Cav Corner #4

Tonight the Cavaliers take on the Duke Blue Devils tonight at 7pm EST! Casino night fun, and I am predicting a shut out with Wrestle Stat!

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Virginia Cavaliers Wrestling Preview

Speaker 1 0:30

All right , man , we're here . It's another edition of the Cav Corner . It's Cav Corner number four . Pretty excited about this one . We've been excited about all of them . We again .

Speaker 1 0:40

We'll just briefly touch on a couple things that we typically do , but we're here for the Cavaliers , virginia Cavaliers , men's wrestling right , that's what we're here for . We have a great lineup coming up this weekend , not this weekend . Listen to me talk Tonight . Tonight I'm talking about like it's like future tense here , like it's not till tomorrow , it's coming up tonight . I'm putting this out a little late . I do appreciate you guys tuning in . My apologies for making it a little late here , but I had a bunch of stuff going on this week . Just able to get to it now . But we still want to do this . We'll have this out in plenty of time . You guys obviously be listening to it . We'll have it out a couple hours before the duel , typically doing that anyways , doing it the day of the duel . Maybe we'll do a couple or something like that , like a couple days or something like that before a duel , but since the season's wrapping up we don't have too many opportunities to do that . But that's kind of how we're doing it right now . Again , I'm going to reiterate I don't get lineups from coach . We ask certain questions if they think a guy's going to be around or not , but really base this off of what we want to see , and that's what we've been doing the past couple of weeks is just what we want to see . Guys that we've been missing , thinking they'll be coming back . Um , we know that some guys are going through some illnesses for a little bit , um , so we know that some of those guys are bouncing back . Um , hopefully , this is going to be a duel that they can , you know , get that , get that positive state of mind coming up with the with the rest of the season coming or with the postseason coming , um , but , uh , we think this is going to be a great duel . So tonight they wrestle against duke the blue devils , right ? Um , I don't think that this is going to be a problem for us . Um , again , I I'll read it .

Speaker 1 2:20

I use wrestle stat . I love wrestle stat , so you guys haven't used it , been on it . Go to wrestle stat and check out all the information they have on there . I would describe to you exactly what's on there , but there's so much stuff and it's the amount of information that they sift through on a weekly has got to be insane , but but the way that they keep this , the information they have on here , is fantastic . They're doing Hodge Trophy runs as well . They have a Hodge Trophy race that they got going on here . So there's a bunch of stuff on here . Check out WrestleStatcom .

Speaker 1 2:56

This is basically what I use for me to preview duels . I think , like Flo uses them too once in a while . They talk about their stuff . But this is pretty accurate . I mean they were pretty right on the ones that I thought we were still going to . I mean I want to be a little positive right With our guys that they they were showing us that they weren't , we weren't going to get it done . I said we were a couple of them , we did a couple , right , shit happens . What are you going to do ? But , um , we do this so that way these guys get a little more exposure , get a little more attention . Um , I don't think these guys have a show out there , so that's why we're doing it anyways .

Speaker 1 3:34

Virginia against Duke . So we're going to say that it's number 41 , virginia , number 73 , duke , right ? Um , they have us winning 37 , nothing . Um , that's I'm going to say that's highly accurate . We'll look through . I'm still . I'm still gonna , if we got one that we're winning . I'm still might be a little judgmental on something , right , I mean , I still coach , so it's not like I'm a ncaa coach or anything like that , but I've been watching these guys now for a little bit and hopefully we get to see a little more action from , like I said , some of the guys we've been missing . But , uh , I , we definitely should have this one in the bag , I would think . Right , so we're gonna start off at 125 .

Speaker 1 4:11

Uh , I'm gonna say this again about names . I screw them up all the time and you guys are gonna be like why does he say this in every episode ? Because I apologize to the guys that screw up . Um , I've been saying kivion or kavion . I believe it's kivion . It's the way it's spelled . Rightion , it's the way it's spelled , right , you think it's the way it's spelled , it's the way you should pronounce it . But I'm going to say Kevion roller . I got him at one 25 . Uh , he's got this guy . Uh , dead to rights . They're saying tech fall . I'm going to go with a pin on this one . Um , I'm thinking KVN is going to . You know , come out and really start the . Uh , start the duel for everybody . I'm going with a pin . So they got tech fall 19 to three . I'm going to go with a pin . Um , thank you , russell , stat I man , the amount of information , it's just crazy .

Speaker 1 4:56

I have again , I have friends that that do stats and stuff and they do rankings and the amount of information that they have in their spreadsheets is just absolutely nuts . But they know what they're doing , right . A lot of these guys have been doing this stuff since forever . So we're going to go down to 133 . I'm going to say Gable Porter , let's see KB on Roller had . We'll go back to 125 quick , because I'm guessing that they're going to have Ethan Grimminger Guessing right . Again , this is just me guessing who I , who I think these guys are going to have . I don't know . Duke and their coaches don't tell me who they got coming up . So this is all wild guess right . And then , uh , so that was one 25 with Kevion roller against Ethan Grimmage . I'm calling pin one 33 . We got Gable Porter . Um , we got Gable Porter . He's number 64 against Raymond Adams 133 .

Speaker 1 5:50

I think Gable's coming back with a little bit of a vengeance . They're saying major decision . I'd like to see him coming out with a pin on this one , right , I'd love to see a pin on this one , especially for Gable . Let's see if we can't get him a pin . But they're saying major decision I'm gonna go tech fall , right , I'm gonna go tech fall , but I'm pulling for a pin . So I'm calling tech fall on this one . So that's uh , that's kind of where I'm at with this match .

Speaker 1 6:18

This is going to be pretty set , I think , in stone as well too . Um , gables got this . We've been surprised , right , we've had some matches already in the past couple weeks that we were surprised by that . You know , maybe they were going to win the match but didn't exactly turn out . It turned out a little worse than what we wanted to , but things , things happen , right , that's we . We build on week to week . This is all building blocks for the postseason .

Speaker 1 6:37

So , um , so that's 133 . I got gable porter . I'm gonna say tech , but I'm hoping pin , right , I'm hoping pin . Um , and he's going against raymond adams , so this one shouldn't be a problem . Um , I know that they have common opponents and , uh , gables beaten every single one . I think he's seven and six versus raymond adams has two out of 13 against common opponents . But I gotta pay attention . I got my french bulldog down here . Likes to get into everything , right , otisdog down here , who likes to get into everything , right , otis , otis . Yeah , he likes to get into everything . I got to make sure he's not eating paint chips or something , because he's crazy , anyways . So that was 133 . Next up is 141 .

Speaker 1 7:18

We got Dylan Sedano . I'm calling my guy again . I think they're calling Tech why I'm calling Fall Sedano . I'm calling my guy again . I think they're calling Tech . Why I'm calling fall . Sedano is going for a fall . Their position in rankings is not even close , you know , and Sedano has just been a fireman , so I'm calling a fall for him . What is that ? Two now , again , I'm just really , really biased here , guys , and no one's surprised , right ? This is a Virginia Cavaliers wrestling show , but this one I'm going to call a fall , right , they're calling tech fall .

Speaker 1 7:54

I'm calling fall Sedano against Coleman Christian Coleman . We'll see if that's the turnout , but pretty confident in who we have on that one , dylan Sedano is going to come out with a pin , so that's going to be a big one , and then I think we could be looking at . I want to make sure I got this right here . Oh yeah , I think we're , I think I I'd like to see again . This is these are all things I'd like to see , and this is someone that I haven't seen . It'd be nice to see jack myers pop out right . Um , haven't , haven't seen him . I . I think I maybe have seen him in one or two matches , but I haven't seen the rest of the season . Be nice to see him in a duel like this kind of prove himself and and put his , uh , put his name up on the scoreboard a little bit and make some noise .

Speaker 1 8:46

So , as far as I'm pulling up here , I'm going Sean O'Donnell for 149 here . Jack Myers , I think , is going to pull this off . They're saying major . I don't want to go too much on that one . I love you , jack , I just haven't seen you in a minute . But I gonna say it's gonna be a decision . Major decision would be great , but I'm gonna balance it off of some of the stuff that I've given out already . I gotta be a little careful , right , I don't want to be too wishful thinking , but , um , I'm going jack myers against sean o'donnell . I got my french bulldog bugging me here . He wants , wants , attention , but he's not getting it . Um , sean o'donnell , and they say major decision 13 to 5 . I'm going to go with the decision just because I haven't seen jack in a minute . It'd be good to see him coming out here getting that major decision , though . So let's , let's do that . Um , by all means , jack , pull it off . Um 157

Wrestling Match Preview and Analysis

Speaker 1 9:37

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Speaker 1 9:37

I'm going back to nick sanko . I think I did last week too . Um , again , I don't . I'm not basing anything off of last week . I can base off of what I think they got , how they looked , um , you know , and a couple of these guys look pretty solid . I think I think I mentioned it in the last one gas tank's important man . Um , I think we saw in a couple matches last week .

Speaker 1 9:57

You're , especially when you're getting worked , a little bit right . I mean , you got to try and make a comeback , and it's hard to do that when that gas tank's not there and it's it's not easy either . You know , when you're in the middle of that match and when you are getting worked , you're trying to make your way back . You're that tired it's that that way is not only on your body but on your brain , so it gets . It is difficult , um , but I think Nick Sanko is going to be one of them here at 157 that winds up pulling off something that we aren't expecting .

Speaker 1 10:25

They're saying decision I'm going with major decision . On this one . He's got , I'm guessing , logan Ferraro . I think hopefully , logan , you can yell at me too if I got that wrong Logan Ferraro against Nick Sanko . I'm calling Sanko on this one on a major decision . They got 12 to 5 . I'd be willing to say 13 to 5 , 14 to 5 . Um , I I got some . I got some uh , inside my brain thoughts here that uh , sanko is going to want to come out and make some , make some noise and beat his chest a little bit here and possibly get a pin if he can . But , um , they're saying decision I'm going to go , major decision with sanko . Uh , we head down on to 165 . It's our guy , nick Hamilton . You know , I don't know that Nick is really going to have too much of a problem with Aiden Wallace . They are closely ranked .

Speaker 1 11:15

They're saying a one-point decision . I think it's different . I don't think it's a one-point decision , I think it could be like a four or five point decision . Um , hamilton , I didn't look and see what these guys , how they faced off last year . Let's see what we got for some stats here . I don't think they wrestled each other or had their common opponents are fairly equal . Um , nothing too too outlandish here as far as who's taking one against uh , common opponents . But again , this is the one where I'm going to call sanko and you're not saying a hamilton , and uh , I'm going to think he's going to be more than just a seven to six . I'm going to go with like a 13 to six decision . So that's where we're at with that . Um , if you guys are keeping score , great , but that's , that's a regular decision .

Speaker 1 12:02

On that one again , the the rankings are kind of close and so far , with the teams that they've faced and some of the guys that they've faced , when it's kind of close , they've been fairly accurate as far as the turnout . But I'm not disputing a decision , I just think it's going to be more than 7-6 . So that's 165 . We got Nick Hamilton for the dub . Then we're going on to 174 .

Speaker 1 12:25

Um , I , as far as who's where , who wrestles at what , who weighed in at what , uh , it's always different , right , and I know that some of these guys can make different weights . Um , I don't know the status of all of our 174s , but I do know that Stefanelli is able to make that , I think . But this is me guessing . Okay , this is me guessing . I don't know where Justin Phillips is . I'm guessing he's either sick or injured . I haven't heard anything . I've got no confirmation on any of that . Rocco Contino I know Rocco got pretty sick , so I'm guessing that there's still kind of an illness bug with him . But this is just me kind of going off of information that I've seen .

Speaker 1 13:13

Again , the coaches don't pass me anything , but anyways , I'm going to go with Stefanelli here , and they have this with a 12-5 decision . Their rankings are pretty well separated , but not totally . They're on the lower half of 150 , but as far as who they have , I'm going to go with Gitano Consul . That's been their pretty regular guy . I know that he's had some wins , I believe , against one of our guys . Nope , nope , no common opponents . So there it is . So , but the ones that they do have , we have Stefanelli's a little more .

Speaker 1 13:55

Um , there's a bad wordage there um , a little better outcome . So , but , uh , they got stefanelli with 12 to 5 . I'll go with that . 12 to 5 sounds good on that one . But uh , they definitely give us the dub on that one . I'm not going to disagree .

Speaker 1 14:13

Um , yeah , 184 . I'm gonna go griffin gammill , uh , against david hussey . Um , again , again , a little further down in the rankings , but the separation of the rankings they have . Major decision for Griffin . I'll go there . I'll go there with the major decision . They got 14-3 . Sure , I'll take that . I'll take that one for sure . Any of their common opponents , it's been a common outcome , so this looks pretty accurate to me too . 197 .

Speaker 1 14:46

Again , my man , steven burrell , man , I , I'm telling you , man , pull that double leg out . Let's see the double leg , let's see it . I want to see it , I love it . It work it a little bit more . Uh , have , I don't care , have trent work with you in the room and just circle around and get in different positions for that blast double . Just just work it , cause I loved , I love seeing every minute of it . Um , but , uh , they got , let's see wrestle stats got a quasi Bonzu .

Speaker 1 15:12

I probably screwed that one up , um , but they got decision by Burrell . I'm going to go major decision . They got 11-7 . Yeah , I'm going to go 16-8 . I'm going to go just pulling off a major . That's me right . But Russell Statt still got him with the decision . On that , we're going to go a step above and we'll go down to heavyweight . I'm going .

Speaker 1 15:37

Gabe Christensen again . I think a lot of these guys again are getting ready kind of for the end of the season . A couple of guys they want to get out there because they haven't had a lot of exposure yet this season . A wild guess for me , but Gabe Christensen against Connor Barkett I think I'm guessing again , but I love these matchups because they are still so close . Yet we have the advantage all the way through they're going with a regular decision .

Speaker 1 16:10

This is going to be . This is going to be a tough one , right ? Connor is a little bit more up there in rankings as far as Gabe , but Gabe is just watching him wrestle so far this year and looking at their common opponents . Yeah , I got Gabe still pulling out . It looks like Gabe got pinned by Conor in January but they still got . Just based off of stats , they got Gabe winning 9-8 . I'm going to go with that . We'll go 9-8 . We'll agree with Russell's stat here .

Speaker 1 16:49

Again , you know a lot of these guys again coming off illnesses , coming off injuries , things like that . It's tough . So we're excited for this one because this should be able to get these guys to put their stamp , you know , on a good duel for the season here , especially coming up to the postseason . You got to have that confidence right . You got to be able to build and expound on what you've already progressed with right . So I'm looking forward to it .

Speaker 1 17:17

Tonight's pretty special . It sounds like there's a casino night kind of auction going on . It looks like there's a Dave Matthew night kind of auction going on . It looks like there's a dave matthews band um tickets that are going to be auctioned a whole bunch of stuff like this . This is probably going to be one . I wish we could be there for . This one . Uh , probably one of the cooler nights are going to have . Um , I think it's at the jpj and , uh , if you guys haven't noticed , uh , they did just honor coach garland . Um , and mr and Mr Harshaw their names are now up on the gym . Uh , gym room is dedicated to them now . Um , so that's awesome . Uh , I I'm really excited to have Liam get down there again . I reiterated on a tweet that I put out that when we went there um , paulson's are awesome , ian Parker great guy .

Speaker 1 18:04

But the one thing that my wife and I were looking for and I can't express this enough is we wanted Liam to be in a room and being coached by someone that parented similar . His coaching style was similar to our parenting style . That's what we were looking for . And , talking to Coach Garland , he was honest , he was upfront , he was everything that we expected a coach to be Didn't pull any punches , wasn't trying to , you know , sweep one under the rug with us or anything like that . And you know they're not all the coaches were , but we had a couple of coaches that were we could . I could tell , at least I could tell we're not being the most upfront , weren't necessarily lying , but they weren't giving you all the information either , and I get it . You know this is , this is a process . But coach garland and in clan , those guys made us feel like we're again at home , right , and that's how liam felt . Um , so no one more deserving of that than Coach Garland . I'm not totally familiar with Mr Arshaw yet , but I'm sure we'll get to meet him Also , probably a well-deserving person . But I know Coach Garland couldn't be prouder and more excited for someone to have that honor . So congrats , coach Garland .

Speaker 1 19:20

The other thing I wanted to touch on for Cav Corner , right , we got the postseason coming up . What I do want to do is and I think I talked about it a little bit in the last episode is we're going to follow along with these guys a little bit through the ACC's . Then we're going to follow along with these guys through the NCAA's the ones that qualify right . So we're going to be watching that . But once that starts to wrap , so we're going to be watching that , but once that starts to wrap up , we're going to start talking about some of the new guys coming in . You know we've got the 2025 class that's going to be graduating this year and they're going to be going into the room next year . So we are going to start talking about

Building Excitement for Future Wrestling Season

Speaker 1 19:56

some of those guys coming up .

Speaker 1 19:56

2026 recruiting class is a little bit smaller , so we might actually include those guys into it . Right , we'll talk about maybe some of their high school career briefly . We'll only be able to get so much info . We'd love to get some of those guys on the show , talk to them . We'll wind up getting some information on those guys and how their senior season ended up , maybe some of the tougher matches that they had , some of the tougher competitions they were at .

Speaker 1 20:27

A lot of these guys that are coming in I know emmett , uh , sherlock , he's a senior this year . He's graduating . He's in the top 10 on willie uh , willie's list as well . So we , these guys , are doing something special , right ? Regardless of what we have going on this year , we're building and we're going to keep building .

Speaker 1 20:41

Um , you know , just with some of these guys , when , when guys like you know , liam or Emmett , or was that paradigm that's out of Lake Island prep guys like that , when they start going to these places , it's just like any other school , other kids that are of top caliber want to go right , they all want to , they all want to get to a place like that , when they see these guys picking spots and become successful . So that's why I want to kind of follow up on some of these younger guys that are coming in . We'll be able to see where they're coming from , some of the success they've had , and maybe we'll get a couple of them on the show and be able to talk about the success that they want to try and get to Right . So , with that being said , if there's anything that anybody wants us to cover as far as the team , if there's certain things , again , shoot us an email . You can message us on social media . We're on Twitter , we're on Facebook , we're on Instagram , we're on TikTok once in a while . It's not a huge thing there for me , but just reach out , let us know if there's someone you want to see . You know , like tonight we got Sarah Hildebrandt coming up , olympic gold medalist from the female team , and we are way excited to have her on , way excited . But we'd love to get one of these guys on . I know we've talked to a few of them Season's on , so we're kind of on pause with that . But with these high school guys finishing up and wrapping up some of their high school days , we want to get some of those guys on too . We know Fargo is coming up and other guys are doing US Open too , so we want to try and catch them in between that . But we're really excited to be able to do this . Again , we really appreciate the Cavs for kind of letting us cover this stuff and do this . But again , once we kind of get more on our feet , we know more after this year we can . Once we kind of get more on our feet , we know more after this year , we can start talking and elaborating more next year .

Speaker 1 22:25

I'm not a big fan of trying to blow things out of the water , right , I'm about organic growth , so I'm going to take the little bit that we learned this year and we're going to build on it into next year . I could have a stat sheet in front of myself paying attention to what we have . That's kind of how I get into things , but not as smart as these guys at WrestleStat and some of the guys that I know that do rankings so , but it's just nice to be able to have this info , and , again , I really appreciate the team letting me cover them , and we're all about the Cavaliers . We're excited for this upcoming postseason for these guys , and we're even more excited for the season coming up next year , because it's going to get a lot better . Because it's going to get a lot better right , it's going to get a lot better . We're going to make a lot more noise , and I think we're going to get a lot more excitement coming through . We're going to make sure we give these guys the push that they need , going into the postseason , though , and making the noise that they want to make .

Speaker 1 23:17

So we appreciate you listening . If it sucked , I'm sorry . So we appreciate you listening . If it sucked , I'm sorry . It's about we're about 25 minutes in , but the dual dual score looks like it's supposed to wind up at 37 and nothing . We'll see a couple of close ones . I think the one close one is going to be that , the heavyweight . So we'll we'll find out what's up , but for the time being , man , it has been a great pleasure talking about the Cavaliers wrestling and what they got coming up , so we hope you guys will stop back and join us again . But it's been another , another additional . We'll see you next time .