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actually the odds of becoming a state qualifier in football are lower than becoming a state qualifier in wrestling. More schools have football teams and less teams qualify for the state tournament in football than do wrestlers per weight class. I'm not sure where you got the "2A football teams don't work as hard" as I clearly stated this was a 10+ year goal that our school and community worked for.
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absolutely not, it was one of, if not the greatest thing for our community, but it was something our community had worked for for 10+ years when Coach Meeks took over the football program. But we are comparing apples to oranges here. Your claim is that more kids will get college exposure and it will help grow the sport if we were to class wrestling. Well, we have three kids from our 2014 State Championship football team that went 15-0. Our senior class from 3 years earlier that went 5-7 also had 3 kids go and play college football. But you can't justify classing wrestling by comparing it to football. A school like Penn who has 150+ kids from grades 9-12 will not be as severely affected by a season ending injury to say that of a North Judson, who may only get 40 kids from grades 9-12. In wrestling, you don't have that issue, you have weight classes and many "small school" kids have proven that if you work hard, you can beat the Penn's and the Merrillville's. That's not the case with team sports like football where it takes an entire team and program to beat these bigger schools.
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With the logic that the small schools don't have an equal opportunity, why don't we just start handing out participation ribbons to the entire state so everyone can have their share of success? Coming from a "small school", I would not only be disappointed, but I would be offended. I was never a State Qualifier, and that eats at me still to this day. Had wrestling been classed during my high school days, I probably would have been one. However, I have great pride in my school and my community and that's what makes it special when an athlete from our school becomes a State Qualifier in a sport. If the title "State Qualifier" was just handed to us because people think "it's not fair", I take offense to that because it's not supposed to be easy to be a state qualifier. Lastly, I wrestled in college in Virginia for two years and the wrestlers there were jealous of the state tournament we have. They had 3 classes and just expanded to 6, and it seems as if signing up for wrestling in Virginia is an automatic ticket to the state tournament. What I saw last Saturday was astonishing. Not many states have what we have and I would rather be a 3x Semi-State Qualifier in a state tournament where I had to overcome "odds" to become a state qualifier, rather than see the system change so that it becomes easier for the athletes in small communities and I know many of the athletes in smaller schools would agree with me.
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We will have another RTC tomorrow night at 5 pm central time. Last week we had two college guys and a state champ. They'll all be there again! Hope to see you all there!
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Another RTC tonight at Rensselaer. Starts at 5 pm central time and is open to anyone looking to get some mat time in!
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We will have another practice tonight from 5 to 7 pm central time at RcHs. Anyone interested in getting some extra wrestling is welcome!
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What RTCs and practice opportunities are still open
bomber_bob replied to oldandbroke's topic in Past Discussions
Rensselaer will have an RTC tonight from 5 to 7 central time every Wednesday at the high school. Will have a couple college guys and a mix of semi state and state guys there -
We will have another RTC tonight, June 3rd at 5 pm central time. We had a great room last week with several semi-state and state qualifiers, and a couple college guys. Hoping for an even better room tonight!
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Just another reminder that we will have practice tonight, Wednesday the 27th at 5 pm. Anyone with a USA card is welcome
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We will have another RTC tomorrow night at 5 pm central time. Practice will be run by Rensselaer head coach and state placer James Oliver. Anyone with a USA card is welcome!
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No cost. Just have to have a USA card. Clinicians will consist of our new Head Coach James Oliver. Placed 5th in the state in high school, Shabaka Johns, a state placer from Warren Central and division one wrestler, and I have some other guys who are not finalized yet but will be solid clinicians
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Just another reminder that practice will start at 5 central time tonight. Hope to see a lot of guys there!
