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Next Years Lineup

125 - Sprately. Hopefully AA, but the weight is very deep again.
133 - Who knows. I was hoping Hughes, but is he too big? Sakamoto should redshirt - no folkstyle experience and a true frosh.
141 - Jamison? Hughes? Young? Possible AA.
149 - Williams - should be AA if he wants it. Lots of talent.
157 - I like Travis after a year of lifting. Possible AA - this weight clears out a lot.
165 - Portal
174 - Portal. Thompson should redshirt and go to 184lb the following year
184 - Plott - hopefully finalist again
197 - Caroll. Potential to be a high AA. He's an elite talent - the kind that we need up and down the lineup.
Hwt - Doucet. He could sneak in a low AA. Weight clears out quite a bit. Merrill should redshirt. He'll be a true frosh and too small. He is another elite talent though. Just hope he's big enough for heavy the year after.

The bad news is we're only returning 1 AA which is ridiculous for OSU. It's like Smith just hung it up after the string of national titles in the early 2000s and stopped recruiting elite talent and let all the other programs catch up. With Gable gone, the platform was there for OSU to establish itself as "THE" place for elite talent to come, like PSU is now but Smith blew it.

The good news is I think the future trajectory has changed from down to flat to in the up direction again finally. Once you've hit rock bottom it's hard to climb out of that hole though. I think Smith is finally using the modern tools of recruiting and Coleman is helping tremendously. Next year with no help from the Portal we're probably sitting at around 3, maybe 4 AA. With help hopefully more. There has been some good recruiting lately - the elite talent that it takes to get back to the top 3. Caroll, Merrill, Sakamoto, Lockett - These guys have the potential to win multiple titles - we just need more of them.

A note to this board on the eve of the election...

I have avoided this space for a number of reasons, mainly because it is a cesspool of racism, misogyny, and ignorance.

That said, I want to invite the vast, vast majority on this space to prepare for what will likely transpire over the course of next evening. You need to prepare yourselves for what is both inevitable and has been driven by one of the worst political electoral strategies we have seen in the modern era of presidential elections.

I realize that you don't get this information in the echo chambers of Fox News or whatever lunatic right-wing websites from where most of you get your news and political commentary.

To begin, women are the majoritarian voting gender in the United States. Women, by and large, do not like Trump--at a margin anywhere between 10 and 25 percent, depending upon the state in question--as you are soon to observe tomorrow evening. You can debate or discuss the reasons why this is the case, but it is an objective characteristic of the composition of the current American electorate. This means that Trump operates at an inherent deficit in most states. To win, he must generate enough turnout to overcome the structural disadvantage. This simply isn't going to happen, particularly given the impact of the Dobbs decision. Women are motivated in a way that they haven't been in decades and they will vote for Harris by large margins.

Next, despite Trump's unhinged and largely unchecked attempt to portray the economy as a hellscape: this doesn't square with reality. The stock market is at an all-time high, we are operating at full employment, crime is down, and the notorious "Misery Index" is among the lowest it has been in the past 50 years. While Trump has been free to project this dystopian view of American society, most Americans are not trapped in the right-wing echo chambers of the typical Trump supporter. They do not watch Fox News and they don't even know about the bizarre websites where many of you get the oft-contrived stories that you enjoy reading and sharing with your other like-minded friends.

The potential bellwether tomorrow evening is the State of North Carolina: results will be known there by around 10 pm CT, and if Harris has won there, then the results of the election will be known by midnight. If Trump eeks out a victory in North Carolina, then attention will turn to monitoring the conventionally known swing states, but the only question will be when Harris is declared the winner. Not if. The composition of the electorate means that this result will not be in question.

And so, in the wake of this inevitable result, the question will become whether adults will wrest control of the Republican Party from the Trumpists and their ilk. If adults commandeer the party by rejecting the tenets of Trumpism and focusing instead on winning fiscal issues like being pro-business, favoring regulatory reform, and advocating for deficit reduction and enhancing government efficiency, then the GOP may yet rise from the ashes. If not, it will go the way of the Whigs and be replaced by a coalition of moderate Dems and Republicans who are likely to become the majoritarian party in America. The silver lining in all of this turmoil will be that, ultimately, our politics will revert back to the mean and we can look forward to turning the page on a very sorry chapter of American history.

Enjoy your evenings tomorrow night.

Schedule

Looks like we will have Virginia Tech in Stillwater
this coming season.

Democrat Governors To Resist Trump


Newsome in California, Pritzker in Illinois, Healey in Massachusetts and I'm sure other Democrat governors are all lining up to resist Trump's efforts to deport the millions of illegals Democrats intentionally brought into the country. I don't think that resistance is going to work out the way they think it will. I see a mass migration of illegals to Democrat states without a penny of federal assistance. Dumbasses are not smart enough to figure out the citizens of their state do not want millions of illegals taking over their state. Good luck Democrats you deserve everything that's coming to you.

The Vipers Pit Trump is walking in to

Our CEO was checking out the voting demographics on CNN. He said DC was 92% for Dems. I checked Bloomberg and it is 90.4%. That is the vipers pit Trump is walking in to. The entire administrative state of DC is entirely liberal. The whole place needs to be cleaned out. Of course if I knew Elon wanted to cut 2T out the admin state I might vote against him as well. 😂 But that is unreal, over 90%. Stacked AF deck. That is not draining the swamp, that is draining the ocean.

With Trump's Election Qatar Tells Hamas Officials They Are No Longer Welcome

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LMAO. Great news for world peace, no more safe haven in Qatar. Now these evil, corrupt cowards are being forced to relocate to countries that will make them extremely venerable to being killed. Now thier lives are on the line maybe they will change their tune. Personally I hope Israel is able to kill or capture everyone of them.

The Democrats Have Been Kamalished

November 8, 2024

The Democrats Have Been Kamalished​

By Douglas Schwartz

Kamalish (kah-MOLL-ish) verb, to politically self-destruct from within. Rhymes with demolish. Earliest use, c. 2024.


Democrats didn’t just lose an election, they lost a political party, the world’s oldest. Founded in 1828, Democrats will sow chaos no more. The Civil War’s perpetrators have finally come undone.

Two factors will contribute to the party’s rapid disappearance on the national level. Without control of the presidency and Congress, many Democrats will retire when their terms end, a process already underway. Once in the minority, their ability to demand kickbacks vanishes. The debt crisis immediately ahead means budget cutbacks ad nauseam. And wholesale price deflation. Democrats’ entire act, since the New Deal, was passing out cash and accumulating debt. Republicans generally abetted this scam, now over thanks to onerous interest costs. Take away their credit card, and Democrats offer voters little.

Astute Democrats (a rare species) perceived the writing on the wall and headed for the exits long before the election. Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin chose independent status, then both retired. Manchin’s seat just flipped red in a landslide. Senators Jackie Rosen, Sherrod Brown, and Jon Tester were afraid to appear at the 2024 DNC convention. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey pulled a Kamala and pretended to support MAGA policies. Brown, Tester, and Casey lost reelection. Five fresh GOP senators soon take office.

Once Trump and Musk begin carving up the federal workforce, entire public employee unions (and their dues) now owned by Democrats will be eliminated or gutted. Two examples: teachers and postal workers.

Trump plans to mostly eliminate the Department of Education. Local jurisdictions will be hard-pressed to fund public education in coming years as tax revenues decline. The average cost per public elementary and secondary pupil is over $16,000. Urban costs run far greater. New York City spends around $34,000. For classrooms of 25 students, that amounts to $850,000, for a short work year; about 60% of the hours worked annually elsewhere in the economy. Most educational expenditures go to salaries and benefits. School vouchers will be the inevitable solution to reduce costs. The private sector obtains much better results, and is far cheaper. Teachers’ unions will be downsized, hobbling their ability to bundle donations to Democrats.

The U.S. Postal Service lost another $6.5 billion last year. Its 500,000 union members represent a huge drag on the economy. The USPS operates on a 19th-century business model, before automobiles, cell phones, email, and the internet existed. Dispatching employees to every address, six days a week, is unsustainable. There are reasons why milkmen went out of business: supermarkets and automobiles. It is more economical for customers to grab milk at supermarkets than pay someone to make the rounds. The USPS is so upside down that they charge customers to rent post office boxes, relieving the service of having to fund deliveries.

Teachers and postal workers are low-hanging fruit. Too many government agencies are bastions of regulatory capture and have been turned into agents of corporate interests. Take the Department of Agriculture. It advocates for globalist, consolidated, oligarchic interests while working to destroy small farmers. The maze of farm subsidies is beyond absurd. Or Big Pharma’s capture of the FDA and CDC, most notoriously with COVID “vaccine” atrocities. Good luck trying to install hydro power on a dam. The Big Guys long ago rigged that system to prevent competition.

The Pentagon won’t escape cuts. Trump will engineer a massive peace dividend. First by pulling Iranian and Ukrainian funding. Then by diplomatic initiatives to settle global conflicts. Russia and China are even less able than we are to fund military expenditures and will gladly accommodate Trump. Iran already has.

Initiatives to prevent ballot fraud, including statutory changes, and potentially a constitutional amendment, are on the agenda. 2024 exposed the massive fraud underlying the 2020 COVID election and its millions of mail-in ballots. Guess what? Biden’s 81 million votes were fictitious. Votes Democrats could not buy were too often stolen. Gutting public employee unions -- and their flow of union dues -- diminishes Democrats’ buying power. It is not just ballot fraud, but wholesale fraudulent election funding, from foreign and other dark sources, systematically laundered through unwitting straw donors. A Trump Department of Justice, alongside congressional investigators, will focus on exposing this chronic threat. There almost needs to be a separate election integrity cabinet agency. Absent ballot fraud, many Democrats wouldn’t win elections.

Then there are Democrats’ tens of millions of illegal immigrants, imposing enormous costs on our schools, the health care network, emergency services, criminal justice system, etc. Plus, they have been voting. Adios, amigos. Bon voyage.
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