...at least that to which the global left DOESNT agree with

Coming after telegram now

Hearing from OU fans he didn’t show up in Norman this weekend. They think he signs with OSU next week. Joe Bob and Richmond working it?

This looks like a straight-to-DVD Wal-Mart special

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Many UM professors and other faculty — forced to teach in person and accept compensation cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic — are fuming and say staff morale has plunged. Some members of the UM Faculty Senate view Mario Cristobal’s $80 million contract as only the latest sign of the administration’s disrespect for the academic staff at the private university. As part of deep pandemic cutbacks, the university had slashed more than $100 million in its matching contributions to faculty members’ retirement plans in the 2020-2021 academic year. Now, some faculty believe those cuts have helped bankroll lavish spending on athletics and construction projects and could hurt the school academically. “It’s hard to imagine how the school really expects to compete for high quality academic talent when it is choosing to spend money in places that it seems to value more highly,” said one faculty member who did not want to be identified because of possible repercussions. He noted that during his five years at UM, his compensation has risen less than $3,000 and that overall salaries are not competitive with those at other private universities. UM’s financial fortunes have dramatically improved in the past year, according to top administrators and university audits. With aggressive personnel reductions and escalating profits from UM’s sprawling healthcare system, audits available through May 31, 2021 show earnings of more than $400 million at the nonprofit school. Although the university agreed to reinstate its matching contributions to the faculty members’ 401(k) retirement plans for the new academic year starting June 1, 2021, the administration rejected their request to restore those same benefits that had been cut in the previous year.

My wife and I have a 4 year old little boy. It’s really early on, but we went to the doctor today and saw and heard the heart beat for a new one. Yes I tricked someone into having sex with me (at least twice). No I didn’t have to drug her to do it. Prayers or thoughts for the potential new mom and baby coming here in a while. Just got excited today

Here's this weeks rankings.

At what point do people think wrestlers need to be excluded from the rankings when they haven't wrestled yet?

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Dual Rankings | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/dual
Tournament Rankings | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/tournament
Stat Leaders | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/statistical
RPI Rankings | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/rpi

'I didn’t know what to expect': Kaden Gfeller helps lead OSU's domination of OU in Bedlam wrestling​

Scott Wright
Oklahoman
@chasepollard

NORMAN — Oklahoma State coach John Smith was pleased with the final result, but he saw a lot to work on in how his wrestling team got there.

The fourth-ranked Cowboys defeated No. 17 Oklahoma 31-3 in the first Bedlam dual of the season on Sunday at the Lloyd Noble Center.

With two bonus-point victories — a 10-2 major decision by Dustin Plott at 174 and a pin by Daton Fix at 133 — and several workmanlike decisions, the Cowboys controlled Bedlam from start to finish.

But Smith wants to see more out of his Cowboys.

“Just looking for a little bit more passion to score in situations,” Smith said. “A lot of it was just chain wrestling, following up off of missed shots, just doing some things that I seem to always have a problem with early on — not a problem with it, but I can’t get those guys to think about it.”

OU won the pre-match coin flip and got to choose the starting weight for the dual, picking 149 pounds, where the Sooners were sending out two-time Big 12 champion Dom Demas for his first match of the year. He moved up from 141 pounds, where he has wrestled throughout his career.

After Demas scored a first-period takedown, Kaden Gfeller escaped and commanded the match from that point.

Gfeller got a takedown and a nearfall in the second period, then added a late takedown in the third to finish off a 9-3 decision.

“A lot of attitude in that match,” Smith said. “I like the fact that (Gfeller) did a nice job recovering from getting taken down at the beginning, and building himself back into the match, then with a comfortable lead, scoring that last takedown. Those are things you like to see, and things you remember as you move forward.”


With OU’s decision to start the dual at 149, Gfeller took it personally that OU seemed to think it could attack him.

“I took it a little personal that they thought I might have a little trouble coming off the scale with a one-hour weigh-in,” Gfeller said. “I just used it as motivation to go out there and wrestle harder.

“I didn’t know what to expect. I just wanted to wrestle my match, wrestle hard.”

At 157 pounds, OSU’s Wyatt Sheets trailed Justin Thomas 2-1 in the final period, but recorded a full period of riding time to tie the match at 2. Then in the sudden-victory period, Sheets scored a takedown for the 4-2 win.

“The riding time, which was close to the end, I think that really put the momentum towards me,” Sheets said.

Oklahoma State extended its team lead to 9-0 at 165 pounds with an 8-4 decision by Travis Wittlake over Joe Grello. The Cowboys added four more team points with Plott’s 10-2 decision over Anthony Mantanona at 174 pounds.

The match with the two highest-ranked competitors — OSU’s top-ranked A.J. Ferrari and OU’s No. 11 Jake Woodley — was tightly contested throughout, with points hard to come by.

But Ferrari, a sophomore and the defending national champion, picked up a first-period takedown, then extended his lead to 5-2 in the second period. Ferrari ultimately won 6-3.

OU got on the board at heavyweight, but it wasn’t without some drama. OU’s Josh Heindselman and OSU’s Luke Surber went to sudden-victory overtime tied at 1, and Heindselman scored a takedown.

Surber tried to answer with a reversal to tie the match again, but was denied. OSU challenged the call, saying Surber had tied the match, but on the review, the call on the mat was confirmed, and Heindselman took a 3-1 victory.

At 125, OSU’s Trevor Mastrogiovanni swung momentum back to the orange corner with a thrilling 6-4 victory over Joey Prata. The wrestlers were tied at 4 as the clock ticked down in the third period, when Mastrongiovanni scored a takedown with five seconds left to seal the win.

At 133, OSU’s second-ranked Daton Fix was on his way to a bonus-point victory already, but put the finishing touches on it with a pin of Tony Madrigal with 42 seconds left in the match. That extended OSU’s lead to 28-3.

OSU’s Carter Young wrapped up the day with a 9-4 decision over Jacob Butler in the day’s final match.

A scuffle broke out during the post-match handshake line, with Ferrari and Heindselman appearing to be at the center of it. But the two were quickly separated.

“I went back and watched it on tape, and we didn’t start it,” Smith said. “I’ll just say that. I made sure we didn’t start it. There’s been a problem there in the past, but those things shouldn’t happen.”

Bedlam wrestling results​

Sunday

At Lloyd Noble Center, Norman

OKLAHOMA STATE 31, OKLAHOMA 3

125: Trevor Mastrogiovanni, OSU dec. Joey Prata, 6-4

133: Daton Fix, OSU, pinned Tony Madrigal, 6:18

141: Carter Young, OSU, dec. Jacob Butler, 9-4

149: Kaden Gfeller, OSU, dec. Dom Demas, 9-3

157: Wyatt Sheets, OSU, dec. Justin Thomas, 4-2, SV

165: Travis Wittlake, OSU, dec. Joe Grello, 8-4

174: Dustin Plott, OSU, maj. dec. Anthony Mantanona, 10-2

184: Dakota Geer, OSU, dec. Darrien Roberts, 9-2

197: A.J. Ferrari, OSU, dec. Jake Woodley, 6-3

HWT: Josh Heindselman, OU, dec. Luke Surber, 3-1, SV

How does Pete Davidson get hot chicks?

He literally looks like a carp head placed on a human body. I don't get it!

Has that ship sailed? Is Enyce Sledge an Auburn lock? I saw where Auburn is also hoping to get a top-rated JUCO DT on signing day.

Guess we’ll know soon enough. Sledge is supposed to announce at 1 p.m. central.

So Xavier Benson commits to OSU and since he is a JUCO kid and does not have a ranking OSU goes from 22 to 29. This does not compute at all!

I’ve seen better coached teams in my son’s 4th grade catholic league.

Vince Kehres is in his second season as Toledo’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

In 2020, Kehres spearheaded a complete turnaround of the Toledo defense. Toledo was second in the MAC in total defense (362.2) after ranking last in the league in total defense (475.7) in 2019. The Rockets, who allowed just 24.3 points per game in 2020, also led the MAC in opponent third-down conversions (27.4%) and were second in rushing defense (129.2).

The Rocket defense was represented with four players on the 2020 All-MAC team — senior safety Tycen Anderson, sophomore safety Nate Bauer, junior outside linebacker Jamal Hines and junior defensive tackle Desjuan Johnson.

Kehres arrived at Toledo after 21 years at Mount Union, the last seven of which he served as head coach. His career record as a head coach of 95-6 (.941) gave him more victories than any college coach at any level during that time period. Kehres led his team to NCAA Division III national championships in 2015 and 2017.

Kehres also have seven NCAA playoff appearances, six Ohio Athletic Conference titles and five national championship game appearances on his resume. He is a three-time OAC Coach of the Year, three-time Lee Tressel Ohio College Coach of the Year and three-time the Columbus Dispatch Ohio College Coach of the Year.

A winner in every sense, Kehres has been a part of 12 of Mount Union’s 13 national championships in some capacity. Prior to his time as head coach, Kehres served 13 seasons as an assistant under his father and then-head coach Larry Kehres. During his time as defensive coordinator from 2005-12, the Purple Raiders’ defense was ranked in the Top 10 nationally in all but one season. Kehres coached the top-ranked defense in all of Division III in 2007, 2008, and 2012. He also served as Mount Union’s strength and conditioning coordinator from 2005-13 as well as the recruiting coordinator from 2009-13.

A 1998 graduate of Mount Union with a degree in political science, Kehres was a four-year letterwinner (1994-97) at defensive end for the Purple Raiders, a member of two National Championship teams (1996 & 1997) and earned All-OAC honors during his senior year 1997. During his playing career, Kehres totaled 62 hits and 12 tackles for loss, and he was a key member of the special teams unit. He was part of a 1997 defense that led all of Division III in fewest points allowed (5.6 ppg) and rushing defense (48.6 ypg) while posting five shutouts and setting a Raider single-season mark for sacks in a season (53 in 10 regular season games).

Kehres spent a year coaching at Austintown Fitch High School, earned his master’s degree from Ashland University then returned to Mount Union in 2000. He and his wife, Lindsay, have three sons, Evan, Bo and Jackson.

Vince Kehres’ Coaching Experience
2020-21 Toledo – Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
2013-19 Mount Union – Head Coach
2005-12 Mount Union – Defensive Coordinator
2004 Mount Union - Offensive Line
2000-03 Mount Union - Defensive Line
1999 Austintown Fitch High School – Wide Receivers

Really cool story. This has been fun to follow.

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All Nav!! BTW, where was the senile old fool; asleep in his basement? Inquiring minds want to know.

Source: Pittman camp sends contract offer​

By: Tom Murphy
Published: Sunday, December 12, 2021

( David Beach )

Sam Pittman, coach of the Razorbacks, runs onto the field on Friday, Nov. 26 2021, before the first half of play against Missouri at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville.

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FAYETTEVILLE — University of Arkansas officials have received their first proposal for a reworked contract from Coach Sam Pittman’s new agent, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has learned, and the asking price is steep.
According to a source with knowledge of the proposal, Pittman’s agent Jimmy Sexton of Creative Artists Agency is asking for a seven-year deal worth $50 million plus, which would nearly double his current salary.

University of Arkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek has acknowledged Pittman is due a raise after leading the Razorbacks to an 8-4 record and a berth in the Outback Bowl against Penn State on Jan. 1.

UA President Donald Bobbitt, interim chancellor Charles Robinson, the UA Board of Trustees and Yurachek will all have input on the upcoming negotiations.

Pittman recently confirmed he changed agents from Little Rock’s Judy Henry to the Memphis-based super agent Sexton, who represents a who’s who of prominent Power 5 head coaches, including Alabama’s Nick Saban, Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher, Georgia’s Kirby Smart, Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin and many others. Penn State Coach James Franklin also switched agents, from Trace Armstrong to Sexton last summer.

Pittman, 60, improved to 11-11 in two seasons with the Razorbacks after leading Arkansas to a 34-17 win over Missouri in the Battle Line Rivalry game on Nov. 26.

Under his current contract, Pittman’s salary is set to increase from its initial starting point of $3 million per year to $3.75 million. Pittman received raises of $250,000 each for wins No. 6, 7 and 8 this season.

Pittman’s salary ranks 12th among the 13 SEC coaches at public institutions and likely ahead of Vanderbilt’s first-year Coach Clark Lea. A private institution, Vanderbilt does not make its salary figures public.

Among other SEC coaches hired in the 2019-20 cycle, Pittman is tied with Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz in his record at his new school.

Kiffin leads that pack with a 15-7 mark in two years. He just received a new four-year deal that will take his base salary to $7.25 million in 2022.

Drinkwitz, also 11-11, just completed the second year of a deal that pays $4 million per season. Mississippi State’s Mike Leach, who is 11-12 with the Bulldogs, is working with a base pay of $5 million.

According to The Associated Press, Kiffin’s deal made him the fourth-highest paid coach in the SEC behind Saban ($9.75 million), Fisher ($9 million) and Brian Kelly ($8.6 million) who was recently hired at LSU.

Smart is likely in line to push into that top group after leading Georgia to a 12-1 record and a spot in the College Football Playoff along with Alabama, Michigan and Cincinnati.

Getting ready to (finally) complete construction of our new home soon. Wondering which streaming service provider everyone currently likes the best?

We previously had the ATT/Directv streaming service after dropping regular Directv. I’ve heard a lot if good about YouTube for sports.

ND -2

Over/under 46.5

Sound familiar?

https://gab.com/IamOrlando/posts/107440567148979660

OSU is assigning tickets. Mine are Sec. 107, Row 12. My friends got 209, Row 5.

Can the cowboys get the shutout?