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Post by Buckeye2b on Apr 26, 2022 20:03:59 GMT -5
The ongoing cost of fuel is driving me a little bit crazy. I don’t follow the reasons for the increase that closely, and I realize that Putins war has some to do with it. However just a couple of days ago we were at about $3.60 a gallon here in Monroe Michigan. Today, that same station is up to $3.99 a gallon. Can anyone enlighten me why we gained a $.40 jump in two days? Obviously, something is going on and I would at least like to know why my *** feels like it’s getting an ongoing oil check every time I go to the pump…
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Post by Buckeye2b on Apr 20, 2022 9:38:27 GMT -5
buckeye2b,was you talking about Glenn Shupe of edison back in 1982? Yep... I wasn't a great thrower, but decent enough. Still, couldn't get out of districts my senior year. I threw right at 50' in the shot and mid-150's in discuss... it just wasn't enough. Shupe was about the size of a small house and made me feel small. I think he was over 180' that day in the discus and went on to win states...
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Post by Buckeye2b on Apr 8, 2022 11:07:30 GMT -5
It is nice though to hear what others have to say about some of these kids. I remember the Shupe kid my senior year back in 1982, who was about as big as a freaking house, and watching him toss a discus just short of 180' that day.... there was something to be said about that type of dominance...
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Post by Buckeye2b on Apr 8, 2022 10:53:37 GMT -5
I want to throw this out there as well. Back in 2002, I was coaching one of my HS girls at the USGWA nationals event at Lake Orion HS in Michigan. She was a heavyweight (155+) and got trampled that day, however I saw one of the best HS matches ever between two girls that day. They were running their tournament on four mats in a bowl like gym, and the two best heavyweights were wrestling. As the other three mats matches ended, they didn't start their next match but instead suspended to watch these two girls go at it. I need to go further: a smaller white girl who was pretty quick (by smaller I am saying close to 200 lbs...) and a bigger black girl (around 245 lbs or so) but both were in blocked weights and considered to be HVY's. They knew each other and had wrestled multiple times, as it was explained to me. I watched the match and they were going back and forth until the little white girl started hitting Japanese whizzers and had a substantial point lead on the black girl. As time was working its way down, the black girl got an escape and needed to pin the white girl in order to win. With about 15 second left, the bigger black girl hit a head and arm and dropped the smaller white girl like a bad habit. The gym reverberated from the move and I thought for sure the smaller girl was going to be stuck. She fought like a tiger to keep her back off the mat and the pin was so close as time ran out on the bigger black girl. I could just see the sliver a light between her shoulder and the mat itself and even with the distance I was from the mat, she was clearly not pinned. The smaller girl was giving up so much size, that it was just natural to root for her as the underdog. I also got a chance to meet the founder of the USGWA, Kent Bailo, who was instrumental in getting women's wrestling up and running at a national level. More info on that here: Womens Wrestling History . It was every bit as exciting and well fought as any match I had ever seen between two guys and any reservation I had about girls wrestling were gone after this tournament. I love that women's wrestling has become an Olympic event and that they are getting their due as the years go on. There are certainly some 'badass" females out there that make me a fan and I expect it will simply continue to grow especially in those corners of the world where being attractive AND tough is an admirable quality.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Apr 8, 2022 9:06:10 GMT -5
Like most years, this old thrower likes to get an idea what our local throwers look like... Make an old guy happy and update me on some of the areas best... those guys that are going to be headed to the state meet at the end of the season and making some noise. Post distances and competitions please? Thanks all!!
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Post by Buckeye2b on Mar 3, 2022 7:36:34 GMT -5
Oddly enough, at the next level, there are teams popping up across the country. At Adrian College in Michigan, they started a team back in 2015, and they are still wrestling today and at various tournaments across the country so they do some pretty extensive travel. (I have a graduate from the high school I work at that got a scholly at Missouri Valley to wrestle, too.) It's a pretty cool set up too, in that they are wrestling freestyle, rather than folkstyle,and they wrestle any level at some of the tournaments... Meaning there isn't such a big gap between the D1 and D3 teams. I also think I saw that Ohio State has also started a girls program, so I have to believe it's growing like crazy, or they wouldn't invest into it.
I for one think it's a great thing.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Feb 24, 2022 16:26:31 GMT -5
I don't have that big of list for bigtime-D1 and Pro sports- but I have been to a few different places, and my list is like many of yours. However, for my dime, the coolest place ever was the Pontiac Silverdome, when I was 17 years old to watch the Detroit Lions play the Vikings in a 45-7 rout, at my first ever NFL game. Our seats were at the 50 yard line, in the 3rd row and you could actually talk to the players from our seats....we were that close. December 12, 1981 was snowy outside with swirling ten degree winds, but when we walked into the building, we were greeted with a nice blast of 70 degree air and had to remove our coats to just walk around. The place was massive and for a small town Upper guy, it was very impressive. I also remember how high the inside roof was and how the smoke just hung in the air inside the bowl. Sad to say, the Silverdome is no more... there are a few pics below of it in it's glory and at the end...
Silverdome then...
Silverdome at the end...
It got worse...
How it looks today as an Amazon Fulfillment Center... Damn Bezos!!
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jan 31, 2022 7:39:37 GMT -5
Hairball has had more than one interview.... I love that he finally gets the win....1-5 against his rival and he's probably gonna bail on ttun. So much for being a "Michigan man..." !!!
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jan 28, 2022 17:22:09 GMT -5
And of those 11,000 I have had the opportunity to coach a few. I for one am thrilled that they are making the move to have women wrestle women for the same spoils that men wrestling men can have... the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The girls I have seen over the years typically had to wrestle a much stronger opponent as well as be chastised for choosing to wrestle. One of the best matches I have ever SEEN was at a national girls tournament that I took a female wrestler to compete in. My wrestler got killed in this tournament, but I watched a smaller girl at heavyweight tear up a larger girl that year with a Japanese whizzer after being almost pinned early in the match, and ultimately with only a few seconds left, the larger girl hit a headlock and needed the pin fall to win, however she just couldn't pull it off. These two were so vicious to each other that as each of the other mats finished their matches, they stopped wrestling to watch these two girls go at it.
I had a young man at our high school (state runner-up) who got an athletic scholly to go wrestle at Missouri Valley and he ended up being an NAIA All-American. His little sister, who also wrestled here, has followed older brothers footsteps and also received a scholly to wrestle at Missouri Valley, not to mention she is a damn nice kid.
Bring the females on and don't short those who want to wrestle guys.... There are some out there who are truly badasses...
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jan 9, 2022 18:21:17 GMT -5
Holtmann and another assistant coach are out on what I assume are Covid health protocols, so they a have assistant coach of Fostoria and Upper fame, Jake Diebler coaching them. Found that to be kind of fun to watch….
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 30, 2021 18:21:27 GMT -5
God I hope so… just another thing to nail SEC fans about…
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 28, 2021 16:09:37 GMT -5
Now I just saw the Holiday Bowl is down too due to UCLA Covid issues….
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 25, 2021 23:34:53 GMT -5
Either count for nothing or everyone gets a win in those two games…
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 23, 2021 23:07:50 GMT -5
And just now, the Memphis/Hawaii game is cancelled due to Covid. Enough already…
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 23, 2021 21:01:24 GMT -5
So, what are we gonna do with the WF/Tex A&M game that is now WF/Rutgers?? Make it go away or repick it?? If it’s a repick, I would now like Wake over Rutgers. 😳
If you had this thread locked, I unlocked it to ask the question.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 15, 2021 9:17:13 GMT -5
Toledo Coastal Carolina Western Kentucky Fresno State BYU Liberty Oregon State Louisiana Tulsa Kent State UTSA Army Miami Florida Memphis Georgia State Nevada East Carolina Houston Air Force Mississippi State NC State Minnesota SMU Virginia Tech Iowa State Oregon North Carolina Purdue MSU Wisconsin Texas A&M Miami (FL) Boise State Cincinnati Georgia Penn St. Oklahoma State Kentucky Ohio State Baylor LSU (sending Coach O out)
Tie Breaker: National Championship Winner : Georgia Tie Breaker: Total Points Scored in National Championship : 73
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Post by Buckeye2b on Dec 10, 2021 18:04:56 GMT -5
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Post by Buckeye2b on Oct 16, 2021 18:09:20 GMT -5
Good Lord… Purdue does it again…
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Post by Buckeye2b on Oct 2, 2021 17:13:47 GMT -5
Rutgers versus Ohio State… 3:22 left in the third quarter and we get another BS targeting call it’s not actually targeting in my opinion. Even the announcers are pissing and moaning about it.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 28, 2021 14:18:38 GMT -5
In Ohio State's case, as long as there aren't 4 undefeated teams. True 'dat!!!
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 19, 2021 17:13:06 GMT -5
Agreed… not all, but many cases..
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 19, 2021 0:26:22 GMT -5
I didn’t watch that game. I’m good with intent… if it’s a blatant use of the crown and includes raising to meet the helmet and a defenseless player, however maybe it will have to be spelled out more. In the PSU game, it was a receiver attempting to get into the end zone… he was fighting with another Auburn player, but if he can fight to the end zone, I didn’t see sealing it off as a defenseless hit. The damn thing just feels too speculative… 🤬
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 18, 2021 21:36:10 GMT -5
If you can see video, Penn State-Auburn 12:21 of the fourth at the end zone and targeting was called and “confirmed” against #9, McClain from Auburn, just sealing against a Penn State TD… I completely disagree with the call.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 18, 2021 14:10:32 GMT -5
I watch 2 to 4 games every weekend at a college level. I see targeting calls in almost every game and I just don’t feel like they’re consistent. I don’t have a problem with trying to make the game safer, but each time a player takes a bonecruncher, they are looking to penalize the player who levied the hit. I’ve already seen more than one call this season that I completely disagreed with, and just now they called it in the MSU-Miami game and actually got the call right. However, I don’t feel the penalty fits the crime either. While “targeting” is the call, making them miss an entire game worth of a season sure seems excessive for aggressive play that is normally praised. I’m not asking for the game to become a plethora of cheap shots, but there is inherent risk in football that we all took as we played. I took some slobberknockers, and I gave some. I personally would like to see spearing back in the mix with a personal foul 15 yarder and using targeting for only those most serious actions.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 17, 2021 6:00:43 GMT -5
Nah Franklin, Campbell and Fickel are the most likely canisates I hope not Fickel... I like the guy and him going to USC - while a next level coaching job - just has the wrong feeling to it. I would rather see him absorb another position in the midwest somewhere when he leaves Cincy...
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Post by Buckeye2b on Sept 11, 2021 11:14:36 GMT -5
Sad we have to listen to our special commentators again today…
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jun 22, 2021 16:47:54 GMT -5
Not HS related, but how many of you noticed that we have a new WR in the mens 16 lb shotput? Just watch...
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jun 5, 2021 22:00:56 GMT -5
Yes she did. That’s so impressive. She beat her seed time in the hundred by about .5 sec and got the PV at 13’6”..
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jun 4, 2021 18:39:47 GMT -5
Both D1 and D3 over 60' and D2 just under 60' for the state champs in the shot.. I as watching the finals reporting online via Baumspage. Kid from Mohawk HS was a state champ in the polevault at 14'6"... D1 was 17'...that's an incredible height for a HS kid...
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Post by Buckeye2b on May 31, 2021 14:23:35 GMT -5
I see the Stimmel girl wins the 100 and the PV this past weekend... wow! Hope they have great weather for states...
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