Eric Scarbrough

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@TheBarnSession Just like Arkansas, it will take a billionaire to move the needle. UF, UCF, and FSU will not add them, either; it will need to be one of the smaller colleges.

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@CJS_POSTS @GlobalWresOrder @InfaWrest That would imply Flo would want to work with someone

Bo Nickal stands a better chance of becoming an Iowa fan than that happening lol

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@Cornell_Kevins 2012 165 lbs-half of the AAs (4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th) all lost their first round match and wrestled back to become AAs

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@TheCradleZone Your first point would lead to another “what if” of Rob Koll being the HC of Penn State, where imo he wins at least 2 team titles

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@BasicSportsGuy5 To be fair to Cornell, them losing Anthony Knox was not of their doing

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@cyclonepaniro Nah, that was/is Virginia Tech’s (dead) old AD, Jim Weaver, whose actions are the direct reason Iowa will never wrestle Virginia Tech

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@StonebrakerS The crazy part is if Cael didn’t go to Penn state, Rob Koll would have taken the job

This is a bit tinfoily hat but Dake probably would have followed him there

Crazy alternate universes like that in wrestling are fascinating

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@MrStockGuyNJ @MaxMcenelly @NoBickal @RAFWrestlingUSA If he was better, why didn’t Rocco sniff a takedown in 16 minutes of neutral wrestling between their two matches?

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@StonebrakerS @pennstateWREST Nobody talks about Cunningham’s other boy (Hayden), who’s 141 and is likely to ride the bench his whole career

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@NateEngel

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@hawkeyemuse Oklahoma State, up till 2024, had 3 head coaches in 44 years (almost all within the OSU family), and when they hired outside of it, they were reinvigorated. Change isn’t always bad

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@handsometuesda9 Great idea until there’s a video outage and they have to spend 5 minutes getting the video back up, and 2 more minutes reviewing the video

Not bad in theory but as college shows, in execution all it does is slow down the match

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@adamtirapelle @handsometuesda9 I think of a guy like Ethan Lizak making 125 in 2018 (his weight pull was legendary, he was cutting from 150 to 125), he wrestled lights out in the consi bracket (he beat a R12, guy who beat him, 4th placer, finalist, and returning champ in consecutive matches at NCAAs)

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@NewJerseyWrest1 @cyclonepaniro @MrPatMineo That’s one guy among a fair bit of other wrestlers who regressed at Rutgers-Poznanski, Turley, Slav, Shawver, etc are recent guys at Rutgers who had not as good results over time. It’s similar to what Ohio state was until this year, guys peaking early and getting worse results

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@cyclonepaniro @MrPatMineo Losing Pritzlaff was a huge blow

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@SportsFaithful @sockobuw Olejnik was +, he got 8th at NIU and then 5th at OSU

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@RealMrBean99 @MatScouts1 Soph year (22) he lost to Truax in the quarters, beat him to take third

For the losses to Brooks in the semis you’re thinking of Hidlay, who just might have been the unluckiest stud in NCAA history (it’s great to see him having world success now)

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@CJS_POSTS You sound like Robin Jackson (and that’s not a compliment lol)

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@kaille_grey @Wisc_dad @greentoepalacio @GlobalWresOrder @MOBriguo I’ve seen the same thing happen before in a state final, guy is in on a shot from neutral and he gets called for stalling

[Eric Scarbrough @Eric_the_Red99]

@StonebrakerS @russian_tie_3pt Micky Phillippi was also 4 time R12 finisher-2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023