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  1. MattM

    BJ Penn?

    MattM replied to WC182Dad's topic in MMA Talk

    Didn't realize he had fought again. I watched his first fight online. He did well, but not near his brothers level yet. Figured BJ may get more out of training his brother for fights these days.
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    Reece also named OW http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=24348
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    Someone mentioned in another thread he may be out because of injury. But, no one else has commented on that possibility. I know With Army does not have red shirts and also requires all cadets to participate in a extra curricular athletic activity, but if injured he may not be counted as part of the line up.
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    This coming Saturday. And I believe seeding has always been done a week prior so sometime this weekend.
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    Since Boston didn't attend any national pre-season events they didn't have much to go on at this point. So the people that put them together have to guess on the weights until they see where everyone ends up later in the season.
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    11th at 195 with only seniors ahead of him. May have been a little higher but all his major national accomplishments up to this point have been at the cadet level. We will see how he stacks up at the junior level this next spring/summer.
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    Cox and crew don't care for wrestle backs since they make the day last longer but don't put extra butts in the seat for revenue. If you can figure out a way to not add logistical problems but advance more wrestlers though they would love it. No added organization issues plus more families attending each event makes the money (i.e. advancing 4 to semi-state and saying its a favor to wrestling).
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    Yes. He wrestled at university of Missouri prior to his comedy days.
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    Pacers wanted the city to take over some of the financial responsibility for running some of there obligations. Not sure that went over very well with Indianapolis people though. Can't believe I wasted my 2000th on a Pacers comment. Dumb roundball.
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    He's preaty good about replying to e-mails if you have questions. Also Greg did a great job throwing in wrestling related material at his last Indiana show. Very entertaining.
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    The change will put more butts in the seats at Individual State and cause the IHSAA less logistics to manage. Which is what drove most of the IHSAA decision to end the event. Will it equal the amount of people that attended the team state competition, that is yet to be seen. However, I'm not sure the change will actually grow the sport athletical much. Either way we still have the individual state and the kids that are motivated enough on varsity will continue to do well in that if we have team state or not so no real change in participation levels there. But, losing the team side of things may obviously will give some kids (whose team has the potional for being part of a team regional or state) one less thing to be interested in sticking around for. Obviously, the IHSAA can say that teams doing well in each level of the Individual Tournament points race will attract more participation in the long run, but that may not be to fruitful except for the team winning state or being runners up since those type of wins involves a little less of a team concept. So it easy to see the IHSAA was looking at the move because of financial and logistical reason more than thinking it would somehow help participation levels.
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    Must be a corrolation between the amount of uniform combinations a football team has and the schools wrestling team being cut. Same senecio played out at Oregon.
  13. MattM
    Demarcus Spencer is now wrestling for King College.
  14. MattM
    I'd be slightly more happy with the individual tourny determining the state team title if the IHSAA carried the point over from round to round. Yes, there would still be some discrepancies in scoring due to alignment, but less than just counting those to make it to state and saying that's for a team championship. At least the you can say everyone entered had a shot at contributing to the total not just Starting from scratch with those few that made state. Other sports can advance the team along, but since wrestling can't advancing the score is the next best solution to that. Those teams where several wrestlers winning a few semi-state matches should be recognized as one of the better teams in state just as much as a team where only three kids make it to state while the rest went out early in sectional/regional. I'm guessing out advanced computer technology could handle that adjustment to the system. Plus if one of the big selling point for removing the team part was to ensure more teams had a shot at success I would think going back to a smaller sectional alignment would be the next IHSAA move. That would allow for more teams/individuals to be winners and runner-ups which gives more school recognition. But that would be if one of the main reasons for ending the team event was actually to give more schools a chance at success instead something that sounds good to say.
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    We have seen several occasions now where the "Coaches Trophy" winner and runner-up (most points in individual state) did even make the Team State Championship match or even Final 4. So I'm no sure what you would need to call the Individual State Championship school point winner exactly, but kind of hard to call it a Team State Championship when we have seen the individuals don't produce a true team result.
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    http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/About/ByLaws/tabid/91/Default.aspx I'd check what the by-laws say about jamboree's and scrimages. Then take the additional questions to the IHSAA leadership.
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    Heck that's wouldn't even make the top 10 for arguments I've heard there, but you are on the right track.
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    It's usually based on previous accomplishments. Though I have heard some of the best and funniest arguments for why someone should be seeded at this particular seeding when our team attended the event.
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    http://www.indystar.com/article/20111108/SPORTS02/111080340/Team-wrestling-tournament-end?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CSports Indy Star report on the event.
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    True. But several people on the nation scene have commented in the last few years that the NCAA has at least been exploring the logistics of a Dual Championship after seeing the success the National Duals has had. So clearly some people in the system see some interest in such an event, though they may not be able to feasably work it into the system.
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    The next question is will this lead to a reallignment or restructure of the state tournament series? I've heard sugguestions of going back to a smaller sectional again and even the old leveled system of advancingto state. I've also heard the opposite of combining more areas to make a three level state tournament as some sports have. Both have their pro's and con's for all parties involved.
  22. MattM
    It looks like the Big 10 Network is moving a decent amount of covereage to their online streaming service. This does involves an additional fee however.
  23. MattM
    I believe I heard somewhere McMurray was redshirting this year. But, haven't heard anything lately though. Sean is here enough so that question should get clarified soon enough. He didn't get to last year as scheduled due to the started getting injured. Runyan was on last years Army (West Point) roster, but is not listed this year. There program does not have redshirts so that would not be a possible reason. From my understanding The cadets are required to participate in some extra-curricular physical activity so if he is no longer wrestling he would be doing something else.
  24. MattM
    With your speed that would have worked for a nickname.
  25. MattM
    He'll be getting some practice with those center of the mat pins in perepartion for next year then. Put them on the ancher.
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