MattM

Here is Angel against a tough opponent from Azerbaijan at a recent friendly meet following the Grand Prix.  Didn't quite get it done but you can definitely see he is starting to figured some things out against top level world competition.

One thing was clear from the event: It's good that we all coach wrestling.

In related matters here is a list of past Cadet and Junior Division National Champs and then All-Americans via iswa website.

http://www.iswa.com/allamer.html

From trackwrestling it looks like a rough go for Cadet Greco outside of Sliga.  Hopefully better things to come for the rest of the event.

Further Info on the event and competators.

http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=22222

http://www.fila-wrestling.com/bakugp10/index.php

"No, the spout broke on the box and the wine won't come out"

Being that MacGyver hails from Minnisota not North Dakota they were never properly trained how to handle those type of situations.

Just an old country boy's  thought about this..........

 

First of all, I see these huge new schools being built around Indy and wonder where all the money is coming from....Heck, the weight room at Plainfield is as big or bigger than our high school gym....By the way, I went to  Mooresville in the 70's, very impressive but kind of wondering why?  TV's in a high school weight room?  I am not putting down Plainfield at all but was in awe when I walked in there last year for a dual meet for the first time....The pit that they had was perfect for a meet....   Who is paying for this?  We are of course and I don't mind because I love high school sports and it has a place for all of us.  I just wonder who thinks this crap up that we neeeeeeeed this type of new high school to keeeeeeep up with the other schools.....I just think that they should ask the people first to find out if they really need to spend this kind of money...Now Franklin Central kids parents need to pay for the kids to play sports???????  What a screwed up system.....Now you are asking for volunteer coachs?????

s and standards back to the schools, bring back religion and repercussions for your actions to the schools and let the teachers and coaches teach and coach without worrying about being sued....

 

Just venting.....Love you coaches and teachers (don't know how you do it these days),  hate your unions and ACLU.....  I know that you could do it without them.......

Easy answer is that teacher funds and project funds come from two different pools of money.  If the schools organizes and saves the project funds correctly they can eventually pay for a large expansion like Plainfield did.  However, due to the state rules in place at the time the projects fund moeny wasn't allowed to be transfered over to other funds in the case of hard times (i.e. paying teacher, teachers aids).  However, due to the new issues we are seeing many are saying that the state needs to re-evaluate their funding rules to make it easier to move funds towards places of educational need (however allow the reverse toward general projects from education funds). 

Some of it is still the state wanting  control over every area of education.  While I agree they need to step in to regulate and control the big picuture.  But I also see that the local governments have a much better view on how to handle most cases that are unique to their area instead of having to follow a blanket decision by a state government in every situation.

Well Drooke its Indianapolis. I didn't see Dana trying to set up a major title fight for a mid-market area.  Even thinking they may put Cain vs Brock on the card was a big suprise to me.  With no Brock on the card we are just a  filler card in between the big PPVs.   At this point the show is the loss of one decent name fighter from seriously being considered for Live on Spike status.  If the show goes over well though the UFC may try to stage a future card here with a few more big fights.

 

Mir/Nog II is the main event.

 

Two big boys rolling around working mostly BBJ not sure if thats the most entertaining matchup.

Dana tweeted that Velasquez/Lesnar will not take place in Indy

I thought more of you before you started following Dana's tweets! 

Figured with several Indiana guys formally, currently, and possibly going to Army this was relivant news.  A great pick up for the Black Knights and loss for the Buckeyes.

Former Ohio State Assistant, Four-Time All-American Joe Heskett joins Black Knights

http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=22195

Lesner by way of submission though he took some major lump before he got an opening.  I have to give him credit for at least branching out to other moves.  Sounds like his major illness and a little encouragment from the UFC helped him approach the post fight interview with a little more tact than at UFC 100.

I'll just randomly show up at seeding meetings if nothing else!

Now you are getting the seeding meetings confused with the hospitality room again.

Had great seats just feet away from the cage sitting in a local establishment that had giant bay windows open that gave a center view of things.

Kinser did looked impressive controlling the fight and opening up Overfield before finally getting the stoppage.

Warren was lucky to survive  first round on-slaught by Pitbull and was saved by the bell.  After "coming out of his daze" he manage to control the next few round with takedowns and decent ground and pound.

From what I could see Sclemenko in my opinion got the benifit of a slightly early stopage to win over Baker. I figured the fight would have stopped not to long after that unless Baker could have figured something out but it seemed a little premature.

I will say in the womens fight they came to brawl.  The highly touted Rosi Sexton decided to stand and trade with the Frausto and as a result caught a very nasty knee that put her out.

For being 39 Hinton was a solid man with some decent skills and was impressed to see him fight the much younger 25 year old Stratus.

All in all worth the trip though they have the tournament finals as the 3rd-4th fight of the evening to so it could make the TV time then showed most of the rest of the card.  I figured they would have did most of those fights earlier and if TV time was short just edit in what fights they needed to in order to fill it.  Guess that not how they do it in that organizations TV coverage though.

With Moratorium next week and other dates coming up I felt this was worth pointing out for everyone.

RULE 15-3.3 OPEN FACILITY PROGRAM AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM

Operation of open facility programs must be terminated prior to Monday of Week 4 (July 26, 2010) for

all sports. Open facility programs may begin again on the first day of school.

A conditioning program may be extended through Saturday of Week 4 (July 31, 2010). These programs

may begin again on the first day of school.

RULE 15-3.4 MORATORIUM

Each member school shall observe a moratorium starting on Monday of the week which

includes July 4th (June 28 ? July 4, 2010). During this seven-day period, there shall be no contact

between athletes and coaches, and no athletic activities, including conditioning, conducted.

http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=rBPPhV2eQ6o%3d&tabid=38

I believe the article is wrong in stating that Wright was the head coach at Portage though.

He was an assistant but don't recall him ever being the head coach.

 

The big one here is also Disney has more to offer to a family then going out west. If I gave my family the choice my son would be out voted every time. 

Well as far as Disney vs Individual Nationals go I would say it could be the difference between getting around 8 or so guaranteed matches vs possibly going 2 and out.  However, National Duals wise though you are getting about the same amount of guaranteed matches with the only difference being the style of wrestling. 

Just a question but why would a top team like Yorktown enter in d2, I wanted to see how they would fair against the BEST teams.

If I recall the divisions are divided up by school size.  However, you can ask to have your school place in another division I believe if you can justify the reason.  A D1 team may move to D2 because cause the team is very young/inexperienced, it mostly their JV guys,  etc.  A D2 team may move to D1 because they want to see differeent competition.  Some team may want to move up to the D1 division or stay in D2 just to face more out of state competion instead of running the chance of facing several in-state teams (most of IN teams are D1).  Some schools with multiple team (like Penn) may divide their group up between the division in an attempt not face each other in the competition.  

While Yorktown can probably ask to be placed in D1they are in the correct spot size wise being in D2, they many not have brought their whole varsity starting line up, they may want to face more out of state competion, or maybe they just want a crack at being back to back D2 champions.  

I would also say some of the "best teams" are actually in All-Star division too (made up of kids from several different schools), but I don't see many top school teams moving into that division from D1 or D2.

I'm guessing tickets are still available.  Anyone attending?  

Should be a good night of fights for a very reasonable price.  I was wanting to go if I can get one of our other coaches to make the trip down with me.

Well obviously we would have to remove the seniors, not account yet for some 8th grade studs, and wait to actually hear who moves up a weight to have a somewhat realistic looking list.  But, I would expect next years start of the season rankings to look something similar to this since the RC usually does the first rankings just off of a few things (A) last years state tournament results  ( fills in the lower spots from  SS results  © and/or names from his final rankings of the previous year:

1. Phillips 1st

2. Petrov 2nd

3. Schroeder 3rd

4. Brooks 5th

5. Farrell 6th

6. Hamm 8th

7. VanHook SQ

8. Busz SQ

9. Gettinger SQ

10. Moss SQ

11. Bevans SQ

12. Shepard SQ

13. Nelson SQ

14. Overby SQ

15. Venezia ranked 7th (lost at SS)

16. Slagla ranked 12th (lost at SS)

17. Yamamoto ranked 14th (lost at SS)

18. Schmith ranked 16th (lost at SS)

19. Bova ranked 19th (lost at SS)

20. Ferdig best record of state alternates (lost at SS)

With a little adjusting you now just have 13 more to go Rankings Guy.

Though we can probably expect to see more than half these names at 112 or 119 next year.

Ha MM, the writer from CagePotato agrees with you in his first note about the interview above....

No I though those were your notes on the article and video interview.  I was just pointing out what I recalled about it in reference to the question.

I think judo was Soko's background but kickboxing has become his other main style.

I really don't think the the mighty dollar is the only real factor with the top guys at the weight class.  But if the guys value the individual national trip as being the most important then I'm sure the combined expences does wiegh heavy on some families.  If the individuals or the duals were in Indiana or very close I'm sure we would get more guys involved because the cost of both trips and travel of families would be way less of a factor.  I do see cost being more of a factor as you go down the depth chart though.  I'm sure many wrestlers/parents have put some thought o if its worth the money with the potential of getting thrown around all weekend by top national guys (since they had previously just lost to Indiana's top guys).   Sure its an experience to wrestle at the level but its may not be much of one for some.    Sure money shouldn't be a issue and the organizers of the trip try their best not to make it one.  But until someone can figure out a viable option its going to effect our team when it comes the top guys participating in both or the next teir down guys who don't know if the experience if worth the cost.  I hope we are able to put a team together reguardless of the level all the members are at.  These kids deserve a chance to go and at least try and compete rather than forfeit enough weight that they don't even have a chance at a decent team score.

12 teams isn't that bad of size of a compatative conference where all the teams regularly see each other.  However, Midwest wise if they expand further, I'd like to see two more team added between Missouri, Iowa State, and ND.  That would make the Big Ten a 14 team two division conference.  I think anything larger than 14 is just to big in football terms.  To me it would be hard to make a schedule which included enough of the teams from opposite divisions playing each other on  regular basis to be worth having a 16 team divsion.

A large number of them played and several were also sucessful.  If you do a search on the message board you will see a few threads about athletes who wrestled and also did well in football or other sports.