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There have been a consistent 30 or so in the room. Let's increase that for Coach Bradley tonight!

I feel for Coleman Scott, but you have to get yourself out of your own rut when you have an opportunity like like this. Another 15 years of classic Cowboy wrestling isn't winning any national titles. Taylor may flame out and suck as a head coach, (I don't think he will) but you have to take a big swing. For coaches, I heard it's Gillman and Jimmy Kennedy coming with him. Didn't know this, but Kennedy is his brother-in-law. He's looking for a heavyweight coach as well, and it'll probably be a big name. Recruiting could be nuts for Taylor. He obviously can't run M2 anymore, but the club will continue to run under someone he hires and he'll instantly have a pipeline to Pennsylvania talent. It'll be interesting if any Penn State guys follow him to OK State. Haines and Kasak were M2 guys. Now they can't just hop in the portal now and be eligible, but they both were looking at redshirt years so it's in the realm of possibility. And OK State can do some major damage this year yet on the national scene. Penn State still looms large as the heavy favorite, but OK State has a very good team put together for next year, and they seem to be the favorites to land Andrew Alirez and Wyatt Hendrickson from the portal. Their lineup could look like this going into the season. 125 - Troy Spratley, blood round finisher now getting Gillman to work with 133 - Cael Hughes, blue chip recruit coming off redshirt wrestling behind Fix 141 - Tagen Jamison/Jordan Williams, not sure if Williams can go down, but if Alirez does transfer in he's going 149. Both Jamison and Williams were national qualifiers 149 - Andrew Alirez, national champ as a possible transfer 157 - Teague Travis, round of 16 165 - Caleb Fish, transfer in round of 16 174 - Dean Hamiti, transfer in multiple time AA and national champion contender 184 - Dustin Plott, national runner-up now getting coached by DT 197 - Christian Carroll, no intro needed on this website 285 - Wyatt Hendrickson, two time third placer as a possible transfer Now two of those transfers have to happen, but if they do that lineup has potential to be awesome.

Allegedly might be bringing Gilman in.

Anyone else mind boggled over this one occurring. There were rumors the last few days, but it still unexpected considering a prestigious alumni like Colman Scott with a solid coaching record quite a decent head coaching job to take the heir apparent role under Smith all this season. And now he’s passed by even if it was for Taylor. I feel bad for Scott if he didn’t do anything that blatantly made the school consider rejecting him prior to Taylor’s interest. Someone in the search process at OK St. clearly was looking for the magic (pun intended) beans that may knock Penn State down a peg. It would be safe to say this pretty much signals an end to Taylor’s international career. Who does Taylor bring in as assistance that can start chipping away at Penn State’s recruiting and training dominance. Does Taylor retain at least one OK St. legacy coach to help retain current top commits? Who may he grab from the recruiting or transfer pool over Penn State? Where do the rest of OK St. staff likely end up? So many questions and answers are not coming quick enough.

Teams in Ohio Harrison 2023 State Champions (2nd ind 2024) Marysville 2021 Stat champions (4th in 2024) Eaton Olentangy Orange (Possibly) Teays Valley Also have teams from Michigan and Pennsylvania Interested Marysville Dual tournament.pdf

All fair points. Yazdani was at 66kg as a junior and started his senior career at 70kg. While he has clearly grown into 86kg, a 16kg jump is huge and I agree that Taylor fits the weight better and generally looks bigger than Yazdani when they compete (but not stronger). The main caveat, which also applies to Yazdani, is that the competition at 86kg has not been very strong, with DT and Yazdani sharing Golds between them as Sadulaev and Sharifov moved up after 2016. The next best guys were likely Iranian (Ghasempour, Karimi) or American but the rest of the world was not competitive (shown in DT and Yazdani's finish rate at Worlds/Olympics).

Wednesday RTC, 6-7:30 pm. Door 21 at Franklin Community Keep the kids coming. Time to start preparing for Team Indiana trips. DEREK GILCHER, Indiana University. NCAA qualifier, senior nationals US open 5th place, Big10 championship 8th place, uww u23 nationals 7th place, Fargo freestyle nationals 7th place, 3x Michigan state champ

THE DAVID TAYLOR ERA

Yes, for sure. They're equal in Olympic and World golds--but then Yazdani has 5 additional medals compared to only 1 for Taylor. Plus, Yazdani took worldwide Golds at 2 different weights. (I think, too, that if there had been an in-between Olympic weight class like 79 or 80kg, Yazdani might be undefeated since 2016. I think Taylor's body naturally fit 86kg better than Yazdani; but if both would have stayed down 6 or 7kg all these years, it would have been a better fit for Yazdani than Taylor.) But the "who was better" argument is obviously going to come down to what you prefer: overall resume vs. apex quality level. For a 7-year period from the U.S. trials in 2017 to the U.S. trials in 2024--Taylor was 70-1 across all freestyle matches in a traditionally very crowded weight class. As with all American wrestlers, he was not originally a freestyle wrestler--but there is a strong argument that once he fully adapted to the style and the 86kg weight class, he was at a level attained by only a few freestyle wrestlers historically. And part of that argument, obviously, is that he handed an all-time legend like Yazdani himself 5 of his 8 career losses (4 during that 7-year period, of course).

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The last time Yazdani lost to someone who hasn't DT was to Tsabalov in 2016. The last time DT lost to a non-American who wasn't Yazdani was to a Ukrainian also in 2016. Kinda funny. But the big difference is that DT has a lot of losses to quite a few Americans (5 losses to Dake alone, 4 losses to JB, 2 losses to Cox, 2 losses to Brooks) while Yazdani has never lost against an Iranian. I would say Yazdani has the superior resume overall but they both have excellent wins (DT's 1-2 record against Cox and 1-4 record against JB, the only win coming against a much older JB, arguably let him down a bit). Yazdani has wins over 6 World or Olympic champions: Tsabalov, Gadzhiev, Taghavi, Sharifov, Ghasempour, and Taylor. Taylor has wins over 5 World or Olympic champions: Kurbanaliev, Sharifov, Yazdani, Cox, and Burroughs.

Yazdani has definitely been more consistent across all weights in his career. Of course you can point to some of DT's losses in his own country as understandable (Burroughs, Dake, Cox); but Yazdani reached the top level at a much younger age, and Yazdani developed consistency at 86kg much more quickly than DT did. It's almost funny to read some of DT's results from 2015 and 2016.

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Some fun trivia: Tsabalov is the only wrestler to have wins over both Hassan Yazdani and David Taylor (Tsabalov is 1-2 against Yazdani and 1-0 against DT). Yazdani has wins over every wrestler he has faced at 74kg and 86kg. The only guy he wrestled and hasn't won against is Gazimagomedov (Yazdani lost to him 3-1 in 2015 worlds at 70kg in Yazdani's last match at 70kg, when he was only 19 years old). Yazdani has lost to 4 wrestlers in his career (Gazimagomedov, Shabanau, Tsabalov, and Taylor) and DT has lost to 6 non-American wrestlers (11 total) (Tsargush, Tsabalov, Nurmagomed, Rochniak, Lasghari, and Yazdani) in his career.

@Thor and @The Genius, I'm actually seeing a lot of people on other boards insisting DT would wrestle the Olympics as his last tournament if Brooks can't go. It seems insane to think of in the middle of the transfer portal, needing to move across the country and probably selling a couple of local businesses. ...and probably leaving his training camp. But people insist it would do so much for the notoriety of the Oklahoma State program that he'd do it. They say, "John Smith wrestled in the Olympics while coaching. Cael Sanderson made a freestyle comeback while coaching. Why can't DT?" I hear them, but in this day and age of 24/7/365 recruiting and training demands for D1 coaches--seems crazy. To be his best, he needs 6+ hours per day for training, eating, and recovery activities and 8-9 hours of sleep. He then uses 9-10 hours per day for a big-time D1 coaching job, plus family, business, moving, travel, media appearances, etc, with none of the downtime that a high-level athlete's mind needs in preparing for an elite event? Let me be the first to predict DT doesn't get gold if he is our rep.

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Welp.....Sucks for Coleman, big time.

No we won’t the Panthers are cemented in every wrestling fans memory. We won’t shock anyone by winning team state.

That's unfortunate timing for him but you miss all the shots you don't take. The MMA route might be better for him. Or just wait a year and return, not like he's getting old. I don't love TUEs because they can be a loophole for PEDs (which adderall definitely is hence why you need a TUE). But I'm not a doctor and if the diagnosis/TUE is legit then fine by me. Weird no statement by the UWW though.