Huh? Totally different. Last week he said he was returning to Rutgers for 1 more yr. Then, all of a sudden he gets offered $ to leave while literally practicing here? Last season, he entered the portal because he graduated from Harvard and they don't allow you to wrestle more than 4 years.
Like I said, different circumstances
The original idea was for players to be able to make money off their brand. Instead, NIL has become “well give you a bunch of nonsense opportunities to make this exact dollar amount.”
I think you're pretty spot on here. Who wouldn't take 200k to play a sport at 23 years old? Anyone blaming the athlete for transferring is being disingenuous, especially when you consider that college coaches and administrators have had free reign to break contracts for better opportunities for decades now.
The problem is not with him pursuing greater monetary opportunities. Yara was not honest when he said he planned to return on Mar. 23.
Does anyone know that for sure though? Perhaps he had every intention of staying at Rutgers when he made that statement.
Yeah, don't hate the player, hate the game... I don't blame the athletes for taking the $, especially in wrestling where there isn't huge $ after college. The system is broken and the NCAA is incompetent. As for coaches and admins moving around freely LMAO, there's no correlation to that and what's going on now.
Yep potentially 3 black holes w no Turley.. although SCW might be able to hang.. or maybe move Soldano to 174 and Poz to 184 but then no 197..
Yup Yara was about half our points and we couldn't past powerhouses like Little Rock.. Unless we make a splash in the portal next year will be rough.
You don't know that. He was most probably tampered with after that interview.
Impossible to prove but kind of impossible to enter the portal and have a dollar figure decided immediately without prior conversations
I agree, that Yara felt more consistent at the start of the year than the big ten stretch where he went 6-5 and had some surprising losses. If we are being honest Yara was a bit of a surprise AA and agreed that Bastida did not wrestle his best after too much talking of winning n lost and Yara did to make podium.. which really raised his stocks…
Lol on that last sentence. Pretty sure Boone doesn't and I'd be extremely lukewarm at best about bringing him back even if he did.
A lot of the “sr” have that optional Covid year so not sure yet if Kerk and others are going to come back yet.. plus there will always be new freshman force that will come into the AA picture.. like the new Iowa hwt for example.
His left knee with thank him as he will never need to lean on it in the neutral position ever again.
I’m finding a very difficult to give a crap about college sports anymore with this stuff.
TheKnightReport - Rutgers Wrestling heavyweight Yaraslau Slavikouski enters Transfer Portal
Rutgers Wrestling's heavyweight this past season, Yaraslau Slavikouski has entered the transfer portal.rutgers.rivals.com
Hope all the posters here who started badmouthing him for going back on his word based on a tweet from a guy who doesn’t have the greatest reputation admit they were wrong.
i agree with your first paragraph
Forget that.. try.. 9 but seriously 4+AA would be pretty amazing and new record..
