MattM

Technically his thunder came after my movie ideas though it was a different sport. I came up with that movie idea after watching Vision Quest in high school during the mid-1990's. The guy Quad portrayed didn't accomplish his moment until the very end of the 1990's. It's still an inspirational story and a great feel good movie none the less. I still wouldn't mind seeing a movie like my idea made though since it would be a step up from most wrestling movies the mainstream public may have seen before.

Vision Quest is always a classic, but aside from an underdog striving to beat the stud it didn't have a lot. The rest of the story wasn't that great which is probably why it doesn't get much attention from the none wrestling world. Reversal took on some darker wrestling issues, which may or may not have been that great for highlight what the sport really was. It did have some decent parts, but over all the rest of the story just doesn't do much for the none wrestling view. One More Shot I never got around to watching, but the word I have got is that it was another underdeveloped wrestling movie. If people don't get the studio backing and quality writers on the movie I don't think any wrestling related movie will end up being as good as it could have been. You don't have to have the biggest star names to get a wrestling movie to get the mainstream publics attention. However, you will need to hav ea film crew, a director willing to understand wrestling, and a well written human drama story with wrestling being the avenue that story is delivered through. I guess if someone wanted a little more mainstream viewer to also take interest they would have to find some quality writers that can tell a great human struggle story and package it around that human being connected with wrestling. Just telling a wrestling story in general wont do much for the mainstream viewer . On the same wavelenght just telling a human stuggle with just bits of wrestling isn't enough either since you could plug any sport into that an make it feel the same (ie most sports movie they try to make). A person would have to find the perfect mix of the human drama story and weave the aspects of wrestling that make it unique to all other sports. This could also be done in a documentary style film instead if thats someone goal. It just takes finding the right kid or program and knowing how to edit all the hours of footage into a great human stuggle story. I thought of a decent wrestling film while in school, but then the movie The Rookie (Dennis Quad) took the basic idea of it. A former stud wrestlers on track to be an Olympic hopeful gets hurt in college and ends his career. He finishes out school and turns into a teacher and coach for a rough local high school with a struggleing program. He is able to mentor his team that had no direction and focus. They stay out of trouble and on the right track on their way to several notworthy wins. He ends up getting back into wrestling shape in his mid-30's after practicing with his state bound high school stud which no one else in the room can even hang with. Somehow he gets talked back into competing in a regional competition and starts lightly training with some former teammates and friends. He wins the competition which is a qualifier for the Olympic trials. He then kicks up the training more as the school, town, and former college team gets behind him. The the underdog climbs his way through the competition edging out wins over the competition. He re-injurys himself on one match but guts out the match and wins. With a laging injury he eventually faces either an old college rival whose already won an Olympic medal or some famous young stud who suppose to be the choosen one for the Olympics. He may or may not win the match in the end. If he lost he would leave the shoes in the middle of the match and get a huge ovation from the crowd who knows the entire story. Sounded like a good idea until The Rookie "stole my thunder. Y2, We can always throw Nick in as the famous young stud he faces at the end of the movie.

Monday night at Jennings County.

The conference ability to state finals qualifiers is a somewhat hard one to measure both for team and individuals. Some conferences have almost every team also competing in the same sectional. Other conferences have team spread out between 3, 4, 5 or even more sectionals and different regionals after that. Different variables just play out on who all gets out of the sectional thru state as a team or individual. It's just be come a hard thing to compare when judging conference strength to state tournament qualifying. With that being said it is still very inpressive to have a least one wrestlers from every school in your conference make it all the way to state. Or in the same respect if more than one team from a conference does far in the team portion of the event. That does show a decent amount of individual and team talent in that group of schools.

True, North does need to get some credit for what they have done the last few years. Get ahold of Curt on that shoe thing. I was told it would be in your hands at Sectionals.

More than likely they would have to go through New Pal a second time at team regional to get there. A 1 point match could easily be changed the next time especially with a few spots in the line up that New Pal will have ironed out by then. Columbus North is a solid team and this win should help to give them a little more of the recognition. One things for sure, if they do meet back up it should be a another great battle of two quality programs.

To quote Bobby Bouche's Mom this new features is "the devil."

Oh this new features about [you] could never ever be used for evil purposes.

All of the above must be true cause it has my (or do I mean your) name on it.

When I think of famous duo's I think of the best one-two punch in a teams line up. In other words two weight classes back to back (or at the most one weight class seperation) where you are alsmost guaranteed big results. These guy probably wrestle with each other in practice a lot and push each other to be the best. If both wrestlers make it to state I would say that constitutes as a great wrestling duo. In their 4 year of high school I would say Alex T and Andre H are about the best example you can find of this. While several people have listed some great teammates and even teams it does seems like we've went way past the true "duo" part in at this point.

That did accounts for many of Brents pins at West Point.

Who is that? Brent Smith a 06-07 West Point graduate and currently serving our country overseas. On a side note his brother Patrick is attending West Point currently.

Depends on the style of wrestling you pick, We vary nationally in our state ranking in Folkstyle, Freestyle, or Greco from year to year. Indiana seems to not get much respect as a top 10 state some year. One reason is because we do not have most of our the top wrestlers attending national events and our results in those events are vary up and down each year. The national opinion in many past years is that in general (all styles combined) Indiana is right in between top and average wrestling states (8th-15th). However, as indiana wrestlers continue to preform well in national high school events and Indiana boys in college continue to shine the respect for Indiana wrestling is starting to increase.

Maybe not the top story but one we point out to those not suceeding in our program. We had a guy who didn't win more than maybe a handful of matches in his entire middle school career. He looked like a little pudge ball of a guy. Just got another handful of wins between his freshman and sophomore year, varsity and JV combined. Around .500 at best as a junior. Then went on to a 40 win season and place in state as a senior. Goes on to attend West Point and eventually starts on the varsity team. He last year there he was tied for the second most wins and had the most pins on the team.

He was a beast of a man for sure. Gibson Southern. He also had a 4 second pin that year as well. Just grabbed the guy off the whistle like a rag doll and set him down on his back.

He was a beast of a man for sure.

How about the same idea with one from each of the rest of the semi-state getting honerable mention for regular season and tourny too. That way we can throw some respect around to each area of the state. It would also show the hard work of certain individuals in a few weight classes instead of just one guy at one weight. Same concept as wrestler of the week but recognize the best of the entire season. Maybe one MVP and the other three are honerable mentions.

If anything it shows Ol Bobby that we have a fan base that keeps up on whats going on withthings more than some of the other sports.

Whose going to e-mailing the poll link to Bobby Cox, so he can see how the people have vote?

Yeah, I think the wrestling room there got covered in the blizard of 1970 somehing and was never seen again.

Ball State will go on in a blizard though it always does.

We've had little to nothing that can be called a decent snow fall in south central Indiana. The Northern half of the state seems to be getting all the white stuff this season.

A buddy, former wrestlers, helps Scotty set up and organize the establishments. Glad to see its moving into the Indy area too.

While they have made several advancements with the Pro-Wrastin games and the MMA fighting games I don't think they would have the moves down enough to make a great regular wrestling game. As mentioned before, aspects of wrestling would probably work as a Wii type game but even then they would have a hard time selling enough units to make it worth the amount of time they would have to put into producing it.

I'd change that to say they have wreck other "top" kids. They have perfected their trade, very well, in the last few years.