rjohnson

Awesome job by Mike and the rankers. Even with all of the craziness this year, there were only 14 (plus one unranked vs unranked) rankings upsets. 9 over 5 20 over 14 15 over 9 5 over 4 25 over 14 10 over 9 18 over 11 12 over 4 UR over 14 UR over 8 12 over 9 15 over 9 10 over 4 Ironically, all 3 unranked place winners are at 182!

Haha @aoberlin! There are better underground fight clubs for 3.5 year olds in the city. Had to weigh my options!

This is an apples to oranges conversation. You can frame the picture in whatever you lens you want to look at it. As a former head coach in the SAC, it is true, there are many factors that come into play that make the current climate and conditions of improving the overall quality of the SAC an uphill battle. Does that mean that people haven’t been trying for years, of course they have. My last year at Wayne, out of 45 guys on our team, I think 2 had a driver’s license and more than 95% had never stepped on a mat before high school. We worked our tails off to prepare them the best we could for any situation, wrestling or life. There are ebbs and flows to it. At one point, the best teams in the SAC were as good, if not better than the best non-SAC Allen County teams. Recent history shows the depth and strength of Carroll’s program is far more consistent. From 2014-2016, Wayne tied or placed higher than Carroll at IHSAA State. Did that make it a better program than Carroll? Of course not. You can just choose to narrow the focus on what you want to. Boiling it down to desire or want to just oversimplifies a far more complex topic.

Geoffrey Davis from Fort Wayne Wayne is a great one. 9th grade was like 7-25 with all FF wins 10th grade was JV 11th grade & 12th grade was 4th in the State back to back years.