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If they don't have a passion for it, let 'em go. I wrestled from 5th - 12th, but I never took it terribly seriously. Yeah, I worked hard during the season, but baseball was my true love so I didn't do any club wrestling or wrestling specific work outside of fall/winter because of that.  Wrestling, for me, was something to keep me busy and in shape during my offseason. I just happened to enjoy it enough to stick with it.
 
If they enjoy it enough to stick with it, great. But if they don't enjoy it enough to the point they want to quit, let them go and enjoy their youth.
 
This whole "helping them prepare for life" is kind of a cop out. You know what else helps these kids prepare for life? Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, etc.
 
If I had it to do over again, I would have worked a lot harder in high school and college instead of being as focused on sports, girls, and parties.

If they don't have a passion for it, let 'em go. I wrestled from 5th - 12th, but I never took it terribly seriously. Yeah, I worked hard during the season, but baseball was my true love so I didn't do any club wrestling or wrestling specific work outside of fall/winter because of that.  Wrestling, for me, was something to keep me busy and in shape during my offseason. I just happened to enjoy it enough to stick with it.
 
If they enjoy it enough to stick with it, great. But if they don't enjoy it enough to the point they want to quit, let them go and enjoy their youth.
 
This whole "helping them prepare for life" is kind of a cop out. You know what else helps these kids prepare for life? Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, etc.
 
If I had it to do over again, I would have worked a lot harder in high school and college instead of being as focused on sports, girls, and parties.

If they don't have a passion for it, let 'em go. I wrestled from 5th - 12th, but I never took it terribly seriously. Yeah, I worked hard during the season, but baseball was my true love so I didn't do any club wrestling or wrestling specific work outside of fall/winter because of that.  Wrestling, for me, was something to keep me busy and in shape during my offseason. I just happened to enjoy it enough to stick with it.
 
If they enjoy it enough to stick with it, great. But if they don't enjoy it enough to the point they want to quit, let them go and enjoy their youth.
 
This whole "helping them prepare for life" is kind of a cop out. You know what else helps these kids prepare for life? Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, Accounting, etc.
 
If I had it to do over again, I would have worked a lot harder in high school and college instead of being as focused on sports, girls, and parties.

Mason Parris.  Then again, he prefers to let people up so he can take them right back down.

I can see, and agree with, the argument for team sports needing a class system.  For sports like basketball and football, the size of your student body is going to have a large impact on whether you're going to have 10 kids that are 6'0" - 7'0" tall (Basketball) or 60 kids that are 160lbs - 300lbs (football).
 
For an individual event like the Wrestling state finals, it just doesn't have the same strength of argument.  There's already a class system for the Coaches Association tournament.  What is largely an individual tournament doesn't need a class system IMO.  I don't really pay much attention to which school wins the points total at State, I only care how the individual wrestlers perform. 
 
Yorktown isn't a large school (780), but they routinely send 5 - 8 kids to the State tournament

Yorktown's Dream Team
 
103  Josh Smith           3X SQ, 8th State '06
112  Derek Bevans       SQ, 5th State '08, ? '09, ? '10
119  Denis Lewis           State Runner-up '74, 2X State Champ '75, '76
125  Erik Johnson        SQ,6th State '03, State Runner-up '04
130  Rick Glaub            State Champ '77
135  Andrew Goul        SQ, 5th State '04
140  Kyle Mosier           SQ, 4th State '07, 4th State '08, ? '09
145  Ron Baker              State Runner-up '78, State Champ '79
152  Brad Milius           State Runner-up '04, Alabama State Champ '03, 4th Alabama State '02
160  Steven Mosier      3X SQ, 6th State '05
171  Nathan Vester     2X SQ, 8th State '03
189 Michael Burke      SQ '06
215  Pat Pickell              SQ '92
285  Eric Boyce             2X SQ, 7th State '01
 
Honorable Mention:
Ben Nicely, Jarrod Smith, Shane Southerland, Chris Ekman,
Josiah Mosier, Ben Milius, Jordan Dulaney
 
Not too bad for some small school country boys...

Man, tough call this year.  I've got it narrowed down to Hughes (who was dominant), Streck, Covaciu, Rypel, and Red.
 
Ultimately I have to go with Red.  He capped of an undefeated High School career with his 4th title, beating a nationally ranked opponent in the finals.  The others I've listed are very deserving, Rypel and Streck most notably.  That said, it's pretty much impossible to top Red's accomplishment.

Some chapped asses in this thread!
 
The EMD fans are crying like a 12 year-old with a skinned knee.  I didn't have a dog in this fight, but your tears are pretty delicious.

Some chapped asses in this thread!
 
The EMD fans are crying like a 12 year-old with a skinned knee.  I didn't have a dog in this fight, but your tears are pretty delicious.

Be the grown up. It is obvious being from ev your emotional. Show us you have more class than him, because I see the same thing from your posts.

Some chapped asses in this thread!
 
The EMD fans are crying like a 12 year-old with a skinned knee.  I didn't have a dog in this fight, but your tears are pretty delicious.

Some chapped asses in this thread!
 
The EMD fans are crying like a 12 year-old with a skinned knee.  I didn't have a dog in this fight, but your tears are pretty delicious.

I always take Friday afternoon off that first weekend.  A bunch of buddies I see maybe once or twice a  year get together and drink all day.  March is really the only time I watch basketball.  Love the NCAA tourney

C'mon, guys.  The article isn't about Nick Lee, who doesn't have an undefeated High School career.  The article is about Chad Red.  
 
Only a tiny fraction of the sports fan population follows High School wrestling, so any mention of Lee would have been completely lost on 99.5% of the article's audience.  Heck, this is probably the first time most readers of the article have even heard of Red.
 
We may consider it a foregone conclusion, but Lee may not even make it to the final match...not that I don't believe he will.

I think we take it for granted how highly anticipated a Red\Lee match-up is, being avid fans of the sport.  I also think it would have taken more than a short paragraph to explain the importance, especially considering Lee's accomplishments would need to be detailed to convey the challenge he poses.  Why even bring Lee into the narrative when there's no guarantee the two meet in the finals?
 
More likely than not, Doyle isn't even familiar with the importance of that potential match among hardcore wrestling fans and it really isn't an article aimed at the hardcore fan.

C'mon, guys.  The article isn't about Nick Lee, who doesn't have an undefeated High School career.  The article is about Chad Red.  
 
Only a tiny fraction of the sports fan population follows High School wrestling, so any mention of Lee would have been completely lost on 99.5% of the article's audience.  Heck, this is probably the first time most readers of the article have even heard of Red.
 
We may consider it a foregone conclusion, but Lee may not even make it to the final match...not that I don't believe he will.

Fixed
 
Let's not be hyperbolic...they've upgraded to a '97 Pontiac Bonneville by now...

Haha, I remember cruising Madison street back in high school because there wasn't much else to do in Muncie.
 
I stopped wresting after my sophomore year to focus on baseball full time; I was really surprised to see how strong a program McCormick built at Yorktown over the last decade.  We had some pretty good wrestlers back in my day, but nowhere near the depth that program has developed. It's too bad the Hiestand kids and Berkibile transferred out...

Haha, I remember cruising Madison street back in high school because there wasn't much else to do in Muncie.
 
I stopped wresting after my sophomore year to focus on baseball full time; I was really surprised to see how strong a program McCormick built at Yorktown over the last decade.  We had some pretty good wrestlers back in my day, but nowhere near the depth that program has developed. It's too bad the Hiestand kids and Berkibile transferred out...

It is what it is and the same is true in hundreds of cities across the nation...we're often victims of circumstance.  I apologize if I have offended; it was not my intent.

Jack's doesn't hold a candle to Concannon's in Muncie.  Sorry chief.