Welcome and Introduction
00:00:01
Ryne
This is something we've talked about in the past, isn't it?
00:00:01
Cokeley Brothers
All right. Welcome. Yeah. Welcome. Welcome back to the barn session, everybody.
Bo Bassett's Decommitment from Iowa
00:00:07
Cokeley Brothers
ah We got some, we got some drama to talk about some, some tea to spill.
00:00:11
Cokeley Brothers
That's already been spilled. It's been spilling all day long. um For those of you that don't know, you know, if you're here, Bo Bassett decommitted from Iowa and Melvin Miller is not going to be going there. Keegan Bassett's going there. Yeah.
00:00:28
Cokeley Brothers
Where, i mean, where do you guys even want to where do you, where do you want to start? How do you want to get into this?
00:00:31
Ryne
yeah um I don't know. I have, I, who wants to go first? Who wants to say their piece first?
00:00:38
Cokeley Brothers
Go for it.
00:00:42
Ryne
but don't want to go first.
00:00:44
Cokeley Brothers
right. I'll go first.
00:00:46
Cokeley Brothers
Reese is going first.
00:00:47
Reese
I think I'm probably on the same... I feel like I'm probably on the same boat as Ryan because I'm just going to assume that Ryan is going to be an Iowa defender, an Iowa knob slobber as he is.
00:01:03
Ryne
You'd be wrong, dude. Well, I'm going to play a little bit of devil's advocate. educat I'm going to play, I'm going to play both sides here, but go, go ahead.
00:01:12
Reese
Well, I think... um It sounds like to me, like maybe it was for the best for Iowa. Maybe they were going to be just a handful.
00:01:24
Reese
sounds like they're going to be a handful wherever they go, you know, unless it's, don't know.
00:01:28
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. So let's, let's add ah let's add a little bit of context behind what exactly we understand has happened so far.
00:01:37
Cokeley Brothers
So Bo committed to Iowa early February this year, and there was a lot of support behind it.
00:01:48
Cokeley Brothers
The Iowa fans were super excited about it. a lot of people were like, yeah, this makes sense as a fit. Everything's good. um And then, Bo Bassett puts out a post last night about, you know, ah talking with his family and with with ah his lord about, ah you know, what is the right choice to make here?
00:02:09
Cokeley Brothers
ah You know, what is the right decision to to to make to have the best future, whatever you want to call it. and And apparently that is not with Iowa.
Compliance Issues and Recruitment Strategies
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Cokeley Brothers
And so ah some details started coming out about Uh, the, there was a request from the Bassett clan, uh, that, um, the Bo and maybe even meb Melvin and I mean, who knows?
00:02:37
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, but basically that there was some transportation accommodation, um, along with maybe other things, who knows what else, uh, in, in terms of getting Bo and whoever else out to Iowa to train at the RTC for whatever.
00:02:55
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, and then the, the reported response from Tom brands was compliance says, I can't do that. That's illegal. Uh, there's like, my hands are tied, you know?
00:03:09
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, and then the assumption is because eventually we get to a point where Tom brands is unofficially quoted as saying, don't tell me how to run my program. I don't think that happens right off the bat.
00:03:20
Cokeley Brothers
I think somehow we worked our way up into this heated argument. And I think that there is some, I think it's important to know that they have been ah pursuing Melvin Miller officially for the last week and no longer are. But but within this last week, I think something has changed.
00:03:38
Cokeley Brothers
And I think what has changed are the requests and or demands of a one-billed asset.
00:03:47
Cokeley Brothers
I think that's what's happening. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:51
Cokeley Brothers
Because you can, yeah, go ahead.
00:03:53
Ryne
I'll go. We'll play the Iowa side first.
00:03:58
Reese
iy Sammy went no side as usual.
00:04:02
Cokeley Brothers
Well, hey, I was just putting, first of all, I said I was putting the facts out and then Ryan said that he wanted to go. So I'm letting him go. I'm not done yet necessarily.
00:04:09
Ryne
Well, that long pause made it sound like you were done.
00:04:11
Cokeley Brothers
Okay, my bad, here, here. Well, then I'll just say without without further context, like I'm more on the side of Iowa for this one.
00:04:19
Ryne
um See, that's where it gets tricky. All right.
00:04:25
Ryne
Because apparently compliance is like, you know, it's basically however your compliance interprets the rules.
00:04:36
Cokeley Brothers
Correct.
00:04:38
Ryne
So Oklahoma state interprets the rules one way, know, uh, Iowa interprets them in other Penn state interprets them this way. You know, it's like lawyers interpreting the law.
00:04:53
Ryne
So one lawyer might read something like, you know, might read a law of this one way. And another lawyer might be like, actually, I think it means this. So essentially,
00:05:07
Ryne
you know, if you're Iowa and you want to keep this guy around, then maybe you're, yourre if you're Tom, you convince your compliance to maybe interpret the rules a little differently.
00:05:22
Ryne
don't know. Maybe. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't.
Impact on Iowa's National Title Chances
00:05:26
Ryne
But ultimately, ah recruit like this, you don't want to lose right? If you're Iowa. You should maybe, if you're Iowa,
00:05:36
Ryne
should maybe try to find ways to ah to
00:05:42
Ryne
accommodate what the Bassets want.
00:05:49
Ryne
Maybe. Maybe you do. I mean, we're Iowa just went from, yeah, they could possibly win a national title with this guy. This guy could possibly take them to new levels. to Yeah, now they got no shot in hell.
00:06:07
Cokeley Brothers
Mostly, seemingly, yeah. Pretty much. i mean, because they, they i mean, Bo Bassett was their only guy that they were going to have from this upcoming class. Now they they have, I don't even know who.
00:06:20
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, and Owen is, yeah, Owen's their other guy. That's that's right. Let me look at their ah
00:06:28
Cokeley Brothers
upcoming stuff.
00:06:29
Ryne
Anyway, so that's like, you know, if you want to be a ah Bassett defender,
00:06:36
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, and Michael Mako.
00:06:36
Ryne
You know, maybe, oh yeah, Michael. Yep. You know, but also let's, let's not be greedy.
00:06:49
Cokeley Brothers
No, I agree. so I.
00:06:52
Ryne
So there's the, you know, there's the whole, yeah, they're paying him 5 million over five years or whatever, four years of college, five years, one year in high school, whatever it
Financial Aspects in College Sports
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Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, what the heck?
00:07:03
Ryne
There's a a million dollars coming to the bank or supposed to be coming to the bank. What was that the end of this week or end of this month or something?
00:07:10
Cokeley Brothers
At the end of this month. End of this month. Yes, exactly.
00:07:13
Ryne
End this month, you know you got a million dollars coming your way.
00:07:20
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:23
Ryne
Pay for your own travel.
00:07:25
Ryne
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. For me, it's like personally โ I'm not going to feel bad for you. you're You're greedy. Your dad, your parents are greedy. And listen, Bo, this is a deal of a lifetime.
00:07:36
Ryne
Penn State's not going to pay you five mil.
00:07:38
Ryne
Oklahoma State's not going to pay you five mil. Nebraska surely isn't going to pay you five mil. This a deal of a lifetime.
00:07:44
Ryne
I mean, and and you're worried you're worried about nickels and dimes now for plane flight?
00:07:50
Cokeley Brothers
are we are are you Are we possibly getting too bogged down and in the whole money situation? Because is money really the the biggest motivator here?
00:07:57
Ryne
okay Okay, on top of the $5 million, how much money do you think he's already made in merch?
00:08:02
Cokeley Brothers
Right, with the whole Rudis situation. Yeah. and just as deep I mean, he's...
00:08:06
Ryne
it's not I don't think...
00:08:07
Cokeley Brothers
he' but Bass going to be fine.
00:08:08
Ryne
It wasn't just Rudy's either. he you know Iowa was giving him apparel to sell to or whatever. You know what i mean? He coming down to duels and signing autographs. You think he was doing that for free?
00:08:20
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, so he well he went to Flow Wrestling Night in America, and he um did the whole autograph, photograph situation. and That's where he did like the Rudis and everything.
00:08:31
Cokeley Brothers
um I don't know if he did anything officially with Iowa, because I don't know if you can yet. I don't know if let's like that breaks any rules or what. um
00:08:39
Cokeley Brothers
Sure, I don't know. But, I mean, yeah, there's... i don't I don't know what to what to do with the whole interpretation of the rules and all that.
00:08:50
Ryne
you got two options, right?
00:08:52
Ryne
The first option i'm talking about, but pay it yourself. I mean, the Bastards probably, I mean, Bill bill probably has money. pay Dude, pay for it yourself. You know what I mean? it's like it's like you why we It's like, why are giving an inch and taking a mile here?
00:09:06
Cokeley Brothers
So I literally tweeted that today.
00:09:09
Ryne
Option number two, option number two, you want to, you want to be able to train there whenever you want, pack your bags.
00:09:17
Cokeley Brothers
Move to Iowa. Yeah.
00:09:19
Ryne
Enroll Iowa city, Iowa city. Hi, Iowa was city. West, wherever.
00:09:23
Cokeley Brothers
Bettendorf. Who cares?
00:09:25
Ryne
i mean, no, that's three hours away.
00:09:26
Cokeley Brothers
Fort Dodge.
00:09:30
Cokeley Brothers
But it's still within 250 miles.
00:09:32
Ryne
I guess I'm just saying well if you're going to move, if you're to move to Iowa, just, just be in Iowa city.
00:09:38
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Homeschool. Who cares?
00:09:39
Ryne
You know, now if he was coming, you it's like, it's like, uh, Castillo, you know, Castillo just, he goes to Ames high. He went to Ames high.
00:09:48
Ryne
didn't come to Fort Dodge high.
00:09:49
Ryne
He could have, but he didn't.
00:09:50
Cokeley Brothers
Right. Gabe Arnold did the same thing. Gabe Arnold went to Iowa for this.
00:09:56
Ryne
Yep. So it's, you know, there, there are options.
00:09:58
Cokeley Brothers
I have a very...
00:09:59
Ryne
It felt to me, this is, it felt to me like, uh, a little bit of, um, let's, well Maybe we made a mistake ah committing so soon.
00:10:14
Ryne
Now let's um pressure the brands one way. And and yeah you know if they help us, great. If they don't, that's an out for us.
00:10:26
Cokeley Brothers
i think I think this might have been kind of in the cards the whole time.
00:10:31
Cokeley Brothers
So I'm going to read...
00:10:31
Ryne
I mean, i i pretty i said, and i told you guys off air or whatever, is like you know i didn't truly believe that he was going to finish at Iowa.
00:10:43
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. ah
00:10:45
Reese
Off air, allegedly.
00:10:46
Cokeley Brothers
Let me read this post.
Parental Influence in Sports Decisions
00:10:48
Cokeley Brothers
me Let me read this post. and it's It's definitely from like somebody who is...
00:10:51
Ryne
I definitely have said it. I could probably find the text, unless I didn't say it in text, but I've definitely said it.
00:11:00
Cokeley Brothers
let me let me Let me read this post. just and like This is definitely a very Iowa-cited opinion. and like Maybe there's some truth behind it. Maybe that maybe it's exaggerated, but just let's just read this out.
00:11:12
Cokeley Brothers
A parent using his own children as leverage for his own personal gain is disgusting. We hear about how it's all the kids' decision all the time, but in this case, it is most certainly it most certainly was not, as it isn't for most in today's landscape.
00:11:24
Cokeley Brothers
For Beau, and particularly Melvin, An early commitment from Melbourne was offered by Bill in exchange for things that had previously been discussed as being off the table for reasons out of the staff's hands. A job, flights, vehicles, control over the program, and more.
00:11:37
Cokeley Brothers
The ultimate renege by the Bassett clan. These people smell the ripe fish and they thought they'd be able to continue to take advantage and make demands. And Tom stood on his business. So again, definitely like somebody who is...
00:11:46
Ryne
So where, where was that? ah you read that at?
00:11:50
Cokeley Brothers
ah this is this was tweeted out. This is from like the Iowa Wrestling Forums, and it's tweeted out as from the best insider for Iowa wrestling.
00:11:59
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know if that's necessarily the case. I don't know. i haven't i haven't i don't have any vetting to like say this is definitely like very truthful. There's a lot behind this, except for the fact that we've heard we heard ah months before Bo Bassett had made a commitment that his dad was looking to be on ah on a coaching staff.
00:12:22
Cokeley Brothers
this was not This is not the first time that we've heard about this. And so like there is cross-referencing. That made that like kind of makes sense. um And then Keegan Bassett earlier today commented on Instagram or something like that and said, all we want is the same treatment that other guys are receiving from other teams.
00:12:39
Cokeley Brothers
It's like, okay, yeah.
00:12:40
Cokeley Brothers
We hear... We hear Jax is being flown down to Stillwater. um We hear, you know, different things about different guys for different programs. And so it's like you can kind of piece that all together and kind of like, yeah, a job, flights, vehicles, control over the program and more. that That's not outside the realm possibility. Now, is it really what's happening?
00:13:00
Cokeley Brothers
You know, make your own choices in terms of what you believe.
00:13:03
Cokeley Brothers
But that, I mean, like, I don't...
00:13:06
Cokeley Brothers
lot of people are putting this on Bo Bassett. And I guess if Bo Bassett really wanted to go to Iowa, Bo Bassett could still go to Iowa. ah But if there's a lot of drive behind Bill Bassett and, you know, he's gotten in trouble in the past before for breaking the rules or for trying to do things his way, well, this might be more on Bill than Bo.
00:13:28
Cokeley Brothers
So I think that's kind of what we're seeing here.
00:13:36
Cokeley Brothers
What are you doing
00:13:37
Ryne
I just sent a text out to a source. I just asked him a question. I'm not going to repeat the question.
00:13:43
Cokeley Brothers
doing? Okay. um
00:13:48
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. So that's, that's kind of the, the Bo Bassett T I don't think. Oh, his. Okay. So he's got three schools that he's looking at now.
00:13:59
Cokeley Brothers
Penn state, Oklahoma state, Nebraska.
Recruitment Dynamics and Communication Challenges
00:14:01
Ryne
and Apparently, Penn State was at his doorstep already.
00:14:06
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I mean, like, it wouldn't surprise me. It's not much of a drive.
00:14:11
Ryne
I just, I mean, I just, well, okay. And then the other thing you're hearing too, is that Kale never stops recruiting him.
00:14:21
Cokeley Brothers
Depends on what that means, right? Like, if Kale's every now and again, like, hey, Bo, looking good, you know, always free to come practice the RTC.
00:14:28
Cokeley Brothers
Like, those are simple gestures.
00:14:28
Ryne
From what I've been hearing is that Kale actively recruits guys that are verbally committed, telling them to flip, you know, asking them to flip.
00:14:36
Cokeley Brothers
Right. I mean, we we know David Taylor is also doing this.
00:14:44
Cokeley Brothers
So it's not surprise to say both
00:14:46
Ryne
David Taylor's deal was a little bit different because, ah
00:14:50
Cokeley Brothers
brand new.
00:14:51
Ryne
yeah, because, you know, he didn't really get a shot to begin with.
00:14:55
Ryne
Like, so I kind of understand that.
00:14:57
Ryne
Like, he came in late the game, so he was, like, trying to โ so, he yeah, he went ahead and tried to turn some of these already committed dudes. Now, Cale, on the other hand?
00:15:10
Cokeley Brothers
I mean, do you not feel like he's kind of stepped it up?
00:15:15
Ryne
Well, okay. give me an
00:15:16
Cokeley Brothers
Do you not feel like he's...
00:15:17
Ryne
Give me an example of a guy that um David Taylor has flipped recently.
00:15:25
Cokeley Brothers
no, no, no, no. Kale, I mean Kale. Do you feel like Kale has stepped things up recently?
00:15:31
Ryne
I don't know what you mean by that either.
00:15:32
Cokeley Brothers
In terms of his recruitment, his recruitment efforts.
00:15:37
Ryne
I don't know. I don't know necessarily if it's him stepping it up or if it's just people that are like, yeah, I'm going to go there because I know I can be good there.
00:15:45
Cokeley Brothers
yeah Yeah, that's fair. Reese, what do you think?
00:15:48
Ryne
track record speaks for itself, you know?
00:15:51
Cokeley Brothers
I guess Reese is...
00:15:51
Reese
I don't think he's changed his approach.
00:15:53
Cokeley Brothers
No, you've said that he's over-recruited always. you've You've been quoted as saying that.
00:15:56
Reese
yeah Yeah, I mean, didn't Yanni have the same story about Cale recruiting him while he was already verbally committed?
00:16:05
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe. ah can't remember.
00:16:10
Cokeley Brothers
cannot remember.
00:16:10
Reese
Pretty sure Rob Cole's confirmed it. Basically.
00:16:15
Cokeley Brothers
More likely. Yeah, yeah.
00:16:21
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Where do you guys think he ends up?
00:16:25
Reese
I think he ends up at none of those three.
00:16:31
Ryne
Goes back to Iowa. Say it, Reese.
00:16:33
Reese
I don't know. Dude, I don't know. I just feel like this whole situation is not a good look for if you're for the Bassets.
00:16:40
Cokeley Brothers
Overall, it's not, right?
00:16:42
Reese
I mean, it just reeks of ah just parental interference, like the parents getting way too involved, way, way, way too involved.
00:16:53
Cokeley Brothers
Right. Yeah. And like, I guess the, the, the, the stick that broke the camel's back was, uh, Tom brands and, and miss Bassett getting into a, a screaming match or something like that, or a heated argument. I don't know.
00:17:09
Ryne
I highly doubt Tom Brands is screaming at, at Mrs.
00:17:09
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, so it's like,
00:17:13
Cokeley Brothers
yeah, that's why I'm giving it multiple, multiple definitions.
00:17:18
Ryne
Is it what I heard is, is they took it as being yelled at when Tom said, please don't tell me how to run, maybe didn't say, please don't tell me how to run my program, you know, with a, with a stern tone.
00:17:26
Cokeley Brothers
and Right, yeah.
00:17:29
Ryne
And you know what? People do that. People misinterpret stern tone for being yelled at all the time because they're, they're,
00:17:35
Cokeley Brothers
Correct. Correct. And somebody...
00:17:43
Ryne
Do you like that reference?
00:17:46
Cokeley Brothers
you You lost me on that one.
00:17:49
Ryne
What? What's that movie with Paul Rudd and Stifler?
00:18:01
Ryne
Role models. Am I ringing a bell yet?
00:18:07
Ryne
There's a scene where Paul Rudd is on the phone trying to get his woman back and McLovin, which is not his name in the, obviously, but McLovin is like, tell her you miss her whispering eye.
00:18:20
Ryne
And he's like, I miss her whispering eye. And he's like, you just said vagina.
00:18:25
Ryne
You guys don't remember that scene?
00:18:27
Reese
ah do remember that. I don't really remember anything from that movie except for Jane Lynch with the hot dog. That's like the scene I remember the most for some reason.
00:18:37
Ryne
I can't believe, dude, I've seen that movie so many times. i guess I've seen a lot more than you.
00:18:39
Reese
And I had it on my iPod. i watched it a lot. I did not watch it as much as I watched Step Brothers.
00:18:43
Ryne
That's where I watched it. I watched a lot on my computer and my iPod. I probably still have it on there
00:18:52
Ryne
there. Pirated. Arr, my D.
00:18:55
Reese
What's wrong, Sammy?
00:18:56
Cokeley Brothers
I'm just listening. This is great.
00:18:58
Cokeley Brothers
ah Dude, yeah, i don't know what to think about the whole situation. I think it's a worse look for... And this is a choice that I'm making. But I think it's a worse look for the Bassett family than it is for Iowa. Now, I think it sucks more for Iowa than it does for the Bassett family.
00:19:17
Ryne
I don't I think the ultimate loser in this whole thing is going to be Bo because five million dollars is not easy to come around
00:19:28
Cokeley Brothers
It's not going to know. And like, so remind me, there was a some sort of situation going on with NIL where he had to make his, like, he had to put things, he had to put pen to paper to get a deal like that without it getting like heavily taxed or something like that. Wasn't that a thing?
00:19:43
Ryne
I have no clue. i Actually, i was trying to so I was talking to dad to see if he knew anything on like how tax the taxing works on that stuff, and he didn't have a clue either.
00:19:53
Cokeley Brothers
there there's I think there's something there. I don't know. Maybe if you're listening and you know, to comment down below or something. But like i I feel like there's there was something there with that too.
00:20:05
Cokeley Brothers
And so...
00:20:06
Ryne
This freaking animal is driving me crazy because you just won't stop crying. I'm right here, dude. You don't got to cry. Let's go.
00:20:14
Cokeley Brothers
those skinny legs.
00:20:19
Cokeley Brothers
But it clears the stairs pretty well. Um, yeah, I mean, Bo Bassett's not going to get paid $5 million dollars in college, at least not from an n NIL deal directly.
00:20:31
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, I do think, however,
00:20:37
Cokeley Brothers
I do want to consider where we see him going. Reese.
00:20:44
Reese
Um, I don't know. Rutgers.
00:20:48
Cokeley Brothers
You think Rutgers?
00:20:49
Ryne
If he sticks to his top three, my heart says Oklahoma State, or excuse me, my brain says Oklahoma State. My heart says Go Big Red.
00:21:02
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Nebraska doesn't have the pockets for it. So
00:21:13
Cokeley Brothers
unless, and like, this is, you know, a lot of this dialogue is demonizing Bill Bassett. And I don't know the guy. I've never said a word to him. ah But like, if, if it's true that he is like making these demands, they're going to have to make a deal with Bill to get Bo and Keegan and Miller
00:21:32
Cokeley Brothers
Melvin Miller all under the Nebraska Cornhusker roof.
00:21:37
Reese
Yeah. It sounds this whole thing sounds like it's being driven by strictly business, you know, businesses coming into play way more than like necessarily anything else, including, you know, being the best wrestler you could be.
00:21:38
Cokeley Brothers
Which would be cool, but...
00:21:55
Cokeley Brothers
Right. Yeah, and like do you do you guys really think that there was like this frustration... for like the fact that, that Bo did, didn't make a U 20 world team.
00:22:07
Cokeley Brothers
Jax Forrest is in final X and, and PJ Duke made a a senior world team and all this. And it's like, he's met.
00:22:14
Ryne
My son's falling behind.
00:22:18
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Well, you can't just outpace everybody. That's, that's not how it works. So now it, dude, the thing that does suck though, and like the people who probably miss out the most on this are the Iowa fans.
00:22:24
Ryne
Just a spoonful of paste, please.
00:22:32
Cokeley Brothers
Because it was a match made in heaven, I think. I think it was a great match. What do you guys think?
00:22:41
Reese
Yeah, I think that was a good good match for sure style wise
00:22:46
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I just felt like he fit them and he would have been great for them.
00:22:52
Cokeley Brothers
Now, would things work have worked out behind the scenes? Probably not, seemingly. But...
00:22:58
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I guess with the nature of how he initially, like, Cause his commitment decision was, was rushed. We remember this back in February. and so that probably should have, uh, clued us in to some degree that this was, uh, a shaky foundation.
00:23:15
Cokeley Brothers
So do you remember this?
00:23:15
Ryne
rushed that was rumor that wasn't confirmed
00:23:18
Cokeley Brothers
It was like a, Hey, this deal is on the table. It's not going to be on the table by tomorrow. Make your decision.
00:23:27
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. Maybe I'm wrong then. It did, but mean, did you, what did, what did you think? He like put out this list and then all of sudden he's like, ah, I'm just going to decide this week.
00:23:35
Ryne
well when you throw five million dollars in front of my face yeah who
00:23:38
Reese
Can't hear a word you're saying
00:23:38
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. Who are you talking to?
00:23:43
Ryne
When you throw $5 million dollars in my face, yeah, I'm making the decision right there and then.
00:23:52
Ryne
I don't feel rushed.
00:23:52
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, my Mr. My Mr. President tweet didn't do what I thought it would do. I'm a little sad about that one.
00:23:58
Ryne
It was a good tweet, Sam.
00:23:59
Cokeley Brothers
I thought it was a good tweet. That's okay.
00:24:02
Ryne
It's always the ones you don't expect to be bangers that end up being bangers.
00:24:05
Cokeley Brothers
i kind of i kind of knew what I was doing when I was working with ah what's that photo of Anthony Kasser.
00:24:16
Ryne
Yeah, you were riding that what the heck is going on at Penn State
00:24:20
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. No, I knew what I was doing.
00:24:22
Ryne
train real hard there.
00:24:24
Cokeley Brothers
I knew what I was doing. ah Okay. Okay. Do you guys want to just close things out with ah Bo Bassett? I'm kind of... It's been a day.
00:24:35
Ryne
Yeah, truthfully, don't care anymore.
00:24:39
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, until it's until like until the next decision has been made, which is going to be where does he go? Until that decision is made, it's whatever. I'm not...
00:24:51
Ryne
All I know is if, all I know is I'm sure the $5 million dollars is still on the table.
00:24:57
Ryne
And, you know, Bo, if you listen to us at all, come to your senses, man. Take the money.
00:25:04
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, hop on the podcast. Let's talk about it.
00:25:06
Cokeley Brothers
ah DM'd you. Answer your DMs. After I kind of dragged your father's name through the dirt.
00:25:12
Ryne
You want me to, you want me to, we didn't drag his name to the door, but you want me to, you want me to get his phone number for you?
00:25:16
Cokeley Brothers
Nah, but...
00:25:21
Cokeley Brothers
Nah, I'm okay. as He's not to hop on the podcast. we'll talk It's not going to happen.
00:25:25
Ryne
Wow, not with that attitude he's not, Sammy.
00:25:28
Cokeley Brothers
I put in the effort.
00:25:32
Cokeley Brothers
I put on for my city.
00:25:33
Ryne
We've had a world silver medalist and the guy who, you know, has the greatest NCAA upset of all time slash world team member.
00:25:45
Cokeley Brothers
one of Dude, we weren't there for Larry Owings.
00:25:47
Ryne
One of... It's the greatest one.
00:25:52
Cokeley Brothers
We can't say.
00:25:54
Ryne
no no No, no, no, no, no. You can go, go back and watch that film. Like the, I mean, listen, it's the greatest one. It is. It's the greatest one.
00:26:02
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. okay Okay.
00:26:08
Cokeley Brothers
All right. let's let's Let's look at this Japan World Team. What do you guys say?
00:26:16
Ryne
Rin Sakamoto. That's what I say.
00:26:18
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. like All right. And I want to, I want to, I want to go in depth with the, with particularly with this guy because he made a 57 kilogram world team for Japan. So he's on their senior new 20 world team.
00:26:34
Cokeley Brothers
And he's also going to be wrestling at Oklahoma
Spotlight on Japanese Wrestlers
00:26:37
Cokeley Brothers
state next year. Now, assuming he's going to be at one 33, don't even know if he's going to be their starter. You know, what, what do you guys feel about this?
00:26:47
Cokeley Brothers
This guy?
00:26:48
Ryne
I feel oh about him.
00:26:50
Reese
I've seen him wrestle one time.
00:26:51
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I watched him. I watched him wrestle one folk style match. The only folk style match he's ever wrestled. And then I've watched a handful of his freestyle matches.
00:27:03
Cokeley Brothers
One of them being against Ono. And he just got pushed around the whole time.
00:27:09
Ryne
Yeah, Ono's way bigger than him.
00:27:12
Cokeley Brothers
ah Yeah. Pretty much.
00:27:14
Ryne
I mean, i guess, let me rephrase that. Ono looks way stronger than him.
00:27:20
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Ono is 100% much, much stronger. ah this is ah This is what ah Kozak has to say. Sakamoto will be an underdog to reach the medal stand at Senior Worlds based on his performance at the Asian Championships earlier this year.
00:27:35
Cokeley Brothers
There, Sakamoto placed fifth after going 2-2. He ah beat two guys whose names I don't know how to pronoun pronounce, but then he lost.
00:27:42
Cokeley Brothers
He got pinned by the Mongolian that beat RBY at the tournament earlier this month or last month. Um, and he also lost to Chung Sung Han, who I believe is from Korea, I think.
00:27:58
Cokeley Brothers
Um, but I mean, he looks solid in, in freestyle and the way no beat him in freestyle doesn't translate to folk style. Now the way Drake Ayala beat him in folk styles makes me like think, holy crap.
00:28:12
Cokeley Brothers
But also it was in Carver. It was his first ever folk style match and they had to use cards to communicate with him. yeah.
00:28:20
Ryne
ah Breathe. Breathe.
00:28:25
Cokeley Brothers
So like, I don't know. i don't I don't know what he's going to look like. i't even Again, I don't even know if he's going to be the starter. It's it's him. It's yeah Richard Figueroa, Gary Steen, and JJ McComas at that weight for Oklahoma State.
00:28:41
Cokeley Brothers
Is he to be their guy?
00:28:46
Reese
To have all those guys.
00:28:47
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, yeah. But I mean, is he better than Figgs? I don't know.
00:28:54
Cokeley Brothers
He's going into it. I mean, I don't even want to get into just how tough 133 is. 133 is going to be ridiculous next year. Okay. um okay And then, yeah, I don't know if he's going to end up placing at Worlds this year. 57 kilos is kind of in a weird state.
00:29:11
Cokeley Brothers
The whole world is in a weird state right now. so
00:29:14
Ryne
Oh, are we going to get political?
00:29:17
Cokeley Brothers
No, I mean, well, I was mostly referring...
00:29:17
Reese
No politics, Tammy.
00:29:18
Ryne
World peace. World peace.
00:29:19
Cokeley Brothers
I was...
00:29:23
Cokeley Brothers
I was referring to like the fact that it's the year after the Olympics and everybody kind of takes, takes their time off this year. Um, except for our governments.
00:29:35
Ryne
Yesterday, Sammy, you were worried about Iran not coming to Worlds in 2027 and the Olympics in 2028. Now, 24 hours later, feel?
00:29:44
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know what's happened. I've been out of the loop.
00:29:47
Ryne
ah Apparently Trump has negotiated a ceasefire between all three countries.
00:29:55
Cokeley Brothers
That's my goat right there.
00:30:01
Cokeley Brothers
That guy can talk anybody into a deal. It's the art of the deal right there.
00:30:05
Ryne
Lip it and send it to mom.
00:30:11
Cokeley Brothers
ah that's that's That's my president.
00:30:16
Cokeley Brothers
Anyway. ah
00:30:17
Ryne
Do you guys have truth social? I don't. I'm just wondering if you guys know I don't know.
00:30:21
Ryne
Okay. Reese Reese looks like a truth social guy.
00:30:25
Reese
and Well, I do look like a true social guy, but no, I don't.
00:30:31
Cokeley Brothers
Okay, ah this next guy on the the Japanese world team is is interesting too, because I haven't really heard of him, but there's high praise. So ah Takara Suda is currently ranked fifth in the world.
00:30:46
Cokeley Brothers
And he apparently is a gold medal threat for Japan. He took out 2021 world bronze medalist Toshihiro Hasegawa 4-3 to make the world team. He also put together an impressive pool of performances of this freestyle season, winning golds at the Asian Championships in March and at the Albanian Ranking Series Tournament in February. In those events, Suda recorded notable wins over number 657, which is Nachin Mangush from Russia.
00:31:11
Cokeley Brothers
And Rhys, yeah, I think you are right. Mangush is probably going to end up being their rep. I think you're right about that. Artem Gobaev, Udit Udit, and Ahmad Javan. So...
00:31:23
Cokeley Brothers
Japan still has a really good 61 kilo, even without Ono, which is interesting.
00:31:31
Reese
happen Yeah, be fine.
00:31:32
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, but I also felt like we said that about 57, and then it's Sakamoto, who people are like, yeah, he's not even going medal world.
00:31:42
Cokeley Brothers
He could, but it would be it be an uphill climb.
00:31:43
Ryne
The more, the more, and more i look at that weight class, the more, more I look at that weight class, the more, and more my gut is just telling me that it's going to be a Spencer Lee RBY final.
00:31:55
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe. That Mongolian's good. um But RBY could get the job done.
00:32:02
Ryne
where's the Where's the guy from China?
00:32:06
Cokeley Brothers
I don't think he's been wrestling. I don't know.
00:32:09
Ryne
He was kind of big for 57. I was wondering if he was gonna be able to hold it down for another year.
00:32:13
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe. Maybe. don't know. Okay, and then Kotaro Kiyuka is back, this which is an interesting one, because what I was told is that yeah the ah the Olympic and world medalists and all of those guys, they kind of get like paraded around Japan.
00:32:29
Cokeley Brothers
ah And yet, and so like you know or they get paraded around the world, maybe even, and so like training for them is not really easy or convenient. But Kotaro Kiyuka is back on the team, and he is...
00:32:43
Cokeley Brothers
ready to Ready to do what nobody has done in the world since 2008, which is win back-to-back titles at 65 kilos. What do you guys think? Do you think he can take out Amuzad again, or are we in for ah
00:32:59
Reese
not going to say he can't beat Omuzad again because is he did it epically.
00:33:00
Cokeley Brothers
just a great... He did it.
00:33:06
Cokeley Brothers
I don't get how he did it, but he did it.
00:33:08
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'm excited i'm excited for 65 kilograms. I'm also excited. I'm excited to see how Real Woods does. The more I like look into the whole Real Woods situation, the more i'm like, you know what?
00:33:21
Cokeley Brothers
This is exciting.
00:33:22
Ryne
I hear Amuzad is a huge One Piece fan and they offered him a bunch of One Piece merch to throw the match in the Olympics and he said you bet.
00:33:34
Cokeley Brothers
I was with you until you started using it as that.
00:33:41
Cokeley Brothers
I was like, that's pretty cool that Amuzad is a One Piece fan. Good for him. And then it's like, well, it's just cool.
00:33:46
Ryne
Yeah, what do you care?
00:33:48
Cokeley Brothers
all right. You know what? I was trying to be like with you guys.
00:33:52
Ryne
Reese, I love it when you ask.
00:33:52
Cokeley Brothers
I'll be over here.
00:33:53
Ryne
Reese, I love it when you when you get in the text chain and start talking One Piece. It it really lights my day up.
00:34:00
Cokeley Brothers
You guys were all about it last night. I was like, oh no, something's happening. And then I start reading the text.
00:34:04
Ryne
and let I legit have no one to talk to about One Piece.
00:34:05
Cokeley Brothers
I'm like, nothing's happening.
00:34:13
Reese
I just watched Big Mom versus Law and Kid, and it was amazing.
00:34:18
Ryne
did you like where i so Did you like where I have it ranked and the fight in in my It's up there, dude.
00:34:22
Reese
I don't where you had a rank, but i would definite I'm definitely, it's top three. Easy.
00:34:27
Ryne
it's It was a good one. It was a good one.
00:34:32
Ryne
Sorry, Sammy. My bad. We were and geeking out.
00:34:35
Cokeley Brothers
When you touch me like that. No, it's fine. um
00:34:39
Reese
it just You could just watch it.
00:34:40
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, it's been stuck in my head.
00:34:43
Ryne
after can't even tell you the last time I heard that song. That's a good song.
00:34:47
Cokeley Brothers
is i must have been watching a movie or something.
00:34:53
Cokeley Brothers
I don't even know.
00:34:54
Ryne
Sing it again, Sammy.
00:34:57
Cokeley Brothers
I can't.
00:34:58
Ryne
Can you kiss me in like this?
00:35:02
Cokeley Brothers
70 kilos. Yoshinosuke Aoyagi.
00:35:05
Reese
I can tell me what it is.
00:35:07
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, I don't know what it is. I'd tell you if I knew, but I don't.
00:35:10
Ryne
I'm looking it up. Don't worry, Reese.
00:35:12
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. Aoyagi, last year, silver medalist. He lost to... I cannot remember who he lost to. can't remember. Kazakhstan, maybe? Anyway.
00:35:23
Cokeley Brothers
ah He's looking pretty good this year. But it's 70 kilos, so we'll see.
00:35:29
Ryne
The song is called When You Touch Me by Brandy, Rhys.
00:35:29
Cokeley Brothers
But he's another... There you go
00:35:35
Cokeley Brothers
Yep. Let Brandy touch you.
00:35:41
Cokeley Brothers
right. All right. ah Yeah. Yoshinosuke is going to be pretty tough at 70 kilos. ah Japan overall has pretty solid ah starting five.
00:35:53
Cokeley Brothers
And the fifth one of that is Kota Takahashi, who we all watched beat Mitchell Messenbrink pretty soundly last year.
00:36:01
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know if he meddles this year, though. It's going to be tough. 74 kilos. It's going tough.
00:36:08
Cokeley Brothers
So, after that, Japan's team starts to kind of fall off. Rionusuke Kamiya, I don't know much about him. Hayato Ishiguro is a guy who has beaten Zahid Valencia before, but I don't think we will see...
00:36:20
Ryne
I was going to say, we can't really say fall off when they've gotten upperweights that have beaten our, literally our upperweights.
00:36:27
Cokeley Brothers
yeah Yeah, but let me let me pull it back a little bit, right? This is Zahid pre-Don't Trip era. All right? He got taken down and then gutted, which we don't see.
00:36:39
Cokeley Brothers
All right?
00:36:39
Ryne
Don't even trip, dog.
00:36:39
Cokeley Brothers
Now, Aaron Brooks wrestles Ishiguro and smashes him. Okay. Now... ah There's also Ishiguro at 92 kilos. Takahashi. to Takashi Ishiguro.
00:36:52
Cokeley Brothers
Not great. But 97 kilos, this is where we have Arash Yoshida, who beat Kyle Snyder earlier this year, 5-5. He was losing 5-1, and Snyder tried to do this very strange go-behind, and Yoshida countered it the right way.
World Championships Match Predictions
00:37:09
Cokeley Brothers
And then Yoshida won. Can he medal? I don't know. I don't know. I don't think so.
00:37:16
Cokeley Brothers
And What do I know? I think... I i know. You know what? I'm going to say it. If Kyle Snyder and Arashashita wrestle at at Worlds this year, ah Snyder's going to win like 8-2.
00:37:31
Cokeley Brothers
8-2. 8-2. Pencil it put it. Put it in ink and paper. Yep. That one. Jot it down. And then at 125, they have Teichy...
00:37:41
Ryne
I've got a joke. um I've got a joke. Can I use... so um Never mind. and don't have a joke.
00:37:48
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. 125, they have Taiki Yamamoto, who made his sixth senior level world team this year, but has not ever really shown any promise.
00:37:57
Cokeley Brothers
So he's probably not going to play.
00:37:59
Ryne
Such a good joke. All right, moving on.
00:38:03
Ryne
That's Japan's world team.
00:38:04
Cokeley Brothers
I mean, that's...
00:38:05
Ryne
Solid world team. Are they going to beat us? Probably not.
00:38:11
Cokeley Brothers
Look, man, we got a lot of question marks surrounding our team as well.
00:38:16
Ryne
We're young, right? With a little bit of, with a little, with like, you know, one vet, maybe two if you count Spencer. Spencer's a vet. I'm count him. Um,
00:38:26
Ryne
Listen, it's like I look at it this way. It's like we're it's like the team that beat Russia in hockey, the miracle on ice. You know. We're young and scrappy.
00:38:38
Cokeley Brothers
it would take a miracle for us to beat Russia this year I agree
00:38:42
Ryne
We're young and scrappy.
00:38:48
Cokeley Brothers
nice ah yeah I mean this is gonna be a good world tournament I hope everybody's there
00:38:54
Ryne
Pencil me down for 10 golds. I'm just kidding.
00:38:59
Ryne
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
00:39:01
Cokeley Brothers
We already talked about this. We already know what our medals are going to be.
00:39:06
Cokeley Brothers
We've been down this road.
00:39:08
Ryne
That was, yeah. Yeah.
00:39:12
Ryne
We have. What else do you guys want to talk about?
00:39:13
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. I don't know. i don't i don't I don't know. i think I think that's all I have for today. I broke Gable Game and then I fixed it.
00:39:25
Cokeley Brothers
Well, I commented. ah have analytics. through Cloudflare and i got rid of the script that does that for me. And so today I was just watching the numbers tank and I'm like, ah, well, it was fun while it lasted, but nobody's interested anymore. And then realized what i had done.
00:39:40
Cokeley Brothers
So, Ruse, have you played today?
00:39:44
Ryne
Reese doesn't play, period.
00:39:46
Cokeley Brothers
I know it's not a fun one today. Today was tough.
00:39:48
Reese
Oh, it was tough. All right, never mind then
00:39:52
Ryne
How many did it take you, Reese?
00:39:52
Cokeley Brothers
Took me seven.
00:39:54
Cokeley Brothers
Well, Sammy took me, took me seven.
00:39:54
Ryne
Excuse me. Sorry, Reese. ah Now got to go back and look how many it took me. I think it took me five. Let me look.
00:40:05
Cokeley Brothers
Did you use PEBs?
00:40:14
Cokeley Brothers
Performance enhancing brackets.
00:40:22
Ryne
Let me look at the answer and then I can tell you because I really don't remember. Sammy, I've played your game so many times.
00:40:30
Cokeley Brothers
Well, can't you just look at how you did today?
00:40:39
Ryne
Maybe I haven't played today. I definitely played today. Why is it telling me? So I played on my computer at work. Logged in. Played.
00:40:49
Ryne
Now I've just re-logged in on my phone and now it's telling me to play again.
00:40:55
Cokeley Brothers
I don't think you played today then.
00:40:56
Ryne
I definitely played today.
00:40:58
Cokeley Brothers
Who was it then?
00:41:01
Ryne
yeah I get to say it?
00:41:03
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I mean, that i'm not going to post this until tomorrow.
00:41:05
Ryne
it seventy I know it was a 74 pounder.
00:41:13
Ryne
So I've definitely played today, right? Have I have i proven it enough now?
00:41:17
Cokeley Brothers
Probably. Because I think yesterday's was ah was ah ah somebody else. um
00:41:28
Ryne
Senior 74 from the Mac. Was it Kramer?
00:41:31
Cokeley Brothers
Yes, it was Kramer.
00:41:33
Ryne
Yeah, see, I've already played today.
00:41:34
Ryne
All right, I'm playing again. I'm putting his name in. See what it does to me. Oh.
00:41:42
Ryne
Your game's broken, Sammy.
00:41:44
Cokeley Brothers
Fuck me. Wait, no, dude, what happened? Did you refresh it? What happened?
00:41:50
Ryne
Yeah, you got it in one attempt.
00:41:54
Cokeley Brothers
Shit. Maybe you weren't logged in. I'm going to say you weren't logged in this morning.
00:41:58
Ryne
I was 100% logged in.
00:42:01
Cokeley Brothers
Well, you could get to be logged in if you wanted to save across devices, Bruce.
Technical Glitches in Sports Games
00:42:05
Reese
I won, dude. First try. My 1% 90%.
00:42:08
Cokeley Brothers
Shut up. Shut up.
00:42:13
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. Okay.
00:42:15
Cokeley Brothers
We're going it and get out here. i Thank you everybody for listening to this brief episode of the barn session. If you like what we do here.
00:42:25
Cokeley Brothers
Goodbye.