Olympic Wrestling
- Thread starter DantheFan
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Yes. As you said he can’t beat the .0001%. If Dake, Burroughs, Nolf were not at the weight, he’d be wrestling. Thats the whole point of favored. He’s the underdog and knows he’d have a huge uphill battle to make the team even at 100%. But if he didn’t have such an uphill battle he’d be out there.
He’s walking around in a boot you have zero idea what he’s capable of right now you are blowing smoke making a stupid argument
neither do you. If he’s not getting surgery, then I stand by my point. You can get a boot anywhere and use it for minor injuries.
Can Forrest and Basset take college visits this year? Man I really really want one of those two.
I wouldn’t waste my time. They’re not coming here as unfortunate as that is. ISU is just not going to win the recruiting battles for guys like this. We have absolutely no tie ins with them, and all the top teams want them.
We should be all in on Dorian Olivarez.
Then you aren’t making sense and you are just calling David a ***** in other words. He was an underdog to 3 opponents at NCAAs. It was an uphill battle to win it all in a big grueling tournament. So it has nothing to do with him being an underdog this weekend you just think he’s scared by what you’re saying. It’s no different than this tournament. Freestyle things can happen quickly and he could’ve spent less time on the mat than at ncaas. So to say he’d wrestle there and not here you are saying he’s ducking and I’m saying he’s too injured to wrestle.
David was a toss up 50/50 at NCAAs. His chances at OTT would be like Hamiti’s chances of winning NCAA this year. Totally different.
David loves to compete. Neither of you know under what circumstances he would compete unless you ask him, so quit arguing about it
You're really being a jack ass.
I don’t know. So why would I speculate on when or under what circumstances he would or wouldn’t wrestle
Hopefully this explains it to everyone. Nothing against David, but there are risk/reward calculations that go into deciding whether not to compete with an injury. My whole point is that the likelihood of the reward in this case is infinitesimally small. That makes the decision a fairly simple one.
- There are injuries that you can compete with and injuries you can’t.
- We don’t know which David has.
- If you have an injury that you can compete with, you have to make a decision whether or not you want to, and in that decision are a lot of factors, including:
- What is the likelihood of further injury
- What is there to gain from competing (reward)
- In this instance, there is a ton to gain (a spot on the Olympic team)
- Likelihood that you could achieve the reward
- In this instance that likelihood is very, very small
Bad enough that he couldn’t wrestle this weekend. I can guarantee the decision to not compete had nothing to do with anyone else in the bracket. Let’s get back discussing the trials.
I did not mean to derail the thread. Unless anyone has specific information about David’s injury, it is irrational to think that the quality of competition isn’t a factor in the decision. Has nothing to do with being scared, or a wuss, just solid decision making.
