FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I know schools have rivals, but what teams do you think are dirty/ cheap or you just out right hate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goul149 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 What do you think this topic will accomplish? Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Not trying to start anything, just bored and wanted to her peoples thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goul149 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Just my opinion but this kind of question is the problem with this website. The point of this website is to discuss our great sport of wrestling, not bash teams that work just as hard as the next. Yes some may wrestle "dirty" or unfair but calling teams out will never accomplish anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbacker13 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I am fairly new to being a wrestling fan. I played basketball in high school and never really cared for it let alone followed it. A friend of mine was a wrestler in high school and now his son is a wrestler so I have taken a liking to following him. Im still learning but find it a very enjoyable spectator sport. I was at the Merrillville semistate saturday and was watching all the matches and kept noticing the kids shaking the other coahes hands after the match regardless of outcome. I then noticed that the Crown Point kids did not and wondered why til i heard a member of the crowd say the their coaches do not allow it. I can understand in such a one on one competitive sport that you would want to keep that edge and not be friendly but isnt it also teaching a bad lesson at an early age? Im sure they have their philosophy as to why they tell their kids not to shake hands but Im not sure their positives outweigh the overall negatives. Just one persons opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Sorry I did not intentionally mean for that :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goul149 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I am fairly new to being a wrestling fan. I played basketball in high school and never really cared for it let alone followed it. A friend of mine was a wrestler in high school and now his son is a wrestler so I have taken a liking to following him. Im still learning but find it a very enjoyable spectator sport. I was at the Merrillville semistate saturday and was watching all the matches and kept noticing the kids shaking the other coahes hands after the match regardless of outcome. I then noticed that the Crown Point kids did not and wondered why til i heard a member of the crowd say the their coaches do not allow it. I can understand in such a one on one competitive sport that you would want to keep that edge and not be friendly but isnt it also teaching a bad lesson at an early age? Im sure they have their philosophy as to why they tell their kids not to shake hands but Im not sure their positives outweigh the overall negatives. Just one persons opinion. I know that some teams allow their wrestler to vote and choose if they want to shake hands with the opposing coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 I know after every match that was an emphasis our coach made was to shake the opposing coaches hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goul149 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 It was for us to...I didn't one time in my entire career and boy did I regret that choice later. Boy did I get chewed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Are coach would point towards the other coach and force us lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwilly Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I didn't ever shake hands of the opposing coach. It was not out of disrespect. It was something we just didn't do. I graduated in 93, and it was probably 50/50 then. I think it started to increae thru the 90s. I don't see it a disrespect, because we always shook hands at the end of dual meets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 I agree there too. I have noticed most colleges teams don't I have only seen one and just only a couple of the members of the MSU team shook the opposing coaches hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtv2112 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I agree there too. I have noticed most colleges teams don't I have only seen one and just only a couple of the members of the MSU team shook the opposing coaches hand. Let's move on. We aren't due to discuss this again until early December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 what do you mean by that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdrodd1 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I seen one coach at New Castle this past weekend that after one of his kids lost a close one in the ticket round make his kid go back and properly shake the coach's hands after he just slapped them as he went of the mat. Number one, I understand the kids feelings and he will be back next year and will probably have a different outcome. Number two, I thought that the coach making the kid go back and respectfully shaking hands with the coach's shows a lot of class and teaches the kid that win or lose we still need to respect each other. That is why I love this great sport, the kids that wrestle show more respect and have way more discipline than other sports and are truly just all around good kids that for the most part will go on and be somebody in this world of disrespect...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Sportsmanship and respect in wrestling is something that you can't find in any other sport! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood2 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I keep a picture on my desk from the 2004 Olympic Team Trials. Rulon Gardner and Beyers from Army were going to wrestle the best 2 out of 3 for a spot on the Olympic Team. The whole arena was going nuts! We were all there to see these to monsters go at each other. As the energy reached a fever pitch in the stands the two squared off and touched hands. The referee was stepping back to start the match when the two dropped to their knees and prayed in front of a screaming crowd. The crowd quickly got quiet as these two warriors spent about 90 seconds praying head-to-head on one knee. Every hair on my body stood on end. They stood up together, looked at the ref and nodded. The whistle blew and those two pounded each other. I like that picture of the two kneeling and praying b/c it reminds me that we all have a job to do. We can do our jobs with passion and intensity while still respecting the other person. We all have sacrificed and pushed ourselves to our limits, but what would we be without someone else there to challenge us? Wrestling is how we push each other while showing respect. Try it at work tomorrow... you will know immediately who gets the 'wrestling' philosophy and who doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin189 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I dislike the team of the kid who knocks me out of the tournament.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntc513 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 another topic that should just go away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtv2112 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 what do you mean by that? The handshake issue comes up every year around December. I guess I should have put a little winking smiley face at the end of the post. No offense intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth34 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I keep a picture on my desk from the 2004 Olympic Team Trials. Rulon Gardner and Beyers from Army were going to wrestle the best 2 out of 3 for a spot on the Olympic Team. The whole arena was going nuts! We were all there to see these to monsters go at each other. As the energy reached a fever pitch in the stands the two squared off and touched hands. The referee was stepping back to start the match when the two dropped to their knees and prayed in front of a screaming crowd. The crowd quickly got quiet as these two warriors spent about 90 seconds praying head-to-head on one knee. Every hair on my body stood on end. They stood up together, looked at the ref and nodded. The whistle blew and those two pounded each other. I like that picture of the two kneeling and praying b/c it reminds me that we all have a job to do. We can do our jobs with passion and intensity while still respecting the other person. We all have sacrificed and pushed ourselves to our limits, but what would we be without someone else there to challenge us? Wrestling is how we push each other while showing respect. Try it at work tomorrow... you will know immediately who gets the 'wrestling' philosophy and who doesn't. Care to send me a copy of that picture? Thats awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood2 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 My brother, awood3, took it. You may be able to send him a message thru Indianamat.com. I don't know why I have never asked him to send it to me via email. I guess having a large copy at the bottom of my stairs at home, one in my home office, and one on my desk at work seemed like enough :-\ I will get to work on that for you. Really makes for a nice conversation when people ask about wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 ok sorry didnt mean to take it offensive I'm new on here so I didn't know it came up alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-train Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I keep a picture on my desk from the 2004 Olympic Team Trials. Rulon Gardner and Beyers from Army were going to wrestle the best 2 out of 3 for a spot on the Olympic Team. The whole arena was going nuts! We were all there to see these to monsters go at each other. As the energy reached a fever pitch in the stands the two squared off and touched hands. The referee was stepping back to start the match when the two dropped to their knees and prayed in front of a screaming crowd. The crowd quickly got quiet as these two warriors spent about 90 seconds praying head-to-head on one knee. Every hair on my body stood on end. They stood up together, looked at the ref and nodded. The whistle blew and those two pounded each other. I like that picture of the two kneeling and praying b/c it reminds me that we all have a job to do. We can do our jobs with passion and intensity while still respecting the other person. We all have sacrificed and pushed ourselves to our limits, but what would we be without someone else there to challenge us? Wrestling is how we push each other while showing respect. lTry it at work tomorrow... you will know immediately who gets the 'wrestling' philosophy and who doesn't. wow, very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FurgaSonic Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 why do I keep getting negative cool points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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