busstogate

Croperation is better all the time in the land of corn.

Nah, but I know a few songs.

Son of a.....son of a Saylor?

All of you guys bagging on Washington for gas, injury time etc need to put a sock in it. He lost the match on the first missed throw, period. Slivka was always fighting and that is to his credit. If you listened at all to the broadcast or followed any of Wash's results, you know he cranks out the throws when he thinks they are there. The guy is multidimensional on his feet. I have no idea of the deal with injury time, but for all we know, he can be asthmatic and truly needed the time. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a call to stay in the game. I just find the insinuation that his 2nd injury call as a strategic decision to be unassuming at best and at least, condemning. And no, I have never met either wrestler.

There is this: https://cfwrestlingacademy.com/

It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's whether or not he has shots.

Illinois made a change to full double elimination this year, and eliminated walkovers. They also used to use the repechage system, but now all first round losers have a shot at 3rd in three different classes. Their first round, regionals, is still loaded with forfeits statewide. You'd be lucky to get five-man brackets in most weight classes in a number of regionals.

I didn't "give up", but was unable to pursue it any longer for reasons I can guess you don't need to know or probably would care about. At least I know now why you decided to make your "suggestion". Looks like we find the flex is all yours.

No flex, bud. I thought it weird you brought his name up as if he was an unknown commodity.

Agreed. It comes down to priorities and who are we in it for.

I think XCard can speak for himself if he so desires. I know who he is.

Where are all of the hard guys at?

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A few years ago, I tried to get a multi-school offseason club together around East Chicago, Whiting, and Hammond. I found a whole bunch of distrust and folks worried about who would be in charge. Previous to meeting with the various schools at their schools in person and forwarding and physically presenting them with USA Wrestling documents, including errors and omissions insurance papers, I told the stakeholders that we could easily vote on president, treasurer, secretary, etc. At least half of them eventually declined. We don't have the money that the Region teams do outside of Hammond, East Chicago, Gary, and Whiting. Yet, we can make each other better and compete IF there is not a selfish desire to be the king of a molehill. Good luck. I also find it a shame that a lot of the very successful alumni of the aforementioned schools elect to leave the area in neglect and disarray. A few of them are still in the trenches where they grew up, but most have chosen the greener side of the grass. I can see why, but it does not give the kids enough accessible role models to emulate.

Gimson, Gimson, Watts = Cerberus