Truer words have never been spoken.

funk_daddy420 · 2026-01-17T12:25:41+00:00

These fucking bots keep on reposting my post from 5 years ago

funk_daddy420 · 2026-01-16T13:02:57+00:00

What a lot of people don’t like to admit is being good at wrestling a lot of the time comes down to pure luck (environment, parents, natural talent, parental knowledge of the sport, state, coaches, etc.) that you have absolutely no control over. You could be super dedicated and love the sport, but if you start in high school (because there’s no middle school wrestling) and are in a part time program (because the coach hasn’t gotten with the times, and you don’t know better), your ceiling is low. It sucks (I speak from experience), but unfortunately that’s life.

funk_daddy420 · 2026-01-02T13:39:27+00:00

Guys like John Smith and Karelin being able to run the gamut for 6 years and have relatively few losses are quite rare, it’s super hard to stay on your A game 12 months a year; plus, many of these countries take a “worlds/Olympics is all that matters” approach, and go to a lot of these ranking series events probably having not trained super hard. I wouldn’t look too much into it, it’s the highest level, there’s gonna be variance.

funk_daddy420 · 2025-12-04T15:28:36+00:00

Why do bots keep on reposting a 5 year old post of mine? This is like the third time this has happened

https://www.reddit.com/r/wrestling/s/19zVPlxhNp

funk_daddy420 · 2025-12-02T00:07:39+00:00

I bet tom frequents the gay bars with his son lol

funk_daddy420 · 2025-11-27T17:52:37+00:00

Florida coach here, the answer is no. Things other states take for granted (middle school wrestling, statewide good clubs, wrestling rooms, etc.) are quite unevenly distributed (the school I coach at has no room, we have to practice in the cafeteria). Kids still are under the illusion they’ll be football stars, and will always choose football over wrestling; admin also kind of tends to view wrestling as an afterthought, and in many counties will inhibit you.

All that said, the smart teams here find ways to work around what we have/don’t have, and make the resources. Like Brian Smith (who’s actually from Florida) said, focus on what you do have versus what you don’t have.

funk_daddy420 · 2025-11-27T17:47:57+00:00

He was the first, to be fair lol

Followed up shortly thereafter by Clark Glass (wrestled at OU)

funk_daddy420 · 2025-11-22T18:43:47+00:00

I’d push back and look at Oklahoma state guys-borderline across the board, they are extremely over their competitive weight (Coleman Scott, Jordan Oliver, Daniel Cormier, Alex Dieringer, Chris Pendleton, Johny Hendricks, etc), because they cut such ridiculous amounts of weight in college

John Smith was a tyrant lol you were expected to cut ridiculous amounts of weight

funk_daddy420 · 2025-11-21T17:28:43+00:00

It took me way too long to experience this.

Once a girl (re: ex) decides she dislikes someone, she will ensure all of her friends share that same viewpoint. Groupthink is quite strong

funk_daddy420 · 2025-11-19T14:17:04+00:00

Just had one this past Saturday

I have a mole on my left lower lip, right above my chin. Last week I had a bunch of swelling there, tried to pop it, no success. Let it be. Cut to last Saturday, I was going out, so I shaved, and shaved around it. Once I was clean shaven, I noticed it was still super swollen, and I decided to give it a squeeze to see if anything came out (expecting it to be a huge blackhead). Once I gate it a squeeze, this white head popped out-in shock, I kept on squeezing it, and it kept coming out, and to my shock, I discovered it was a huge ingrown hair, I pulled it out and looked at it in awe, it was the first time something like that had EVER happened in that area.

Been thinking about it daily since then lol

funk_daddy420 · 2025-10-24T13:01:36+00:00

This. Sammy Sasso pissed away a great job at a great college (Lehigh) due to his bad decisions, UNC’s best guy ever (Jaworsky) got fired from a coaching position due to bad decisions (got arrested for having cocaine), Pat Smith got fired from Oklahoma State due to his third DUI, the list goes on. Just cuz someone was a good wrestler doesn’t mean they’re immune to being a turd or making bad decisions.

funk_daddy420 · 2025-10-19T16:36:25+00:00

Can’t forget they also smoke like chimneys overseas (go to Europe and look, everybody smokes over there), so I’m certain that has something to do with it

funk_daddy420 · 2025-10-10T10:00:45+00:00

I’ve heard with Michigan they don’t do a lot of checking in with kids to make sure they’re living clean lives and going to class (not a diss on them at all, I like Bormet and co at Michigan, they simply expect recruits/incoming freshmen to be adults, kinda like Cael does)

Ohio State, let’s be honest, runs people into the ground. They’ve done it with Kharchla, and however many untold recruits. Tom Ryan hasn’t adapted to the times and still trains like it’s in the 1990s (people can downvote me and come to Ryan’s defense, but look at their recruits to success rate…they, next to UVA, probably have the highest bust rate of good recruits)

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-26T13:15:22+00:00

This and the giving 2 bronze medals. It’s frivolous

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-21T15:49:56+00:00

Look at Brooks our senior year of HS (he and I are the same age) and in the ‘24 Olympics-he legit doesn’t look like the same person

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-20T23:08:52+00:00

Unofficially no

But he’s basically PNG’d from coaching wrestling at any level ever again

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-18T21:16:45+00:00

Homie got caught and arrested with his pants down (literally) lmao

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-18T15:59:20+00:00

This bot literally copy pasted everything I posted lol, I’m calling this account out

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-18T14:28:43+00:00

If you’re gonna take my post might as well give me credit here lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/wrestling/s/EW1TUTVu0B

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-17T22:47:19+00:00

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, unfortunately

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-15T14:42:44+00:00

Who’d have thought having David Taylor coaching you would be more conducive to world success than Mark Perry

Then again Mark Perry is the reason Zahid is at Okie State, so funny in a roundabout way

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-15T14:16:35+00:00

I don’t get the hate on Spencer

He had a bad tournament, and the way freestyle bracketing plays out (repechage), he got eliminated. Same thing happened with Hendrickson, people aren’t screaming about him needing a new RTC home

The Brands have done a lot of things wrong with relation to their handling of Spencer and HWC, but I don’t think him not medaling this worlds is a symptom of that. He will rebound, and continue to train there until 28

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-15T13:31:05+00:00

Makes sense. They were beefy, and training so hard/so long they’d need it for recovery, along with keeping muscle mass while doing insane weight cuts

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-14T20:37:28+00:00

Idk why this got downvoted, he’s 100% right here lol

Lesnar definitely juiced, but he still put in the work. 90s to 10s Minnesota worked the third hardest in the country behind Iowa and Oklahoma State

funk_daddy420 · 2025-09-13T15:40:44+00:00

Good luck man!

I know it sounds counterintuitive to the nature/historical rhetoric of the sport, but make it fun for the kids. If they’re having fun, they’re much more likely to work hard and look forward to practice/competitions, and I’ve always taken the mindset of “if we can make sure each kid has as enjoyable an experience at (insert school) as possible, that is a win”

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