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Floyd Central
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We received different codes for each session
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Saturday Morning 96 or Finals 97?
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Petty back and forth and during the season Champion
bsisson replied to GenHeavyHandz's topic in Past Discussions
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I believe we already have one of the longest state tournament series at 4 weeks. Most are 3 and some are 2. Yeah those shorter series have a longer finals weekend as well but the overall length is short. In my opinion the grind of a state tournament mentally and physically for 4 weeks is already enough.
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I have the score for the Lawerence North vs Floyd Central at 46-34 Lawerence North.
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@UncleJimmy hit on a lot of great points. There are so many factors that come into play once a wrestler moves to the next level not just from Indiana but everywhere! You will watch guys that didn't win state titles become all-americans and guys that won mutiple-state titles not make it through their first year or two. One of the biggest is getting use to there never being any easy days. Most top level guys dominate their room in high school. Once you enter college, especially at the D1 level, you are no longer the alpha and even days you go against walk ons are going to be tough. This becomes mentally taxing and you struggle with confidence issues almost daily! Relationships with coaches and wrestlers play a part as well. Maybe you don't mesh well with the coaches or the guys on the team. They are partiers and you're not. Another thing I have personally observed is guys fitting in right away and with all the new found freedom don't know how to balance partying, athletics, and school. We'd like to think that these kids can make the right choices but learning how to deal with that freedom can be really difficult! It doesn't make them bad kids it's just the reality. I was only a walk on at IU. The highlight of my career was being booed at rec hall for stalling and not giving up a major against Pat Cummins when I was thrown in at heavyweight. It was/is still the hardest 4 years of my life physically, mentally and academically. In fact I tried to come home after my first semester and my dad wouldn't let me! It never got easier but it just became the new normal. I agree with others that this is a good time for Indiana wrestling and we have a lot of talent at many levels.
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Tonight the Floyd Central Highlanders will be taking on the Bloomington South Panthers. We will run a Facebook live from our Facebook page. Kevin Whitehead, the state announcer, will once again be calling the action! It's a fun night of wrestling. JV starts @ 6:30 Varsity @ 7pm
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Cooper had an injury his junior year and someone posted he quit to start swimming and everyone wished him well! He was wrestling from the Mater Dei holiday tournament on! No longer are the day of being able to hide in the dark! @Y2CJ41 has eyes EVERYWHERE!
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Sounds like an awesome idea/event!!
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Dick Clipp, the long time coach of Corydon High School and member of the Indiana Coaching Hall of Fame, passed away today. He was a great man that had great stories! If you were lucky enough to attend one of his legendary seeding meetings on a Sunday you know what I mean. Rest in Peace Coach Clipp
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As I stated in my previous two posts I understand and appreciate what the ISWA does. There was 100% zero ill will intended and there was no reason to get defensive. I was more of just bringing it up as a talking point, since Flo made the change this year. I'll go back into my hermit shell and not post until Oct or Nov next year!
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I understand that. What I am getting at is that ALL of those other events are Folkstyle events and fill a required match. What I am suggesting is that since Flo is now a freestyle event that it would fulfill the other required meet. This would mean that a top level kid (Would probably be a handful of kids) could compete in Flo and another one of those national folkstyle events and never wrestle a local event. Again I understand the ISWA's reasoning and simply suggested it as something to think about.
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I'm glad they made the change this year. I know they want to push local tournaments but they may need to reconsider FloNationals in the future as it has transitioned to a Freestyle and Greco event this year. It should probably be considered to fill the other freestyle requirements. Obviously not this year but might be something to think about in the future.
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Yeah the girls Tournament has really grown and the ISWA is trying their best. The first year we went it was all on 1 mat I believe and we didn't start in the morning with the rest. Last year we started on one and eventually went to two. This year we started on two. It has really out grown 2 mats as well. I do appreciate their effort to keep it in the main fieldhouse where everyone is. I also don't want to see it moved to a separate weekend either but the extra 150 wrestlers, hopefully more next year, is really causing a strain on mat space. The long weekends of Folkstyle state are nothing new and honestly I am okay with them being longer and it should be expected. I will say that most of the youth Sunday tournaments I went to had between 250-350 and were out by latest 2pm most times. We all know this is a tremendous improvement from the freestyle tournaments of the 90s. In terms of sending my youth wrestlers to tournaments I weigh on the side of caution most of the time. My assistant coach, Brian Foxworthy, has a great quote. "Winning is a habit but so is losing" if you can't find a kid success at any level it will drive them away. We host our own tournament were all of our kids get their feet wet and even then I have watched kids get beat twice and never come back to another practice even after a positive pep talk. We have all seen the super star youngsters that fizzle out. The ones I want to keep out are the kids that lose some and keep coming back as their skills will eventually catch up to their effort and is a fine line to walk of getting them beat too much.
