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Coach, I wish you were coaching my kids! You will have wahoo points coming your way everytime I login from now on. I am curious how many of us reading this have ever yelled out when we disagree with a call. After the holiday tournaments around the state I am sure many of us have fresh situations in our mind when we saw a call and we couldn't believe our eyes. I am sure all of us have let it fly out of our seat in the stands when we see a 'bad call'. Just as many of us have recognized when our school/son has benefited from a bad call, but we would never think of yelling appreciation for that 'bad call' that went our way. Thank you, coach, for demonstrating what the word integrity means. Makes me think how many things we put on t-shirts to show others our team has character, and then we model something completely different. If I were designing your team shirt next year I word use the word 'karma'.
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Some of my best memories are when my coach/parents didn't give up when I wanted to in the worst way. Young people don't have the perspective to realize what sports are really intended to teach us; to prepare us for the 'real' challenges we face later in life. Wrestling is the best sport to prepare us b/c many times you have to face those life challenges alone. He needs to know that you believe in him, and that when he isn't at his best your expectations for him don't change. If he needs help working thru something, by all means help him do so. Hopefully, once he sees that someone other than just his grandma (God bless her) thinks he is worth the time to invest in his potential he will get over this. I would be willing to bet that he will likely run thru a wall for the coach who convinces him that he's a lot tougher than he showed that day. Send him the message that he owes it to himself to compete. Win or lose he is gonna come out a better man. His teammates need to understand they have a role in this process too. They have to realize that they can't give up on their teammates either. Coach Nicholson instilled in us the family principle. We were in it together. We were all going to fail at some point. You have to have that guys back. This kid needs a hero... Just like all of us did at one time, or another.
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We always get together around the holidays. Food. We are always excited to see each other, but will likely get pissed at one another before all is said and done. Old, tired, worn out stories that you have heard 1,000 times. The best times we have ever had together mostly ended with a trip to the emergency room and in trouble with mom, police, administration, coach... When you need them, they drop everything and come running. -
I was just talking to one of my high school coaches today about this topic. He made some other valid points. When you look back on your career you know that you grew the most and learned way more from the losses you suffered. Letting a wrestler move in the lineup to avoid a tough loss isn't teaching him what he needs to be man. When I was suffering some adversity in my family life and it began to effect my wrestling training a coach asked me what I would do if had a wife and 3 kids at home. Would I just put my head in my hands and feel sorry about the hand I was dealt... or would I get on my feet and work harder to get past that moment? If you have never been down with time running out, or had to fight off your back then how do you know if you have what it takes? Don't deny your child/athlete the opportunity to mature in sport so life doesn't disappoint them when it kicks them in the ars!
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This isn't just a dual meet problem though. I feel like wrestling is losing some of it's best qualities. One of the best parts of wrestling is that you have to walk face first into tough situations. No excuses, no one else to blame, no dodging (or used to be no dodging). Coach told us when we were about to get buzz-sawed, or thrown to the wolves. His exact words were, "he's a good athlete." That was his answer when you were about to get out classed. Funny part is, he still coached like you were supposed to beat the kid. I can't imagine how different my life would be if I was raised only to stick my neck out on a sure thing! What if everytime I anticipated a bad day at work I stayed home. Come on! Don't let the best lesson wrestling has to offer die b/c we are afraid to fracture some kids confidence. Get in there and take your lumps. You will be a better MAN for it.
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'Fractured endurance' is the correct, medical term. Second, how sad is it that we are expecting the referees (like teachers) to be responsible for enforcing ethics. I had a family with pride that passed it on to me by my dad's foot, my mom's woodenspoon, and my brother's fists. If the kid fakes, leave it up to the other guy to make him pay for it. The referee can't be responsible for points, meet management, condition of the mat, hair, nails, skin, shave, style of uniform, cleanliness of the mat, sportsmanship of the fans/coaches/athletes, and be a doctor as well.
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Just shoot me now...
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Congrats Perry Meridian 2011 Team State Champions.
awood2 replied to MattM's topic in Past Discussions
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If you don't have a dog in the fight, you don't have an opinion. Take a side on the issue and you are in the 'fight' > Somebody ruffled my bark...
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I am sure you have a lovely couch.
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There is a Kohl's in Goshen that I won't go near :-\
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Not much you can do or say. I feel terrible. If Harper asked me to write a check I probably would...
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wahoo's for everyone
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See now you are proving my point. I want to punch you, but I am smiling at the same time
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I agree, cussing at officials is not good.
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next question
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Well, actually I would disagree with that. As many matches as I called in my life, coached, and wrestled in I have been invited to many a graduation party, fundraiser, and some of my best memories have been when I sat down with my biggest competition. I love to compete, but I also love getting to know the people who I have loved to hate. Matt Graham is still someone I can't wait to run into again. The Mishawaka fans are the hardest on you when you have a whistle in around your neck, but the greatest people when you just want to kick back. One of my best friends in the world coaches as Ben Davis, but still treated me like a ref everytime I walked on his mat. It is just part of the culture. It has nothing to do with you and me. It is the nature of the sport.
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That is the beauty and the curse of wrestling. We always want to knock our heroes off the top.
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My favorite memory of last year was when we walked in for the finals and a vendor approached with only two shaved ice snacks left. I actually only wanted one. Being the salty veteran he was, he said to me, "...b/c I can see your a man that knows his shaved ice, I am going to make you a deal." My gf just about spit her drink all over both of us.
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Y2! I have never seen you like this. I like this Y2 8)
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You said it. Wrestling is personnal! My brothers and I played lots of sports and my family never got behind me like they did in wrestling. Football, basketball, swimming fans, they don't have that same emotional intensity. When that is your baby getting pounded you kinda lose it a little. I keep thinking of that video topic on indianamat.com about the crazy mom. I still love showing that to friends. Every match I go to, even the Purdue vs. Iowa match Friday, you can find 'Patrick's mom' as we call it. The one family member, usually a mom, who is so into the match she doesn't even realize that she is in the room with 200+ other fans. Nothing compares to wrestling. We love to hate each other. No disrespect, just pure intensity.
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Man, start a topic to prove a point that I am not the only one... and now she thinks I owe her a diamond.
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Holy crap! I have to go pack my shorts! It was 39 today and the kids got to have recess outside for the first time this year, 2011.
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I got in trouble for laughing at that. Keep it up and half of my state weekend will be in jeapordy >
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Spring temps! Leaving the frozen tundra of the northlands and some sunny 45 degree weather is always good too. This time of year the landscape here up north is typically piles of dirty snow and flooded curbs along every street :-\