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  1. 1oldwrestler
    I for one could care less about this ISWCA invite and I only cared a little more about the IHSAA team tourney when it existed (this season, my son's h.s. lost a team from their super dual that decided to attend the ISWCA event which was disappointing). I get the fact that having some team competition might help make the sport more popular in the long run but in the end, it's all about the individual's performance, IMO. Am I biased? Sure. I was never on a "machine" wrestling team nor were any of my sons. That being said, I have always viewed wrestling as an individual sport as opposed to a team sport. If team champs are based on individual performance (Coaches Trophy at state), all the better. Frankly, the IHSAA Team champ will more than likely be the ISWCA 3A or 2A champ most years anyway so what difference doe it make?
  2. 1oldwrestler
    I would hope so. LOL
  3. 1oldwrestler
    Typical large school mentality (my kids go to a school similar in size to McCutcheon). Let me guess, the entire team believes they have a shot at playing D1 football. At least that is what the coach has told them, so they have to be weight training for the entire football offseason. What a fricking joke.
  4. 1oldwrestler
    Hilarious
  5. 1oldwrestler
    Uh oh, cliche alert!
  6. 1oldwrestler
    Thats jumping to a conclusion i would never support. My point simply being that some wrestlers are so superior to their opponents that it would literally take an act of God for them to lose.
  7. 1oldwrestler
    There are plenty of examples, yes. But the one's you are giving are pretty good to excellent wrestlers UPSETTING excellent wrestlers. I would argue that the kid who is merely, at best, a Regional qualifier, has absolutely no shot versus a kid of Tstirtsis caliber. Therefore, to say that anyone can beat anyone at anytime is, IMO, truly false.
  8. 1oldwrestler
    I don't think you're going to have to miss him for too long. Pretty sure I saw a guy posting re the results of the CCC and I think it's him. Grammar has improved a touch but the wild predictions of success at state for guys remains the same. Go check it out and tell me if it isn't Caliboy/Demoguy/WCfan182(?). I'm pretty sure you'll be able to tell which guy I'm referring to. Lord, I hope it is him, the board has been too boring lately.
  9. 1oldwrestler
    Thanks professor! You need to start going to matches/meets in a different part of the state. Truly, I don't hear that "cliche" which, as we all now know, is "a trite or overused expression," all that much at the competitions I attend. However, if truth be told, I'm probably yelling too loudly for my kid or his teammates to pay attention to what others around me are saying.
  10. 1oldwrestler
    Not sure I agree with this being a cliche. Saying a kid is "huge" is the nice way of saying "the kid is sawing a leg off to make weight." So, IMO, kids might weigh the same at weigh in before an all day tourney, but by the end of a Saturday, one kid might be weighing 5 to 7 pounds more than his opponent in the finals. By all accounts, if I was watching that match, I might be inclined to look at the bigger wrestler and say "he's huge" and I would probably be right.
  11. 1oldwrestler
    Is it academics or the program?
  12. 1oldwrestler
    Of your list, my personal favorite is "he got caught." Almost everyone uses this excuse, especially when the favored wrestler gets dominated. Usually its a cradle that the wrestler gets "caught" in as if the cradle is a junk move.
  13. 1oldwrestler
    Am i the only one who thinks the picture of Brennan Cosgrove that Brennanfan uses looks like Ringo Starr?
  14. 1oldwrestler
    Take your Prozac buddy!
  15. 1oldwrestler
    I think the kid at 149 for IU is pretty tough.
  16. 1oldwrestler
    My bad. The Lawrence.. thanks
  17. 1oldwrestler
    no, the kids name im thinking of had a nickname like "the something"
  18. 1oldwrestler
    No, that isnt the kid at all. No, the Jimtown kid Im thinking of had a huge win at the Indianamat Hoosier Preaseason Open in 2011. He had a nickname and everything after the win. Pretty sure it was at 215. Beat a kid from Warren Central that used to wrestle at PM.
  19. 1oldwrestler
    What about the 215 pounder from Jimtown that some were predicting great things from because pf an absolutely huge preseason win last year? Is he back?
  20. 1oldwrestler
    I guess what I support is probably along the lines of aoberlin but I think the example I stated was not of massive cutting but of sensible control. I really believe a h.s. kid can lose 10 lbs safely regardless of what the IHSAA % test states. That's why I think it's a joke. I understand that a guideline has to be put in place but to hold it up as the chalice of virtue is silly. Almost every kid works around that test. My point is if my kid was beyond the IHSAA guideline but was not putting himself in harms way (which he wasn't and I'm not bragging about the amount of weight he lost) then I have no problem with the weight he lost regardless of what the IHSAA says. Glad there is a standard in place because it probably does prevent the 30 to 40 pound cuts that used to be rampant in the sport but it's too restrictive, IMO (and I get the fact that coaches have to pay lip service to the guideline). Listen, weight loss will continue to be an issue to be dealt with in this sport until mat side weigh ins are approved, something I support becasue then everyone would be forced to play by the same rules.
  21. 1oldwrestler
    Another robles hater? I dunno, i find the kid pretty incredible.
  22. 1oldwrestler
    ....or that!
  23. 1oldwrestler
    If I had to just give you a number, I'd say 10 lbs on ANY kid is a safe amount of weight to drop. My oldest was skin and bones when he went thru the cuts I outlined above.
  24. 1oldwrestler
    My oldest cut 12 lbs his junior yr to get to 112 and 11 lbs his sr yr to get to 119. Was he beyond the ihsaa guidelines? Im betting so. But i can tell you he was only "decent" sized at both of those weights. No one ever looked at him and said that kid is sawing a leg off to get down. If he wrestled only 5 lbs below his walking around weight it would have been difficult for him to enjoy the success he had. And hes just fine now, no stunted growth or kidney failure, wierd i know.
  25. 1oldwrestler
    Sorry coach, no disrespect meant to any of the other fine young men you have wrestling for you it's just that I have seen Travis wrestle since he was in 7th grade and am happy for him is all.
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