oldbuckeye

No free agency? Not according to the Department of Education. A student may transfer to another school to take a class not offered at their orginal school or because their school is not preforming &/or passing enough on the GQE test...... this is now State and Federal guidelines. So for a student to transfer all they have to do is find a class not offered at their orginal school. Or if they are from a poor performing school they can transfer to any school that is performing better. The State of Indiana now has free transfer!!!! A student and their parents just have to be smart enough not say athletics. The Department of Education along with No Child Left Behind or RITT whichever one you want to call upon have now made it open enrollment!

AJ, doesn't the Coach's Association foot the bill for Team State?

Is the complete match availible???

This would be the "ol boy" network? Because I know you, you can break the rules and be "unsportsman" like? I always hate it when there are two sets of rules!!!!!!!

Mr. Ladow...... you are 100% right!!!!!!!!!

There is a simple question that will answer this question about whinning or working; From the official, "Coach are you talking to me?" If the answer is yes, 1 point. If no, then set down. The only time a coach is to talk to the official is at the table. Then he can NOT question judgement. The problem all starts with the Way the IHSAA has coaches rate officials. The officials are then afraid to make coaches unhappy. Because then they will not move on in the tourney. Officials have to figure out that with all of the politics and the rating system that the IHSAA really doesn't care if the best officials get to the state tourney or not. They just need bodies. And coaches have to ask why are young officials leaving the profession; because every coach in the world thinks they have to "work" him and by the end of a Saturday Tourney he doesn't care if he ever does it again. (We haven't even started talking about attempting to get contracts! Which every AD wants someone with regional experience or better.) Ask why it is that IHSAA has to admit officials in to the tourney series that do NOT meet the minimum requirements of what they (the IHSAA) list that an official must meet. And they were still 5 officials short. The question that needs to be asked, is how many officials did a sectional and did not meet the minimum requirements of what was expected? And why? One of the problems is that some of the wrestling coaches went to the Bobby Knight school of "working officials" and have not heard of the words tact or diplomacy. You want better officials it is about time that you started working with the official and stop "working" the officials. And if officials would not let the coaches "work" them then it would make it easier on the next official that has that coach. Stop trying to be his friend! Be professional, be prepared, and make the call. Let me sign off by saying, just one more old ref thinking of hanging up his wrestling shoes.

One point that is being missed here; if a parent is setting on the bench and makes a comment that would receive an a flagrant misconduct; then that would go against the Head Coach. The first making it so that the coach could not leave his seat and the second one the Head Coach would be forced to leave the met. All because of the parent. Only team personal that the Head Coach is responsible for should be on or near the bench. Or at the side of the mat!