Drooke Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 For those of you watching the broadcast how cool was it for the announcers to talk about Howe's high school record. They mentioned he had one loss and even said it was his freahman year in the finals. They totally dropped the ball though on not mentioning who it was to. The only other 2009 Finalist. It was (to me) a potenially great Indiana moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 The Big 10 staff dropped that same ball. I'm glad someone else besides me caught that one as a great fact that should have been added in. Maybe someone will catch it by the finals tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCard Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 I was thinking the same thing when I seen/heard it. Maybe someone should pick-up the ball for them and mention who that loss was to tomorrow night in the finals. Didn't one of our moderators have some pull at ESPN? 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starsaw Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 2004-05 IHSAA Individual Wrestling State Finals Feb. 18-19, 2005 | Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN Championship Match: Reece Humphrey (48-0) Lawrence North (12) def. Andrew Howe (47-1) Hanover Central (9), dec. 5-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Haha I will mention it in the meeting tomorrow morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 That is Excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starsaw Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Make sure you hand them an Indiana Mat T-Shirt when you give them the information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedTights7 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Howe is the Greatest Indiana Wrestler Ever. None of the 4time state champs wrestled an NCAA AA their freshman year and he was a senior. Let alone maybe a NCAA Champion depending on the finals. Alex's college career has been a disappointment. I'm not putting the kid down at all, but I bet even if you ask him he would say his collgeg career was actually a huge disappointment. Angel is the best right now because he has a NCAA title, but what Howe is doing as a true frosh at 165 is unbelieveble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspray1 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Whats even crazier is that when Reece was a freshman he drew Angel Escobedo first round at state @112. Had Reece Been at 103 he probably would had been a 4timer himself. Hartman was the LN 103 that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbarnett Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 They did the same thing at the Big 10 finals... stated that he only had one loss in high school but failed to mention it was against Reece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trapjaw Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 I caught that as well Man, that was frustrating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammer Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Whats even crazier is that when Reece was a freshman he drew Angel Escobedo first round at state @112. Had Reece Been at 103 he probably would had been a 4timer himself. Hartman was the LN 103 that year. This is a great example of how it also takes having everything line up just right for someone to be a 4-time champ. IMO, Tsirtsis as a Freshman would not have beating Gralan Early as a Senior, nor would Mauer as a Freshman have beaten Hernandez as a Junior. Although, with Jason Tsirtsis beating Cashe this year, I guess neither of them would have been impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth34 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Pretty tough to play the what-if game. It's just nice to see Indiana kids have such great success on the national level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 well they know now so let's see if they use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 well they know now so let's see if they use it. maybe they will quote you as the source of the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire77 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 i caught that also, but i can only hope it will get mentioned inthe finalas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspray1 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 I know Alex Tsirtsis didn't have as great of a career as some of us expected, for whatever reason. I still think he is one of the best ever. 96 career wins at Iowa. On his feet he may have been the best ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-train Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 I know Alex Tsirtsis didn't have as great of a career as some of us expected, for whatever reason. I still think he is one of the best ever. 96 career wins at Iowa. On his feet he may have been the best ever. it really is a shame that he did not a/a this year. there is no doubt that he was one of the 8 best wrestlers at that weight this year. it is funny how the brackets line up sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 they finally mentioned it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-townBandit Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 it was just bad luck for alex he lost a close one early in the day and drew into the number 2 seed just luck of the draw look at prader from illinois he had a terrible draw into the number 1 seed beats him and then loses and doesnt even all american Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 I thought that was very cool as well AJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire77 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 pretty good finals. Hump vs Howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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