MattM

Some may still be trying to sort out where their tickets are.  Joking.  Well really half joking. 

The Not Top 10 as ESPN portrays it generally consider to be embarrassing blooper and ridiculous errors of well paid adult professional athletes. Most of yours is call out kids who already had an off day and give no credit to their opponents rising to the occasion and finding their own moment. Just because top CP wrestlers, and a few others,  didn’t win a tough match doesn’t mean it should fall into this type of Not Top 10 embarrassing type call out.  In my view most of your 10 are not good takes.  Heck some of them aren’t even big upsets ranking wise. Your own picks may not have been Top 10 calls but no need to call any of these kids to task just because they didn’t live up to your picks. If this was a joke it was done way too poorly in taste.  Get some sleep, you’ve had a long day. 
 
The following take (posted below) is more along the lines of the type of Not Top 10 criticism of this years state event that is worth pointing out.  I can at least respect those thoughts cause it’s about the process and someone could actually consider those ideas when planning future events.  
 

I think the team race proved you have to show up in numbers, have your head on right, and survive a gauntlet of tough competition if you want to win it.  Crown Points a heck of a team but it just wasn’t the weekend most envisioned they would have.  No knock on Crown Point as they may have had a couple bad beats but are still a crazy good team. This should really be about putting more respect on just how impressive many of or other individual wrestlers are in this state.  Some have been overlooked due to the shine of these “super teams.” There are lots a land mines to run into at state and Crown Point unfortunately hit a few today.  When the competition is good enough to make matches razor thin then you have to be close to perfect on the day or you are done. Also gotta say I’m very impressed that Brownsburg and even Center Grove never lost faith. They kept grinding and let the energy build for them as the tournament progressed.  CP deserves the Team Dual State Championship, but when thrown in an event against all the individual talent our state has they just couldn’t find a smooth path through in this particular weekend.  The state of Indiana wrestling has shown once again that it is growing stronger. 

The Not Top 10 as ESPN portrays it generally consider to be embarrassing blooper and ridiculous errors of well paid adult professional athletes. Most of yours is call out kids who already had an off day and give no credit to their opponents rising to the occasion and finding their own moment. Just because top CP wrestlers, and a few others,  didn’t win a tough match doesn’t mean it should fall into this type of Not Top 10 embarrassing type call out.  In my view most of your 10 are not good takes.  Heck some of them aren’t even big upsets ranking wise. Your own picks may not have been Top 10 calls but no need to call any of these kids to task just because they didn’t live up to your picks. If this was a joke it was done way too poorly in taste.  Get some sleep, you’ve had a long day. 
 
The following take (posted below) is more along the lines of the type of Not Top 10 criticism of this years state event that is worth pointing out.  I can at least respect those thoughts cause it’s about the process and someone could actually consider those ideas when planning future events.  
 

I think the team race proved you have to show up in numbers, have your head on right, and survive a gauntlet of tough competition if you want to win it.  Crown Points a heck of a team but it just wasn’t the weekend most envisioned they would have.  No knock on Crown Point as they may have had a couple bad beats but are still a crazy good team. This should really be about putting more respect on just how impressive many of or other individual wrestlers are in this state.  Some have been overlooked due to the shine of these “super teams.” There are lots a land mines to run into at state and Crown Point unfortunately hit a few today.  When the competition is good enough to make matches razor thin then you have to be close to perfect on the day or you are done. Also gotta say I’m very impressed that Brownsburg and even Center Grove never lost faith. They kept grinding and let the energy build for them as the tournament progressed.  CP deserves the Team Dual State Championship, but when thrown in an event against all the individual talent our state has they just couldn’t find a smooth path through in this particular weekend.  The state of Indiana wrestling has shown once again that it is growing stronger. 

Congrats to Waylon Cressell.  Several out of state studs have come into Indiana over the past several decades, but most don’t win out single class state title.  If you take away Sergio Lemley’s Covid Year (and he’s actually a IN born and raised that jumped borders for school) I’m not sure we can find too many out of state studs that won a title here. Especially year one. 

I think the team race proved you have to show up in numbers, have your head on right, and survive a gauntlet of tough competition if you want to win it.  Crown Points a heck of a team but it just wasn’t the weekend most envisioned they would have.  No knock on Crown Point as they may have had a couple bad beats but are still a crazy good team. This should really be about putting more respect on just how impressive many of or other individual wrestlers are in this state.  Some have been overlooked due to the shine of these “super teams.” There are lots a land mines to run into at state and Crown Point unfortunately hit a few today.  When the competition is good enough to make matches razor thin then you have to be close to perfect on the day or you are done. Also gotta say I’m very impressed that Brownsburg and even Center Grove never lost faith. They kept grinding and let the energy build for them as the tournament progressed.  CP deserves the Team Dual State Championship, but when thrown in an event against all the individual talent our state has they just couldn’t find a smooth path through in this particular weekend.  The state of Indiana wrestling has shown once again that it is growing stronger. 

If I noticed correctly there were first time school champs tonight.  That’s awsome for their programs. 

Congrats to Waylon Cressell.  Several out of state studs have come into Indiana over the past several decades, but most don’t win out single class state title.  If you take away Sergio Lemley’s Covid Year (and he’s actually a IN born and raised that jumped borders for school) I’m not sure we can find too many out of state studs that won a title here. Especially year one. 

If I noticed correctly there were first time school champs tonight.  That’s awsome for their programs. 

The Not Top 10 as ESPN portrays it generally consider to be embarrassing blooper and ridiculous errors of well paid adult professional athletes. Most of yours is call out kids who already had an off day and give no credit to their opponents rising to the occasion and finding their own moment. Just because top CP wrestlers, and a few others,  didn’t win a tough match doesn’t mean it should fall into this type of Not Top 10 embarrassing type call out.  In my view most of your 10 are not good takes.  Heck some of them aren’t even big upsets ranking wise. Your own picks may not have been Top 10 calls but no need to call any of these kids to task just because they didn’t live up to your picks. If this was a joke it was done way too poorly in taste.  Get some sleep, you’ve had a long day. 
 
The following take (posted below) is more along the lines of the type of Not Top 10 criticism of this years state event that is worth pointing out.  I can at least respect those thoughts cause it’s about the process and someone could actually consider those ideas when planning future events.  
 

Starting with 10 and heading down to 1 of the NOT TOP 10
 
I OBSERVED 10 THINGS HAPPEN, BUT SADLY ONLY ONE WAS UNRELATED TO THE BULLDOGS OF CP (respect to a great season and bronze finish)
 
10. CLARK OF BULLDOG WC loses on Friday night 
 
9. VANTICKLE LOSES on Friday NIGHT
 
8. Shepard falled via cross cradle by WARREN CENTRALS LEAVELL
 
7.NEW PRAIRIE STANDOUT (hourvart) and takedown RECORD HOLDER loses heartbreaker  in fluke (from my vantage point he looked to be battling injury) 
 
6. TEAGIN NEWOL loses by MAJOR to NEW HAVENS Ocampo
 
5. Jendreas loses after being “JohnPsulions” lock of the tournament (big shock here) 
 
4. Lt. Hawkins loses to 10 loss BRAYLON REYNOLDS OF BB BULLDOGS (great tourney Braylon) 

3. John p’s SECOND lock of the tourney rhinehart loses a heartbreaker to the DUKE OF BELLMONT
 
2. Will Clark of BULLDOG (CP) was losing 0-5 to WEINGART OF INDY CATHEDRAL ( IF REF WAS IN POSITION HE WAS LIKELY FALLED AND CP HAS ZERO CHAMPIONS!) 
 
1. (RUMOR MILL, not yet confirmed by sources) CROWN POINT PREMATURELY PLANS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP PARTY AT HOTEL WITH BALOONS COOKIES AND MORE

 
great tourney to all involved and thanks to Evansville for hosting 

The Not Top 10 as ESPN portrays it generally consider to be embarrassing blooper and ridiculous errors of well paid adult professional athletes. Most of yours is call out kids who already had an off day and give no credit to their opponents rising to the occasion and finding their own moment. Just because top CP wrestlers, and a few others,  didn’t win a tough match doesn’t mean it should fall into this type of Not Top 10 embarrassing type call out.  In my view most of your 10 are not good takes.  Heck some of them aren’t even big upsets ranking wise. Your own picks may not have been Top 10 calls but no need to call any of these kids to task just because they didn’t live up to your picks. If this was a joke it was done way too poorly in taste.  Get some sleep, you’ve had a long day. 
 
The following take (posted below) is more along the lines of the type of Not Top 10 criticism of this years state event that is worth pointing out.  I can at least respect those thoughts cause it’s about the process and someone could actually consider those ideas when planning future events.  
 

If I noticed correctly there were first time school champs tonight.  That’s awsome for their programs. 

And now we go live to the Ford Center. 

 

I think the team race proved you have to show up in numbers, have your head on right, and survive a gauntlet of tough competition if you want to win it.  Crown Points a heck of a team but it just wasn’t the weekend most envisioned they would have.  No knock on Crown Point as they may have had a couple bad beats but are still a crazy good team. This should really be about putting more respect on just how impressive many of or other individual wrestlers are in this state.  Some have been overlooked due to the shine of these “super teams.” There are lots a land mines to run into at state and Crown Point unfortunately hit a few today.  When the competition is good enough to make matches razor thin then you have to be close to perfect on the day or you are done. Also gotta say I’m very impressed that Brownsburg and even Center Grove never lost faith. They kept grinding and let the energy build for them as the tournament progressed.  CP deserves the Team Dual State Championship, but when thrown in an event against all the individual talent our state has they just couldn’t find a smooth path through in this particular weekend.  The state of Indiana wrestling has shown once again that it is growing stronger. 

Congrats to Waylon Cressell.  Several out of state studs have come into Indiana over the past several decades, but most don’t win out single class state title.  If you take away Sergio Lemley’s Covid Year (and he’s actually a IN born and raised that jumped borders for school) I’m not sure we can find too many out of state studs that won a title here. Especially year one. 

If I noticed correctly there were first time school champs tonight.  That’s awsome for their programs. 

Congrats to Waylon Cressell.  Several out of state studs have come into Indiana over the past several decades, but most don’t win out single class state title.  If you take away Sergio Lemley’s Covid Year (and he’s actually a IN born and raised that jumped borders for school) I’m not sure we can find too many out of state studs that won a title here. Especially year one. 

If I noticed correctly there were first time school champs tonight.  That’s awsome for their programs. 

Kevin Whitehead he is not but the announcer seemed to do a decent job trying to keep some respect on the position.  At least as far as what I could hear on the stream.  

I hear Russia figured out the correct way to play  

I’d agree. From what I’ve listen to most announcers have came in well organized with information to help add to what we see on the mat.  I’ve always liked having some additional knowledge added in rather than a second by second of play by play that already see from the watching the steam.  And far less speaker blowing yelling wildly when a big move happens than we have had in prior events. Very much appreciate that these guys are figuring out how to express the matches excitement in a more ear pleasing and professional broadcasting manner. 

Congrats to Waylon Cressell.  Several out of state studs have come into Indiana over the past several decades, but most don’t win out single class state title.  If you take away Sergio Lemley’s Covid Year (and he’s actually a IN born and raised that jumped borders for school) I’m not sure we can find too many out of state studs that won a title here. Especially year one.