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That is awesome that they have the wrong form on the IHSAA site https://www.nfhs.org/media/882323/2015-16-nfhs-wrestling-skin-lesion-form-april-2015-final.pdf Anyone know if this is the correct one then?

At the fall clinic Faulkins said something about a new form for this season. I just printed off one that said approved in April of 2014. Does anyone know if this is the correct form, or do we need another?

I am not saying that there is not a lot of great information that track wrestling produces, I am saying that the site is not very user friendly. It is super clunky, and difficult to use until you get it down. Do you not find it at least somewhat clunky to use at times? Here is the 16 step process that it takes to create stats for on offline event- You will first need to download the event you want to score while you are online Log into your season and click SCHEDULE in the grey top menu Click on the event you want to download Click the OFFLINE ENTRY link at the top of the page Click 'OK' when prompted about transferring to the offline controller Adjust your style, touchscreen preference and set the display format to 'Normal' Select the [save] button Bookmark this page so you can easily find the offline controller in the future (See below) Click on 'Events' Click on the [Download Event] button Click 'OK' when prompted about transferring to the online controller Select the [Download Event] button Select your season Type your team name, select your state and click [search] Select your team from the list Select the event you want to download Your event is now downloaded and ready for you to score offline Now 13 Steps to upload it Go to your most recent 'Offline Controller' bookmark Select 'Events' Choose the event you want to synch by clicking the blue link Select [synch Dual] Click 'OK' when you see the prompt to transfer to the online controller Choose the event you want to synch by clicking the blue link Select [synch Dual] Select your season, enter your username and password, and select [Login] Select the correct event Select [Continue] Select [upload Selected] Select 'OK' when you see the prompt verifying the matches have been uploaded successfully The results are now on the live site Searching on the site is also a pain. I'm just saying it would be great if it were more streamlined and user friendly.

Hey I know we have been over this before, but curious about the track wrestling stat program. Just a couple of questions- 1. If you dont have the internet can you still enter stats? 2. If this is the case how does it work? Is there an app that you download? Will it only work on one device at a time if that is the case? 3. Is it "user-friendly"? I love the information that track has, but it has to be the least user-friendly site I have ever used. I just tried to purchase the stats program, and I honestly felt lost, and couldn't figure out where to purchase it. Does anyone else get frustrated with how track runs? Its not so bad when you figure it out, but it the first couple of times through it is super frustrating. 4. Any other problems? 5. Any other positives?

As far as someone defeating Snider, Dwenger is usually a solid team. I'm not sure what they have this year, but I would usually consider them in the mix. They are well coached, and had good numbers last year. Concordia is another team that was on the rise last year. I'm not sure what all they lost, but I would think they would be competitive. Do you have any feeling as to if they will join or not? I would assume that it would make the most sense to join, but I am not close to the situation with wrestling, or really the other sports either. Seems like it was a good fit for football though.

I recorded it and am currently watching 184. It seems like every attempted takedown is being defended by some type of funk roll. I think it is exciting to a point, but leads to way too many stalemates. I also can't believe that more injuries don't come from it. I know we see it plenty in high school, but it seemed like every match tonight. Anyone think there could be a rule change in the future to phase it out a little bit? Is there anyway you could change what is and isn't a takedown? Also with it being an all star event are the wrestlers a little more loose, wrestling more freely or is funk the new go to defense?

Who was the scariest wrestler that you ever watched or faced? Not the best necessarily, but the most intimidating, roughest, generally scary guy out on the mat. For me it would be either Jon Fitch from Carroll High School, or Anton Talamentes fromfrom Dwenger. I didn't wrestle either of them, but a couple of my teammates did. It didn't look fun at all. Fitch even had one of our better kids, and it was a good match, but he was intense out there. Another kid who stood out from my coaching days was Travis Thatcher from Bellmont. That kid seemed like a real bad a$$.

What are you guys thoughts on quads? I used to think that the NHC using them was kind of a waste of points until we wrestled in one a few years back. It was supposed to be a five way, but due to weather, or football ended up being a quad. I personally loved it. You still got three matches, and you were done at a reasonable hour. With five ways the last meet of the day is usually pretty bad. The kids are banged up, half of them don't want to be there. If we could find a quality quad we would jump at it if we had an opening, anybody else?

OK, it must have been that he was at higher weights. My friends and I used to debate this stuff, and I couldn't remember if it was that he won at four different weights, or if it was just that he won at higher weight classes that was the argument for Maurer. Do you know what weight he won at his freshman year?

What about Mauer or Micic? Mauer was a four timer, I'm not real sure on his national accomplishments. I may be wrong, but I think he was the only 4 timer to win each in a different weight class. If I remember correctly the weights that he won at were higher up, so that made his accomplishments stand out too. Wasn't he like a 45 when he won as a freshmen? As for Micic, he was a three timer. Who did he lose to his first year? His national credentials are pretty solid too, correct? Anyone know much about Steven Bradley? He stood out when I first started going to state.

Alex Tsirtis was also undefeated for four years, Angel only had one loss...

That is pretty cool, that doesn't seem to be the norm for sure. Curious was that kind of how it has always been at Carmel, or did you change the schedule to add more dual meets? Generally speaking, is that were you want your schedule, or do you think you would add more weekend stuff in the future?

Yeah I am just curious about head to head weeknight duals?

Maybe a lot was the wrong word. It was brought up during the NWCA presentations, and during Dr. Cooper's presentation. I realized that our team would have trouble reaching a fan base this season as we only have four duals, and actually no home meets. I am really just curious to see how many teams have above the minimum number of duals, and if any have 8. There also is an article about this same topic in the new wrestling U.S.A. magazine which is what made me start the post.

Curious to see what teams schedules look like in terms of dual meets. There was a lot of talk about promotion of our sport, and I agree that dual meets are the best from a fan perspective. I would be interested to see if there will be a change to more duals in the future, or if that change is already starting at some places.. Anyhow, I am just looking for the school and number of duals. I'll start, and to let you know I am not practicing what I am preaching. Churubusco- 4 Duals

In addition to the book

Yeah, I thought he might be a senior this year. Last years rankings have him listed as a senior, so I was a little confused.

Y2 I agree completely on Grey. That kid is tough. What about Ellis at 220? I thought he was pretty impressive last year. Is there a heavy favorite at 220? I couldn't remember anyone off of the top of my head.

Another reminder for coaches make sure you take two of the courses found at http://nfhslearn.com/. One of the courses has to be Concussions in Sports, the other is of your choosing as far as I could tell.

I am compiling a list of important dates/ information for the upcoming season. Feel free to add anything that you see fit. Upcoming Important Dates for Wrestling- IHSWCA Coaches Clinic October 8th, 9th Online Rules Interpretation Meetings October 26-November 16 First official practice November 2nd First Contest November 16th Official Pre-Tourny Vote Dec 14-January 6th Sectional January 30th Regional February 6th Semi-State February 13th State February 19-20

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/01/sport/nuba-wrestling-olympics-2020/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion&iref=obnetwork I have never associated wrestling with this part of the world, but it seems to be really popular there according to the article.

125 3 Tomasello osu 133 5 Clark iowa 141 1 Stieber osu 149 2 Tsirtis No 157 5 Welsh Purdue 165 2 Jourdan wis 174 3 Evans Iowa 184 4 Pfarr Minn 197 1 Snyder OSU 285 5 Lawson PSU Team Iowa, OSU, Ill

First off the only stat that 1A isn't close to 13% in is placers and champs. Simply add Mater Dei to the 1A numbers and your data all becomes pretty much useless. Secondly you asked me to try to explain why we see a drop off in placers, which I attempted to do, to be honest I am just trying to find a possible reason, I am not saying it is correct. Either way let me try to make my thought process a little more clear to you. When I say that 13% of the qualifiers is what you would expect, that is when you look at the entire population of 1A. If we are looking at 100% of the 1A population then it should be 13%. As we start to look at a talent that fewer and fewer people with-in the population has, you could eliminate some of the 1A school from the original population because they never had anyone in their school with that talent to begin with. So eventually you would be looking at 8 or 9% of the population not 13%.

Because as you get a smaller and smaller skill set, that set of skills is not found in all of the populations. So at each level we are looking at you would actually be eliminating some small schools from the equation at each level. Back to the height idea. If we said 6 Foot tall= sectional roster. It would be expected that all schools regardless of size would have 14 six foot tall kids. If regional s= 6'5'' Then it is probably safe to assume that most schools have at least 1 kid walking the halls that is 6'5". You would naturally expect there to be more 6'5'' kids at a big school, but most schools would still meet this criteria. Semi-state- a bigger jump so lets say 6'10, at this point most big schools would still have a 6'10'' kid, or maybe a few walking around. Several small schools would too, but now you would start to eliminate several small schools entirely, because they simply do not have a 6'10'' kid walking around their population. The pool of schools at this point is lessened, this is why you would see the drop off. Now instead of 100% of the 13% we are dealing with 75% of that 13%. At the same time we are probably dealing with lets say 90% of the 24% (2A schools) and 100% of the 63% (big schools). State= 7' Now we would see that not even all big schools would have a 7' kid walking around. Small schools it would be very rare, but there would still be some schools with a 7' kid. So now lets say were are looking at a populations of 30 % of the small schools, 45% of the medium schools, and 75% of the big schools. I could keep going on with this, but the point is that as the skill set becomes smaller, the % of schools that had a kid with that skill set to begin with gets lower, thus why we see the small disparity in qualifiers, and the larger on in placers.

I think that the skill set needed to be a state qualifier is so rare that it simply doesn't exist in the population of all small schools. This would explain the reason that we start to see the number of state qualifiers and state placers become less than the 13% you would expect. You are looking at such a rare occurrence that many of the schools simply don't have anyone with the attributes needed. If instead of wrestling ability we were tracking something else, like lets say height. And we were looking for people who were 7 foot tall. There would be 7 foot tall people spread all over the population, and they would be at big schools, medium schools, and small schools. You would obviously expect more 7 foot tall people to be at big schools, and for the sake of argument you could probably expect at least one 7 foot tall person with-in the schools with large populations. While some small schools would have a 7 foot tall person, most wouldn't. It is so rare that when we cap the populations that we are looking for 7 foot tall individuals they simply are not found, and thus we begin to see the lowering of the numbers. I don't know if that made any sense to anyone but me, but for me it seems like a reasonable possibility. My stance is that 63% of the population should produce 63% of the state qualifiers. 24% should produce 24%, and 13% should produce 13%. The numbers usually hold pretty true to that.