Woulda been 30-7 if Suriano didn't get hurt. The gap between PSU and the #2 team folksFinal 27-13 after a Nevills win at 285.
It has nothing to do with the powers to be. They were all prepared to televise is live on NBC sports. Flo however sued because they have an agreement that they have rights to all OSU home meets. They needed up settling out of court and flo has exclusive rights.Only way to see it is to spring for $20 bucks and watch a buffering , freezing Flo Wrestling video stream. College Wrestling is only slightly more popular than fencing and squash, those olympic sports relegated to obscure online pay wall protected internet outlets. The Powers that be for College Wrestlng and Amature wrestling pretty much have no idea how to grow their sport.
Even NJ HS wrestling is more popular with free streaming by NJcom and 40,000 fans attending the championships in Atlantic City. NCAA wrestling might want to hire Steve Timko and the NJSIAA, lol as NJ HS wrestling is actually more popular than the D1 NCAA College wrestling championships.
it does a lot for those schools if conferences like the EWL and SoCon get autobids to it.I am vehemently opposed to this this scoring idea. It does absolutely nothing for a team that has zero dual meet championship potential to place at NCAAs. It does benefit teams like Iowa, Penn State, Ok State, Ohio State etc. Curious the two main opponents of this are Brands and Sanderson.
it does a lot for those schools if conferences like the EWL and SoCon get autobids to it.
otherwise it's a net neutral affect on every team's ability to compete. for some reason a lot of people incorrectly think it would only benefit the powerhouse teams but it doesn't.
also very big bummer about the Flo feed going down. ironic that ESPN would have the rights to the match and probably have them broadcast on cable if only there was a dual meet tournament with championship points on the line.
right, but in other years when PSU doesn't have as strong a dual team and say, Minnesota beats them, it puts them in them in the hole for the NCAAs. and it also helps teams that have a solid dual meet team score some points when at Nationals they may only send a few guys that don't make it out of the first day.We have a reasonable disagreement on this topic. As a Penn State fan I would take the extra ten or twenty points going into nationals this year especially if Suriano is hurt. Is it fair...hell no, but if you insist.
On the Flo topic...they need a beatdown. This debacle is not good for our sport...period!!
Is it still up? I was unable to find it.If anyone wants to watch the entire PSU vs OSU match, go to youtube Oklahoma State Athletics, very good picture quality & free
Is it still up? I was unable to find it.
Heard Flo made OkSU take it down.
Can't find it now, I watched it in its entirety last night & it was very well done with an OSU announcer & great video. I bet if you search the internet it is still out there somewhere.Is it still up? I was unable to find it.
Can't find it now, I watched it in its entirety last night & it was very well done with an OSU announcer & great video. I bet if you search the internet it is still out there somewhere.