot, he can right the ship if you drop the series opener and if you win on Friday you love your chances turning the ball over to him to get the series win.
  6. Weather looks ok this weekend, will be not great on Friday but Saturday should be nice. Sunday looks chilly, hopefully that plays into NU's favor.
  7. There's a way to do things and a way to not do things. I will grant (and this will be the last time I bring this up ITT in order to not derail) that it wouldn't of mattered because Denney hated Trev's guts.
  8. Oh geez are you telling me the guy that told the UNO wrestling program they were getting eliminated the night they won the national title is leaving again like a snake in the night? I for one, am shocked. Shocked I tell you! Rest in piss Alberts.
  9. https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2024-03-12/ncaa-announces-large-selections-2024-di-wrestling-championships?fbclid=IwAR06TVQBxE1UO_UvURBF_zvmVIAiUYLKFY9QXOjDwsgbo9-p7BlbigoZM9E Darn, no dice for Bubba at 174. Maybe he'll be the alternate at 174 in case someone can't go. https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/public-s3/images/2024/03/12/24_D1Qualifers[80].pdf Just saw this, Bubba is the 2nd alternate.
  10. All in all, hard to argue with the results from this weekend. If a couple more things broke right for Nebraska they finish in 2nd. 125--Smith is probably disappointed he didn't wrestle to his seed but all in all, I thought he was fine this weekend. He got taken down early by McKee and after that, it was tough because McKee is a hammer on top for most guys. He caught Ramos on the backside which was unlucky and dropped another and then he got hammered by Barnett who did not have a great tourney. 125 is a complete crap shoot and Smith probably has some confidence going into NCAAs seeing Davis win Big Tens. 133--I thought Van Dee had a nice tourney. He got the starch taken out of him by Nagao in the QF given up that early TD and then it was pretty much a wrap from there. Nice job battling back in the Consis although I didn't love the Teske match as he had that won in regulation and kinda brain farted there. 141--Little bit of a disappointing result for Hardy who should've been in the Semis. Just a really bad blunder there against Lemley in the QF giving away the match. Nice job coming back although I hope to goodness he doesn't need to wrestle Woods to AA because Hardy just doesn't match up at all against him. 149--Awesome job by Ridge beating Gomez again who is so, so dangerous. Great job on defense there at the edge when I thought Gomez was going to get him. I'd really like to see Gomez on the other side of the brackets at NCAAs. 157--Nice job by Robb getting 3rd. There seems to be a clear ceiling for him now as Franek and Haines are a cut above. Robb can definitely still AA but man, 157 is a meat grinder of a weight class. I can't be too critical of Robb because he's such a warrior. 165--Nice job by Taylor, wrestled to seed. He beat the guys he's supposed to beat and he lost to the guys that are a bit better than him. The future is super bright with him especially at 157. 174--Game effort by Bubba as always. He's undersized at 174 and that was clearly evident wrestling the two beefcakes from Ohio State (how is that dude a freshman!!) and Rutgers. I hope Bubba did enough to earn a WC so we'll see. 184--Weird being disappointed with Pinto finishing 3rd. He kinda wrestled like a dummy against Truax and I hope his lower leg injury isn't too serious. If you give Pinto a gas tank you'd get a better version of Salazar from Minnesota and that guy can win a national title. As it stands, Pinto has AA upside but I can also easily see him going 2-2 or something like that. 197--I know 197 is a little down this year in the Big Ten but I thought Allred handled himself nicely. He ran into Brooks and Brooks did Brooks stuff but I loved seeing him really put it on Smith from Maryland in the 3rd/4th match. Allred looked great this weekend and I hope he can carry that momentum into NCAAs HWT--Great job by Nash to qualify, tremendous story. Would be awesome if he could find a way to pick up a win or two which is possible if he gets the right draw.
  11. 100% agreed. Hardy's mat awareness there at the end was questionable at best. I think he got jobbed not getting NF but you gotta overcome it. Conditioning looked much, much better.
  12. Freaking pumped! GBR!!!!!
  13. You didn't say anything about profitable your quote was listed below: I'm simply pushing back on that notion as the Big Ten has invested in making wrestling a more enjoyable sport to watch.
  14. It's probably not your cup of tea and I realize I'm nitpicking here but the Big Ten has heavily invested in wrestling the last couple years and really turned into a great TV product. They've really blown up their 'Friday Night Wrestling' thing and done a nice job of showcasing great matchups. Granted this can be done because the Big Ten is the big dog in college wrestling.
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