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Not surprising, guess we'll just keep hearing about all the kids moving to Center Grove, Crown Point, Browsnburg etc. Really great for the sport.

While at freestyle state this past weekend I heard the Malone family will be moving to Center Grove.

I feel for Coleman Scott, but you have to get yourself out of your own rut when you have an opportunity like like this. Another 15 years of classic Cowboy wrestling isn't winning any national titles. Taylor may flame out and suck as a head coach, (I don't think he will) but you have to take a big swing. For coaches, I heard it's Gillman and Jimmy Kennedy coming with him. Didn't know this, but Kennedy is his brother-in-law. He's looking for a heavyweight coach as well, and it'll probably be a big name. Recruiting could be nuts for Taylor. He obviously can't run M2 anymore, but the club will continue to run under someone he hires and he'll instantly have a pipeline to Pennsylvania talent. It'll be interesting if any Penn State guys follow him to OK State. Haines and Kasak were M2 guys. Now they can't just hop in the portal now and be eligible, but they both were looking at redshirt years so it's in the realm of possibility. And OK State can do some major damage this year yet on the national scene. Penn State still looms large as the heavy favorite, but OK State has a very good team put together for next year, and they seem to be the favorites to land Andrew Alirez and Wyatt Hendrickson from the portal. Their lineup could look like this going into the season. 125 - Troy Spratley, blood round finisher now getting Gillman to work with 133 - Cael Hughes, blue chip recruit coming off redshirt wrestling behind Fix 141 - Tagen Jamison/Jordan Williams, not sure if Williams can go down, but if Alirez does transfer in he's going 149. Both Jamison and Williams were national qualifiers 149 - Andrew Alirez, national champ as a possible transfer 157 - Teague Travis, round of 16 165 - Caleb Fish, transfer in round of 16 174 - Dean Hamiti, transfer in multiple time AA and national champion contender 184 - Dustin Plott, national runner-up now getting coached by DT 197 - Christian Carroll, no intro needed on this website 285 - Wyatt Hendrickson, two time third placer as a possible transfer Now two of those transfers have to happen, but if they do that lineup has potential to be awesome.

@Thor and @The Genius, I'm actually seeing a lot of people on other boards insisting DT would wrestle the Olympics as his last tournament if Brooks can't go. It seems insane to think of in the middle of the transfer portal, needing to move across the country and probably selling a couple of local businesses. ...and probably leaving his training camp. But people insist it would do so much for the notoriety of the Oklahoma State program that he'd do it. They say, "John Smith wrestled in the Olympics while coaching. Cael Sanderson made a freestyle comeback while coaching. Why can't DT?" I hear them, but in this day and age of 24/7/365 recruiting and training demands for D1 coaches--seems crazy. To be his best, he needs 6+ hours per day for training, eating, and recovery activities and 8-9 hours of sleep. He then uses 9-10 hours per day for a big-time D1 coaching job, plus family, business, moving, travel, media appearances, etc, with none of the downtime that a high-level athlete's mind needs in preparing for an elite event? Let me be the first to predict DT doesn't get gold if he is our rep.

Congratulations to the NWCA Head Coach of the Year and Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year for boys Wrestling! Head Coach of the Year: Cody LeCount of Delta High School. Coach LeCount led the Eagles to an outstanding dual meet season, a dominant Hoosier Heritage Conference championship, a State Dual Meet championship and a 10th place finish at the IHSAA State Championships in Evansville. The Eagles has three place winners for the former Perry Meridian state champion. Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year: Brownsburg High School. Kyles Ayersman, Brian Smiley, Alex Skipper, Brandon Gay, Chris Doty, Drew Krietzer, Eric Lynn and Rick Tompson. The Bulldogs captured the IHSAA state title after a 13-1 dual meet season, a runner-up finish in the IHSWCA Dual Meet Championships, Conference, Sectional, Regional and Semi-State team titles and a national ranking of 18th. The program has produced at least one state champion for the last 10 years. Congratulations to Coach LeCount and the Brownsburg assistant coaching staff. They are now under consideration for NWCA Section 4 recognition as part of the national coaching awards for the NWCA. Dave Cloud-Indiana Rep NWCA

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHJPDaWAIxhmwTUA0HJ8U0BVvaj14ypmb-D9Qydq3sT7HfqA/viewform?usp=sf_link The link should be open now, but hopefully not to Joe still.

Does Leroy Vega get the Head Assistant position now that AJ Schopp is going to back to EDINBORO in PA? Who else can Purdue bring in to elevate the program? Brayton Lee? One of the Davidsons? Chad Red SR.?

Anyone else mind boggled over this one occurring. There were rumors the last few days, but it still unexpected considering a prestigious alumni like Colman Scott with a solid coaching record quite a decent head coaching job to take the heir apparent role under Smith all this season. And now he’s passed by even if it was for Taylor. I feel bad for Scott if he didn’t do anything that blatantly made the school consider rejecting him prior to Taylor’s interest. Someone in the search process at OK St. clearly was looking for the magic (pun intended) beans that may knock Penn State down a peg. It would be safe to say this pretty much signals an end to Taylor’s international career. Who does Taylor bring in as assistance that can start chipping away at Penn State’s recruiting and training dominance. Does Taylor retain at least one OK St. legacy coach to help retain current top commits? Who may he grab from the recruiting or transfer pool over Penn State? Where do the rest of OK St. staff likely end up? So many questions and answers are not coming quick enough.

Wednesday RTC, 6-7:30 pm. Door 21 at Franklin Community Keep the kids coming. Time to start preparing for Team Indiana trips. DEREK GILCHER, Indiana University. NCAA qualifier, senior nationals US open 5th place, Big10 championship 8th place, uww u23 nationals 7th place, Fargo freestyle nationals 7th place, 3x Michigan state champ

THE DAVID TAYLOR ERA

No we won’t the Panthers are cemented in every wrestling fans memory. We won’t shock anyone by winning team state.

David Taylor was announced as the head coach of Oklahoma State late last night, I think his competition days are now over.

Come learn and be seen. https://mutigers.com/sports/wrestling/roster/coaches/kendric-maple/2572 6:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 8th

Mishawaka royalty made a surprise appearance at RTC tonight. State champion & University of Michigan wrestler Joseph Walker, state runner-up & Michigan commit Zar Walker, and West Liberty’s Christian Chavez were all back in the room! Excited to get some of our college alumni back in Mishawaka this summer

That's taking it too far, but there are definitely tiers to this game. Big Ten lower feeds Big Ten upper. Other lesser programs feed the lower Big Ten some too.

The biggest potential issue I see is if the girls are limited with events like the boys. Currently there are 18 points allowed with a minimum 6 duals and a maximum of 6 tournaments(3 or more teams). Currently most teams don't have enough girls for a dual meet and the girls are better off going to "tournaments" in which there are 5+ teams there so everyone can get matches.

Or at least give a year for adaptation where girls can compete for the boys' or girls' teams during the regular season as long as they meet scheduling rules.

One small devil's advocate counterpoint to the idea that a tech is now too easy: Making techs and majors easier moves team scoring closer to representing actual difficulty of earning each type of win. Pins have always been rightfully worth more team points than a tech. However, tech falls have always been much better indicators of the superior wrestler. Upsets by tech don't exist. Rematch victories by someone who previously got teched are very, very rare. However, pins can happen in a variety of circumstances and are not always earned by the season-long best wrestler. What we saw in college was that tech falls were way up, but that a rematch could be a good match despite the first match having been a tech. This was not the case before. Related...close duals will now have points more accurately assigned to the deserving team. Before, a team could have 3 dominant wins totalling only 9 or 10 team points, while their opponent had 3 close wins but also got 9 points. Now, those dominant wins can rightfully be 12 or 13 points compared to the 9 for the close wins.

Anyone see or hear about this?

Currently, I am focused on the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL draft this week. If everyone could refrain from being mean to the White Sox that would be much appreciated. Please respect my decision

Merrillville semi state bringing the Olympians

New Prairie will be toughest dual team in Northern Indiana outside of Crown Point.

Seen on Flo that Veazy is committed to Michigan. Go Blue! Michigan De'Alcapon Veazy 49 Ponderosa CO 197