Four new staff members

I like your list.

They are all very close, but I would go with this:

1. Banach
2. Tom
3. McIlravy
4. Lee
5. Barry Davis (you didn't include him, but all-time wins leader for Iowa and a silver medalist)
6. Terry
I have to give Tom the edge over Banach because of the international careers. Wasn’t Banach’s fault and I’m glad he retired when he did, but them’s the breaks.

Lee hasn’t done enough internationally to move up above 5th and all of his “failures” (if you can call them that) have been in his biggest and most important matches.

If you’re talking strictly college wrestling it’s easy, you just look at conference titles, national titles, and AA’s. But that doesn’t tell the entire story. That would be like saying someone playing Canadian rules football is the best football player of all time.

Folkstyle is the Canadian rules of the wrestling world. It’s a small, obscure subset of the sport.
 
I like your list.

They are all very close, but I would go with this:

1. Banach
2. Tom
3. McIlravy
4. Lee
5. Barry Davis (you didn't include him, but all-time wins leader for Iowa and a silver medalist)
6. Terry
I was the football coach for the CR Prairie 9th grade team way back and Barry was a running back on that team. Ran into him in Madison when he was their coach. His father never watched him compete at Prairie in wrestling. He was a drunk. Sad.
 
I was the football coach for the CR Prairie 9th grade team way back and Barry was a running back on that team. Ran into him in Madison when he was their coach. His father never watched him compete at Prairie in wrestling. He was a drunk. Sad.
So was Tom and Terry’s dad. Neither Tom nor Terry have ever taken a drink in their lives.
 
Wow, Stetson has some real hurdles to overcome. Sons of a wrestling legend played golf at a junior college, degree in health studies and now coaching football. He could be the one that replaces Kirk!
 
I was the football coach for the CR Prairie 9th grade team way back and Barry was a running back on that team. Ran into him in Madison when he was their coach. His father never watched him compete at Prairie in wrestling. He was a drunk. Sad.
So was Tom and Terry’s dad. Neither Tom nor Terry have ever taken a drink in their lives.
Some of the most driven people are "Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA)."

But, they also have profound issues with intimacy, truthfulness and being a functional member within a team framework.

I hope Barry and T&T have taken time to work on overcoming the consequencies of growing up in that kind of environment.
 
I'm so smart, I knew the definiation and asked AI to confirm it.


what is: the square root of the sum of the sqaured diffeence betwen data and the average of the data population







Gemini said
That is a mouthful, isn't it? What you’ve just described is the mathematical definition of Standard Deviation (specifically for a population).
In simpler terms, it is a measure of how spread out your numbers are. If the standard deviation is low, the data points are huddled close to the average; if it’s high, they’re scattered all over the place.



Breaking Down the Definition​

To see how your description turns into a formula, let's look at the steps:
  1. "Difference between data and the average": You take each individual number (x) and subtract the mean (μ).


  2. "Squared difference": You square those results so that negative differences don't cancel out positive ones.
  3. "Sum of the squared difference": You add all those squared values together (∑).


  4. "Square root": Finally, you take the square root of that sum (after dividing by the number of data points, N) to bring the scale back to the original units.

The Formula​

In formal notation, the population standard deviation (σ) looks like this:
σ=N∑i=1N(xi−μ)2
 
I'm so smart, I knew the definiation and asked AI to confirm it.


what is: the square root of the sum of the sqaured diffeence betwen data and the average of the data population







Gemini said
That is a mouthful, isn't it? What you’ve just described is the mathematical definition of Standard Deviation (specifically for a population).
In simpler terms, it is a measure of how spread out your numbers are. If the standard deviation is low, the data points are huddled close to the average; if it’s high, they’re scattered all over the place.



Breaking Down the Definition​

To see how your description turns into a formula, let's look at the steps:
  1. "Difference between data and the average": You take each individual number (x) and subtract the mean (μ).


  2. "Squared difference": You square those results so that negative differences don't cancel out positive ones.
  3. "Sum of the squared difference": You add all those squared values together (∑).


  4. "Square root": Finally, you take the square root of that sum (after dividing by the number of data points, N) to bring the scale back to the original units.

The Formula​

In formal notation, the population standard deviation (σ) looks like this:
σ=N∑i=1N(xi−μ)2
Long time ago, I could do the calculations in record time. As with many things, you don’t use it you lose it…
 
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