Coach Peck

Congratulations Brenton. I have enjoyed watching yuour career.

Did you mean David Palmer??

Angel and Lance Ellis.....my picks. Neither of them would strike you as dominating by looking at them, but they were so smooth, and had great internal wiring. Simply amazing.

Every year for the last fifty (that is about my length of recollection) people always gripe about misuse of injury time. I think that sometimes injury time is abused, but there is nothing to be done about that except maybe scoring one point any time an injury time is taken when the Official determines a score is imminent. Other than that I fear we begin to penalize a kid who is injured and that should not happen. I thinik most coaches, if they wil admit it, have had a kid who faked it to get a rest. I remember once back in the early eighties when my guy was wretling in the Regional and in the middle of a flurry he began to scream. The Official stopped the action, and I quickly moved to him. I told him to lie still and asked him where he was injured,. He looked up and said, "I'm not injured coach I just need a break." I wanted to kill him, ir was embarassing eventhough no one knew. I told him to lay there until I helped him up. I got him up and had him walk around, and then he went back to wrestling. The "break" did not help as he got beat fairly soundly. THe next week at praxctice I made him run each day. He asked why and I told him it he needed a break during the match he must not be in shape. There may have been others, but nearly as blatant.

I do not think he has been mentioned but a great wrestler and (in my opinion) one of the best coaches in taking a wrestler to a higher level quickly was/is James Tanniehill. Multiple time National Champion as a wrestler and coached many champions.

When I saw the post I immediately thought of Harold. You beat me to it. Great coach, gentleman and educator.

One of the finest men I have met through this sport!

CRAZY!!!

Determining whether a wrestler shoots with the intent of going out of bounds is way to much of a subjective thing, but I do believe the Officials could do better with some of the boundry issues. I saw a number of instance where one wrestler would not allow the other one to come back in bounds.

I was impressed by Davis all day Saturday.

I believe the very bad illegal hold call I mentioned happened shortly before this stalling call. The stalling call was very quick and very out of place. I told those around me that it was a "make-up" call. I yelled that a couple of times. I was not far away and they may have heard me. I really felt the rabbit ears were really on Saturday.

I would say making stalling a one point penalty without it progressing to disqualification so it can be called when it is happening without the Official being concerned that he is going to put himself in position to DQ someone would help. In my opinion this would put the onus more on the wrestlers.

I really doubt it was the worst. At least the Officiual got it right. There were a number of issues at New Castle. One I will not mention, but one that just amazed me was when the top man had a scissor around the bottom man's body. The Official was looking right at it (and the Assistant Official was in position to see it as well. The bottom man's coaches are yelling that is illegal. I see how the Official is beginning to look at it and I tell my friend..."He is going to call this an illegal hold". He blew His whistle and signaled "illegal hold". I could not believe it. The top guys coach goes to the table and asks that the Official check with the Assitant Official. I thought....now they will get it right. They talked for a moment and did not change the call. Two Officials looking right at it and they could not get it correct. Neither wrestler was from our school so my objectivty was pretty high. Stuff like this happened ALOT. I have NEVER seen so many instance where coaches went to the table, and I am not sure I blame them because there were enough mistakes that the coaches began to question most everything. I do not think they issued many warnings.

Another one I always remember.... It was the early eighties at MSA. A wrestler named Tommy Dooley from Mooresville was wrestling against a LaPorte wrestler in the final match. We were sitting very near the LaPorte cheerleaders and just as the match was starting they began a chant....."Are you ready for Tommy Dooley cause he is ready for you!" They had went through this a couple times and then maybe once more as the whistle blew. Then "Are you ready for Tommy Dooley cause he........." which ended as the LasPorte kid hit a sideheadlock and pinned Toomy Dooley.

I supposed you guys have seen this.

I have many favorites, but one of them is when our (New Castle) guy Jayson Madden faced off against Sunanguru Rusunaguko (sorry if I mispelled the name) in the 215 Semi-State Final in 1995. Madden was a bit light and GoGo was a big man. Anyway, the match started and early in the first period Jayson hits a great right handed sideheadlock. Normally, that meant match over. I felt like we had just wrapped up the Team Championship, but somehow GoGo came out of it. I was momentarily amazed until just as they came back to their feet Jayson hit him with a left handed sideheadlock and it was match over. Jayson pinned most everyone with a sideheadlock including Dan Pleak and several other notables.

I have "real life" experience on this one. I was in 10th grade during the 1971-72 season. I was not very good and never expected to be actually wrestling in a meet so I was not concerned about ny weight. It is a long story, but events conspired to make me our JV entrant for a match the next evening. I was ten pounds over. I had never lost weight in my life, but I knew what some of the guys did. I wanted to make sure I made weight so I did alot. The net evening when I weighed in I was almost seven pounds under weight. To wrestle heavyweight back then you had to weigh no more than 245 pounds. I believe it had been that way for quite some time. I believe we still had the 245 pound class when I was a Junior, but by the time my Senior season rolled around the IHSAA/National Federation had removed the limit. The biggest guy I wrestled, as a Junior and Senior, was a 420 pounder. I weighed about 240 at that time. I had took up lifting and working out and managed to actually become worthy of wrestling Varsity. I often got a bit crazy....I shot on the 420 pounder, and he crushed me. Actually put me on my back. I fought like crazy until the period ran out, and then ended up pinning him in the next period. In the 80's they put the 275 weight limit in because at least one wrestler was injured (broken next) because he was wrestling the unlimited class while weighing around 180 pounds. I think there were several instances of severe injury. I think the reason they initially went to an unlijmited class was because of all the hype surrounding Chris Taylor (Iowa State). THere were also other big men in NCAA wrestling like Tab Thacker. Another one was the guy who was in the movie "Stir Crazy" with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Besides being an outstanding wrestler he was also a really good opera singer.

Ben's Bar in Shirley Indiana......Tuesday is Taco Night.

I believe we are 3A or maybe 4A in Football.

The lower suites are great.

Looking forward to it and still looking for some suite tickets.

Until Mac the Mullet showed up and brought all of the attention.

In 1990 my wrestler Kirby Kirkpatrick had placed fourth in the Semi-State and wrestled Jeff Jorge of Munster. Jorge was undefeated and was being recruited to wrestle at IU (which he did). Kirby was a HUGE underdog, but Kirby beat him by a decision 4-3.

If anyone has a couple of suite tickets that they would like to sell to a couple of old wrestling coaches please contact me. Rex Peckinpaugh 765-520-8967 rextpeck@gmail.com

Actually both have hosted wrestling events in days gone by.