Drooke Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Coach Peck you had me laughing out loud with your question and comment. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Who are the regional representatives and when are the meetings with them in each region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Holy Cow!!! I hadn't checked in on the old board in prolly 1-1/2 months. Crickets...........freakin Crickets and Tumbleweeds!!! I was shocked. I thought alot of folks would still be posting there.......Wow!! I guess it truly is an informational site now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guru Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 The IHSWCA Board is back up. This is not an advertisement. I hope that if you are happy here and never want to even look at the iHSWCA Board that you do so. I am hoping that the IHSWCA Board will begin to serve the purpose it was originally intended to serve which was to be a place for High School Coaches to get information, and the IHSWCA to get information out to it's membership. The Board was never really meant to be a "smack board", or a place for all of the things it ended up being. It simply morphed into what it was because there was nothing else. I think we did a good job with it. I think we would still be doing that job if we would not have been repeatedly hacked, but as I told someone after the first time we were hacked, I feel it might be a blessing in disguise because now we can get our Board back to what it was originally meant for. Around thirteen years ago I told JD that I thought we needed a website. He told me to go for it. I did not know anything about it (and still do not know as much as many of you), but I started working and we had, what I think, was the first real website for an Indiana High School sport. Some of you want to crack jokes about, and make fun of, the old discussion board. That is fine, but I am not sure why you feel that you need to do this. You may feel that you need to belittle anything going on at the other board once it gets back on track. Again, it is certainly your right to do so, but I am not sure why you need to. I like some of the things that Indianmat is doing and hope they continue. I do not plan to be anything but supportive. I would be supportive if fifty different informational websites about wreslting popped up around Indiana because it would mean there is interest in a sport I love. A number of people have complained about the IHSWCA, and I do not have time to address all of those issues at present, but would be glad to at some point, but I can tell you this...without an organization like the IHSWCA (as well as the ISWA) Indiana Wrestling would be nowhere near where it is. One case in point is the Sectional tournament. If not for some of the people, that a few of you have belittled, standing up to the IHSAA we would have a Sectional tournament that is one and done. I have been involved with the IHSWCA for around 30 years, and I was at one of the first meetings ever of the ISWA. Both of those organizations have come a long way. I remember when JD Minch took over as Treasurer the outgoing Treasurer gave him a popcorn bag with around fifty bucks in it. That was the treasury and that was the way the books were kept. At that time the IHSWCA did nothing, and now it does several things to build wrestling in Indiana although it is not enough for some of you. Guys like Tom Cameron, JD Minch, John Cook, Tom Miller, and Ed Fox have been great leaders for our organization. Can our organization get better....I believe it can. We have some good people running for office this year, and I think any of them can take our organization higher. People say that they are not involved because no one has asked them. I guess I would say if it is important enough for you to be involved then no one should have to ask you. We are wrestlers and I do not think a wrestler has to wait to be asked...I think a wrestler would attack. Thanks, Rex The IHSWCA has proven itself invaluable in maintaining and expanding the best interests of our sport in general, and our athletes in particular. In my opinion, the organization doesn't begin to garner the type of respect it should from a blatantly arrogant and intentionally repressive athletic association. I hate to think of where Indiana wrestling would stand without the concerted efforts we have been able to represent to the IHSAA on behalf of the kids, the fans, the parents and coaches alike. Even the casual wrestling fan owes the men behind the organization a great deal in terms of the product we now see. While at times it seems we can be completely flattened by ignorant bureaucrats, one can imagine where we would be without the efforts of the IHSWCA, and that vision is not a pretty one. The only reason we have an inkling of control over the destiny of Indiana wrestling is through those ongoing efforts. Having said that... I think Indianamat.com is EXACTLY what Indiana wrestling needs right now. As a wrestling junkie, I am very excited about the possibilities of this website. And I think the format right now is professional and informative. Both the Indianamat and the IHSWCA can be extremely influential in our sport today, and both could be served by working together to a certain degree. If the IHSWCA board is for coaches information, announcements and policy issues, why not serve the IHSWCA with an area or hyperlink to important information or causes that need the backing of our wrestling community? And this type of partnership can and should be reciprocal. Perhaps a small advertisement on the IHSWCA website? Who knows? We are all part of the wrestling community. Our goals and information/content needs may differ, but if it is the goal of Indianamat and the IHSWCA to serve the wrestling community, working together in some sense makes the most sense. There... The Guru has spoken. Feel free to make the necessary changes now. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlittlejohn Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Amen, preach it Guru! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamDad Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Any headway on the by laws? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Peck Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 To be honest with you...at present I have other things on my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Shenandoah brackets maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codplayer Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 i checked out the old board today and nothing there not a cricket not even a mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Peck Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Shenandoah brackets maybe? The only ones I have at presnt are the ones I scribbled on at the meeting. I just put the school abbreviation on thme to save time. I will see if I can get them to email me a nice copy in the morning. I think they would have done so, but most everyone around here has been out of school for a couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatChick76 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 The old board is almost dead (although I've been checking to see if there's a pulse)...didn't seem like much was going on and I couldn't figure out if they wanted people to post or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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