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Very Cool Krause! Congratulations Bo!!!

Yes they did have a talk and I commend both for that. Josh you had an awesome season and have an excellent career going, keep up the good work. You and Bryce have developed one of those breath taking rivalry's that come with a lot of excitement and anticipation and was enjoyed by all. I personally am going to miss that. You both always gave your best. I understand how emotions can get out of balance at times in this sport. Its one of the most insane barbaric sports there is, once the match starts your expected to wrestle with animal like instincts & and with adrenal rushing emotions, but once the whistle blows your expected to turn it off like a light switch. A task that is much easier said than done but is expected! Good luck with that right? But I do think that is how we kind of learn to cope with disappoinment we have to cross those boundries or come awful close sometime! As for what Bryce did not one of his finest moments, lets just chalk this up to one of those foggy moments between the whistles when emotions are at there limit. Your a fine young man Josh keep your head up & I'll be one of your biggest fans next year. J Schendel

Well done Garrett!!! Congrats to the rest of the ACAC all should be proud, some great wrestling and sportsmanship displayed, this is one pretty darn tough conference. Good Luck to all!

Ok all, let me ask you this, How many of your programs currently have a last year grad helping out in some capacity this year?

Some of you are not getting the point I was trying to make. You act like the school would have been doing him a huge favor by letting him help out. Trust me he's got plenty on his plate and just happen to have a break from college. He is the one who would of been doing our program a huge favor by giving back a little of his time and experience, he is not from our school so he doesn't have all these teen connections that some of you worry about. The way I see it this young man is way more mature than his age, heck he would have to be to accomplish what he has. 18 is old enough and mature enough to vote, go to war and fight for our freedoms, I'll even bet some of our war leaders are only 19 or 20. But its not old enough to give a helping hand in a wrestling room? There are coaches young and old who have messed up for various reasons. Address the problem then, if and when it does occur but don't stereotype our young as all being to immature.

I believe the purpose of going thru the administration was to make him legit to where he could come up to the room on an as needed basis. I don't believe the AD would allow him to come up and train or practice as a non representative like most schools do over X-mas break I'm sure that was also discussed, now you would have the insurance issues if he were not approved. That's all we were really wanting was some of his qualities to be seen, demonstrated and absorbed by our own to be around a positive role model. thanks for your input some good points made.

Our coaching staff went about this the correct way going thru the propper channels and it got them rejected. I'll bet many programs pretty much have an open room with guest and former wrestlers popping in from time to time. Do you have to be a boarded coach to teach in the room during season?

I totally agree with you Rookies 03 Blanket policies are usually implemented to exclude a bad apple so the problem never has to be dealt with again. But it never fails it will eventually bite you in the ass even when the perfect situation arises. Come on people this really struck a nerve with many of us I would appreciate some more input. I have read this site since its conception and I know there are several opinionated members on here how about a little love.

This was my note to our athletic director I'm currious to how most schools view this. I also know there are several programs in our state that allow this, many of them in our conference and many with no where near these credentials. Please leave names out of this topic for I still have two sons in school. Mr. AD I spoke with a young man early this fall who graduated last spring that I ran into at the Home Depot and he expressed his excitement to have the opportunity to help out as a volunteer coach with our wrestling program I was excited for him and very excited for our team. His name is not relevant for this topic but his accomplishments are he was Valedictorian 3 X State placer, 1 X State Champ and numerous national accolades to go with the above. He proceeded to tell me he was waiting on approval from the school. I periodically asked my son what was going on and when our new assitant was coming up to the room, My son did not know and was disappointed as were myself and several others. I cannot think of a single person or program in this state that has a passion for wrestling weather it be a coach a father, a mother, or a high school wrestler who would not embrace this opportunity, for this young man is very unique and special. As a father who has followed this young mans storied career I would be forever grateful for any of his qualities to rub off on my sons and our team. In this sport the slightest edge can be the difference in a kid advancing from one level to the next. Oh and what an edge he would have been and also probably the best role model I can think of in recent years. Now I know in the past we have had volunteer?s fresh out of high school and I recall no problems with them, and if there were I?m sure they would have been handled accordingly. I don?t see this as setting a poor precedence but rather more like snatching a golden egg. I contacted our athletic director and asked why this young man was not approved to be a volunteer assitant. Its a real shame a gem like this got away. This was his responce: at the end he states: Since I have been AD, we have had NO students ?fresh? out of high school coaching High School students. This is not true. Thanks for your email. There are many things about this that you are unaware. Coach came to me with a request about a volunteer coach. As you stated our policy is to not put the school corporation in a position of risk when we hire a coach. This goes for volunteers or paid coaches. History has shown that athletes who just graduated from school have not attained the maturity to separate themselves as adults from High School athletes. Also, just because a student was a ?good? kid at school, does not always mean they have attained that maturity. Several years ago, Our School had a Valedictorian who got into some pretty severe trouble because of poor judgment and immaturity. It is too much of a risk for students that are from our school and is an even greater risk for students who recently graduated from other schools in the area. Although, this might take us away from getting some good coaches, temporarily, it is a sound policy followed by most school corporations. As in all major decisions, our administrative team discussed the pro?s and con?s of this EXTENSIVELY. We are confident we made the correct decision. Since I have been AD, we have had NO students ?fresh? out of high school coaching High School students.

I heard Reinohl for Mishawaka wasn't going to be allowed to wrestle this year, something about living out of district anyone have details. What a shame tough kid who I believe would of made some noise this year. Anyone? Bump

Y2 I clicked to read the article and got nothing, what up?

I heard Reinohl for Mishawaka wasn't going to be allowed to wrestle this year, something about living out of district anyone have details. What a shame tough kid who I believe would of made some noise this year.

Your right no excuses! but this being a discussion board I will throw this tid-bit in, the 140 in question who did not wrestle the other night due to illness did beat Kade Hardly of Leo last year and then had a season ending injury so I do believe he could of given your 140 a challenge, the 103 and heavy wt were already a given, not in the equation to begin with. SA you wrestled well and congratulations you will have a fine season, good kids and a good program. We came up short fair and square. I'm sure you also had a few kids out or a similar scenario. Good Luck!