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I’d much rather have Goldman back, so Angel won’t take all the good instate recruits from Purdue....

There is an interesting situation occurring up north here in Hamilton. It's a small town without a stop light and basically lake town. The town is already small, but they are just close enough to a couple bigger schools that have numerous more opportunities whether it be academically to athletics to anything else compared to what they have at home. The open enrollment system has basically dropped their enrollment in half to where they have less than 300 kids from K-12. The school is basically on life support right now as they are losing funding and keeping it open is difficult financially. This wasn't something that happened over night, but it started when parents saw better opportunities for their kids at neighboring schools. It snow balled into more and more that did this until we are at this point where the school has less than 20 kids in their senior class. I'm sure the parents at least semi-care about Hamilton schools, but it's hard to not see that their kids could have a better high school experience elsewhere. On the wrestling side this is very much what could happen. The issue we will see is the trickle down affect of even regional or semi-state level kids that want to get better that start moving maybe not to a top 10 program, but top 20-30 programs that could use that level of kid to propel them into higher ranks. As Maligned said, we are a very mobile society these days and this issue is just the beginning which could lead to some affects we do not want to happen to the sport.

I wish I knew the moderator well enough to control this conversation thread! hehe The theory i'm trying to bring up is the long term ramifications of quality transfers going to power programs and the result it will have on the smaller/weaker schools over time. We hope that the room at CIA helped Sliga improve his game in the time he was there, and you are absolutely correct that Sliga introduced Seth Riley to our room also. Again, we hope we helped supplement his training too! But doesn't this help make the statement of spreading out the growth of our sport in many schools is better? If Sliga would have wrestled for a different school than Fishers, do you really believe that Seth Riley qualifies for state? Wouldn't this be a quality thing for wrestling as a whole? If we look at the list of transfers on the other thread. How many of the names listed attend an academy similar to Sliga? I'm the Lorax. I speak for the trees. If families "do whats best for their kids" and transfer from smaller/weaker programs, is that going to be the demise of smaller/weaker schools to drop their programs. What has happened to our failing public schools since they started open enrollment? Can we use that number and an example of what could happen to wrestling programs in our state? I really like this anaolgy. If i could invent a machine that could instantly fix broken arms with no pain whatsoever. The only downfall is that this machine cost $700 trillion dollars to make. If somone's kid broke their arm, I would say, "I bet that hurts like hell" because there's not chance I would be in favor of ruining America's economy to make a machine that would make a kids broken arm go away.....but if my daughter broke her arm you can bet your ass I think its a good investment!

We are extremely excited to welcome Vinny Corsaro and Brandon Wright to our Center Grove Wrestling Staff. The list of accomplishments for these two are exceedingly long. Vinny Corsaro -4x IHSAA State Place winner -3x IHSAA State Runner-Up -FloNational All-American -Junior National Freestyle All-American (Fargo) -Big Ten Wrestler (Rutgers, Indiana University) Brandon Wright -4x IHSAA State Place winner -2x IHSAA State Runner-Up -2x IHSAA STATE CHAMPION -Super 32 Runner-Up -Cadet National Freestyle CHAMPION (Fargo) -2x NAIA NATIONAL CHAMPION -2017 U.S. Open Runner-Up -2018 U.S. Finalist -Currently Ranked #4 in the U.S.A. at 61kg/134lbs. We are fortunate to add these two phenomenal individuals to our staff!!