TripleB

Great job @ducktails

Might need ya next week to save the TripleB Evansville Preview!!! I'll be in touch!!!

This is why @Y2CJ41 will be adopting DoubleB here in a few months!!!

I'm with Kendrick. 

It's not a shot at any team in the Jeff Sectional or anything, the disparity needs to be addressed. 

Switzerland County should be at Richmond this weekend

Eastern back to Jeff 

New Albany and Floyd should be back at Jeff

Corydon, Crawford Co and North Harrison to Southridge

Best wishes to my South Boys, we so tough it's a struggle to even get on the scale!

The new forfeit rule is also being exploited from what I hear. 

State will be permanently moved to Evansville.

I've personally made a habit out of yelling things that make no sense randomly, I'm guessing little B has gotten used to it or doesn't hear me. 

It's not even crazy stuff, just things that sound like they make sense but have no grammatical or literal sense in terms of what's going on. 

Need my 5 min every week 

“What’s Grinding TripleB’s Gears”

Why is the Girls HWT class for Middle School State so low compared to High School Girls HWT?

For reference - MS HWT is 165 and HS HWT is 235

I'm starting a formal verbal petition to make MS weights more in line w/ HS weights.

Since Floyd got in and won IHSWCA duals, I need something new to be upset about. 

Ticket Round matches are the best; First Rd Regionals, Quarters of SS....... give me more, give me more. 

28 finalists, One State Championship match per weight under the LIGHTS!!!

I'm drowning in awesomeness. 

Forget that other post w/ all the nonsense cultural pot-stirring. 

I want single class wrestling!!!

#ClassWrestlingKills

#QuoteTheAncientElder 

Well yeah I guess that makes more sense, I forgot about Shuey...... SHUUEEEYYYY what a deep weight class!!!

Pittman and Zuck both punch SS tickets. 

Don't sleep on Madtown, the Badboyz are on the rise!

They are HUNGRY and all the other cliche words!!!

Owsley - 120

On 12/27/2023 at 3:33 PM, DawgPoundRed said:

Our varsity2 team would be top 3 here how do we get in 

 VARSITY 1 squads only!!

East got dinged last year for a stomach bug that ran through the team and kept starters out vs. Greenfield Central

and look what happened.

So the message I'm hearing is if you don't have your guns, just skip the day and don't put a team on the mat? 

Good luck coach, best answer is to expand to 12. 

It's gotta be hard to keep the #2 team out

Or the team that beat the team that beat the #2 team. 

11 hours ago, Coach Tonte said:

I would think Sisson is good at jumping rope. Just my guess. He is a pretty damn good coach I know that. And I would agree that expanding to 12 teams is logical. I mean, 5 of the top 8 teams in the rankings are not in the tournament. That makes it look not as desirable. 
 

On the other hand, I’m wondering where TripleB got his info. Cathedrals line up at Calumet would have resulted in the same score as their dual. And does tripleB have info I don’t about our own program, because against Cathedral we didn’t have 2 regional qualifiers in our line up who were 21-9 and 22-11 last year as well as a varsity wrestler who was 15-15 last year. Not sure if they make a difference or not but def not the full strength we had hoped for. 
 

I don’t know where we fit in. There are so many good teams but I do hope that people get their stats correct.  
 

I have been doing this a long time and very rarely have I had a team at full strength to where I anticipated it to be. 

I get all of my info from Indiana's wrestling leader - The Other Mat of Hoosiers.  

1 hour ago, Rugger44 said:

I see that Floyd is ranked 2nd in 3A, and 6th in the power poll. On the gorilla radio show the other night it was discussed that they would most likely not get voted in because they lost to Cathedral. I always feel the rankers do a pretty good job but it seems messed up that the 2nd ranked team would not get the nod. So I ask, are the guys that do the rankings over estimating how good Floyd is, or is the voting committee underestimating how good they are? I hope the 12 team format will be used! 

A banged up Floyd team lost to a full power Cathedral team

A banged up Cathedral team lost to a full power Franklin team. 

So when the voters look most will just see Franklin over Cathedral and Cathedral over Floyd

Also the power poll is based on individual rankings, not forecasting potential dual finishes. 

All of that being said #LetFloydIn

#LetFloydIn

I know they say....no exemptions... but last year exemptions were given. If Brackets don't fill up to 32 they let kids in. 

I had a kid place last year that didn't get to compete at the qualifier b/c he was medically cleared. 32 didn't sign up so he got in and went on to place 8th. 

21 hours ago, aoberlin said:

Not me. I meal plan for my kid and then make him watch me eat junk all the while I tell him he is soft.

My man.... atta boy

We started an elem league down south. It's exploded from a handful of teams to 16 teams. 

My goal is to always maximize matches and minimize time. This Sunday Madison will host a 5 way, 4 matches guaranteed, full JV surface. Will start at 10:00 and be done by 3:00. Owen Valley hosts an 8 way. Last weekend Scottsburg did a 10 way w/ 8 full surfaces, 4 rounds of wrestling and 2 full JV surfaces. 

This not only gets matches but creates camaraderie amongst the parents and kids. WE are building programs from the ground up. 

Elem duals blows away double elimination tournaments!

Teams this year - Colt Wrestling Ky, Columbus East, Columbus North, Eastern, Edgewood, Henryville, Indian Creek, Jeffersonville, Jennings County, Madison, North Knox, Owen Valley, Shelbyville,  Scottsburg, Southwestern, West Washington

Yeah I know free advertising... hit me up, we are always looking to expand 

You'll never get buy in from every middle school, but it starts w/ a grassroots effort. 

Get a group of MS coaches together - come up w some baselines for weights and periods and just start pushing it. 

Indiana Wrestling Middle School Coaches Association

And if you go my "Jr High" you're not welcome.... wait Madison is a Junior High.... I guess all are welcome. 

I've told @Madtownxwrestler to boycott any place that has ridiculous weights, but we aren't sure our AD would like that. 

20 hours ago, Lawdiggity said:

Curious about thoughts on here with the original comment about dealing with kids refusing/complaining about dropping 3 lbs to help the dual team. Not attacking that post at all but curious on how coaches balance the dual v individual side of this sport. We all know this sport is both a team and individual sport. And there are lots of good lessons in sacrifice for the good of the team and helping those around you (as well as yourself) get better. My question is whether or not anyone times this mentality along with what point of the season you’re in. In other words, are there kids you ask to cut weight for the dual season (team) while allowing them after the holidays to stop cutting if their ambition for the state series is a higher class with less scale watching?  Do you let them wrestle off at that higher class and get some experience there as the duals wind down and conference and sectionals get ready to start?  Or do you promote little to no movement after pecking order is established. 

You have to be careful in today's times. Let kids declare weights, once trust is gained and assuming you are being safe with a kid, then you can lean on them about making a sacrifice for the team. 

If you have support of family and the kid believes, it's not an issue. But if either aren't aligned, it's not worth it. Grab a cold one and sit on the porch and cuss the kid......

It's a new breed. The weight cutting thing has always been shifting away from that dynamic. My kid is an 8th grader, he cuts for some bigger tournaments but wrestles whatever for Jr. High in season. 

I've heard tons of stories already this year that makes my eyes roll. 

Here's the deal, kids are different, parents are. Don't be soft and don't cuddle your kids. 

I used to tell my parents when I coached youth - let's go get beat up, let's get a fat lip, let's get smoked. Today's parents don't like to hear that!