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Awesome story! I look forward to seeing him compete at IN Tech.
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You can't compare the level of competition that he would receive at an Indy school to what he receives at a top school in the nation, especially one without travel restrictions.
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I think he's saying that it's a good tournament, but not what it was before it had direct competition from 2 other tournaments. Still, winning it is still a huge accomplishment. For that matter, placing at it is a very good accomplishment. Good luck to the IN wrestlers who are competing!
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As I recall, Al Gore invented global warming.
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I would agree. They are a great match when both are healthy and in top form, but when Howe is injured, and not in top conditioning, he wouldn't be a match for Borroughs.
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I think we agree on that. In the same token, shouldn't a 95 still be able to compete at 106/107?
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I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that Reece can't handle Stevenson in the room, considering that they are the same size, Stevenson is the one who wrestles their natural weight class. That doesn't mean that Reece wouldn't be a top 5 guy at 189.
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I am not sure why you have such issue with my argument. We need to get away from pushing weight cutting in our sport. It hurts wrestling as much as anything does. You will find a lot of the best athlete's in most schools being kids who would fit in from 185 to 215. Those are, typically, easy weight classes to fill, but would be just as easy, in a lot of cases, if you added a third weight class in there.
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I don't think that's a good example, especially in Reece's case. His team had a kid at 189 that I don't think he could beat out. If anything, the fact that one school has 2 of the top 5 kids in the state in the same upper weight class is as good of an argument for having more weight classes for the bigger guys.
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I would like to see him pick Penn State. He'd have great practice partners there, regardless of what weight he's at. Wisconsin and Minnesota would also be good choices in the Big Ten.
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RANKINGS UPDATED AS OF 12/5 at 3 A.M. Eastern
hammer replied to RankingsGuy's topic in Past Discussions
That coach sounds like an idiot. It's a shame to ruin a kid's athletic career through stupidity. -
Indiana - Illinois Projected/Invited Team Members
hammer replied to Coach McCormick's topic in Past Discussions
I am surprised of this as well, especially considering the one who is attending is the one who won't be wrestling on the next level. -
I don't believe that you can factor swimming into the equation, as I am pretty sure that there are nowhere near as many schools with swimming programs as wrestling programs. Track would probably be the best comparison.
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I have no doubt that Coach Peck is a good coach and mentor to the kids he has coached. My comments on this in no way meant to take anything away from him or his accomplishments. What I was trying to point out is that if his kids get an extra 15 regular season matches in each year(compared to the schools that I have coached at), that for a really good wrestler should end up with at least an extra 50 victories out of those 60 matches. So it does skew the stats a little. Which is why I would rather see the all-time wins list as an all-time win %, with a minimum # of matches wrestled, maybe 150 to throw out a number.
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Thanks for the info. I remembered them getting pinned multiple times in the Hobart match, but I couldn't remember if it was 3 or 4 that they gave up.
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Didn't they give up more than a few pins to the Hobart team that almost knocked them off around the beginning of Team State in the mid 90's?
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While I don't think he has any room to complain in this case, since he screwed up by not knowing the rules, I do agree that it would make more sense to put the North teams on one side of the bracket, and the South teams on the other half. I would have had it as CP vs Delphi, Penn vs Bellmont, PM vs LN, and EMD vs Roncalli. Don't we do that in every other team sport?
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I think the word you meant is parity. Parody would insinuate that the first class was spoofing the other classes.
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I'm not sure where the relevancy is with half the crowd leaving by the championship match. Isn't the almighty dollar what the IHSAA really cares about? Under that thinking, if everyone buys a ticket to fill the stands for the first round, the IHSAA still brings in the same gate, regardless of when they leave.
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Mauer weighed in at over 171 that do, so he technically just bumped up one class.
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While 200 wins is a great accomplishment, it's also a case that numbers can get inflated. If you notice through the years, there are some teams that wrestle 60 matches or more by State, while other teams don't even get 40 matches in. I would vote for win % over number of wins.
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That might be correct, although that wasn't who I was thinking of.
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I am almost sure there have been 0-0 wrestlers entering the State tournament who have won it.
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Roach
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I think that Alex peaked earlier than Jason. I think I remember seeing from National results that Alex had more success before HS. Alex was better as a Freshman, and better as a Sophmore as well. Junior vs. Junior is a draw in my opinion, but I see next year's Jason being better than Senior year Alex. Overall, I agree with those that are saying that Alex was better on his feet, at least from an offensive standpoint, but Jason is probably on the mat than Alex was until well into his college career. I will give Jason huge props for beating Quiroga, but in Alex's defense, he wouldn't have lost to Napules like Jason did.