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More wrestling is always a good thing.....but - I'm not sure where I fall on this one (personally). Seems to be a bit of overkill....

I'm not sure what the actual attendance was, but there had to be 2500 fans or more at the Bellmont - Adams Central Dual last night. They delayed the start of the JV matches by half an hour because of the long line of fans waiting to get in. It was a great atmosphere and the fans weren't disappointed. The teams split the matches 7-7 and Bellmont won on bonus points 38-32.  Thanks to Nat Bryan for taking this picture of the crowd.
 
 

Best season from Indiana IMO was J Tsirtsis senior year.  Not only did he beat the #2 kid by 14 and beat Caldwell.  But during the season bumped up two wt classes and majored Steveson who I think got top 5 at 160 that year.  Think he was the #1 P4P his senior year maybe number two. Tsirtsis beat some studs at the last chance qualifier that year.  Best wrestler Ive ever seen is David Taylor.  Howe running into Burroughs during his prime was tough.  Howe could have been a senior level world medalist.  He always gave Burroughs great matches and did take a couple matches that were 2 out 3.

Best I wrestled with and best teammate.
DJ Radnovich - Gibson Southern 
Best I had ever seen in person
Greg Schaefer - Mater Dai
Best I ever tried to wrestle
Adam Doherty - Jeffersonville 
 
I did go to state finals last year and saw a lot of amazing wrestlers, but these 3 guys from the late 90's will always be the standard for me.

2012 Jason Tsirtsis 

Beat D1 NCAA Champ while still in high school 
 
Beat #2 guy in the country 22-8. 
 
Did not get taken down once for last 3 years of high school

Jeffersonville’s HWT Ben Land beat #7 Joe Scarborough from Oldham County, KY by pin
 
Jeffersonville’s 190 Cody Shewmaker beat #10 Collin Williams from Moore, KY by tech 

Jeffersonville’s HWT Ben Land beat #7 Joe Scarborough from Oldham County, KY by pin
 
Jeffersonville’s 190 Cody Shewmaker beat #10 Collin Williams from Moore, KY by tech 

Hot take to stir the pot... Shaved ice is way overhyped. Give me ice cream everytime over the frozen sugar water. 

Kids same. Parents different. Our fault as parents. 

Obviously you have no clue on how things work in Indiana. Our coaches association has worked for years to mend the IHSAA relationship into a working relationship instead of trying to fight them. Over the last ten years we have made more progress on that front. 
 
To put it nicely, you won't get your desired result trying to fight the IHSAA.

I have an assistant coach who does reviews of the popcorn at each school. The girls team is making TikTok’s of his reviews for the end of year banquet. I look forward to hearing about how the hot dogs compare at each location.
 
these are the important discussions

So, one of my favorite parts of wrestling season is sampling the different hot dogs the schools present during the year.  For disclosure, my son Chris Bohn and wrestles for Munster, the hot dog testing tour will follow the Munster schedule. I also taste test the dogs plain. Today I was at Goshen High School.  The hot dog was $3.  It was pretty plump, and was definitely not cheap.  The bun has the perfect amount of "freshness", meaning it wasn't hard, but it wasn't soaked.  I will definitely be picking up a couple of more tomorrow.  The Goshen hot dogs get 6 slices of pizza out of 8.  The next stop on the tour is Valparaiso high school on December 2.  Thank you for reading.

We do earlier than conference even--first weekend of January. Barring injury, kids should all have made their way to the weight they want by then and gives them the month of January to wrestle people at that weight for seeding criteria and such. Also ensures they have the 6 qualifying weigh ins on time and nobody is forcing me into last minute changes.
 
In my opinion, Kids should know by the first week after the allowance hits how their bodies feel and what weight they perform best at. Pushing it any later can cause friction in the line-up and doesn't allow any build up of seeding criteria at that weight. To be fair, I care a great deal more about the team aspect of the sport than some coaches, who see it truly as an individual sport only, which drives my decision making on this.

Jeffersonville is at 17 right now

Jeffersonville is at 17 right now

Jeffersonville is at 17 right now

Micic = GOAT

Stevan Micic is a World Champion! Even though he'd already dropped the '21 Olympic champ and the '22 World Champ, the Japanese, Higuchi, that he faced in the final is the consensus most talented 57kg athlete in the world. Higuchi hasn't been able to stay consistently down at the weight since taking silver at age 20 at the Olympics in 2016. He won World gold last year up at 61kg. But not this year.
 
Micic takes out a murderers' row and wins gold!!!

Adding to Ben Land's record, he got runner-up this year at Freestyle and Greco State and had a decent showing at Fargo (5-3 in Greco and 4-5 in Free)

Kinda cool, Ben Land loses to Surratt from Illinois at the IronSharpensIron All-Star Dual two weeks ago and draws him first round today, pinning him

Kinda cool, Ben Land loses to Surratt from Illinois at the IronSharpensIron All-Star Dual two weeks ago and draws him first round today, pinning him

There’s a difference between championships, other matches, and getting matches in June. Now should be the time to work on in live match situations what the focus has been in practice. If you’ve been working bottom for weeks cause your kids struggle on bottom, then you should be picking down every time and putting it into practice. 

I think Nick Lee will have the best coaching career out of all the possible GOATs - at the Spring Clinic he already sounded like a mature, seasoned coach - super impressed
 
Would not surprise me if he coaches at whatever level (HS/college) and ends up with champion teams

In related news, Sarah Hildebrandt and Kayla Miracle both swept 2 matches and earned World Team spots on the Women's Freestyle team.  

Hildebrandt, in her 4th Final X appearance has yet to give up a single point in any of them. She won 8-0 and 11-0 today.  She has outscored opponents 64-0 in 8 total matches.