OT: Pitt wrestling
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Two other Pitt wrestlers, Mac Stout at 197 and Dayton Pitzer at 285 also won ACC Championships today, so Pitt had 3 ACC wrestling champions !!!
Pitzer beat the #5, #1, and #2 seeds to win the 285 championship and as above named the Most Outstanding Wrestler in the ACC Championships !
I have said this a few times on the wrestling board but as someone who isn't a wrestling fan, I'd watch a team NCAA Tournament where Pitt has like an 8 seed and wrestles 9 seed Cornell or whatever. Then in the next round, they try to pull a massive upset over 1 seed Iowa. To me, that's good TV. Again, not a wrestling person, but the individuality of the sport takes away from potential broad appeal.
FWIW, the wrestling fans said this type of tournament is pointless because it would be PSU over Iowa every year. Maybe so. The PIAA does team tournaments. There's something about competing as a team. I want to root for Pitt, not necessarily Rece Heller. And I hope he goes far and all that and if I find out that he has an NCAA semifinal match or NCAA final, I'll try to watch it. But as a non-fan, that 1 match doesn't do it for me.
That's fair. Everybody is entitled to his own tastes in everything.
This was the ACC tournament, and Pitt finished 2nd, as a team. The team also had three individual winners. So, I'm not sure what your friends are referring to, unless your are not referring to the ACC tournment, and thought this was the NCAA tourney.
The ACC tournament is a team competition, with individual awards available.
No, I know this is the ACC Tournament and as far as I'm aware, its not a "team tournament" but rather an individual Tournament where they tally up the individual points. And that's fine for a conference tournament. I was just saying, since this is tournament wrestling thread on a football board, that I would personally be interested in a team NCAA Tournament. The individual one they do, as a non-wrestling fan, is one of the worst things anyone could ever be forced to watch. But if Pitt was in an NCAA Tournament match vs Team XYZ, I'd watch that. I'd also think that ratings for something like that, especially the later rounds and PSU/Iowa final would be pretty good.
The lack of a Dual National Tournament is due to the NCAA's rule that you can only have one championship per sport. There is talk of a future tournament like that, but it will be outside of the NCAA, and not all programs are on board.
The biggest positive of the current format is an individual can win a national title from any school.
I'd do both if the NCAA allowed but apparently they do not. I didn't know that.
If it were up to me and they can't petition the NCAA to have a team and individual tournament, I'd make the team one the NCAA Tournament and then have some private company do a tournament a week later called the National Collegiate Wrestling Championship and pay the wrestlers. Best of both worlds.
If only there were a way for you to not to have to read this thread.
Feel free to start as many Pitt Football threads as you wish. Especially in the off season.
You are also welcome to start Pitt football threads. But why not post them on the Field House board?
I have started more Pitt football related threads in the last month than you have in years.
Nobody reads the other boards; it’s the off season, so there are very few Pitt football topics to discuss; and you are free to only click on posts that you want to read about. My threads are clearly labeled.
I will be looking forward to your Pitt football threads coming soon.
It's wrestling season. Check the Field House for my wrestling threads. You really aren't making a lot of sense.
Okay, you have a point. I don’t read other boards, and posted this as I do volleyball, baseball, track, etc… on this board.
I don’t plan on providing a lot of commentary on the posts, and posted this as more of an FYI.
Although I can’t promise I’ll be posting on the other boards, I will go to check them out.
Thank you.
The PIAA team tournament never gains the
Cael Sanderson has pretty much stated that his #1 priority is the NCAA tournament - not the B10 title nor the National Duels tournament. I don't even think PSU even goes to the National Duels anymore.
The NCAA tournament is by far the biggest and best attraction college wrestling has.
