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Clint Gard I agree 100 percent on your reply about officiating like this at the state tournament. I understand we’re in need of officials and as a licensed referee I understand mistakes are made but what we saw last weekend was let’s just sat bad at best. For example we had a match against Jordan Slivka and let me say Jordan is a friend, a great family and deserved the win. Jordan beat us 2-1 in o.t. and deserved it. I’m just pointing out we did a go behind....knees and hand on the mat and under the arms and ref said know takedown. What upset me is when I went to the table....(no swearing, no yelling just talking he threatened me out of the tournament and it wasn’t debatable. Plamen Paskalev a two time Olympian and medalist was in the corner and said that’s just embarrassing. He sent the video to coach Tom Ryan at Ohio state and div 1,2 and 3 refs and they all said everytime it’s two. It’s not the fact the referee didn’t call it cause it was a quick thing it’s the fact the refs don’t care. I talked to refs there and was told after they saw the film it’s simply a judgement call and every ref is different. Than why have rulebooks. If your a ref I respect what you do.....but if you don’t know what your doing stay out of the state tournament. Learn what, how when and where things are to be done. Graham got some calls for him as well that should not have been in matches. It’s just hard to coach when you have young refs that has no clue on the rules.

Wednesday March 21st we are honored to have former Warsaw State Champion, FS Fargo Runner-up, and current UFC fighter Jarred Brooks. Joining Jarred is NCAA D1 National Qualifier, NJCAA National Champion, and 3x Michigan State Champion Freddie Rodriguez. Had an awesome room tonight of 40+ area wrestlers that included state champions, placers, and qualifiers. Join us next week, don't miss this opportunity! Party starts at 5:30PM, enter through the staired west doors (L), must have a USA wrestling card.

The past two RTCs have been amazing with 60+ wrestlers each practice from over 10 schools. This Wednesday, we have Wabash Assistant Coach, Reece Lefever, running our practice. Aside from having a horrible haircut, Reece's technique is outstanding! As a wrestler he was the first 3x All-American for Wabash, helping lead his team to a program high Third Place his senior year at NCAAs. If you want the best competition and great technique, make sure you are at Warren Central on 3/14/18. Details: Enter Door 14 Practice is from 6-7:30 Be there. Get better.

Sounds like the old days of Industrial league Softball.

NVM just saw not your picks

Juniors and under region vs the county

Reminder we are back at it tomorrow/Thursday at 6PM - enter Door 7 to come to the party! State Champion Noah Warren showing technique. Room has been packed. Come get better! #PainTrain Snyder

UPDATE!!!!! Reece is unable to attend tonight's RTC (Y2, you'll have to tell me how to beat him next time, my strategy involved a baseball bat). Reece will be sending not one, not two, but three Wabash All-Americans to run practice tonight! Come to Warren tonight for the opportunity to learn from and wrestle with current college wrestlers! Technicians will be: Owen Doster: 7th at 133 Kyle Hatch: 8th at 157 Darden Schurg: 4th at 174

Porter County (Chesterton and Portage) may be the better choice for NWI dual strength. 4 Individual State Champs from Porter County. Honestly Portage’s lineup with Lemley, Girgenti, Pokorney, and Davison would be pretty tough to beat.

@V and M's Dad Thank you and my comment was mostly in a LOL manner, I actually like it when people complain to me because I enjoy the debates and the discussions. I like to try to fix things that are broken, I like to try to see things from other's point of views and on an occasion I like to try to point out when people are just plain wrong and complaining to complain, and I try to do this last one with a big old stupid smile on my face for extra dramatic affect. This is not you in this instance because what your complaint was has some basis to it. The issue comes in trying to prove it to a point of being able to take action. It is very sad, but it is the world we all live in. No matter what the competition is people are going to try to cut corners and some do it better than others and sometimes they cover their tracks to the point that we can suspect, think, and just down right be sure but are not able to prove it. This is the sucky part because they get to carry on and we feel cheated. Just know that they look like idiots and everyone knows that about them and for that the rest of us are actually winning in that sense. Thanks for the kind words and we will continue to try to close the loopholes that certain people have attempted to exploit.

If anyone wants tips on how to beat him just ask, I have taken him more times than I can count!

This week 3-14-18 *make sure you have USAW Card* Kevin English High School- Career Record 77-6 (WRESTLING) 2x DAC Conference Champion Sectional Champion Regional Champion Semi-State Qualifier 4x Indiana National Team Member Cadet Northern Plains Regional Place winner Cadet World Team Trials 5th AAU IRONMAN World Champion AAU Freestyle National Runner Up AAU Folkstyle National Champion AAU Greco National Champ 4x Indiana Freestyle and Greco State Place Winner 2x Indiana Freestyle State Champ Illinois Freestyle State Champ Illinois Greco State Champ 4x Greco State Champ 3x University Greco State Champ Member of the United States Olympic Education Centers Marquette MI Greco Team 1997-Who's Who in High School Sports Award winner 1997 & 1998 Times All-Area Head Coach Indiana Bad Boys Wrestling School 19 All-Americans 7 State Champs Head Coach Indiana Bad Boys Middle School Dual Team: USAW National Runner Ups - 8 All-Americans Head Coach USAW BIG BROTHER Coach @ US Olympic Training Center Colorado 2004-Concord Cup "USA BAD BOYS" Team Champions 2004-Central Regional Tune Up Camp @ Highland HS 2004-Team Indiana Junior National Duals Greco Coach 2002-Team Indiana Cadet Freestyle Coach 2004-Team Indiana Junior Duals Freestyle Coach 2004-Team Indiana Junior Nationals Greco Head Coach – One of Indiana’s best finishes in Greco @ Nationals 2004-Team Indiana Junior National Freestyle Coach 2014-2016 Elem. Youth Wrestling Coach Portage Wrestling Club 2016 Fegely Middle School Wrestling Coach 2016 RTC Hobart HS Guest Clinician 2017 Elite Athletic Club Summer Nationals - Middle School Dual Team 4th - High School Dual Team Champions - 12 combined All-Americans 2017 Elite Athletic Club Pennway Fall Brawl- High School Runner-Ups 2018 Great Lakes Nationals 15U Individual Team Champions 2018 Nuway Ft. Wayne National Duals 15U 6th & 12U Silver Pool 5th - 12 combined All-Americans 2001- 2009 - Mixed Martial Arts (Ultimate Fighting/MMA) Pro – Record 13-7-0-2 Ammy Record 10-1-1 Total MMA Record 23-8-1-2 Train in Wrestling, BJJ, Muay-Thai, and Boxing – IFL Super Fight Vet (Televised On Fox TV) Cage Rage Lt. Wt. Champion – Ring Of Combat Vet. Atl City (Televised on Pay-Per-View) C-3 Vet on Comcast Sports 2009 Super Cop Runner Up at Lake County Fair Grounds

It's a struggle to find that balance. When I coached HS I was blown away by the Kiddie Circuit, now here I am completely wrapped up in it. It's keeping up w/ the Jones's, you don't want to burn kids out, but you also don't want to take kids to tournaments and get blown away by 8 year olds that train wrestling 14 months a year. My 8 year old currently does Football (Aug-Oct), Travel Baseball (all year), Wrestling (Nov - whenever) and b/c he had one night open a week now we've added gymnastics. My head spins. I've laid off on wrestling this year compared to prior years out of fear of burnout. I stress to my parents that I'm not here to develop Bantam state champs, but I'm here to help get your kid to Bankers Life when they are in high school. I constantly preach that it's a marathon not a race and to trust the process. I take kids to national level tournaments w/ The Outlaws and they get smoked but they have a great time traveling, hanging out w/ each other, and seeing new places. But I still see frustration in faces of parents. I know the answer but the answer leads to burn out in most kids.

OMG.............I AGREE WITH THIS POST & its CREATOR !!! what in the world is going on here ??? no way I can leave work now as I am clearly gonna get into an accident or struck by lightning on way home !!!! Maybe this kind of good fortune will carry over to my arrival home this evening.....honey if you are reading this ?????

If the issues that are being stated about Elementary Duals are true, it is time we reflect on what the purpose of the event is. Obviously it has gotten way out of hand if we are paying kids or having illegal kids on teams. That kind of win at all costs atmosphere at that age is not healthy for the kids and the sport.

I have seen kids wrestle one division for a couple weeks then up in age the next week - take some L’s and then back down. The parents scrub their kids track profile and have two of them. I figure if it’s that important to the parent to teach their kids to be dishonest - that’s on them. This is all just practice for Life anyway and I’m going to teach my kids work hard , respect and honesty - It does irk me though when I see it.

But you still keeping up this same tired argument. All I’ve ever said and ask for from you is two thing. 1. Stop polluting every single college thread with a need to turn it into something about IU. It’s been nice for awhile actually see some college threads that you didn’t turn into a IU bashing moment. Thanks for that. 2. Stop trying to badmouthing any positive results the IU wrestlers actually get by somehow making it about a Goldman negative. Those guys are working hard and doing what they can within the system. There is not need to drag them or their accomplishments down just to take another poke at the head coach. I’ve never directly defended coach Goldman or for that matter attacked him negatively. I actually make it a point to not make personal judgements about the coaches or wrestlers unless it is a very extreme situation. And no a poor team or individual record is not an extreme situation worth my personal judgement. What I have done in the past is draw the boards attention many positive accomplishments that college wrestlers from Indiana or from a Indiana college have done. Then tried to adk you to stop turning every single thread in this forum into a off topic bashing season due to your vendetta against one coach. If in your eyes that puts me in the Goldman support wagon that is fine, but in mine it puts me on bandwagon for supporting college wrestling as it relates to this state. And as I’ve asked of you many times before please make an attempt to contribute anything additional to this college board other than just your Goldman vendetta. Unfortunately I’m not sure that’s ever occurs, which has made it very clear your interest isn’t anything related to helping improve this college wrestling forum.

Went from NCAA Qualifiers... to County bashing.... to class wrestling!!!! Possibly the best thread ever!!!!!!?????

I say just Lake County, some try to claim it but I do not think that is right. Had a kid in college one time say he was from da region, I asked where, and he said Rensselaer, I just said you are not from da region and never spoke to him again.

I agree but I thought he got fired. You got my hopes up

No but he should be

I received a coaches misconduct for approaching the score table to tell a referee that the match score was wrong. Referee insisted that the score was correct and gave me a coaches misconduct. After further review, the match score was in fact wrong and was changed to the correct score. I still received the coaches misconduct. The referee went on the say that I received the misconduct because I disrespected him by walking away from the scores table after he assured me that the original score was correct.