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My favorite saying to hear, well the one I chuckle at, during an event is usually whatever the loud mom is yelling from the top of the stands. From a coaches mouth what I’m usually amused by is when I hear a loud SQUEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZEEE!!!!! being belted out from the corner as they are also making some type of hand jesture while doing a power squat away from their chair.

Best coaching advice in the middle of a match: Use it

I had a wrestler get me a shirt for Christmas a few years back that said "if at first you don't succeed try doing what your wrestling coach told you to do the first time."

No one is going to say the Anderson Highland plaid that Eppert and Bennett wore? Didn't Indian Creek have a cool bow tie singlet around the same time?

I'd rather throw you than know you. Hold my headgear while I kiss your girlfriend.

“It ain't the six minutes. It's what happens in those six minutes.”

Injury time out, kid on the mat in OBVIOUS pain....... From somewhere in the stands "Make 'eem wrastle!"

"Free Move" after every locked hands call.

I actually saw a shirt back in the 90's that said shoot first ask questions later. Catchy, but you can probably guess I have never seen it since

“Be the bad draw”

Parris his Freshman year. Only loss of his HS career to some questionable non-calls to Osborn in the semis. Ended up taking 3rd.

Joe Lee pinning Brandon James has got to be up there in my time going to state. And then Tommy Cash pinning Joe Lee in the finals.

I have yelled multiple times "no your other left/right" when telling them to go to a certain side.

Definitely guilty of using this one in the past couple of weeks.

He got caught

Fatigue makes cowards of us all

“Rankings don’t matter.”

I miss the days when every team had "Pain is weakness leaving the body" on their shirts.

Billy Naegle headlock on Dosher MD Friday night

Cp v2 would have prob 4-6 or more that would have possibility of qualifying for state and placing that are all young underclassmen. Depth in the room is what makes programs really click and then when the bell rings they are ready to answer. I am sure Brownsburg has several as well. I don't think cp v2 has lost yet if not mistaken. They are really good! Programs like st paris Graham for years had freshman and sophomores not start and then win state titles Jr and sr years from developing with the upper classmen.

My guess is CP would have about 5 state qualifiers through their JV

My favorite: Wrestler goes out of Bounds whole gym yells 2!!!!!!!! One of my best friends would always yell "Too his back" after takedowns

This is a classic. The best is when the wrestlers yells back "I'M TRYING!"

"He is the hardest worker in the room" or "The most competitive kid I have seen" It is especially cliche when rooms have 3-5 wrestlers that are all the hardest workers and most competitive kid a coach or parent has ever seen. "He is on a mission this year."

After doing only about 20 minutes of digging back to 1999, the two seasons of "Most State Champions by a Semi-State" I can find are 2006 and 2012 Both seasons had ECSS with 8 individual Champions Same Semi-State has 7 champs in 2004

1.Yea, instead of using these soiled word not be said to the IHSAA, "Wrestlebacks". We'll use the word "Repechage". Its more exotic, mysterious, and interesting. We could rebrand the whole movement 2. "No wrestlebacks" not only make our wrestlers work harder, the process is much more efficient. You only need to wrestle 20 matches per bracket instead of the bloated 29 in a wrestleback bracket. Thats a 35% savings, You sell tickets at full price, but give the customers 35% less matches. That's what you call profitable. They should apply that to the State football and basketball tournaments. Just play 2 1/2 quarters in state tournament basketball games, you get done a lot earlier. That way, the basketball teams would have to do a lot more in the 1st quarter because it would count more. The 1st quarter would be much more exciting. Maybe the should apply that to track also. Like in the 100 Meter dash should be the 65 meter dash. The start of the race would be much more important and really exciting. Instead of going to 25 points in state tournament volleyball games, they should go to 16 points. Lets play 4 1/2 innings in a state baseball games. That 1st inning would really be exciting, just like our ticket round. We could do it to swimming also, Nobody wants to sit and a watch a full 500 meters. Lets reduce it by 35%, people would be much more interested in the 325 meters. Do you want to watch all 18 holes at the state golf tournament? Get this, how about 12 holes. Thats efficient and exciting. Gymnastics has too many apparatus also, lets cut out the uneven bars and give them one vault instead of two. Tennis is too long, lets make it a 4 game set instead of 6. That 1st game really would count.

So, after we all died when the storm hit last weekend, wait a second, ok after checking my notes it looks like the vast majority of us lived, I attended the NCC conference tournament, albeit two hours after it was originally scheduled. First a note on the tournament, I was extremely pleased it went back to being a straight line tournament instead of basically having five separate dual meets. I thought the round robin idea was over thought. Thank you Hanover Central for joining the conference(though I'm still mad at your hot dogs). So, as far as the hot dogs, well, there were pretty good. They weren't up to Mooresville standards, but they didn't have me writing my will like the dogs at Hanover did the week before. When I walked up to the counter, I was a bit concerned because I didn't see any hot dogs in the back, but the nice worker pulled out the hot dogs from a hidden drawer. She should've said "TA DA" or something to that effect. As far as the taste, if these were the hot dogs I was guaranteed to have on a weekly basis, I'd be a happy rasslin' dad. 6.25 slices of pizza outta 8. Next stop is sectionals at East Chicago, and if memory serves me correct, they have had pretty tasty hot dogs in the past, so I'm looking forward to it. Until next time, thank you for reading.

Might be biased but Graham Calhoun his Senior year. He went into the state series undefeated and without giving up any points. Out of his 46 matches he scored bonus points on 39 of them. He scored 249 team points with a 60% fall rate. Not being taken down until the state semi finals where a last second controversial call put the match into OT. Ended his senior year with a 3rd place medal.

Nick Lee twice. only two losses in his career were to two kids ranked #1 in the country in Micic and Red. I believe he bonused every other kid he wrestled in his three years at MD.

Listen man. I put what I put. If you want to write a dissertation about how I’m biased and wrong so be it. You guys don’t have a funny bone or the ability to just let someone have their opinion. I’m not trying to prove my understanding of anything. I wrote nothing: I said nothing. Go find something else to do . You don’t know me I don’t know you so have a good day. It’s an effin’ meme!

Has to be Nick Lee choosing injured to go after Red. Balls of steel and didnt care what the outcome was. Already had 1 title, and wanted to go after the current GOAT.

Our varsity 2 could have 3 or 4 state qualifiers. IMO

Sinkovics getting pinned Friday night up 14 I believe I forget the EMD kids name

Jared Mckinley’s headlock on Kieffer.

I don’t care if its 14-0, one move 2 seconds is all it takes.

Back in the day they used to sell pins to wear at freestyle tournaments. A couple of my favorites were: Happiness is a quick pin! And my favorite: It is better to have wrestled and lost than to play basketball! Lol

Evansville Central had some argyle singlets which would of been cool if their colors weren't brown and gold.

My wife used to yell, “Don’t hurt him, David! Don’t hurt him!” (Not a cliche, just one example of what a mom might yell out of the stands.)

Not sure about a 4x runner up, but when looking at some old records I recall seeing some past wrestlers that had 2nd and 3rd finishes for most of their career. Foggy brain preventing me from pulling a at names out right this convent.

Got to see Huyvaert at team state, good luck matching his pace on his feet.

But how are the Hot dogs?

Quit hating on the Hobart regional, he gave you a couple shirts.

1st off the NP singlet was a wife beater and jorts. 2nd they were absolutely awesome haha.

here… I like A & B …. Why ? They gonna be battle tested . They gonna face each other 2-3x in the next couple weeks in the State Series . Could possibly split wins during that time but that’s what we all pay for admission for . A healthy Reynolds is going to tough to beat . 1st matchup … Mooresville Semi State then they’ll face each other again at Evansville Semi State making it a guaranteed matchup with Huyvaert with one of them at State . LOCK IT UP . Walker is my option C then D would be Arberry . Will it happen like this, Will the Wrestling Magic ball be in TeamGarcia Palm again this year … WE GONNA FIND OUT ! Wooooooooooooo !

Corsaro senior year when Hiestand upset him in the finals

Two dual meets at the same time in two different gyms? We couldn't choose just one, so the Z Team is going to do both! We have details here of our plans for a final send-off to the 2023-24 regular season: WZBD set for double broadcast Wednesday

Red or gold Mater Dei with the leggings

Mooresville does a great job! When I was at Arsenal Tech we had an awesome hospitality room!

Jennings County Sectional on hospitality. It's not an opinion, it's pretty much a fact of life.