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    CoachJoyce got a reaction from Justin Ratliff in Columbus North RTC: Thursdays 5-6:30pm   
    Columbus North RTC is back in action this Thursday! Last RTC night we had 35 wrestlers from the area getting after it.
     
    Join us this Thursday with special guest clinician Max Lacey!
     
    Indiana RTC Resident Athlete
    Puerto Rican National Team Member
    2020 Pan American champion
    2021 Pan Bronze
    2022 Pan Am Bronze 
    2024 CAC Games Silver 
    11th in 2023 World Championships 
     
    Come get better this week! 

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    CoachJoyce reacted to Hornet Coach in What Leasons Are Being Taught Off The Mat   
    We, as adults talk about the "younger generation" and the lack of respect and accountability, and then we have people that act like this with no consequence.  The mystery as to why these kids act this way is not hard to solve, in my opinion.  If you want your kids to act and carry themselves in a particular manner, you must model what that looks like when things don't go your way.  Kids only know what they're taught and seeing the way some "coaches" and parents carry themselves, those aren't the lessons I want to teach my young people.  
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    CoachJoyce got a reaction from Rugger44 in Columbus North RTC: Thursdays 5-6:30pm   
    Columbus North RTC will be on Thursdays beginning March 7th from 5-6:30pm for MS and HS wrestlers. Must have USAW card. 
     
    Enter door 40, go to end of the hallway and up stairs, wrestling room is on the right at the top of the stairs. 
     
    March 7th will be a live night. Solid warmup/drill with a lot of situational live/live goes to prep for Folkstyle State this weekend. 
     
    Come in and get better!
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    CoachJoyce reacted to MattM in Cutting Weight vs. Managing Weight   
    And that is part about managing your weight that I think many HS kids and their parents don't get or at least aren't willing to fully buy into.  Some kids can eat 3 decent meals regularly, have occasional cheat meals, and even get stronger as the season progresses all while maintaining or even losing weight. But that's because they and their parents have made the effort to ensure they are eating better and continue to work hard during practice.   But, that's the off-the-mat dedication and mental game that some kids and parents have made the choice to buy into. 
     
    We all hear about kids who say they can't make the weight though, but in some cases, I don't see that as a cutting issue, its poor off-the-mat decisions and lack of a buy-in to themselves, their team, and the sport.  We all have some kids who are choosing to routinely make poor food choice decisions, sometimes overindulge, and then trying to over-exercise and starve a day or two before weigh-ins.  We then often hear that same kid or parents say as the season progresses that they can't make the weight cut with most pointing out they are barely eating the last couple of days. To me, that is not a cutting weight issue it is a poor weight management issue.  We often have to concede this routine isn't going to change and tell the kid and parent they will need to move up a weight class.  But then low and behold most of those kids will balloon up close to the top of that new weight too and are still sluggish on the mat due to more bad eating habits. 
     
    You can throw all sorts of nutrition talks and guides at them to help show that making better eating choices will improve their performance on the mat and make maintaining their weight all season possible.  You can even point out that this isn't about eating small portions or only choosing to eat "twigs and leaves" every meal, but about pre-planning food decisions to ensure you have good options available on a routine basis.  However, until the kids and parents (since they do provide some of those food choices to their kids have a better buy-in on the value of nutritious eating we will still hear some kids and parents talking about cutting too much weight and/or eating little days before the meet.   I also believe there are some effective ways to promote healthy eating habits and removing some of the extreme cutting, but part of that also comes from developing a culture where the other teammates and family understand what supporting each other really means.  
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    CoachJoyce got a reaction from Justin Ratliff in Injury times are out of control   
    I'm not sure the referee wouldn't be on the hook any more than they would be if they missed another call. The athlete/coach can still stop the match, just with a consequence. If the athlete is truly injured, its worth the price. To me, it reduces the incentive to stop the match unless absolutely necessary (an actual injury). I feel that is as close to an even trade for stopping the action mid-takedown or mid-turn as is reasonable. 
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    CoachJoyce got a reaction from Rugger44 in Injury times are out of control   
    This weekend I watched a kid signal for injury time while close to getting taken down, the ref didn't see it/didn't stop it, the kid ended up defending back to neutral (no takedown), then continued to wrestle the next 1+ minute of the match. 
     
    My thoughts on how to curb some of this: 
    Referee Injury time/stoppage = No penalty
    Wrestler/Coach calls for Injury time = Opponent has choice on reset (just as with a second injury time in current rules). 
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    CoachJoyce got a reaction from MUSKEEWRESTLER in Injury times are out of control   
    This weekend I watched a kid signal for injury time while close to getting taken down, the ref didn't see it/didn't stop it, the kid ended up defending back to neutral (no takedown), then continued to wrestle the next 1+ minute of the match. 
     
    My thoughts on how to curb some of this: 
    Referee Injury time/stoppage = No penalty
    Wrestler/Coach calls for Injury time = Opponent has choice on reset (just as with a second injury time in current rules). 
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    CoachJoyce reacted to TripleB in Team State qualification leaderboard 2024 (FINAL thru State)   
    The Switzerland County Pacers gonna punch that 1A ticket, #TripleBGuarantee
     
     
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Y2CJ41 in Injury times are out of control   
    The best way to curb that is for injury time that the coach cannot attend to the wrestler and a trainer/doctor must attend to them. Along with not allowing water or anything like that.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Chris Cooper in Injury times are out of control   
    Watching this Iowa vs Wisc dual and Rathjen takes injury time as he’s getting taken down.  Official gives the injury time, Rathjen continues after a short break and doesn’t give the 3 pt td.
     
    Reminds me of one of my biggest issues watching wrestling this weekend.  Coaches allowing their kids to take a time out when the going gets tough.  Weak.  One of the countless things that separates wrestling from the stupid sports like basketball, no timeouts when it’s getting real, you have to deal with it.  
     
    Dissapointing the programs that are ok with taking a breather for that mental break when adversity has set in.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Coach Peck in Stalling   
    I would say making stalling a one point penalty without it progressing to disqualification so it can be called when it is happening without the Official being concerned that he is going to put himself in position to DQ someone would help.  In my opinion this would put the onus more on the wrestlers.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Coach Peck in Help - I only have a seat in the corner?   
    CRAZY!!!
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    CoachJoyce reacted to maligned in 2024 Team State Leaderboard (thru Regional - verified, but unofficial)   
    DOE had you at 2050, but the IHSAA just released its official numbers yesterday so we're in the process of updating our data. They have you closer to your quote--with only 1883. You will be in 3A when we update the leaderboard.
    Not sure why DOE was so far off. At first glance, almost everyone is the same in the IHSAA release as what we pulled from the DOE site.
     
    I just landed from a 2-week overseas work trip. Trying to get enrollment numbers corrected according to the IHSAA release yesterday. Also beginning to add in some injury info. Later today or tomorrow morning we should be good to go. 
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Holden in Help - I only have a seat in the corner?   
    I just emailed Faulkins' secretary.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Mattyb in Qualifier parent tickets?   
    $51 for two tickets one session! 
     
    Gotta go back to Ballys next weekend to make enough to pay for it all! 
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Justin Ratliff in Evansville Preview Recap   
    It’s so entertaining to mess things up! 🤷🏼‍♂️ 
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    CoachJoyce reacted to TripleB in Evansville Preview Recap   
    We did okay….
     
    Just kidding we killed it 
     
    Leave it to a Ratliff to mess things up 

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    CoachJoyce reacted to Darrick Snyder in Preston Haines   
    Thank you to everyone who has reached out regarding Preston.  Results of a CT scan and other tests have come back.  Nothing is broken and he will make a full recovery.  
     
    As far as what happened, the Mater Dei wrestler had been winning the entire match.  An illegal slam was called.  It was not intentional.  Whether it was an illegal slam or not, I don’t really care.  We were never taking a dive.  Brownsburg doesn’t roll like that.  It goes against everything we believe in.  If I thought it was intentional, It would be a different story.  There is no doubt in our mind that it was just a result of two dudes trying to punch their ticket to state. 
     
    It was pretty chaotic as all of this was happening as I’m sure you can all imagine.  Given that it was a neck/head injury, I wanted to give medical people access to Preston.  Once they had time to check Preston out, I took that opportunity to talk to Preston.  There was never any talk or consideration of taking a dive. Preston would never do that.  He was in a lot of pain and upset.  He has had a lot of adversity this season. He tore his ACL at IHPO and has been working through that pain and frustration all season.  I just explained to Preston what had happened and that I was going to forfeit the match.  I told him we were losing…and it would not be fair to take the trip to state away from the Mater Dei kid.  Preston agreed and said he would never do that.  There was no reversal of the call or anything.  I just went up to officials and said we are forfeiting the match.  
     
    Whoever said Preston was walking around saw someone else.  He was taken out on a stretcher and to the emergency room. 
     
    Snyder 
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Birdie in Regional results- upsets and ranked matchups   
    Amen to that!  Weaver was fighting HARD to not get pinned too.  Adams really had to work for the finish
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    CoachJoyce reacted to MattM in Sectional Dominance at Regional   
    There was a bit of a gap before, but this years realignments really tipped the scale all the way over. 
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    CoachJoyce reacted to HornetSloan in Sectional Enrollment Discrepancy   
    I think they are just saying, "Hey this is weird. Why'd they do that?"  Not everything has to be some grand argument. Some people (self included) just notice failures in logic and it bothers them. Just have a rhyme or reason is all we ask!
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    CoachJoyce reacted to randalllynch in Sectional Enrollment Discrepancy   
    Have to disagree on this point, New Albany is only 10 minutes from Jeffersonville and Floyd Central is 15.  We currently go 1.5 hours to Southridge.  If it is only geography based decisions then this would never be the situation.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Y2CJ41 in Lots of forfeits   
    I am conflicted whether we should be able to allow 16 or 14 entries, but feel if we would allow 2 entries at a weight class that it would be great for our sport.
     
    For simplicity sake, allowing 14 wrestlers with up to 2 per weight will help small schools more than hurt them. That would mean if they have 14 or less wrestlers they would likely be able to enter all of them at sectional. Many times those small teams have a couple JV kids that can't make the lineup due to being blocked by others. They get very limited matches and it is very hard to keep them engaged when they get limited matches. Coaches would be able to dangle the carrot of being able to wrestle at sectional which should help with retention and building their programs. 
     
    Obviously this would lead to come interesting discussions at the top schools also. For instance we all know Center Grove has two very talented big guys. Would Swain insert Schott into the lineup and leave someone else at home? As a coach this would mean some uneasy conversations, but would be great for those teams to be able to insert their top 14 guys.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to Y2CJ41 in Lots of forfeits   
    It's for team scoring. If there are only 6 wrestlers then the top 2 seeds would only receive 2 advancement points IF he wins the next match aka the semi-finals, while the 3 and 4 seeds(if they win) would get advancement plus bonus. This would mean if the 1 or 2 seeds lose in the semi-finals they will get zero points in the championship side while the 3 and 4 got at least 2 advancement points. In those cases it would be beneficial for your team to have 3-6 seeds instead of a top seed.
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    CoachJoyce reacted to MitchRobb in Evansville Semi State   
    If they included Crownpoint, we could just have the state finals a week ahead of time lol 
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