Coach Peck

Congratulations Brenton. I have enjoyed watching yuour career.

Did you mean David Palmer??

Angel and Lance Ellis.....my picks. Neither of them would strike you as dominating by looking at them, but they were so smooth, and had great internal wiring. Simply amazing.

Every year for the last fifty (that is about my length of recollection) people always gripe about misuse of injury time. I think that sometimes injury time is abused, but there is nothing to be done about that except maybe scoring one point any time an injury time is taken when the Official determines a score is imminent. Other than that I fear we begin to penalize a kid who is injured and that should not happen. I thinik most coaches, if they wil admit it, have had a kid who faked it to get a rest. I remember once back in the early eighties when my guy was wretling in the Regional and in the middle of a flurry he began to scream. The Official stopped the action, and I quickly moved to him. I told him to lie still and asked him where he was injured,. He looked up and said, "I'm not injured coach I just need a break." I wanted to kill him, ir was embarassing eventhough no one knew. I told him to lay there until I helped him up. I got him up and had him walk around, and then he went back to wrestling. The "break" did not help as he got beat fairly soundly. THe next week at praxctice I made him run each day. He asked why and I told him it he needed a break during the match he must not be in shape. There may have been others, but nearly as blatant.

I do not think he has been mentioned but a great wrestler and (in my opinion) one of the best coaches in taking a wrestler to a higher level quickly was/is James Tanniehill. Multiple time National Champion as a wrestler and coached many champions.

When I saw the post I immediately thought of Harold. You beat me to it. Great coach, gentleman and educator.

One of the finest men I have met through this sport!

CRAZY!!!

Determining whether a wrestler shoots with the intent of going out of bounds is way to much of a subjective thing, but I do believe the Officials could do better with some of the boundry issues. I saw a number of instance where one wrestler would not allow the other one to come back in bounds.

I was impressed by Davis all day Saturday.

I believe the very bad illegal hold call I mentioned happened shortly before this stalling call. The stalling call was very quick and very out of place. I told those around me that it was a "make-up" call. I yelled that a couple of times. I was not far away and they may have heard me. I really felt the rabbit ears were really on Saturday.

I would say making stalling a one point penalty without it progressing to disqualification so it can be called when it is happening without the Official being concerned that he is going to put himself in position to DQ someone would help. In my opinion this would put the onus more on the wrestlers.

I really doubt it was the worst. At least the Officiual got it right. There were a number of issues at New Castle. One I will not mention, but one that just amazed me was when the top man had a scissor around the bottom man's body. The Official was looking right at it (and the Assistant Official was in position to see it as well. The bottom man's coaches are yelling that is illegal. I see how the Official is beginning to look at it and I tell my friend..."He is going to call this an illegal hold". He blew His whistle and signaled "illegal hold". I could not believe it. The top guys coach goes to the table and asks that the Official check with the Assitant Official. I thought....now they will get it right. They talked for a moment and did not change the call. Two Officials looking right at it and they could not get it correct. Neither wrestler was from our school so my objectivty was pretty high. Stuff like this happened ALOT. I have NEVER seen so many instance where coaches went to the table, and I am not sure I blame them because there were enough mistakes that the coaches began to question most everything. I do not think they issued many warnings.

Another one I always remember.... It was the early eighties at MSA. A wrestler named Tommy Dooley from Mooresville was wrestling against a LaPorte wrestler in the final match. We were sitting very near the LaPorte cheerleaders and just as the match was starting they began a chant....."Are you ready for Tommy Dooley cause he is ready for you!" They had went through this a couple times and then maybe once more as the whistle blew. Then "Are you ready for Tommy Dooley cause he........." which ended as the LasPorte kid hit a sideheadlock and pinned Toomy Dooley.

I supposed you guys have seen this.