johann

touche. i wish whoever you are rooting for good luck and appreciate his contribution to the sport. merry christmas

physical injuries have nothing to do with mental strength - i hope he's ok. every wrestler sacrifices every time he walks out there. i didnt mean to insult any kids i was just describing what i saw. the SIAC outside of MD and a few central/reitz guys is very down. reitz, outside of a few kids, is either very bad overall or didnt show up in the 2 important duals (i.e. - they showed themselves to be weak mentally)...every program has down years, and this is one for reitz from what i saw. you are taking it too personally - patting kids on the back for losing just reinforces losing

union county is seriously very good. like top 5-13 in indiana good as a team. they have a couple D1 talent guys in that lineup, memorial is the team to beat in that sectional right now, but, overall, the regional is weaker than usual. MD is on an entirely different level in most weight classes. i was a bit harsh on reitz, but they really didnt show up against memorial in that dual at all.. both memorial and reitz are young, how they place in the independent sectional will probably be closer than that dual. just from watching the 10way, i think reitz may be incurably weak mentally this year (they have no leader)...this tourney showed that the big boys down south were MD and Memorial

the old format was much better at determining the best team in the state. this new format is terrible... and if you believe parents choose to send their kids to private schools for the wrestling and not the academics (aka private schools "recruit" for wrestling), then you arent very bright. the private schools are far better academically and less than like 0.1% of wrestlers can make their living wrestling. if our gov't didnt mandate where we took our child to school based on our address, it would be fair. buuut, northern indiana cares more about teachers unions than high school education... FORWARD!!!!

yeah, i read that and was confused. i thought i remembered the match wasn't competitive at all and blackwell dominated the reitz 132. reitz truly was flat out average/bad at every weight outside of 113.

overall opinions: Union co. KY is solid everywhere and has some very strong lower weights. brock ervin and every other ervin born is a stud. memorial is very tough at the upper weights, scrappy in the middle but very inexperienced at the light weights. southridge's heavyweight is very good. reitz is very very down; their 113 doesnt look nearly as dominate in person. final impression: outside of MD, the SIAC is very down. Reitz is, frankly, borderline bad and memorial's team is scrappy but not something to write home about. union co. 59 - reitz 16? union co. beats mhs by about 15 to win tournament. memorial 51 - reitz 24