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I would admit that there are some things that are difficult with having the IHSAA as our sports sanctioning body, but I think it would be a horrible detriment to the sport if we did not have them. Without the IHSAA the sport at the high school level would resemble the sport at the youth level. So teams would become all-star travel teams with-in a few years. Not to mention that schools would not put the same funding and care into their programs... Why would a school keep and maintain a wrestling room for a club team that isn't IHSAA sanctioned? I also think that overall numbers would take a huge hit. Think of how many kids come out for wrestling to just be a part of the team you would lose all of those kids. Busing, uniforms, gym schedules all would play a role as well. Finally no IHSAA no state tourney like we have now. There would be no semi-states in great facilities, no state finals at Banker's Life. This isn't to say that the say that wrestling would die if we went this route, it would just look much different and be much worse imo.

You don't get a question about the Golden Globes everyday but I was watching last night and saw Adam Driver a lot. He is from Mishawaka, and was a marine so I was just curious if anyone knew if he had ever tried wrestling, or even wrestled in middle or high school. With the strong tradition at Mishawaka its just something I have been curious about.

Connorsville team scores.pdf

East Noble vs Plymouth on December 5th has been postponed until later in the year... I will try to get our schedule adjusted on here.

Head coaches make sure you are getting this done. It was new last year, I completed it last night. Anyhow one thing that stood out to me was the following rule. 50-4 and 101-4 (Individual Sports) In order for a student to qualify for participation ins the IHSAA tournament series in an Individual Sport (cross country, golf, tennis, swimming and diving, track and field, and wresting) the student must have participated, during the preceding regular season in a minimum of (i) seventy-five present (75%) of the Season Contests in which the students school participated, and (ii) Twenty-five percent (25 %) of the maximum number of authorized Season Contests in that sport. I personally was not aware of this rule. So I sent an email to Commissioner Faulkens. I had three questions. Is this new? What exactly is this saying? Most are reading this as the athlete needs to participate in 75% of the meets, tourneys, duals? Is this correct? It states a waiver is needed, where do we get this waiver? He responded No Your wrestlers have to compete in 75 percent of your scheduled matches. Your AD requests the waiver. If the wrestler was injured, academically ineligible, or just plain could not beat someone out at the weight class until late in the season. Just an FYI

I don't know what you are basing this on? Last season I was shocked at how good the 5th-6th places matches were at most tournaments. I really think that the depth of the overall talent pool is what stands out to me the most in our state at local tournaments. I think back to when I wrestled you would have kids that had no clue what was going on out there. You don't see that much anymore. Saturday I am going to spend my day at a JV meet, I guarantee there will be some solid wrestling there. Now if your talking forfeits, that is a different beast, but the kids for the kids that are out there wrestling I don't think the talent has ever been higher.

See attached 2019-2020 Fall Clinic Meeting Minutes.docx

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Cliff Keen in conjunction with EI Sports will be offering the following IHSWCA Clinic special through October 25th. If you purchase 15 Cliff Keen Singlets, Cliff Keen will be giving you 15 FREE sublimated MBP13 Bags. EI is the only outfitter in the country with this offer! Check out details below! IHSWCA CLINIC Cliff Keen Promotion .pdf

EI Sports is killing it! They will be giving out this shirt to the first 100 coaches who visit their booth at the clinic!

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Haven't forfeits always been a part of wrestling? I have no clue on the overall trend or anything like that, but it doesn't seem to me that it is horrendously worse now than it was when I wrestled, or when I began coaching. All of this stuff ebbs and flows too. This will be my 11th year as a head coach, and I can say that in the last decade alone I have seen teams that had literally 3 wrestlers on the team at one point, go on to be at team state, and win regionals. I have also seen it go the other way, teams with a lot of kids go down to a few. I think A LOT of it is about the "culture" of the sport at the school. For whatever reason it seems like some schools have it, others don't. Again this can change with a class, or with various coaches... I also don't see this as an issue that is small school vs big school. I spent my first 9 years at a small school, and we very rarely forfeited, not that it never happened, but it seemed easier to get a kid to try it out, or come out to fill a spot. I now coach at a much larger school, and had two forfeits all year. I've found communication to be much more difficult at a larger school, and I am in the building. I imagine that getting things "going" is much more difficult no matter the school if your not in the building. With this being said once a team culture is established with-in a program it is something that can last for a long period of time. It is just difficult to get going. I would also say in my opinion getting the culture right is just as important to a program as having a coach who knows all of the moves in the world.

Defense soap will be sending a care package for the raffle. Awesome product. https://www.defensesoap.com/

The world's greatest football team is going to send us an autographed flag from the world's greatest football player- Khalil Mack. It said it is a laser autograph, but still pretty cool that the Chicago Bears are a sponsor! https://www.chicagobears.com

Just got confirmation that America Scaleco will be donating a new weigh-in scale to the raffle as well. The weigh in scale sends weights right to your phone. They will be in attendance as a vendor as well! Awesome prize, they sell for $700. Check the scale out here- https://www.americanscaleco.com/weighin-scale

Just finalized with wrestling mindset. The guys from wrestling mindset will be in attendance and speaking as an option at the breakout sessions. Wrestling Mindset has a very large social media following, and will make for a great breakout session. https://www.wrestlingmindset.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wrestlingmindset/?hl=en https://twitter.com/WrestlingMindse?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author https://www.facebook.com/WrestlingMindset/

Thanks for pointing that out, changed it.

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Just curious have any of the jobs in the coaching changing thread been filled? There are still 18, seems like a lot for this time of year. Any schools having trouble finding applicants?

This is awesome. A third coach will be taking home a set of singlets with 3Xgear donating a set of 14 to a lucky team. https://www.3timegear.com/