Bassett is the #1 recruit in the country. The other schools are Iowa, Penn State and Oklahoma State.
Bo Bassett teched his way through Ironman and then pinned his way through Powerade weeks later 🤯 pic.twitter.com/jIbkRrRrdQ— FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) January 2, 2025
High School sophomore Bo Bassett just tech falled former NCAA Champ Anthony Ashnault to be one win away from going to the Olympic Trials 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ArXSNQK91j— Spinnin Backfist (@SpinninBackfist) April 7, 2024
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What realistic odds do we have for landing him?
Philosophically realistic, Mathematically realistic, or probablility realistic?
If this is true, great shot, but have seen a ton of speculative posts about NIL and Iowa
The rumored Iowa offer would not be topped if true.
What is the rumored number? I'm curious about how wrestling NIL stacks up.
$5M seems to be the number people are throwing around
Yeah, if someone throws that to him, he should take it.
And you thought football was insane
in his interview he says all the NIL numbers are comparable and that the reported numbers are insanely overstated
....my shocked face....
Well, at least he understands what's happening.
Yea, but, it was very noticeable that he was coached to say the offers were comparable. He said it 15 times as if he's an AI language model trained on only 15 words.
I thibk he was coached by his agent so he can get his true number 1 school to up their offer. Would be pretty savvy move by his agent. Who knows....
100% of my sarcasm, cynicism, etc aside- all of that aside... Why? Why? Why would a huge Iowa Wrestling fan- even if he wipes his ass with 100 dollar bills - Why would you throw away 5 fucking million dollars in exchange for not beating Penn State or OSU in the Natty? I am being serious- what Iowa fan/alum - would throw away a generation worth of wealth to hope to win the B1G in fucking wrestling? Someone- anyone- please explain. Iowa wrestling does not make one fucking dime profit. Why on earth- outside of money laundering- would anyone- even the filthy rich- do this?
They wouldn't. Or at least they wouldn't for long. Once everyone realizes they can't just buy a team and it becomes a bidding war for the same outcome they had previously, I think the money - at least the ridiculous amounts, will largely dry up. People with fuck you money don't stay that way by paying high school kids to join a team. A one off for a natty - maybe for pride. But the more we go along the more the market will show the true return, and I think things will normalize a bit. At least I hope.
We will soon find out the difference between Connor Stallions- a working class guy that doesn't pay millions in NIL but would literally ruin his reputation for Michigan to beat Northwestern vs. A uber rich booster who has more important things in his life than Michigan beating Iowa. It's the later that are propping up these collectives right now. How "hard corps" are they will soon come to light.
At the same time I don't think you have an appreciation for just how absurdly rich some of these assholes with fuck you money are. A school with a $1b+ athletic endowment can light $50m on fire every year and still walk away making a significant profit in their overall investments.
Are you sure you want to do that to yourself?
I would love to get him, but at the end of the day I believe it's PSU or Iowa.
This isn't like VT losing out to Clemson or FSU for a football recruit, just to be in the running with those schools is insane. I doubt we get him but that's impressive. I'm trying to think of an apology but can't.
When I was married, my marriage counselor suggested I start with "I'm sorry."
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To your actual intent, If VT were to pull this off, I think a good analogy would be when South Carolina got Jadeveon Clowney over Clemson, Alabama, LSU, etc.
Yes but only alabama is close to what Iowa, PSU, and OSU are in wrestling, Clemson has never been a power house like those 3
Bassett to Iowa
Something something oranges...
I never even dusted off my shocked face.
Turns out three of his high school teammates are also committing/committed to Iowa. Curious if Iowa is offering them because they are legit D1 wrestlers or if it was to influence Bassett
I'm going to choose what's behind door number two for that question. Call me cynical, but yeah, all's fair in love, war and college athlete recruiting.