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(01-09-2019 09:11 AM)burden Wrote:  

(01-07-2019 11:01 PM)Lambert58 Wrote:  

(12-30-2018 06:47 PM)burden Wrote:  Weird weekend in South Beach. Kent beats our new MAC member SIU Edwardsville 23-14. Beats Michigan St. 18-17 (really liked that Rooney beat our former friend Tutolo)!!! Then we lose to Missouri 44-0 and to Minnesota 51-0.

The disparity in talent between the top 10 and the other teams is huge. It’s even greater from the perspective of the top 5. PSU is so good that an all star team made up of the best wrestlers from the other schools would probably lose to PSU. Missouri is very very good even without their World Champion. Minnesota is up and coming with a FRESHMAN 285 that could win an NCAA championship. We have zero wrestlers on the level of these teams. Miller and Kilgore, along with Mitcheff and Bedelyon, are our only wrestlers that could compete with the likes of PSU and OSU. The rich get richer...

Yeah I know. It seems like it’s gotten worse over the last ten years though. The smaller sports are even worse than basketball, football. Gymnastics is the same way. You have 5 or so teams with a chance of winning and the rest compete for fun. Missouri really bothers me as they effectively have ended any chance of winning the MAC which was at least a nice consolation prize.

Did you ever make it to Hungary for the worlds? I watched most of it on the Olympic channel and it would have been great to have been there.

I believe it has gotten worse, even though it shouldn’t, but it still comes down to $ and we can’t compete with the big boys without it. The changes to our coaching staff hasn’t helped us the past 5 years. We may never catch Missouri but at least we’d always win 3 or 4 matches. Nope, never made it to Hungary but like you I watched a lot of matches. I can’t wait until Nolf and Bo graduate from PSU and start competing on the international level.