Re: Solely "what have you done for me lately"?

[Patrick Coffman <ryled@yahoo.com>]

> Just raising a question here.  Let's assume for the
> moment that Asashoryu loses the next two days and
> goes 12-3 but wins the yusho, making him a
> borderline candidate for promotion.  For these kind
> of cases, should yokozuna promotion be based solely
> on a "what have you done for me lately" criteria? 
> After all, the two-yusho criteria is intended to be
> a guideline and not written in blood.  When
> Musashimaru and Wakanohana won their double yushos,
> it was the 5th yusho for both of them.  This would
> only be Asashoryu's 2nd.  

Sort of the point that I've been trying to make;
Asashouryuu is still very young yet in his Oozeki
carreer (actually still very young yet in his oozumou
carreer, relatively), and it is a fact that both of
his yuushou were when his main rival and the yokozuna
were both out of the picture.  I'm not saying anything
bad about the young Mongolian at all; I'm just saying
that it's hard to judge yet whether he is yokozuna
material or simply a very solid oozeki.  It'd be nice
to get another yokozuna when one of them leaves at the
same tournament (although really that one left quite a
bit earlier than that, just not officially).  However,
it'd also be very nice if we found in him a nice,
solid oozeki since Tochiazuma and Musouyama seem to be
struggling a bit.

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