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Hypothetically speaking, and we're talking major hypothetical here, but if Snyder were to lose tonight and then become a 3 time NC, could there still be an argument for him being a greater wrestler than Stieber if he's somehow even more dominant in his later years than Stieber? Really, the question is getting at the fact that Snyder is a TRUE freshman and Stieber is a redshirt senior. Which means when he won his first championship he was a redshirt freshman. Is a true freshman NC extremely rare? I also saw that Stieber redshirted due to an injury, so who knows what would have happened.
TL;DR Is winning a NC as a true freshman extremely rare?
Edit: I guess this answers my question: Yes, it is. http://www.mutigers.com/sports/m-wrestl/recaps/032214aac.html. 14 times in 84 years. So multiply 84 by the number of weight classes and that shows how rare it truly is. If there has always been 10 weight classes that's only 1.7% of the champions being true freshmen.
So I guess there could still be an argument, but he'd have to be truly dominant. And coincidentally that article is about Cox, who he took down on his way to the final.
TL;DR Is winning a NC as a true freshman extremely rare?
Edit: I guess this answers my question: Yes, it is. http://www.mutigers.com/sports/m-wrestl/recaps/032214aac.html. 14 times in 84 years. So multiply 84 by the number of weight classes and that shows how rare it truly is. If there has always been 10 weight classes that's only 1.7% of the champions being true freshmen.
So I guess there could still be an argument, but he'd have to be truly dominant. And coincidentally that article is about Cox, who he took down on his way to the final.
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Ohio State wrestling national champions honor late teammate
Ohio State's Kyle Snyder, with the initials "KK" on his singlet, celebrates his victory over Missouri's J'Den Cox after their 197-pound semifinal match.
An Ohio State team has proven to be the best in the country for the second time in 2015, and again a fallen teammate was an indelible part of the story.
The NCAA wrestling championships are taking place in St. Louis all day Saturday, but Ohio State has already clinched the first national championship in school history by virtue of points even though three Buckeyes could still win individual national titles.
The winning points came via a victory by Kenny Courts in a fifth-place match early Saturday afternoon.
As pointed out by Buckeye Sports Bulletin's Ryan Ginn, Courts won while wearing the initials of Kosta Karageorge, an Ohio State wrestler who was also a walk-on member of the football team. Tragically, Karageorge became the subject of national headlines in late November when he went missing then was found dead in a trash bin in Columbus. The coroner ruled the death a suicide.
Entire article: http://www.foxsports.com/ohio/story/ohio-state-wrestling-natinoal-champions-kosta-karageorge-032115
Ohio State's Kyle Snyder, with the initials "KK" on his singlet, celebrates his victory over Missouri's J'Den Cox after their 197-pound semifinal match.
An Ohio State team has proven to be the best in the country for the second time in 2015, and again a fallen teammate was an indelible part of the story.
The NCAA wrestling championships are taking place in St. Louis all day Saturday, but Ohio State has already clinched the first national championship in school history by virtue of points even though three Buckeyes could still win individual national titles.
The winning points came via a victory by Kenny Courts in a fifth-place match early Saturday afternoon.
As pointed out by Buckeye Sports Bulletin's Ryan Ginn, Courts won while wearing the initials of Kosta Karageorge, an Ohio State wrestler who was also a walk-on member of the football team. Tragically, Karageorge became the subject of national headlines in late November when he went missing then was found dead in a trash bin in Columbus. The coroner ruled the death a suicide.
Entire article: http://www.foxsports.com/ohio/story/ohio-state-wrestling-natinoal-champions-kosta-karageorge-032115
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ScriptOhio
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Yeah, you are probably correct....
Gene Smith received $108,517 in bonuses, which is six weeks of his base pay of $940,484. Smith got four weeks of that for the Buckeyes reaching a major playoff bowl and an additional two weeks for the Buckeyes winning the (football) National Championship.
and
The cap for academic and athletic bonuses will shrink from $300,000 to $130,000 under the new contract.
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