piscis1956

So having a wrestling team with promise is your primary concern when choosing a residence?

Who thinks @DawgPoundRed should win IndianaMat Rookie of the Year award?

A lot of people underestimating da Wayne... shame on all of you.

Not saying the ticket situation is right but if anyone here was in the IHSAA's shoes how would you handle next year's tickets? I say back to general admission.

Good post...
However, you forgot Muncie Southside state champ Isaiah Bradley... 😁

Way to get it done Kyrel. Good luck as you continue your career. 

Fort Wayne East Chicago New Castle Evansville 1st 3 1 4 6 2nd 1 5 1 7 3rd 2 3 3 6 4th 6 2 2 4 5th 1 6 2 5 6th 2 3 5 4 7th 3 0 6 5 8th 2 4 4 4  
 
Im pretty sure I got this right. If anyone sees a mistake I will change it.
 

Mood Right Now

Funny thing happened this morning.
 
i was behind the Ford Center this morning noticed a BRINKS TRUCK AND HAD A CHAT WITH THE DRIVER.
 
For security purposes, he could not tell me his exact destination.  He told he was going to "The Degion".  i think that is code for another word.
 
He expected to arrive early, because he was not going to be compelled to re-fuel.  i asked him, "why"?
 
"Light load".

Looks like the Brinks truck will be taking a detour to da Wayne today. I hope they updated their Google maps to stop at Victory Bay!
 
Way to go Easton, Chase, and Mitchell representing the area. Also shout outs to Cressell and Krejsa who have deep ties to da Wayne.

I'm sure that the location had something to do with it, but I'm pretty confident that the ticketmaster fiasco was the biggest factor.
 
How is it that a company that only handles ticket sales, can't properly handle an event of 11,000?
 
Completely inexcusable!

Thank you so much.  If only that Krejsa kid didn't get lucky in their quarterfinals match, CJ could've won it all. 
 
I kid of course.  CJ said Krejsa was the only kid that got faster as the match went on.
 
Edit. I'm really proud of CJ because he fought through adversity at the beginning of the year.  We lost my dad in late October, and he was a massive supporter of CJs wrestling career.  He never missed any my son's matches.

Great weekend of wrestling and extra special for me, as my son was able to coach his 2nd state champ in his hometown tonight! I just don't understand the empty seating mystery at the Ford tonight. I was told by text messages today from two different people that the wrestling was sold out tonight and was curious if I had gotten a ticket. They were unable to purchase tickets online, because of all tickets being sold out. So Ticketmaster must be playing games with the seating or someone is buying a lot of tickets and not coming. Plenty of seats at every session this weekend. What is going on???

I like the fact that Evansville is totally dedicated to wrestling this week. Your not completing with other events or activities.  
 
 

Watching IhsaaTv from home . The Announcers for all 4 mats are perhaps the best I've ever encountered watching a large Tournament. They are all past wrestlers and very knowledgeable .

Dirty South did a great job ! If it wasn’t for #ticketgate2024 I’d give the event a TeamGarcia 

 
But overall 5 Stars . Was at the my hotel reading the flyers they had and it was pretty cool to see the hospitality. 
 
 

I’m definitely passing that along to the staff. 

We discussed that, but it was nixed because there was concern it could almost blind the wrestlers in certain situations. If you were on your back or in certain positions with one of those super trooper spotlights hitting your face it would be extremely uncomfortable. 

On another note every single employee of the Ford Center that I came across was very nice and helpful. Some venues that I go to such as gainbridge or Lucas Oil that is not the case. Instead of helpful they are aggressive and abrasive. It truly was a nice change of pace to be able to talk to someone that didn't act like they had better things to do than help you out. And I mean that for every single employee that I encountered.

I completely understand that, unfortunately calls like that (or maybe fortunately) are above my pay grade. 

Thanks Markio!
 
There was nothing wrong with how the Ford Center handled the event.
 
Now the IHSAA & Ticketmaster is another story.
 
The EVV SS seems to always be better attended then the Finals were. The only explanation for this is the ticket fiasco.

You guys did a good job, my only complaint was the no pass outs on Friday night. You guys know that there's a lot of working families that go to this and to make them feed their kids with a $15 chicken sandwich is hard on a guy. Other than that I think the Ford Center did an outstanding job. Thank you for your hard work!

I will say on behalf of the Ford Center, we really did try and I personally worked my tail off for this one. As a wrestling fan I was pumped to see it coming to our place. I’m sorry the lighting wasn’t the greatest for the finals, it was the best we could do with what we had to work with while trying to keep that finals feel. Originally they were just gonna keep the sports lights on, but I didn’t think that felt right. Had a blast all weekend and had the best seat I’ve ever had for a wrestling finals weekend. 

I get what you’re saying.   Of course Indy should host all future State Finals as it’s centrally located, bigger city, bigger arena.   Just saying that Evansville embraced having the Finals more.   
now hopefully Ihsaa and Ticketmaster figure out the ticket debacle going forward.  

What fun would it be to throw you over them? You won't get burned.
 
Now many may want to drag you over them.😝