July 14, 2026 10 min read
The Mount(s) Rushmore of NCAA Wrestling
Get out your dynamite and don’t forget your chisels. It is time to turn a mountain into a monument. I was recently asked by jtothemfp of Black Shoe Diaries and…
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July 6, 2026 8 min read
How Much I, How Much A?
So I have been testing Anthropic’s Claude AI for work. Like a good prosecutor I started by asking questions I already knew the answer to in order to establish a…
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June 17, 2026 2 min read
Taking Care of Business – Finishing Fast
NCAA wrestling has experimented with a variety of different match formats in its nearly 100 year history. There have been varying bout lengths, period subdivisions, and overtime formats. But the…
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June 10, 2026 3 min read
Team Gorriaran Award – It Is Time
Why Isn’t There a Team Gorriaran Award? The Gorriaran Award needs its day. For those of you who do not know what the Gorriaran is, and apparently there are quite…
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May 13, 2026 4 min read
Formidable Freshmen
2026 was the year of the freshman in college wrestling. Three true and one redshirt freshman took home four of the ten individual titles. Among the eighty All-Americans, with sixteen…
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April 30, 2026 7 min read
5 in 5 – What Might That Look Like?
Last week the Division I Board of Directors directed the Division I Cabinet to advance a concept that would allow athletes five years of eligibility. Current athletes would be grandfathered…
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April 20, 2026 7 min read
Who Wore It Best? – Ranking the Rankers 2026
If you spend any time on the various wrestling forums (and I know you do – how else would you find this?) then you have probably spent some time complaining…
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April 7, 2026 9 min read
Orange is the New Black and Third is the New First
FloWrestling’s Kyle Klingman recently wrote an article examining NCAA tournament scoring anomalies (Is 3rd Better Than 1st…). One of the main concerns expressed in the article is that third place…
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March 31, 2026 5 min read
Grading The Expected Points Model
It is time for introspection and to hand out some grades. I Go To Extremes Every year there are outliers. Wrestlers or teams that show up, or not so much.…
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March 27, 2026 12 min read
The 3 Point Takedown – Folkstyle’s Sea Change
The year was 2023 and there was a plague upon the land of folkstyle wrestling. Scoring at the NCAA tournament was down – a lot. After hitting a near-term peak…
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