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http://www.jconline.com/story/mike-carmin/2015/01/15/gelen-robinson-joins-purdue-wrestling-team/21816353/

Urban Dictionary - "According to The Chicago Tribune, Lake County is a included in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, but the TRUE region is located only in the Northwest area of Lake County IN; consisting of Whiting, East Chicago, Hammond, Munster, Highland, Griffith, Gary, and the North sides of Dyer, Shererville, and Marrillville. The South sides of Dyer, Shererville, and Marrillville along with St. John, Crown Point, Hobart, and Lake Station (aka Snake Nation) are only considered Semi-Region (People from there can still consider themselves “regionites,” but must bow down to anyone from the TRUE region). People from Porter County, La Porte County, and Southern areas of Lake County such as Lowell, who tell people they are from the region and try to gain of the region’s mystique, are ABSOLUTLY NOT from the region. "
 
Wikipedia - "Northwest Indiana comprises Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton and Jasper counties in Indiana. This region neighbors Lake Michigan and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. "

It works for netflix

MattM is juat racist. FCFighter170 doesn't see color, or height, or weight hell FCFighter170 might be blind now that I think about it.

HHC is going to be pretty competative for the next few years.

The infamous Rosbottom (defending state champ from Jeffersonville) & Jankowski (returning state runner-up from Mater Dei) semi-state quarterfinal came about because Rosbottom had lost at regional to Minton (New Albany).  It was their 6th meeting of the year and Minton kept getting closer and closer before finally knocking him off.  Rosbottom hands Jankowski his only loss of the season in an awful stall-fest nailbiter, then goes on to meet Minton for a 7th and 8th time in the semi-state and state finals...winning both times to finish 7-1 against him and pick up his second state championship.  Interestingly, Jankowski had earlier teched Minton for Minton's only non-Rosbottom loss of the season. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8GzNVy1sE

Looks like Gelen Robinson is back on the mat

Mean Joe Joe Stewart!!! Hahaha...I'll have to tell him his name was mentioned on here...he'll get a kick out of that.

Mean Joe Joe Stewart!!! Hahaha...I'll have to tell him his name was mentioned on here...he'll get a kick out of that.

BLACK OUT

It's not Football season... It's Wrestling season... We would love to have you!
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I was primed to make a trip to Evansville for my first SIAC, but I now have to go to a football clinic in Indy. Booooo TripleB Booooo

Thanks for your profound statements and anecdotes; very enlightening.  Maybe you should write a book?

I talked to some of the Penn people last Saturday; they completely agree with you.  As a matter of fact, they went so far as to say the score should have been 39-24 with Portage on top.
 
 
Given that Perry beat Penn on criteria, I have Portage defeating Perry, 39-25.  Mater Dei beat Perry by four, so Portage would have beaten Mater Dei, 39-29. 
 
 
My strong recommendation to the IHSWCA is that they rename the tournament:  "The Fake and Worthless Team State 3A Duals Championship Won By Some Pathetic Non-Region Team In Order To Prop Up Their Pathetic Egos, Because Had a Region Team Been There, We All Know That The Region Team Would Have Dominated The Pathetic Non-Region Teams, Because Region Teams Always Dominate The Pathetic Non-Region Teams....Like All The Time"
 
 
Trophy engraving costs will increase substantially, but the flavor and significance of the tournament will be more accurately represented.
 

Not off top of my head but I think there is a big summer dual in Atlanta and maybe New Orleans, you could probably google and find it. Also closer to home there is the Indiana Midwest classic at Maconaquah High School.

This week

I predict the winner will turn down an invitation to IHSWCA duals, as will the runner up!

I predict the winner will turn down an invitation to IHSWCA duals, as will the runner up!

How's Corydon at Connersville and hosting this?

Boo Karl boo

I saw the movie tonight and I will see it again. One thing to keep in mind when you read this is that I know Mark Schultz and knew Dave Schultz and John DuPont. I had been on the farm and in the mansion a couple of times. I'm not asking anyone to agree nor am I looking for a debate. It's just my take on it and maybe a little history.
 
What it isn't...it isn't Rocky or Vision Quest or Rudy (he was offside by the way), or Remember the Titans. It's not a film that is going to draw a lot of people to wrestling. It's a dark drama BASED on a true story with complex characters and situations that ended in the murder of one of our greatest wrestlers and maybe wrestling's greatest ambassador.
 
It's not 100% factual. One of the biggest liberties they took was having Mark and Dave living on the farm at the same time. They never did. Mark was there first and then left. Dave came later and stayed too long.
 
They combined some time. It's hard to tell this story in 2 hours so they combined and skipped some years. For example in the movie it appears Dave was murdered shortly after the 1988 Olympics when in reality he was killed in 1996.
 
 
 
What it is...
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Ruffalo as Dave Schultz, Steve Carell as John DuPont and Channing Tatum as Mark Schultz had their characters down pat.
 
Ruffalo-the first time I saw him walk in this movie it almost made me cry. It WAS Dave's walk. If I would have seen it from behind I would have sworn it was Dave. He had his mannerisms down as well. The only thing he didn't capture was Dave's sense of humor. Dave could come up with a one liner out of the blue and make you laugh. More about Dave later.
 
Carell-He portrayed DuPont as the creep he really was. when the Team Trials were held in Philadelphia he would invite the referees out to the farm. I would liken it to having an audience with the Pope except that would be an insult to every catholic on the planet.
 
Tatum-He walked like Mark as well. I always thought Mark was a brooder and I think Tatum got that right.
 
Real wrestlers-lots of real wrestling people including Reece and Jordin Humphrey. Their dad Jim Humphrey was the coach at Foxcatcher in the late 80's and our 88 Olympic coach. He left well before Dave's murder.
 
The sets-very realistic. The scenes on the farm especially. What they used as the exterior shot of the mansion was not real. The internal rooms were like I remember them. One building they didn't show was the Carriage House. DuPont had a collection of antique carriages and wagons. He had one from Gone With The Wind, a Wells Fargo Stage Coach and Cinderella like carriage. The security system alone was like $50,000.
The Farm itself had like 17 houses on it. You could hunt deer there and fish. There were fire hydrants. He really did have an army tank.
There is a scene when Dave is in an office at the Farm where there are headshot pictures of wrestlers. I remember those being there and I think he had some of them in the mansion as well.
The singlets, the warm ups, even the bags were just like the Foxcatcher equipment issue. I had a t-shirt at one time and polo shirt. I burned them both shortly after Dave was killed.
 
A little about DuPont. I can't begin to describe what a creep he was. Each time I was around him I felt like I needed a shower. No one ever said no to John DuPont. On Black Monday he lost something like $13 million. The story in the movie about his mother paying a kid to be his friend is supposedly true. I had heard several times even before he shot Dave. DuPont did do some good with his money. USAW started the National Teams program which our top 3 guys in each weight get a stipend. There are a lot of stories about DuPont, but I have already wasted enough time on him.
 
Mark Schultz was a 3 x NCAA Champion and also  a 3x World Champion (1-Olympic and 2 Worlds). He was a physical specimen. One of the most athletic things I ever saw him do was after a loss and off the mat. He lost to the Russian in the finals of the World Cup in Toledo Ohio, walked out the back door of the arena and threw his plaque about 30 or 40 yards right in the middle of the Maumee River. I told him about it a couple of years ago and he said he remembered that. He also told me that he very proudly does not have any 2nd place awards in his possession. He threw all of them away. A 2nd place Big 8 medal is somewhere on top of Gallagher-Iba Arena. Mark is an emotional complex individual. I hope he finds peace someday.
 
Dave Schultz was one of my heroes even though we were born 4 months apart and I refereed some of his matches. He had a charisma about him that is difficult to describe. I NEVER heard anyone say they didn't like Dave. I saw him get standing ovations in other countries when he placed 2nd or 3rd. He learned to speak Russian on his own and he was more famous there than here. The Bulgarians, the Iranians, the Koreans...everyone loved him. I believe he was our best technician without (by far) being our best athlete.
When our National Anthem is played at a wrestling event, I say a silent prayer and then I think of Dave Schultz....not once in a while, but every single time.
 
The movie was tough to watch. Especially the end. I remember where I was and how I heard Dave was shot. I couldn't believe it then and I still can't. I believe Dave's murder held us back as a country. I think Dave would have been our national coach and we have flourished under him no matter what the rules.
 
If you are a wrestler I encourage to google videos of Dave and Mark wrestling. they were a joy to watch.
 
Tom Clark

I realized last week I goofed on Weaver. At the ss level it's my bad and it'll get fixed

HOW DARE YOU TRIPLE B HOW DARE YOU! 
 
jk youre the best