Wrestling Scholar

Good point that's not super professional. On the flip side if the commentator got this excited and exclamatory about it, andthat this move was so big and strong, what did we miss seeing? I feel like i missed out on something.

Joe, never forgets anything. I try to stay away from bets on Indianamat, I suppose I dont have a high win %. But Tacos are the best. With that said, Im right 98% of the time, the other 10% of the time, I might be wrong.

Its good to see the General getting some extra cardio.

Darnit, I hate being wrong. Good point, you're correct it is two days.

At least there on different days

Id be pissed, and hope you come out OK. That's just wrong. If you don't get reimbursed, I would hope nobody would be crazy enough to suggest a Tripadvisor and YELP bad review of the Hotel and mention poor customer service, dangerous elevators and bed bugs. That would be wrong. This does remind me about 9 years ago, our team raised money and took our whole team to the state tournament and were staying at the Fairfield, and I was chaperoning kids. We had two kids get stuck on the elevator, so it wasn't a weight issue. I was walking by and the kids started screaming, one kid was about ready to cry. I went and told the front desk, and the lady desk didn't believe me that he elevator was stuck. After about 10 minutes of explaining, I finally convinced her it was stuck. Eventually, after a couple of hours they brought in a fire truck to get the elevator unstuck and get the kids out. The front desk wasn't happy and was pretty much blaming the kids. These two kids were one of he more squirrly kids on the team, but I dont think they did anything to elevator, but you never know. We were not charged $300 by Fairfield.

You have a good point Mike, and it seems like there's a trend for some top end talent moving to Illinois. The question is why the Illinois competition looks better or more provocative to these individuals so much to compensate for these kids commuting through the busy traffic? Is it better exposure, better competition, or possibly the travel limitations put on Indiana schools imposed by IHSAA? Are sure maligned has an analytical perspective on this.

#1 thing "Wrestle Backs" , lets take the luck of the draw out of the Indiana tournament.

If everybody doesn't want to drive to West Lafayette and enjoy Mackey, did anybody ever consider Valpo University's basketball field house. Never been there but it seats 5k. You might lose some capacity with wrestling mats, but should that be big enough.

The IHSAA Tennis tournament is more messed up then the wrestling tournament. They run it like a team tournament and only winners advance and they only let one singles player and one doubles team compete, not the whole team. The inequity is more noticeable as the better tennis teams come from very similar geographic locations, with the best players coming from the same sectional or same team sometimes. This was exceptionally agregious this year as the two best kids in the state this year were in the Lafayette sectional. The #1 ranked player lost a very close match to the #2 player in the state in the sectionals. The #2 player killed the rest of the field and won state easily. The #1 player's season was over. Again, this is because the IHSAA jams their basketball format and totally ignores the idiosyncracies of other sports. Just imagine the outrage is you had the two best wrestlers in the state wrestle in sectionals, and one could advance.

So if they could get four college mats, they could easily get four high school mats in there. Mackey has to be the best venue in the SS geographical area. Plenty of parking, adequate number of hotels and some good places to eat. It would be great except all the people in the Region and South Bend would complain about driving down I65 and crossing over the Eastern Zone.

I also moved to Indiana and questioned the wrestling format, especially no wrestle backs. It doesn't make sense. But as mentioned in earlier, the IHSAA is very adamant against wrestlebacks and will not change or adapt. But, Ill go into detail as the IHSAA reasoning for this. The IHSAA runs wants to stay true in all sports to their sectional, regional, semi-state state format. This format is more or less more conducive to basketball and football. One of the results is there are a lot of basketball, football and baseball teams that get bad draws and lose early in the tournament due to a more competitive area with more ranked teams. But these teams do not have a consolation opportunity or bracket to compensate for their earlier loss. And the IHSAA's most important objective is that the one best still wins the championship irrelevant of any bad draws to reach that point. So the IHSAA board who is made up of mostly ADs who were former Football, Basketball and baseball coaches feel that just as in other sports, the wrestler should not have the opportunity to compete in a consolation/or wrestleback format just like the team sports and this format ultimately decides the true champion. Note, many Indiana wrestling fans love the drama of the Friday night matches and call it a "Ticket round" where the results have heavy rewards and consequences being if you win you place, you lose you go home. Im my opinion this format is a disgrace and attacks the integrity of the sport. You compile a one class event where mathematically, Indiana is the most difficult state tournament to qualify and you have a great opportunity to showcase the states best talent, but the IHSAA wants to shorten the event and get the kids out. Its silly, and actually if they had another session and had wrestle backs, the IHSAA could charge more money. Ive done some research and have compiled a list below of states that do not have wrestlebacks for their state tournament. List of states without wrestle backs. 1. Indiana

Does Mackey have the floor space to put in 4 mats with room for table help? About 10 years ago, they hosted the Big 10s, did they have four or 3 college sized mats? Im sure Purdue could schedule the Mens and Girls basketball schedule around one Saturday in February for a little extra jack.

I thought that was the Taco place next to the High School. I guess that other Taco place next to the high school wins, and my geography loses. Where's Region Rat when you need him?

Im predicting EL Taco Real in East Chicago will be a big winner, I bet they sell at least a 100 more tacos from the traffic.

I want to negotiate with Y2. Can I turn in all my 40000 old bananas for 100 ranking points.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/33145027/oklahoma-state-wrestling-star-aj-ferrari-cross-country-runner-isai-rodriguez-seriously-injured-car-crash Said to be in Fair condition.

No one wants to be in gymnasium in May and April when the weather starts to turn nice. I always enjoyed getting outside for spring sports. Maybe one gimmick you could do weather permitting is bring mats to the football field and have an outside match. I think you would lose participation significantly moving to spring. Competing against baseball, track, tennis, Lacrosse wouldn't be good. There's a good reason the upper Midwest is so good at wrestling and the south sucks at wrestling. The reason is the weather. Its cold in the winter in PA, IA,MN, NJ, OH, MI, IN, NY, WI, NE,MO: so the next best thing to do is go to a gym and wrestle. I think that's the common denominator. In the south and west, weather isn't so bad so kids are outside doing stuff, but not wrestling. Also, a lot of wrestling referees also officiate baseball and softball. I think you would have a tougher time finding refs.

With the addition of Center Grove, IMO this will be the best\deepest wrestling conference in the state. Not really even close. The Duneland is good but cant compete with this level of depth in wrestling. That will be a nasty tournament.

Back in the 80s, how about Chute vs Swain. Chute's only loss from the best lateral drop ever.

I say if Ohio can seed their state tournament, Indiana could pull it off also. But of course this will never happen, because of the stonewalling bureauracy of the IHSAA, that would never adopt a progressive idea like this that conflicts with its traditional but static values.

Team Garcia, I thought was enhancing your colorful essay by adding some subtle details. Just trying to improve and not overshadow. I thought somebody had to represent the general sentiment of resentment in the Greater Lafayette Area from getting snubbed, kind of like getting ghosted by the hot girlfriend. Although the football coaches were quietly grateful from going from the doormat to the Alpha dog.

Good summary: Just one detail you left off Garcia, and is relevant since were talking about teams getting voted out of a conference. The 3 Lafayette schools: Laffayette Jeff, Harrison and McCutcheon just didn't leave the HCC in 2014. The 7 HCC Indy schools ADs had a special secret meeting and voted the 3 Lafayette schools out the conference I believe the reason was they didn't want to drive up I-65, the Lafayette schools weren't very competitive in Football and didn't travel well resulting in the gate being too small for football games. As a result, the next best option for the Lafayette schools was to join the NCC, which has been really good for their football programs as the conference is much less competitive in that sport, but did increase the travel budget for those teams do the large distances between teams. Looking back, I think the HCC had a vision of making an Indy super conference back in 2014.

Wait, you're saying professional wrestling is based on a script??

Wait!!!!! Are you saying professional wrestling is fake???