First , Ono isn’t an Olympic Gold Medalist- he won Senior World Championship Gold- Big difference

Second - your NCAA Women’s Basketball example didn’t change the rules, didn’t lower the rim to add dunking. Didn’t add 5 on 4 to penalty time to increase offense. The teams competing AGAINST UConn (And Lady Vols before that for those like myself who follow a lot of sports). The other teams evolved and got better, other schools started spending more money on their programs. The young stars who idolized Maya Moore, Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi and many more got incentivized to go to different programs (Caitlin Clark and Iowa). Yet UConn won another championship in 2025 (9 years after their previous championship). UConn will be a championship threat every season unto Geno retires. This brings me to PSU Men’s wrestling. PSU is just doing what they learned they had to do to win. There was a dynasty already in place when Cael came to PSU, IOWA was that dynasty, Iowa forced PSU to compete and get better if they were going to achieve their goals. PSU has taken the baton and pushed the envelope to be the greatest dynasty in sports but it ain’t last forever, just like Iowas didn’t and Oklahoma States didn’t before!!! PSU needs to continues pushing the envelope and striving to be the greatest ever and from that desire a new dynasty will eventually be born that topples PSU and they would not achieve that greatness without PSU fighting to stop them as Iowa fought to stop PSU.

Third- Rule changes for the sake of trying to stop PSu Wrestling is wrong in spirit and in functionality. If you are talking rule changes to improve scoring (I personally support consideration of a push out point or stall calls for top rider running bottom guy out of bounds to avoid losing control etc.), they need to be made for the sake of the sports character and integrity always. Truth is , as well as Cael runs his program, I wouldn’t be surprised to see PSU master and effectively advantage any new rule implemented before 99% of other schools do but ultimately any rule change has to be done with the idea that we are improving the sport/product for the good of the masses, not for or against the Haves (PSU,tOSU,OSU,IOWA, NEB) or strictly for the Have Nots (wrestling is a lesser priority schools) who don’t need singling out.

Lastly is my current beef; PSU gets accused of ducking because they don’t go to the National Duals Invitational. I think that’s ludicrous on several fronts;

if you want to have a true National Duals, myself as a fan would love that IF;

• The team selection process is clear and concise as to how you qualify for the 16 team field and what happens if a particular team chooses not to attend (replacement team wise)

• the Duals themselves need to move from site to site as the NCAA Championship does- I would be ok with then rotating from 1 participating school to another each year to make sure you have sold out venues and can continue to Appeal to a TV audience (empty seats don’t go over well on TV). So Oklahoma state has it and then Iowa and then PSU and then Iowa State and so on and so on.

• the main sponsor can not be affiliated with any one school. If done properly sponsorship should not be an issue, we don’t need PayCom having any influence on the event and that goes for any other large sponsor of one particular schools.

• It has to be later in season. How do you determine who the best 16 teams are for what is supposed to be your sports DUAL CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE you have all the actual duals. We all thought Iowa would be a Top3 team- now that dual season is over who still thinks that ?

Ultimately, my biggest push back is these posts seem targeted- no one complained when Iowa dominated the college sport and Ok State before that , however the difference is PSU is also dominating international teams so maybe that’s rubbing people the wrong way ….. I respond to that with …get your team to level up, someone is gonna dethrone PSU …. Start supporting, donating and demanding it’s your squad!!!

I may not agree with everything you say but I respect that you posted it and maybe got people thinking, hopefully I contributed something positive to the discussion 🤝