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Clint Gard

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    Clint Gard got a reaction from MUSKEEWRESTLER in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I just wrote it out on paper and found the same thing so I stand corrected at 126.  
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    Clint Gard reacted to X_R A T E D in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I looked up the brackets for one of my wrestlers and found an interesting trend. In Fort Wayne at 182, Jay County 2nd place has had Carroll 1st place 9 out of 11 years. 
     
    2013: Peru 1
    2014 to 2021: Carroll 1
    2022: Goshen 1
    2023: Carroll 1
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Bulldog89 in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I just wrote it out on paper and found the same thing so I stand corrected at 126.  
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from GenHeavyHandz in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    Then it's not random...IMO.  I'm a math teacher and the combinations and permutations that are possible make it almost impossible to come out with the exact same draws in consecutive years.  Again, I really don't care.  I just thought it was interesting what we were able to find.  What'd I'd really like is the for the IHSAA to be honest and actually make it random. 
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from wrestler32 in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I preface my next statement knowing that we only looked at our guys and our regional BUT something interesting one of my assistants found when he had some time on his hands back in the fall...
     
    After looking at about 8-9 years of data, he predicted with 100% accuracy our draws for this Semi-State.  While the IHSAA says they are random...they are not.  There is a pattern to them and the pattern he found held true when he was predicting where we would fall.  Obviously he couldn't predict the match ups but he predicted the spots.  
     
    It doesn't matter either way, but it's something we thought was interesting given that we are always told it's "Random".  Matter of fact...we are pretty sure the IHSAA used the same formula as last year.  Again, we haven't looked at all cases, but our 120/126/152 quarter brackets are in the exact same spots as last year wrestling the same regional spots.  Those are just 3 examples.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from TZeis in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I preface my next statement knowing that we only looked at our guys and our regional BUT something interesting one of my assistants found when he had some time on his hands back in the fall...
     
    After looking at about 8-9 years of data, he predicted with 100% accuracy our draws for this Semi-State.  While the IHSAA says they are random...they are not.  There is a pattern to them and the pattern he found held true when he was predicting where we would fall.  Obviously he couldn't predict the match ups but he predicted the spots.  
     
    It doesn't matter either way, but it's something we thought was interesting given that we are always told it's "Random".  Matter of fact...we are pretty sure the IHSAA used the same formula as last year.  Again, we haven't looked at all cases, but our 120/126/152 quarter brackets are in the exact same spots as last year wrestling the same regional spots.  Those are just 3 examples.
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    Clint Gard reacted to rrschott in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I mean, there's only 3 possible combinations to start, so it's only 1/27 you get the same draw 3 years in a row.  And if it's a formula that starts at 106 and goes up, then you're 1/27 that the entire bracket matches across 3 years.  And that's assuming they don't do something like using team points as the determination for who gets matched up at 106 (which would be pretty easy to reverse engineer if someone were intrepid enough to lookup team points and compare them to the bracket)

    Looking at it a little more, this year just looks alphabetical at 106, then branches out from there (which is admittedly not random at all).
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    Clint Gard reacted to JORVILLE in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    Should do a live lottery drawing and make public not the behind the scenes here you go brackets 
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Cricket21 in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    Then it's not random...IMO.  I'm a math teacher and the combinations and permutations that are possible make it almost impossible to come out with the exact same draws in consecutive years.  Again, I really don't care.  I just thought it was interesting what we were able to find.  What'd I'd really like is the for the IHSAA to be honest and actually make it random. 
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Thor in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I preface my next statement knowing that we only looked at our guys and our regional BUT something interesting one of my assistants found when he had some time on his hands back in the fall...
     
    After looking at about 8-9 years of data, he predicted with 100% accuracy our draws for this Semi-State.  While the IHSAA says they are random...they are not.  There is a pattern to them and the pattern he found held true when he was predicting where we would fall.  Obviously he couldn't predict the match ups but he predicted the spots.  
     
    It doesn't matter either way, but it's something we thought was interesting given that we are always told it's "Random".  Matter of fact...we are pretty sure the IHSAA used the same formula as last year.  Again, we haven't looked at all cases, but our 120/126/152 quarter brackets are in the exact same spots as last year wrestling the same regional spots.  Those are just 3 examples.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from GBaldwin in Toughest ticket round matchups   
    I preface my next statement knowing that we only looked at our guys and our regional BUT something interesting one of my assistants found when he had some time on his hands back in the fall...
     
    After looking at about 8-9 years of data, he predicted with 100% accuracy our draws for this Semi-State.  While the IHSAA says they are random...they are not.  There is a pattern to them and the pattern he found held true when he was predicting where we would fall.  Obviously he couldn't predict the match ups but he predicted the spots.  
     
    It doesn't matter either way, but it's something we thought was interesting given that we are always told it's "Random".  Matter of fact...we are pretty sure the IHSAA used the same formula as last year.  Again, we haven't looked at all cases, but our 120/126/152 quarter brackets are in the exact same spots as last year wrestling the same regional spots.  Those are just 3 examples.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Coplen187 in Team State classification assignments 2023   
    LOL...I'm not sure how we ever got reported as having 495.  Our count is actually much lower than that. 
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    Clint Gard reacted to Chris Cooper in Team State classification assignments 2023   
    Because $ coming your corp way for that number that’s how.  Same thing here.  
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    Clint Gard reacted to Thor in Team State classification assignments 2023   
    Counts going the wrong way, interesting. Now I think we need a recount because no way Frankton and Bremen have that many kids. 
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    Clint Gard reacted to Clan Campbell in State 2023 Questions   
    The real questions is how does someone so disconnected and lost from our sport like faulkins (note lower case cause he doesn't deserve capital letter) become so powerful in decision making and everyone falls in line.  too bad we can't elect our wrestling state representative, cause the guy we have sucks; really hope he reads this and decides to retire.......
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    Clint Gard reacted to MattM in Sectional seeding meetings   
    Imagine if all the coaches honestly tried this approach which is a long standing directive in the Winter Bulletin before all the other criteria. 
     
    5. Coaches should strive to keep open minds when seeding assignments are being decided. The main objective of seeding is to have outstanding wrestlers separated in the brackets so that they will not meet each other until the finals. Seeding shall be based upon the wrestler's proven ability and not upon the desire for unwarranted advantage.
     
     
    If they did it would solve several debates about seeding before any of those other interpretations were necessary.  Fighting for your wrestlers is one things but trying to get an unwarranted advantage which hurts others is what causes someone to ask for clarification and then we get left with a poor interpretations from someone who does not understand seeding.  That what the issue was even 5 or so years ago when someone at the IHSAA decided to hand down this weird interpretation and and why it is still floating around today.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from HeadLocksWinChampionships in Sectional seeding meetings   
    It’s not a rule. It’s an interpretation by RF and it is wrong.  The Winter Bulletin says nothing about it which the other question I posed to him.  Why wasn’t it in the WB if that is the way we are supposed to do it?  Never got an answer.  I believe every sectional should go by the WB and be done with it.  If there is a “rule” to be followed then it’s in the WB.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Jstephenson1356 in Sectional seeding meetings   
    It’s not a rule. It’s an interpretation by RF and it is wrong.  The Winter Bulletin says nothing about it which the other question I posed to him.  Why wasn’t it in the WB if that is the way we are supposed to do it?  Never got an answer.  I believe every sectional should go by the WB and be done with it.  If there is a “rule” to be followed then it’s in the WB.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from OICU182 in Sectional seeding meetings   
    Based on the explanation we were given at our conference seeding meeting it would be this order:
    A, B, C, D, E, F for sectional.  22-0 doesn’t matter because he has no wins in the bracket.  Happened at 106 and 182 in our conference.  Completely off the reservation.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from OICU182 in Sectional seeding meetings   
    I'm more interested in hearing about the Seeding Call last night and what criteria all sectionals are supposed to follow.  
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from HeadLocksWinChampionships in Sectional seeding meetings   
    So he beat the kid the week before and it still didn’t count…that’s how you know he has no clue.  If he shows up to anyones seeding meeting, he should not be allowed to enter.  He should have better things to do than go to a seeding meeting.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Tenser310 in Sectional seeding meetings   
    I have an email from the man himself telling me that our "Coaches Association developed and presented the idea of this "new" head to head criteria."  I have it on good authority that his statement is false!
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from Tenser310 in Sectional seeding meetings   
    Absolutely the DUMBEST thing I have ever heard.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from nkraus in Sectional seeding meetings   
    Absolutely the DUMBEST thing I have ever heard.
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    Clint Gard got a reaction from 84Coach in Sectional seeding meetings   
    It’s not a rule. It’s an interpretation by RF and it is wrong.  The Winter Bulletin says nothing about it which the other question I posed to him.  Why wasn’t it in the WB if that is the way we are supposed to do it?  Never got an answer.  I believe every sectional should go by the WB and be done with it.  If there is a “rule” to be followed then it’s in the WB.
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