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  1. A slam is a judgement call., The big part of what the rule states is that when someone picks the other person up they are responsible for their safe return to the mat. The safe return is purely the responsibility of the offensive wrestler, and there is no requirement for the defender to protect himself. Years ago there was the criteria that the offensive wrestler had to hit a knee first, but that was discarded a long time ago. The slam is a needed call in wrestling because it keeps someone from intentionally drilling someone to win a match, or to make it harder for the opponent to compete. The thing that makes it bad is that whether a kid can continue competing, or not, is dependent on a decision that has to be made in 2:00 minutes of "recovery time". The only person the coach is responsible to is his wrestler. If he thinks that the slam has impaired his wrestlers ability to possibly win the match then his best decision is to not continue. The ability to continue, or not, only has to do with what is going on in that match and has nothing to do with the rest of the tournament. Postulating if the wrestler may be able to compete later, or not, has no (and should not have any) bearing on the decision at that moment. The wrestlers ability to wrestle in matches later in a tournament only indicates that he was able to continue with more recovery time, but proves nothing as to the severity (or lack of severity) at the time the match was ended due to disqualification. I would also add that I have almost never seen a match where to person is DQed for a slam and his coaches, fans, and family were happy.
  2. Having two varsity teams could be a big advantage in seeding.
  3. When I coached you had to enter the actual weight from each weigh-in in the IHSAA website (our AD did this at the secure site) and then It would tell you if that was a qualifying weigh-in.
  4. This would not be the first time that the IHSAA has changed the interpretation/application of a rule. If this rule has always been in place then I know of numerous times when it has been violated...most of you do to. How many times has someone in wrestling applied for a waiver?
  5. Dan Hodge who was one of the legends of our sports has [assed. He was an amazing athlete and person. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/legendary-wrestler-danny-hodge-has-died/ar-BB1cfryH?li=BBnb7Kz
  6. Jeremy Motl was wrestling 275 for us against Martnsville in the Saturday Morning round of State. He was getting beat fairly well when the Martinsville wrestler slammed him and we took a pretty good blow to the head. It was clearly a slam (Dave Errett was the Martinsville coach and I am pretty sure he would agree it was a slam.) I will say that the slam was due more to the Martinvile kid losing control of Jeremy than him doing something intentional. Jeremy was stunned and i would imagine today that the Trainers would not let him continue. I was hoping he could continue. We were just about out of recovery time and I told Dave that we did not want to win in this manner and asked him if he would tell his kid not to come after my kid so we could restart the match and then take injury time. Dave was in agreement so we did that. a few seconds went off the clock and we took injury time. At the end of injury time we were still woozy and so we defaulted and the Martinsville boy advanced, It was the right thing to do in that situation, but I would say that in some cases it is not the fair thing thing to do for your wrestler.
  7. So true my fried!!! I miss him everyday!
  8. I started going in 1973 and have not missed one until this year. Hospitalization ended the streak.
  9. At one point I thought a great deal of the problem had to do with academic accreditation.
  10. I would like to see a greater emphasis be placed on the top man to turn the bottom man. Too many times I see a top man throw in the legs and ride the bottom man with no good attempt to score. I think stalling should be called more often on the top wrestler which would result in more turns as well as open things up for more scoring from the bottom. It is my opinion that in most cases the bottom man is not stalling so much as he is being controlled by the top man. Earlier it was mentioned that the top man should get one point if he rides the bottom man for the entire period. I could buy this if it were a case where one point is awarded to the top man who turns his opponent and rides him the entire period (without being called for stalling). I would also add that the bottom man would get a point if the top man rides rides him out yet does not turn him (and bottom has not been called for stalling).
  11. Congratulations to Danny Irwin on coaching Wheeling Jesuit to a Runner-up finish in the Dii Nationals https://wjucardinals.com/news/2019/3/9/wrestling-national-championships.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0EtQMNJhMqBG3Ztg_aqiqaVDyYmqHUqFjujE04Causw4E-bD6vF0oAGiU
  12. I would take stalling out of the penalty chart so that a person cannot be DQed for stalling, or a comnination of stalling and other penalties. I believe that changing stalling a simple 1 point penalty for each occurrence would free Officials to call it more consistently throughout the match. I feel like many officials pace themselves for fear of creating a situation where they will DQ someone.
  13. We started the IHSWCA website at a time when no other Coaches Association had a website. I remember telling JD we need a website and offering to do one. It was rudimentary at best as we began because yours truly knew little about websites (some about computers). I bought a couple of books, and watched some tutorials, and slowly built the site. We eventually added the Discussion Board which I think was the first Discussion Board for any High School sport in Indiana. We had good traffic and lots of discussion, I am pretty proud that we did it and i think it served a good purpose in terms of communication across the state. The individual took a step up then from the old days of compiling them and then printing and mailing them. towards the end the website was getting a bit overwhelming. Joe came along with IndianaMat which was/is a great product. I appreciate that he started it, and still does it.
  14. There has been alot of speculation about coach Tonte's height versus mine. Some even suggested Jim was shorter than me. Anyway, today after the Hall of Fame Banquet I got a picture of Coach Tonte and me. I think you will notice he is pretty tall. He has been my friend for quite awhile and will always be a giant in my eyes.
  15. That picture comes close.....think about the scant space available when I get in there.
  16. You have to get work where you can find it.
  17. This year he will announce the consolation round at the Wrestling State Finals.
  18. His name is Chad Niccum. Chad has announced over 4000 events since he started including Ball State Basketball. Fever Basketball, the Semi-State Wrestling Tournament for at least 15 years, Trojan Football, Trojan Basketball, and a few Pacers games...to name a few. He is awesome every time he works.
  19. He is one of the nicest kids in wrestling.....Off the Mat.
  20. Jake has done a great job. I have been impressed with him from the get go.
  21. They should be notifying all schools in the Richmond Regional. Our AD got an email from Richmond.
  22. Richmond Regional.............. 2 pound allowance in addition to current weight class
  23. I am sorry to hear that Thomas. I thought you did a good job.
  24. Sounds like the old days of Industrial league Softball.
  25. I got to coach the USA Team a few years ago. it was a great experience
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