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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thank you all.
Righty folks, we are back foranother week of the cav corner.
Don't stress, don't beconcerned.
We'll always have it out wellbefore the duel, even even if
it's a couple hours right, oreven if it's the day before
whatever.
So, obviously, a rough weeklast week was not fun, but it
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happens right.
So, again, when I preview these, I don't watch the opponent, I
don't go and watch how thoseguys have been doing, because,
in essence, I mean that's whatwe tell wrestlers right, don't
worry about the other guy.
And we shouldn't, we shouldreally be going in focusing on
ourselves, focusing on the andI've said it before focusing on
the things that you need to getbetter at going into the
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postseason.
So, with that being said, itwas a rough week.
It happens.
There's, I think and because I'ma wisconsin native, I'm gonna
go ahead and put this out thisway I think we're in better
condition than what the badgersare, but that's neither here nor
there.
Um, that's a whole other topicand maybe we'll talk about that
on the vision quest podcast, butright now we're talking about
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the cavaliers baby and we'restill plagued by a little bit of
sickness.
Right, we got, we got some guysthat are out.
I'm not going to name who, butwe got some guys that are down,
which is fine.
It's that time of year, right?
I mean, whether you getvaccinated or get a shot or not.
I mean I was not a shot guy.
Just because I pass out fromneedles.
So big, bad, tough guy righthere, afraid of needles, and I
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actually pass out with my ownblood.
But these guys are sick.
It's part of the season, right.
And to me, and we've even saidit to the high school guys and I
say to my soccer team, to thisagain, it's like repeating
myself.
I don't like repeating myself,but this we're saying this is
all a workout for the end of theseason.
Right, these guys don't havedual tournaments.
Yeah, it'd be nice to have theACC records, you know things
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like that.
But these guys, a lot of theseguys, are just trying to prep
for the end of the year.
So they're going out againsttough guys.
They're putting some guys outthat haven't been out maybe much
before.
Get them a little experience,right.
So everything that we go through, all the names that we go
through, these are just mypredictions.
These are who I think they'regoing to have out.
I'm never going to tell youguys exactly what I know or not
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know.
This is based off of justknowledge from talking to the
guys and you know, havingconversations with coaches, and
whoever I say is going to bewrestling is not definite.
I'm probably going to say thisevery episode because someone
will wind up saying, well, yousaid so-and-so is going to
wrestle and I'm not going tofollow that trap.
This is me guessing, this is meputting my best foot forward
and who I think should be outthere for this duel.
Right Doesn't mean I'm tryingto vie for a coaching spot.
I'm just saying this is who Ithink should be out there.
So we're rolling down the roadto Blacksburg, I believe.
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To wrestle Virginia stateVirginia state, I got that.
Penn state I would do on mybrain too.
But to wrestle Virginia tech, Iwant to note that they're
they're not predicting a verygood turnout for us right now as
far as the score.
They don't think wrestle statdoesn't think we're going to win
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anything every week.
I'm going to tell wrestle statthat's probably full of crap
somewhere.
I'm going to go ahead and saythat they're full of crap on on
the score, that I'm looking atyou guys going.
I'm I'm not going to say itbecause I don't want to jinx it,
but I'm calling bullcrap on thescore.
They're they're calling herebecause there are some pretty
close matches again that arehappening again.
I'm going to give the edge to myguys.
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Man, you know, it doesn'tmatter if it's sedano, it
doesn't matter if it's, you know, hamilton or burrell, it
doesn't matter whoever I'mpicking, I think that is going
to be out there.
I'm going to try and give theman edge, right and no matter
what uh, there are going to besome that I know that it's just
going to be a tough match.
Hopefully then come out maybewith a couple extra points than
than what's on here and, youknow, maybe avoid a major things
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like that.
But this is really just megoing off top of my head.
So I'm gonna guess we're gonnastart at the 125.
I don't take forever on theseguys because I want you guys to
be able to listen to this kindof take it in and then go watch
a duel.
I know there's a big one,there's Penn State, iowa, like I
said, but I'm going to bewatching this one just because
they're my guys.
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Right, I'm loyal.
So when that stuff happens,when guys like my team is on,
I'm going to pick my team over.
Whatever big match is going tobe on I can watch.
Plenty of people want to watchthat, so they'll put it on
repeat.
I got time to watch that.
I want to watch my guys, myguys, in real time.
I'll watch them wrestle.
So we're going to go ahead andstart at one 25, just like we do
every week and wrestle stat.
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Right now I have I have a caveon roller and I'm guessing that
they're going to be puttingEddie Ventresco out.
I mean, I think I think themisconception of putting every
single good guy, every highlyranked guy, out is not necessary
in this time of season.
I mean you want to geteverybody a workout right, cause
you don't know what's going tohappen for what certain coaches
might be like, yeah, this is ourguy, right.
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But I'm guessing they're goingto put any Ventresco against KV
on roller.
They're they're separated alittle bit in the rankings.
Looks like their commonopponents are their own three
against common opponents.
There's a bit of a differencein date when they last wrestled
these guys, but you know, theygot a six to four score.
I'm probably going to give KVon a one point, kind of on this
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one, just because the match isthat close and some of the
matches that they had againstcommon opponents, the scores
were kind of similar.
So I'm going to give roller theedge on this one.
They didn't give him the edgeon this one, they just gave a
decision to Eddie.
But I'm going to go.
I'm going to go five for KV on.
That's a wild prediction, right?
All of these that I make arewild predictions.
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So, one 33, we're going to belooking at Monteparto,
monteparto.
I think I'm getting it right.
Dude, you haven't said anythingyet.
So if I'm, if I'm getting itwrong, tell me, cause I don't
like murdering names, but I'm.
I'm putting Kyle Monteparto atone 33.
Um, I'm guessing that they'regoing to do Connor McGonigal, uh
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, but they've been kind ofconsistent with the guys that
they have been starting, whereasI know coach Garland and crew
like to kind of mix it up oncein a while and again, illnesses,
folks, illnesses.
Okay.
So I got Monteperto at one 33.
Uh, they're given the decisionof six to five to McGonigal.
With these close ones, man, youknow I'm going to pull for
Monteperto.
Honestly, with these close ones, man, you know I'm gonna pull
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for monteperito.
He, honestly, last week.
Watching last week that wasunfortunate like that.
To me that was unlucky, notsomething that was supposed to
happen, and I don't think itwould have happened on any other
day.
Right got lucky, got got.
Other guy got lucky.
So I'm giving monteperitoactually a two point on this one
.
Um, they say six to five formcgonigal.
I'm going to go with eight tosix for Kyle.
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That's where I'm going to go.
It's hard for me right now.
I don't wrap my head around alot of like how the scoring
could be, but that's a randomscore out of my head, just
because of three point takedowns.
You know stuff like that canchange or whatever escapes and
things like that.
So, but I'm going to go eightto six and our guy Kyle, he's,
he's got that that one.
So so far we've got six.
So, russell, stack and kiss mybutt on that one.
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Um, one 41 is going to be Dylan,my man, dylan.
All these guys are my man,right, I'm going to say it about
all of them probably.
But uh, dylan's been showingout quite a bit.
I know there's been, uh, sometough matches down the road, but
he has been kind of on firehere.
He does have Sam Latona.
Sam Latona has been taking someL's man.
I think Zdeno is going to beable to handle this match.
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They have a five to four.
Again.
A lot of these matches here,guys are close, right, and it's
based off of numbers, and I likenumbers.
I like hanging out with guysthat know numbers.
I don't know how to put thenumbers together that I like
hanging out with guys that knownumbers.
I don't know how to put thenumbers together.
That's why I use their numbers,just because it does seem
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intriguing.
I do notice Sedano's got a winover Kai.
This was in 2021, but you know,when you talk about the scores,
I mean that was a 5-4 score andyou know Latona's only.
He's beaten him twice and itwas also, you know, really close
.
So I'm going to give Sedanothis one and I'm going to go one
point on it.
I'll keep it.
They got five four, but I'mgoing to flip it.
Sedano is going to get the fivefour, so already we're killing
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it, right, according to me.
That's fun part, see, and I knowthese guys have been working
hard.
You know, just kind of talkingto coaches and knowing the kind
of workouts that they put in andthe focus they put in.
Again, health is huge.
Again, another big reason whywe you know, when Liam was going
through the process, why wewere impressed with them.
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Number one, the honesty withcoaches.
And number two, they do.
I mean, it's not to say thatthere aren't any other coaches
out there that don't care abouttheir kids, I'm just saying
these guys, as far as the visitswe took, it kind of struck us
as the honesty and the care thatthey have for the athletes.
So I know that these guys aretrying to take care of these
guys, making sure they'rehealthy.
If they see something weird,they're not going to start them.
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So right now I'm sayingSedano's got this match, five
and four.
So that was 141.
So that was 141.
We'll go to 149.
We got Jack Geoffrey, a mostlikely, almost positive.
They're going to start Jack.
He's got a tough one man, he'snumber one Caleb Henson.
Jack, I'm pulling for you.
This is going to be a toughmatch, right, it's going to take
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some laser focus, commonopponents, a couple of losses
against common opponents.
But again, some of those were alittle distant, some are recent
.
Um, they can't base, you knowevery single thing off that.
Uh, they're saying 12 to twomay.
Uh, major decision.
I don't think it's going to bethat bad.
See, jack, jack, joffrey, giveit a little bit more of a fight
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than that.
Um, you know, instead of amajor I I would.
I would say I guess I givecaleb the kind of the advantage
of like an eight to two, youknow, kind of thing like that.
But it's I really it's gonna bea tough one.
It's gonna be a tough one.
That's a, that's a tough matchand anybody like jack goes out
there he's gonna give it his all.
So we'll see exactly whathappens with that one.
But good luck, jack, on thatone.
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We'll see what happens, we'llbe watching.
Then we'll skip right on downto one 57.
That's a Nick Sanko.
I got in there and he'spossibly going against Raphael.
How polite.
Hippolyto Again.
I don't know who they'restarting.
I don't.
I don't talk to their coaches,but this is my, my guess.
But they got Sanko just on adecision against, not Sanko.
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They didn't pick Sanko, theygot Hippolito 10 to 4.
I don't see that.
I think I see it.
If Hippolito does win, it's notgoing to be that big of a gap.
I'm going to guess that wouldbe like a 5 to 4 match if he
does win it.
But if Sanko does win I'm alsogiving it the 5 to 4.
So I'm going to go Sanko fiveto four on that one.
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Um, again, I I don't watch theseguys.
I don't watch Virginia techwrestle.
I've seen a couple of the youknow of the matches, like with
that Scott or uh, things likethat, but I don't sit there and
do homework on on theiropponents and maybe somewhere
down the road I will be andopponents, and maybe somewhere
down the road I will be and I'llstart maybe making predictions
like willie does, because I meanI'm all right at it if I can
sit down and really put all theinformation together.
But I'm going based off of alot of feel and then also kind
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of looking at the numbers thatthese guys have.
So I'm gonna put sanko 5-4, notdefinite though you know this.
This is going to be a toughmatch too.
You know he's this is thenumber 16 guy.
They got Sanko at 77.
So let's see what we can getout of that one Wade is 165.
Next we're going to is NickHamilton.
Nick Hamilton, they have him ona one point decision.
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Again, a lot of these thatthey're deciding that way is
based off of the commonopponents I believe in, like the
losses they took versus theWednesday that they got against
common opponents.
This is another six to fivedecision that I'm going to give
to Nick Again, a guy on fire.
These guys aren't that farapart in ranking, so I'm I'm
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definitely going to give thisone to Hamilton on this one, but
I think a lot of times it boilsdown to anything, and I've
noticed it even with theVirginia, you know, even with my
Cavs.
It was gas tank, you know, andguys are starting to get a
little worked.
I mean, don't get me wrong,it's hard, right, I mean, you're
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wrestling college Stuff's noteasy.
At the same point, though, too,the gas tank matters.
We're working with Liam on thatstrength and conditioning,
making sure that your fast,twitch muscles are good, making
sure that you're quick on yourfeet and not dragging in the
third period.
Some of these guys, you know,not just Virginia guys, but some
of these guys, you noticethey're getting a little tired,
the workouts a little littlelighter than usual.
Maybe this year, um, you know,maybe they were sick too, but um
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, hopefully, hopefully,everybody's healthy, ready to
roll.
I know hamilton's always readyto roll man, so I'm excited to
pull for him on this one.
I'm going six to five, hamilton.
Then, uh, on our way down 174.
This is kind of a toss-up for meof who they're gonna start
start.
I'm not quite sure, but I'mgoing to go with Murphy.
I'm going to say Michael Murphyon this one, and I'm most
likely he's going to be facing aLennox, lennox, wolak, murphy.
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They got him 14 to five on amajor decision.
They got him losing 14 to five,but I'm, I'm hoping he can
maybe get a little littlepositive boost coming out of
this one here.
Uh, number 28 is wolak, butthis could be a tough one.
This I wouldn't say major, butif he does take the l, I think
it would just was just adecision, um, so obviously the
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score is going to be a littledifferent with with my outlet of
my outlook.
But what do I know, right?
I'm just a fan, right?
So we got 184, we're gonna go.
I'm gonna guess that they'regonna put it.
Be putting in griffin, gamble.
Uh, and griffin, if I'm gettingthat wrong as well, just
because it could be gamble,could be gomel.
I, I don't again.
Guys, message me, tell me.
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Hey, dummy, this is how youpronounce it.
Spell it for me like I'm fiveright, found it out for me.
Um, gr Gamble, they haveGriffin losing just by decision
here.
11 to six Again the rankingdisparity.
Obviously there's going to besome losses, griffin, I love you
, man, but I'm not going to say11 to six.
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But if you do take the L, I'mguessing, like more of like a,
maybe a nine to six or eight tosix Fingers crossed, man, pull
it out.
I'll tell you this much rightnow, these guys start pulling
out wins versus what I thinkthat they're gonna get, like if
I say, hey, this is gonna be atough one kind of thing, if they
start pulling the wins out,I'll start putting something on
the line.
You listening, guys, I haven'tfigured it out yet because it
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just popped in my head.
These guys start pulling thewins out, these upsets.
I'll start, I'll start doingsome.
Maybe we'll donate to a causeor something like that when
these guys, you know, get bigwins, because we want these guys
to get just as pumped up aboutthe rest of the season after a
loss and everything like that,just as much as we want them to
get pumped up about a winbecause it's hard.
You know, it's a rough sport,man.
Um, so, griff, pull the wind out, man, pull it out.
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But I think TJ might be the onegetting this one.
But not 11 to six, eight to six, you know, maybe maybe a seven
to six, a close one, likethey've been calling the other
one.
So, um, that's where I'm at onone 84.
And again, on this one I'musing WrestleStat folks.
So the the numbers.
If you haven't been to thewebsite, go to the website.
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Wrestlestat folks, the thenumbers.
If you haven't been to thewebsite, go to the website.
Wrestle stat.
I mean it's, they got real time, I mean everything.
So the numbers are justphenomenal to look at and kind
of just compare.
So, uh, 197, um, this could alsobe a toss-up of who they put in
.
Um, it could be eitherweatherspoon or burrell, I think
.
I don't know if sh know, ifShula might be a little sick.
I know that they've had him at197 before, but that could be an
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illness thing.
But my guess, my biggest guess,is they're going to put in
Burrell.
So that's my boy, put thatlittle film up.
That double leg, dude, if youcan get that lined up, if you
can move just right and getthese guys caught off guard,
that double leg, that blastdouble.
Forget about it.
Keep, keep working that blastdouble.
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Man, you're gonna startcatching guys, gotta?
We just gotta get a littlequicker on our feet and surprise
them, right.
And in watching, watching someof his setups with his double
leg, it's, it's from the outside, right.
So you definitely gotta thosefast twitch muscles have to be
there in order to get that, thatshot off from out there.
So he's definitely capable.
Pull it off man.
Start start perfecting that,because, man, that is sweet to
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watch.
So I got burrell 197.
They got him getting majored,uh, by what I'm guessing is andy
smith.
Um, I'm assuming that's wherethey're going to start, because
I believe that's where theystarted in the past couple duels
.
Anyways, I don't't know whathe's done in tournaments.
Again, I don't watch theopponent, I pay attention to our
guys.
They got Burrell 0-3 againstcommon opponents, so that kind
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of puts them a little bit behindthe eight ball, but they get
11-3.
I, you know, even if Burrelldoes, he's not going to get
majored.
I just don't see that.
But you know, things happen.
We'll find out.
But I got Burrell by just adecision.
If he does win, it's going tobe close.
It would be like a 4-3, maybe a4-2.
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But I could see Andy toppinghim though too.
Maybe it's not 11-3, but maybelike a 6-3 or a 6-2 kind of
thing, but it depends on whichBurrell shows up.
Maybe just go to work.
Go to work, man.
I'm not even trying to guessthat you're going to lose.
I'm pulling for you.
But let's, let's go to work outthere and let's show the people
what you got.
So I got Perel at one 97.
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Last guy, last weight, two 85.
I'm going to guess Christiansen.
I know that he's had some toughbreaks over the season.
I think he is one and twoagainst common opponents,
against Jim Mullen Again,rankings again are a little
disparity, but I really kind ofweighed it off of the common
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opponents and some of the scoresthat are on it.
Right, the scores are, you know, like.
Let's see, was that Mullenbeaten Neville Neves, nolan
Neves, maybe it's Neves.
He beat him, majored him 20 toeight, and looks like
Christensen lost seven to one.
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So you can see a couple ofthings here and there being a
little, being a little difficultto be able to get around, but
at the same point, though, too,I got faith in them, not not
trying to beat chess on on everysingle guy but a lot of these
guys.
It's watching him work andlistening to the coaches and
some of the progress that someof these guys have made.
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They're giving him a tech fall.
I don't think he's going to gettech falled, but I think Gabe's
going to give a little bit moreof a fight than that.
It may be a major decision.
I'm going to give him benefitof the doubt on this one with
just a decision.
I'm losing by decision,unfortunately.
Sorry, gabe, don't hate me,dude, prove me wrong, man, prove
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me wrong.
We start proving guys wrong.
Like I said, maybe we'll figureout like a charity we can give
to a certain amount each.
But let's do that.
Let's let's get somethingtogether where, when you guys
are getting these, I'll donateto something.
So let us know, uh, yourthoughts again, I don't, I don't
watch the opponents.
I don't go and watch and youknow, see, like how they're
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wrestling or you know what they.
I love just the matchups thatthey, you know they do the
comparisons against, uh, commonopponents in here, it's kind of
the way I leave it now.
Like I said, last week wastough.
Um did not expect to only getone win out of that that was
obviously from the way that theshow went.
I was expecting much more, so Istill expect much more.
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Right, they're my guys, I.
If I expect less, I don't thinkI should be doing this right.
So, never, never fear all youcalves, just because I say that
you might be going down on thisone, does not mean that I don't
have faith that you can pull itoff.
Man, basing this off numbers,right Feeling, I'm calling every
one of you guys a winner, right, that's just the way that I am.
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I'm loyal.
I'm loyal to my guys.
I've been loyal to my guys herein Kekona the whole time.
That's the way it is you got to.
And kakana the whole time.
Um, that's the way it is.
You gotta back you guys upright.
And I was talking to a gentlemanthe other day and kind of
asking questions like what doyou think?
You know?
A little feedback or whatever.
I don't want to sound toocheesy when I'm doing the show
or whatever.
He's like no man, it's, it's avirginia cavaliers wrestling
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show, you know, and you're,you're on their side.
I was like, yeah, but I don'twant to sound too on their sidey
.
You know, sometimes you gottagive a little guy a little boost
in the butt.
You gotta tell them hey, getyour crap together.
You know let's, let's do better.
But that's not my job, right?
That's coach's job.
We're here to cheer those guysout and make sure that they're
feeling good going into a duel.
That having them know that theyhave a tough match ahead.
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They know that already, right,they already know they have a
tough match.
So I'm not gonna wail on it andbe like man, you gotta really
work on this one.
I'm gonna give them the benefitof the doubt on a couple points
.
I'm gonna I'm gonna guess thatthey're gonna try, you know, a
little harder than the last timeand put a little extra work in
the in the in-betweens to makesure that they fix some stuff
which these guys are doing thatlike every day.
So, um, I'd like to stayfocused on week to week and
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that's kind of what we're doing.
Obviously, we know that we havethe accs coming up, um and then
ncaas, so we want to payattention to a lot of that.
I don't know as far as I don'tpay attention to the point
system yet as far as qualifyingum, I guess I'll rely on the
coaches and just kind of talk tothose guys who actually is
going to make it kind of thing,um, into the ncaas, but what I?
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What I will do, I think, goinginto the accs, but what I will
do, I think, going into theACC's.
We'll start paying attention toeach guy.
Hopefully, when brackets comeout, we can kind of talk about
brackets and who potentialopponents will be through the
brackets, things like that.
So we want to keep it alive,even going into the end of the
season, not just during theduels.
So we're going to figuresomething else out.
We'll get a couple of guests ontoo.
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I know there's some guys thathave messaged me and said they'd
be willing to come on.
We can talk a little wrestling,talk a little Cavalier.
I know some guys are a littlemore versed in the ACC than I am
right now.
Um, I'm working on it.
I'm I'm a freshman and I'm notred shirting guys and figure
these teams out, especially inthe next year and a half here.
But so I can have more of aprofessional style right.
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But we have fun doing this.
We love watching these guys.
We've gotten specific cablenetworks to specifically watch
them.
So this is how excited we areabout this.
It's a fun time right now.
We're excited for the future ofVirginia Cavalier wrestling as
well.
Steve Garland and crew aredoing a great job.
I know that the Virginia techteam is.
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I think they're doing somethingcalled nineties night.
I believe Throwback ninetiessomething or whatever.
We'll be donning our buckethats, our Virginia Cavalier
wrestling bucket hats in inhonor of nineties, like Cypress
Hill type 90s.
That's kind of how I rememberthe bucket hat, wear it really
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low.
I can't remember the guy's namefrom the group, but he was one
of the guys from Cypress Hillthat wore the same type of
bucket hat.
So I'm wearing my bucket hatfor that day because that's 90s.
So to me that's just how old Iam.
You guys might not know it ifyou're younger than me, but
bucket hats are kind of big withsome guys back then.
So it should be a fun night.
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We'll see how packed they canget the house there at Virginia
Tech.
They call it the.
I'm going to look it up, butthere's see, again, I'm a red
shirt freshman here for thisstuff, but it's called it's.
There's a specific name to itand you guys can lambaste me for
not knowing it because I am afan, but we're just going down
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the road.
So it's going to be a fun duel.
Again, this is all buildingblocks going into the end of the
season here.
So watching and seeing theprogress that these guys are
making is more important to methan really kind of holding
holding feet to fire when itcomes to, you know, outcomes of
matches and things like that.
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So we're having fun watching.
These guys have been nothingbut gracious to us and and
welcoming to us as far asallowing me to do this, allowing
me to, you know, do things forthe guys that someone else maybe
wouldn't do.
We're willing to give back toguys that we're loyal to, and
those guys have been pretty coolback to us.
So we really appreciate thoseguys.
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It's always a fun time.
Again, if you are close, don'tsubscribe to anything.
Go to the duel, and we're goingto say this after every show.
It doesn't matter.
Go to the duel, get loud.
I don't care if you're aVirginia Tech fan, I don't care
if you're a Cavalier fan.
Go watch these guys face toface in the gym.
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Student body Guys, if any of youguys from the team are
listening, get your friends tothe duel, get the students there
.
To me, that is the biggestmarketing sell and we've talked
about this with other guys Astudent section is missing,
right.
A student section is missingfrom all these duels.
You get a couple of them thathave a pretty ruckus crowd or
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whatever, with the studentsection being pretty loud right.
We need every university to gettheir student section packed
and loud right.
We need every university to gettheir student section packed
and loud right.
So the more we can get thesestudents in, along with the
parents and all the other rabidfans that are there, this is
going to create traction forthese guys.
We don't need more ClevelandStates in the world being cut
and not having them.
So get to the duel.
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If you can't, by all means geton TV, watch it.
Post about it, right, man?
This guy got a great fall.
He got a great takedown postabout it.
Put it out there for people tosee that you're excited about
wrestling, cause that thenexcites other people about
wrestling.
Trust me, it does no matterwhat someone else says, because
they think there's someanalytical marketing guru.
It works right.
It gets attention to it.
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Whatever we can do to get theeyeballs on any program that's
out there, I don't care if it'sVirginia Tech, I don't care if
it's Virginia.
I don't care if it's Penn State, iowa, whatever it is.
All these guys matter, theseteams matter.
That's why we love fighting forour guys, the Cavaliers.
So, with that being said, it'sbeen about 26 minutes.
It doesn't take long to gothrough these now.
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So we'll start maybe adding alittle bit more into this.
Maybe the next round, for thenext duel, we'll get someone on
next week that can sit down withus and kind of maybe talk about
the duels or talk about theopponents a little bit more, um,
and kind of expound on somethings.
Maybe just have fun with it, dowhatever we feel like doing,
because it's my show, so that'show we do it.
So, uh, we are going to end iton that note, but, uh, we also
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Righty folks, we are back foranother week of the cav corner.
Don't stress, don't beconcerned.
We'll always have it out wellbefore the duel, even even if
it's a couple hours right, oreven if it's the day before
whatever.
So, obviously, a rough weeklast week was not fun, but it
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happens right.
So, again, when I preview these, I don't watch the opponent, I
don't go and watch how thoseguys have been doing, because,
in essence, I mean that's whatwe tell wrestlers right, don't
worry about the other guy.
And we shouldn't, we shouldreally be going in focusing on
ourselves, focusing on the andI've said it before focusing on
the things that you need to getbetter at going into the
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postseason.
So, with that being said, itwas a rough week.
It happens.
There's, I think and because I'ma wisconsin native, I'm gonna
go ahead and put this out thisway I think we're in better
condition than what the badgersare, but that's neither here nor
there.
Um, that's a whole other topicand maybe we'll talk about that
on the vision quest podcast, butright now we're talking about
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the cavaliers baby and we'restill plagued by a little bit of
sickness.
Right, we got, we got some guysthat are out.
I'm not going to name who, butwe got some guys that are down,
which is fine.
It's that time of year, right?
I mean, whether you getvaccinated or get a shot or not.
I mean I was not a shot guy.
Just because I pass out fromneedles.
So big, bad, tough guy righthere, afraid of needles, and I
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actually pass out with my ownblood.
But these guys are sick.
It's part of the season, right.
And to me, and we've even saidit to the high school guys and I
say to my soccer team, to thisagain, it's like repeating
myself.
I don't like repeating myself,but this we're saying this is
all a workout for the end of theseason.
Right, these guys don't havedual tournaments.
Yeah, it'd be nice to have theACC records, you know things
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like that.
But these guys, a lot of theseguys, are just trying to prep
for the end of the year.
So they're going out againsttough guys.
They're putting some guys outthat haven't been out maybe much
before.
Get them a little experience,right.
So everything that we go through, all the names that we go
through, these are just mypredictions.
These are who I think they'regoing to have out.
I'm never going to tell youguys exactly what I know or not
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know.
This is based off of justknowledge from talking to the
guys and you know, havingconversations with coaches, and
whoever I say is going to bewrestling is not definite.
I'm probably going to say thisevery episode because someone
will wind up saying, well, yousaid so-and-so is going to
wrestle and I'm not going tofollow that trap.
This is me guessing, this is meputting my best foot forward
and who I think should be outthere for this duel.
Right Doesn't mean I'm tryingto vie for a coaching spot.
I'm just saying this is who Ithink should be out there.
So we're rolling down the roadto Blacksburg, I believe.
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To wrestle Virginia stateVirginia state, I got that.
Penn state I would do on mybrain too.
But to wrestle Virginia tech, Iwant to note that they're
they're not predicting a verygood turnout for us right now as
far as the score.
They don't think wrestle statdoesn't think we're going to win
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anything every week.
I'm going to tell wrestle statthat's probably full of crap
somewhere.
I'm going to go ahead and saythat they're full of crap on on
the score, that I'm looking atyou guys going.
I'm I'm not going to say itbecause I don't want to jinx it,
but I'm calling bullcrap on thescore.
They're they're calling herebecause there are some pretty
close matches again that arehappening again.
I'm going to give the edge to myguys.
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Man, you know, it doesn'tmatter if it's sedano, it
doesn't matter if it's, you know, hamilton or burrell, it
doesn't matter whoever I'mpicking, I think that is going
to be out there.
I'm going to try and give theman edge, right and no matter
what uh, there are going to besome that I know that it's just
going to be a tough match.
Hopefully then come out maybewith a couple extra points than
than what's on here and, youknow, maybe avoid a major things
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like that.
But this is really just megoing off top of my head.
So I'm gonna guess we're gonnastart at the 125.
I don't take forever on theseguys because I want you guys to
be able to listen to this kindof take it in and then go watch
a duel.
I know there's a big one,there's Penn State, iowa, like I
said, but I'm going to bewatching this one just because
they're my guys.
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Right, I'm loyal.
So when that stuff happens,when guys like my team is on,
I'm going to pick my team over.
Whatever big match is going tobe on I can watch.
Plenty of people want to watchthat, so they'll put it on
repeat.
I got time to watch that.
I want to watch my guys, myguys, in real time.
I'll watch them wrestle.
So we're going to go ahead andstart at one 25, just like we do
every week and wrestle stat.
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Right now I have I have a caveon roller and I'm guessing that
they're going to be puttingEddie Ventresco out.
I mean, I think I think themisconception of putting every
single good guy, every highlyranked guy, out is not necessary
in this time of season.
I mean you want to geteverybody a workout right, cause
you don't know what's going tohappen for what certain coaches
might be like, yeah, this is ourguy, right.
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But I'm guessing they're goingto put any Ventresco against KV
on roller.
They're they're separated alittle bit in the rankings.
Looks like their commonopponents are their own three
against common opponents.
There's a bit of a differencein date when they last wrestled
these guys, but you know, theygot a six to four score.
I'm probably going to give KVon a one point, kind of on this
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one, just because the match isthat close and some of the
matches that they had againstcommon opponents, the scores
were kind of similar.
So I'm going to give roller theedge on this one.
They didn't give him the edgeon this one, they just gave a
decision to Eddie.
But I'm going to go.
I'm going to go five for KV on.
That's a wild prediction, right?
All of these that I make arewild predictions.
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So, one 33, we're going to belooking at Monteparto,
monteparto.
I think I'm getting it right.
Dude, you haven't said anythingyet.
So if I'm, if I'm getting itwrong, tell me, cause I don't
like murdering names, but I'm.
I'm putting Kyle Monteparto atone 33.
Um, I'm guessing that they'regoing to do Connor McGonigal, uh
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, but they've been kind ofconsistent with the guys that
they have been starting, whereasI know coach Garland and crew
like to kind of mix it up oncein a while and again, illnesses,
folks, illnesses.
Okay.
So I got Monteperto at one 33.
Uh, they're given the decisionof six to five to McGonigal.
With these close ones, man, youknow I'm going to pull for
Monteperto.
Honestly, with these close ones, man, you know I'm gonna pull
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for monteperito.
He, honestly, last week.
Watching last week that wasunfortunate like that.
To me that was unlucky, notsomething that was supposed to
happen, and I don't think itwould have happened on any other
day.
Right got lucky, got got.
Other guy got lucky.
So I'm giving monteperitoactually a two point on this one
.
Um, they say six to five formcgonigal.
I'm going to go with eight tosix for Kyle.
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That's where I'm going to go.
It's hard for me right now.
I don't wrap my head around alot of like how the scoring
could be, but that's a randomscore out of my head, just
because of three point takedowns.
You know stuff like that canchange or whatever escapes and
things like that.
So, but I'm going to go eightto six and our guy Kyle, he's,
he's got that that one.
So so far we've got six.
So, russell, stack and kiss mybutt on that one.
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Um, one 41 is going to be Dylan,my man, dylan.
All these guys are my man,right, I'm going to say it about
all of them probably.
But uh, dylan's been showingout quite a bit.
I know there's been, uh, sometough matches down the road, but
he has been kind of on firehere.
He does have Sam Latona.
Sam Latona has been taking someL's man.
I think Zdeno is going to beable to handle this match.
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They have a five to four.
Again.
A lot of these matches here,guys are close, right, and it's
based off of numbers, and I likenumbers.
I like hanging out with guysthat know numbers.
I don't know how to put thenumbers together that I like
hanging out with guys that knownumbers.
I don't know how to put thenumbers together.
That's why I use their numbers,just because it does seem
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intriguing.
I do notice Sedano's got a winover Kai.
This was in 2021, but you know,when you talk about the scores,
I mean that was a 5-4 score andyou know Latona's only.
He's beaten him twice and itwas also, you know, really close
.
So I'm going to give Sedanothis one and I'm going to go one
point on it.
I'll keep it.
They got five four, but I'mgoing to flip it.
Sedano is going to get the fivefour, so already we're killing
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it, right, according to me.
That's fun part, see, and I knowthese guys have been working
hard.
You know, just kind of talkingto coaches and knowing the kind
of workouts that they put in andthe focus they put in.
Again, health is huge.
Again, another big reason whywe you know, when Liam was going
through the process, why wewere impressed with them.
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Number one, the honesty withcoaches.
And number two, they do.
I mean, it's not to say thatthere aren't any other coaches
out there that don't care abouttheir kids, I'm just saying
these guys, as far as the visitswe took, it kind of struck us
as the honesty and the care thatthey have for the athletes.
So I know that these guys aretrying to take care of these
guys, making sure they'rehealthy.
If they see something weird,they're not going to start them.
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So right now I'm sayingSedano's got this match, five
and four.
So that was 141.
So that was 141.
We'll go to 149.
We got Jack Geoffrey, a mostlikely, almost positive.
They're going to start Jack.
He's got a tough one man, he'snumber one Caleb Henson.
Jack, I'm pulling for you.
This is going to be a toughmatch, right, it's going to take
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some laser focus, commonopponents, a couple of losses
against common opponents.
But again, some of those were alittle distant, some are recent
.
Um, they can't base, you knowevery single thing off that.
Uh, they're saying 12 to twomay.
Uh, major decision.
I don't think it's going to bethat bad.
See, jack, jack, joffrey, giveit a little bit more of a fight
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than that.
Um, you know, instead of amajor I I would.
I would say I guess I givecaleb the kind of the advantage
of like an eight to two, youknow, kind of thing like that.
But it's I really it's gonna bea tough one.
It's gonna be a tough one.
That's a, that's a tough matchand anybody like jack goes out
there he's gonna give it his all.
So we'll see exactly whathappens with that one.
But good luck, jack, on thatone.
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We'll see what happens, we'llbe watching.
Then we'll skip right on downto one 57.
That's a Nick Sanko.
I got in there and he'spossibly going against Raphael.
How polite.
Hippolyto Again.
I don't know who they'restarting.
I don't.
I don't talk to their coaches,but this is my, my guess.
But they got Sanko just on adecision against, not Sanko.
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They didn't pick Sanko, theygot Hippolito 10 to 4.
I don't see that.
I think I see it.
If Hippolito does win, it's notgoing to be that big of a gap.
I'm going to guess that wouldbe like a 5 to 4 match if he
does win it.
But if Sanko does win I'm alsogiving it the 5 to 4.
So I'm going to go Sanko fiveto four on that one.
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Um, again, I I don't watch theseguys.
I don't watch Virginia techwrestle.
I've seen a couple of the youknow of the matches, like with
that Scott or uh, things likethat, but I don't sit there and
do homework on on theiropponents and maybe somewhere
down the road I will be andopponents, and maybe somewhere
down the road I will be and I'llstart maybe making predictions
like willie does, because I meanI'm all right at it if I can
sit down and really put all theinformation together.
But I'm going based off of alot of feel and then also kind
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of looking at the numbers thatthese guys have.
So I'm gonna put sanko 5-4, notdefinite though you know this.
This is going to be a toughmatch too.
You know he's this is thenumber 16 guy.
They got Sanko at 77.
So let's see what we can getout of that one Wade is 165.
Next we're going to is NickHamilton.
Nick Hamilton, they have him ona one point decision.
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Again, a lot of these thatthey're deciding that way is
based off of the commonopponents I believe in, like the
losses they took versus theWednesday that they got against
common opponents.
This is another six to fivedecision that I'm going to give
to Nick Again, a guy on fire.
These guys aren't that farapart in ranking, so I'm I'm
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definitely going to give thisone to Hamilton on this one, but
I think a lot of times it boilsdown to anything, and I've
noticed it even with theVirginia, you know, even with my
Cavs.
It was gas tank, you know, andguys are starting to get a
little worked.
I mean, don't get me wrong,it's hard, right, I mean, you're
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wrestling college Stuff's noteasy.
At the same point, though, too,the gas tank matters.
We're working with Liam on thatstrength and conditioning,
making sure that your fast,twitch muscles are good, making
sure that you're quick on yourfeet and not dragging in the
third period.
Some of these guys, you know,not just Virginia guys, but some
of these guys, you noticethey're getting a little tired,
the workouts a little littlelighter than usual.
Maybe this year, um, you know,maybe they were sick too, but um
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, hopefully, hopefully,everybody's healthy, ready to
roll.
I know hamilton's always readyto roll man, so I'm excited to
pull for him on this one.
I'm going six to five, hamilton.
Then, uh, on our way down 174.
This is kind of a toss-up for meof who they're gonna start
start.
I'm not quite sure, but I'mgoing to go with Murphy.
I'm going to say Michael Murphyon this one, and I'm most
likely he's going to be facing aLennox, lennox, wolak, murphy.
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They got him 14 to five on amajor decision.
They got him losing 14 to five,but I'm, I'm hoping he can
maybe get a little littlepositive boost coming out of
this one here.
Uh, number 28 is wolak, butthis could be a tough one.
This I wouldn't say major, butif he does take the l, I think
it would just was just adecision, um, so obviously the
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score is going to be a littledifferent with with my outlet of
my outlook.
But what do I know, right?
I'm just a fan, right?
So we got 184, we're gonna go.
I'm gonna guess that they'regonna put it.
Be putting in griffin, gamble.
Uh, and griffin, if I'm gettingthat wrong as well, just
because it could be gamble,could be gomel.
I, I don't again.
Guys, message me, tell me.
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Hey, dummy, this is how youpronounce it.
Spell it for me like I'm fiveright, found it out for me.
Um, gr Gamble, they haveGriffin losing just by decision
here.
11 to six Again the rankingdisparity.
Obviously there's going to besome losses, griffin, I love you
, man, but I'm not going to say11 to six.
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But if you do take the L, I'mguessing, like more of like a,
maybe a nine to six or eight tosix Fingers crossed, man, pull
it out.
I'll tell you this much rightnow, these guys start pulling
out wins versus what I thinkthat they're gonna get, like if
I say, hey, this is gonna be atough one kind of thing, if they
start pulling the wins out,I'll start putting something on
the line.
You listening, guys, I haven'tfigured it out yet because it
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just popped in my head.
These guys start pulling thewins out, these upsets.
I'll start, I'll start doingsome.
Maybe we'll donate to a causeor something like that when
these guys, you know, get bigwins, because we want these guys
to get just as pumped up aboutthe rest of the season after a
loss and everything like that,just as much as we want them to
get pumped up about a winbecause it's hard.
You know, it's a rough sport,man.
Um, so, griff, pull the wind out, man, pull it out.
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But I think TJ might be the onegetting this one.
But not 11 to six, eight to six, you know, maybe maybe a seven
to six, a close one, likethey've been calling the other
one.
So, um, that's where I'm at onone 84.
And again, on this one I'musing WrestleStat folks.
So the the numbers.
If you haven't been to thewebsite, go to the website.
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Wrestlestat folks, the thenumbers.
If you haven't been to thewebsite, go to the website.
Wrestle stat.
I mean it's, they got real time, I mean everything.
So the numbers are justphenomenal to look at and kind
of just compare.
So, uh, 197, um, this could alsobe a toss-up of who they put in
.
Um, it could be eitherweatherspoon or burrell, I think
.
I don't know if sh know, ifShula might be a little sick.
I know that they've had him at197 before, but that could be an
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illness thing.
But my guess, my biggest guess,is they're going to put in
Burrell.
So that's my boy, put thatlittle film up.
That double leg, dude, if youcan get that lined up, if you
can move just right and getthese guys caught off guard,
that double leg, that blastdouble.
Forget about it.
Keep, keep working that blastdouble.
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Man, you're gonna startcatching guys, gotta?
We just gotta get a littlequicker on our feet and surprise
them, right.
And in watching, watching someof his setups with his double
leg, it's, it's from the outside, right.
So you definitely gotta thosefast twitch muscles have to be
there in order to get that, thatshot off from out there.
So he's definitely capable.
Pull it off man.
Start start perfecting that,because, man, that is sweet to
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watch.
So I got burrell 197.
They got him getting majored,uh, by what I'm guessing is andy
smith.
Um, I'm assuming that's wherethey're going to start, because
I believe that's where theystarted in the past couple duels
.
Anyways, I don't't know whathe's done in tournaments.
Again, I don't watch theopponent, I pay attention to our
guys.
They got Burrell 0-3 againstcommon opponents, so that kind
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of puts them a little bit behindthe eight ball, but they get
11-3.
I, you know, even if Burrelldoes, he's not going to get
majored.
I just don't see that.
But you know, things happen.
We'll find out.
But I got Burrell by just adecision.
If he does win, it's going tobe close.
It would be like a 4-3, maybe a4-2.
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But I could see Andy toppinghim though too.
Maybe it's not 11-3, but maybelike a 6-3 or a 6-2 kind of
thing, but it depends on whichBurrell shows up.
Maybe just go to work.
Go to work, man.
I'm not even trying to guessthat you're going to lose.
I'm pulling for you.
But let's, let's go to work outthere and let's show the people
what you got.
So I got Perel at one 97.
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Last guy, last weight, two 85.
I'm going to guess Christiansen.
I know that he's had some toughbreaks over the season.
I think he is one and twoagainst common opponents,
against Jim Mullen Again,rankings again are a little
disparity, but I really kind ofweighed it off of the common
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opponents and some of the scoresthat are on it.
Right, the scores are, you know, like.
Let's see, was that Mullenbeaten Neville Neves, nolan
Neves, maybe it's Neves.
He beat him, majored him 20 toeight, and looks like
Christensen lost seven to one.
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So you can see a couple ofthings here and there being a
little, being a little difficultto be able to get around, but
at the same point, though, too,I got faith in them, not not
trying to beat chess on on everysingle guy but a lot of these
guys.
It's watching him work andlistening to the coaches and
some of the progress that someof these guys have made.
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They're giving him a tech fall.
I don't think he's going to gettech falled, but I think Gabe's
going to give a little bit moreof a fight than that.
It may be a major decision.
I'm going to give him benefitof the doubt on this one with
just a decision.
I'm losing by decision,unfortunately.
Sorry, gabe, don't hate me,dude, prove me wrong, man, prove
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me wrong.
We start proving guys wrong.
Like I said, maybe we'll figureout like a charity we can give
to a certain amount each.
But let's do that.
Let's let's get somethingtogether where, when you guys
are getting these, I'll donateto something.
So let us know, uh, yourthoughts again, I don't, I don't
watch the opponents.
I don't go and watch and youknow, see, like how they're
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wrestling or you know what they.
I love just the matchups thatthey, you know they do the
comparisons against, uh, commonopponents in here, it's kind of
the way I leave it now.
Like I said, last week wastough.
Um did not expect to only getone win out of that that was
obviously from the way that theshow went.
I was expecting much more, so Istill expect much more.
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Right, they're my guys, I.
If I expect less, I don't thinkI should be doing this right.
So, never, never fear all youcalves, just because I say that
you might be going down on thisone, does not mean that I don't
have faith that you can pull itoff.
Man, basing this off numbers,right Feeling, I'm calling every
one of you guys a winner, right, that's just the way that I am.
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I'm loyal.
I'm loyal to my guys.
I've been loyal to my guys herein Kekona the whole time.
That's the way it is you got to.
And kakana the whole time.
Um, that's the way it is.
You gotta back you guys upright.
And I was talking to a gentlemanthe other day and kind of
asking questions like what doyou think?
You know?
A little feedback or whatever.
I don't want to sound toocheesy when I'm doing the show
or whatever.
He's like no man, it's, it's avirginia cavaliers wrestling
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show, you know, and you're,you're on their side.
I was like, yeah, but I don'twant to sound too on their sidey
.
You know, sometimes you gottagive a little guy a little boost
in the butt.
You gotta tell them hey, getyour crap together.
You know let's, let's do better.
But that's not my job, right?
That's coach's job.
We're here to cheer those guysout and make sure that they're
feeling good going into a duel.
That having them know that theyhave a tough match ahead.
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They know that already, right,they already know they have a
tough match.
So I'm not gonna wail on it andbe like man, you gotta really
work on this one.
I'm gonna give them the benefitof the doubt on a couple points
.
I'm gonna I'm gonna guess thatthey're gonna try, you know, a
little harder than the last timeand put a little extra work in
the in the in-betweens to makesure that they fix some stuff
which these guys are doing thatlike every day.
So, um, I'd like to stayfocused on week to week and
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that's kind of what we're doing.
Obviously, we know that we havethe accs coming up, um and then
ncaas, so we want to payattention to a lot of that.
I don't know as far as I don'tpay attention to the point
system yet as far as qualifyingum, I guess I'll rely on the
coaches and just kind of talk tothose guys who actually is
going to make it kind of thing,um, into the ncaas, but what I?
(21:40):
What I will do, I think, goinginto the accs, but what I will
do, I think, going into theACC's.
We'll start paying attention toeach guy.
Hopefully, when brackets comeout, we can kind of talk about
brackets and who potentialopponents will be through the
brackets, things like that.
So we want to keep it alive,even going into the end of the
season, not just during theduels.
So we're going to figuresomething else out.
We'll get a couple of guests ontoo.
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I know there's some guys thathave messaged me and said they'd
be willing to come on.
We can talk a little wrestling,talk a little Cavalier.
I know some guys are a littlemore versed in the ACC than I am
right now.
Um, I'm working on it.
I'm I'm a freshman and I'm notred shirting guys and figure
these teams out, especially inthe next year and a half here.
But so I can have more of aprofessional style right.
(22:25):
But we have fun doing this.
We love watching these guys.
We've gotten specific cablenetworks to specifically watch
them.
So this is how excited we areabout this.
It's a fun time right now.
We're excited for the future ofVirginia Cavalier wrestling as
well.
Steve Garland and crew aredoing a great job.
I know that the Virginia techteam is.
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I think they're doing somethingcalled nineties night.
I believe Throwback ninetiessomething or whatever.
We'll be donning our buckethats, our Virginia Cavalier
wrestling bucket hats in inhonor of nineties, like Cypress
Hill type 90s.
That's kind of how I rememberthe bucket hat, wear it really
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low.
I can't remember the guy's namefrom the group, but he was one
of the guys from Cypress Hillthat wore the same type of
bucket hat.
So I'm wearing my bucket hatfor that day because that's 90s.
So to me that's just how old Iam.
You guys might not know it ifyou're younger than me, but
bucket hats are kind of big withsome guys back then.
So it should be a fun night.
(23:30):
We'll see how packed they canget the house there at Virginia
Tech.
They call it the.
I'm going to look it up, butthere's see, again, I'm a red
shirt freshman here for thisstuff, but it's called it's.
There's a specific name to itand you guys can lambaste me for
not knowing it because I am afan, but we're just going down
(23:54):
the road.
So it's going to be a fun duel.
Again, this is all buildingblocks going into the end of the
season here.
So watching and seeing theprogress that these guys are
making is more important to methan really kind of holding
holding feet to fire when itcomes to, you know, outcomes of
matches and things like that.
(24:14):
So we're having fun watching.
These guys have been nothingbut gracious to us and and
welcoming to us as far asallowing me to do this, allowing
me to, you know, do things forthe guys that someone else maybe
wouldn't do.
We're willing to give back toguys that we're loyal to, and
those guys have been pretty coolback to us.
So we really appreciate thoseguys.
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It's always a fun time.
Again, if you are close, don'tsubscribe to anything.
Go to the duel, and we're goingto say this after every show.
It doesn't matter.
Go to the duel, get loud.
I don't care if you're aVirginia Tech fan, I don't care
if you're a Cavalier fan.
Go watch these guys face toface in the gym.
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Student body Guys, if any of youguys from the team are
listening, get your friends tothe duel, get the students there
.
To me, that is the biggestmarketing sell and we've talked
about this with other guys Astudent section is missing,
right.
A student section is missingfrom all these duels.
You get a couple of them thathave a pretty ruckus crowd or
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whatever, with the studentsection being pretty loud right.
We need every university to gettheir student section packed
and loud right.
We need every university to gettheir student section packed
and loud right.
So the more we can get thesestudents in, along with the
parents and all the other rabidfans that are there, this is
going to create traction forthese guys.
We don't need more ClevelandStates in the world being cut
and not having them.
So get to the duel.
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If you can't, by all means geton TV, watch it.
Post about it, right, man?
This guy got a great fall.
He got a great takedown postabout it.
Put it out there for people tosee that you're excited about
wrestling, cause that thenexcites other people about
wrestling.
Trust me, it does no matterwhat someone else says, because
they think there's someanalytical marketing guru.
It works right.
It gets attention to it.
(25:58):
Whatever we can do to get theeyeballs on any program that's
out there, I don't care if it'sVirginia Tech, I don't care if
it's Virginia.
I don't care if it's Penn State, iowa, whatever it is.
All these guys matter, theseteams matter.
That's why we love fighting forour guys, the Cavaliers.
So, with that being said, it'sbeen about 26 minutes.
It doesn't take long to gothrough these now.
(26:18):
So we'll start maybe adding alittle bit more into this.
Maybe the next round, for thenext duel, we'll get someone on
next week that can sit down withus and kind of maybe talk about
the duels or talk about theopponents a little bit more, um,
and kind of expound on somethings.
Maybe just have fun with it, dowhatever we feel like doing,
because it's my show, so that'show we do it.
So, uh, we are going to end iton that note, but, uh, we also
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want to thank you guys forlistening, please.
You have anything.
Email.
Vision quest podcast originalat gmailcom.
You can email us there withsuggestions.
We're on facebook, we're oninstagram and we're on twitter.
For now, I don't care if youcall it x, I call it twitter.
I'm 46, it was twitter in thebeginning.
I'm calling twitter now.
(27:02):
We're on twitter.
Okay, messages.
Let us know if there's somethingyou want to see, something
maybe you want us to add to theshow you think would be
interesting.
By all means, man, reach out,let us know, because we're all
about doing this for the fanstoo.
If you're a calves fan, we'redefinitely going to heed to
whatever you think, right we're,we're going to pay attention.
Other fans are going to payattention too, but when it's
about this specific show we'llbe a little pickier.
(27:24):
But we we appreciate everybodythat's listening.
So, by all means, any, anycomments, suggestions?
Just let us know.
Um, we're not so closed-mindedthat we don't accept any kind of
criticism or anything like that.
Keep it nice.
Just let us know.
You're gonna be yelling orsaying something sucked or
whatever.
But now you can tell me itsucked.
That's fine, but we enjoy everyminute.
(27:46):
We love doing this.
But we, uh, we wish nothing butthe best to the calves on the
road.
Yeah, that's about it, man,we're gonna end it there.
So, uh, everybody, if youhaven't had the chance to yet,
uh, go check out the visionquest podcastcom.
Not the, it's just vision questpodcastcom.
Check it out.
All of our shows are on there.
We got some gear from earlier.
(28:07):
Cats are on there andeventually we'll get some more
gear in there as well, but rightnow we're just kind of trying
to raise some money for some ofour athletes and then we'll have
some more on there eventually.
But get to the go to visionquest podcastcom and check out
other shows.
You to visionquestpodcastcomand check out other shows.
You'll see the other episodesof this up on there too.
But otherwise head to Spotify.
That's where this all getsuploaded for just an audio
version of the podcast.
(28:28):
But we appreciate everybodylistening, man, and we hope you
guys come back next week.
You.
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