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I believe flowrestling.com and themat.com are both covering the event.
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It's less about you getting the quick finish and more along the lines of it being dumb to train for 6 months then get caught quickly since you went out half cocked trying to put on a show and finish things quickly.
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Jai is very well rounded in striking, grappling, and submissions. I'd love to see him get back into full fighting mode and earn a few more wins.
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Any chance of the Freestyle state finals moveing back a week or two in May then like many other states do? I think having it just one more week later already help with getting kids ready for the finals. One of the biggest reasons I was given for this not happening was the State Fairgrounds was only available during the start of May. I always felt extending out the USA Wrestling season an extra week or two would help get kids more mat time and allow for a few of the tournaments to spread out some. With the fairgrounds out of the picture I would think we could consider such an option now. This could mean adding an extra week or two of Folkstyle (pushing th start or Freestyle back) so more middle school and high school kids can attend event at the end of the season. Though I would rather see a few more few more weeks of the Freestlye/Greco season so kids have more time to train and get used to those styles before the end of the season state tournaments. If several other state have a late May finish and still can figure out their national tournament and dual teams then I think we could, as well.
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Sorry for if it wasn't clear before. I wasn't saying each state was forced to change to every new rule. Obviously, certain state make some tweeks for their own state associations, like NY having a 98lb class and our ref shirts issues. It was just my understanding that the national association allowed for a transition period of a year or two for all new rules. So, some states may make the adjustment in the end, but it may not be until after this coming season.
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Not to adopt the weights period? Or just for the upcoming season? If I'm not mistaken doesn't the national assiciation allow each state time to phase in any new rules over a year or two. I'm guessing some states don't feel comfortable adjusting the change by the start of next season, but will move to it the following year.
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GSP = playing it cautious so he takes the least amount of damage on the way to a win. Silva = a unmotivated so is content with scoring on some quick moves and then waiting the match out the rest of the time. But in some cases it does look similar watching the long drawn out match.
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FILA Junior World Team Trials (basically HS juniors through college sophomores) event occurring at the same venue that Friday. For those able to attend it should have some very impressive matches once they get into the final few rounds.
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It always seemed to be that looking at the number of state qualifiers per team showed how many studs a team. While looking at the number of semi-state qualifiers (especially ones with the most first match wins) showed just how well rounded of a team you had that year. While their will be some skewed data because of weak sectionals/regionals I would say the semi-state numbers would still show the better teams than just looking at final individual state team points.
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Penguin yes he has a few wins but they are more like build your confidence fights than legit fighters. Sanchez will be his first serious test to prove if he's still has a place as a name in that division since they gave him the Alves fight. Renzo is like 44 and hasn't has a solid win in awhile. An aged Shamrock and Miletich and an out of touch Newton don't count as "solid". Almieda has had a few decent wins but nothing that really put him over as legit figure. The Hughes fight was his biggest one to day. Serra while he did get the punching TKO over GSP (which GSP soon fixed). The has mostly be a flash in the pan after that. He wanted to prove to everyone he still deserved a shot in the UFC. He did that and mostly hasn't had the same fire to prove himself since. So yes Hughes has had some wins, but her hasn't really established himself as being more than a short term investments to the UFC since he lost the Alves fight. I hope he can prepare for the fight and beat a legit opponent like Sanchez so he can prove his worth to the UFC. But in their eyes he not a serious title contender any longer and time is not on his side as far as being a gatekeeper for fighters hoping to make it into the top ranks.
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"plus banned the boys' wrestling team from participating in any district, regional or state competitions for the next three school years." Ouch. Talk about a set back for the program. My guess would be after these sanctions district transfers will be going up dramatically.
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I've found that it is common to not see the list fill up until a day or two before the sign up is closed. From 6-10pm the last you will see many weights double in size. Must be common to procrastinate. Also it seems that attendance has be down the last several years (economy seems to be the best answer anyone has for it) so that may play a small factor in why the numbers are low thus far.
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Not seeing him winning the WTT, but who knows strange things happen. At any rate if it keeps him in shape and helps inspire others then its worth the effort.
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Sound's live a very moving service. Very nice of the school to come together and make it happen. It shows how much Trever meant was to those involved. God Bless.
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GSP has been very good over the last few years of not getting himself in danger and continuing to score points. But, going to be hard to stay in safe positions most of the fight against a motivated Anderson Silva. Plus as I mentioned if a different post to put on the weight and get used to the weight class the right way GSP would want a long time to prepare and I'd almost want a tune up fight if he could get the right opponent. So making the actual fight date a little harder to figure out. Be easier of Silva would drop down to a catch weight but I'm not sure if that possible or if he would want to if it was.
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Diego looked chunky in his last fight after moving up in weight. I would hope he would turn more of that into muscle if he is planning on staying in that division. It's been a few years since Matts really put together a seires of wins against some tough competition. I'd look for him to be ready for this fight if he is planning on sticking around the UFC for awhile longer.
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If we went the Conference route I wouldn't mind seeing it be based on Conference Dual match standing (winner of each and a few at large bids) than on a individual tournament result. That would make it more of a team event than what we have currently. A benifit would be we wouldn't have to move the conference tournaments to make this happen. The brawback being teams would need to fit in matches against their conference opponents earlier in the season. Also their would be the factor of conferences having teams from more that one class if we went to a multi-class system for the team event. I would hope if the ISWCA is serious about doing the event that they will do a study on how other state dual events are ran. Plus find out any issue to look out for along the way based on running that system. I think studying how other states have developed, especially those that have risen quickly in talent over the last 10 years, is a great way to see what options we should consider taking with our entire state program.
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I see he will be brining Galka in as an assistant.
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Chalfant a "Hoosier" Once More
MattM replied to Drooke's topic in College and International Wrestling
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Nice show last time he was in state at Bloomington. I e-mailed him before that some of the wrestling community would be in the crowd and he threw in some extra jokes for us. He's a very personable guy to talk to about the sport too.
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Those tricky people at the IHSAA setting up a back story to plead legally insane to avoid the criminal charge. ;D
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This idea has some merit for the smaller schools, but may present a few problems. Not sure modifying the current weight classes for this type of event would be allowed under the current wrestling rules. The other issue would be the fact that each of the small school would be different in terms of where there kids are weight wise. So, their may not be a perfect set of 10 weight classes all small school would agree upon.
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A whole 2 inches isn't really a revolutionaly chyange in the boundary lines other than a small percentage of pin calls. If they wanted to really adjust the boundaries in a significant way make it more like the college out of bounds takedown rules. Not going to solve all of the problem of wrestlers riding the line, but it would help. Heck I'm all for a step out rule being put in place in Folkstyle as long as a warning or two occurs first as to prevent any acidental steps outs by the offensive wrestlers during a scamble.
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I'd love to see a survey on the amount of time the Principals and AD's attended wrestling athletic functions or made it a point to talk to their wrestling coaches (not the coaches approaching them) about this matter before voting in the IHSAA survey. Not asking to much to stop into a home meet or two, stop at the start or end of a practice, or just show up at sectionals (or state if someone makes it) to support your team. While some principals and AD are with congratulating for their wrestling involvement, I would say many have made little effort to support or even understand the sport. Yet, they get a large voice in the decision and IHSAA seems to devalue the coaches portion.
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I'm not sure that school can participate in a school sanctioned event such as this sepertate from the state series to determine a team state champion without the IHSAA approval. The IHSAA has the right to drop any school from the state tournament series that does not follow by their by-laws. I would assume starting a seperate state tournament from there would be among those violations. You would need to use some awful fancy wording and scratch the IHSAA's back just right and they may work it out on some level. Anyone think its kind of strange they would suddenly throw a fit over the individual state coaches trophy, but now are OK with a separate coaches association ran team state tournament. Seems like the real possibility they would actually approve would be after the end of the season "all-star" type contest or a USA Wrestling as a club vs club event. But, I do agree if something could be created it would help to show the top teams for that season.