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As someone that try's to keep up with wrestling around the country I made a few calls to friends to get their opinion. 1. Was told by someone in PA that they are being told by other coaches in PA that USA Wrestling wants all teams to stay together, eat meals together, travel together, etc... The reason has something to do with liability even if the athlete is traveling, lodging, eating, with their parents. We both agreed that this sounds strange but who knows what the legal eagles at USA Wrestling are doing. The individual had a call in to both the PA chairman and USA Wrestling for clarification. 2. Ohio and PA do not allow athletes to pick and choose what part of the state team travel program they want. There is a flat fee and you may use it if you want but no discounts are allowed if you elect to not stay in the dorms or make your own travel arrangements. ** Also just spoke with someone from Indiana and in past years they have charged about $925.00 for one style and $1025.00 if the wrestler competes in both styles. This is a flat fee and they will not allow you to pick and choose what parts of the package you wish. If you want to stay in a hotel, eat meals off campus, fly to Fargo, ND, etc... you still pay the entire fee. The Indiana gentlemen also said that he has not heard anything about USA Wrestling not allowing kids to stay with their families and he didn't feel as if that could be enforced. He did say the state association had the right to say that certain individuals could not be on the coaching staff but he had never heard of this happening. Included in the package are the following: A. Charter bus transportation B. Room & Board in the dorms C. Uniform package D. 5 day training camp 3. In the past both PA and OH have both charged about $1000.00 to attend. 4. In OH the coaches volunteer to coach the team during the training camps and the coaches personal clubs typically pay the travel cost for the coach to attend Fargo. 5. Both states are doing everything possible to keep the cost down for the wrestlers. One of the coaches told me that his club will send 5 or 6 kids to Fargo this year and his club will pay 50% of the cost for the wrestlers. He said that on rare occasions the private clubs have paid 100% of the cost to help families that were struggling with money.

Thank you, Biff. As another person accused of being Ben with a fake account, I appreciate your statement. I have been a long time reader and just felt the need to respond on this thread.

Just FYI Biffmar4 is me, Biff Curtis, 615-627-8708. You guys lose all credibility with me when you make silly accusations about one person having multiple accounts. If you were to put a price on the line items, what would it cost? Simple question.

Already is!

Fayetteville is going to surprise a lot of people. Not a one man show.

Was it Mark Twain that once said, "Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated?"

If the team focuses on 7 on 7 then where do the linemen fit into this equation.

I'm not even a Maryville supporter so no feelings are hurt here. You get on here and try to tear down High School Kids and make fun that at one point they were ranked #2 in the state when no one in Maryville has control over how they are ranked by the AP Voters. It just tells me how boring of a life you must have

Shad Roach.

I heard Packer was over run with emails and phone calls asking why he and WVLT was being so negative about WB foitball and wont give them an opportunity to be seen on TV.Said he was gonna sit in the booth with the "New P.A. announcer and talk WB football." Also said he was going to borrow Roy Dillard's goat and ride to the game on it!

I personally despise 7 on 7 drills and it's a total waste of time. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if you took a lineman or maybe two and rushed the QB soon as the ball was snapped giving them only a second or two just like a real ballgame to make a passing decision. That would allow the defensive linemen an opportunity to get involved in drills also. Seems like I may have went to the first year or two of it at Maryville College but between that and the jamboree their both useless as titties on a bullfrog.

The Govs haven't had a good line in a decade. Maybe, they are just giving up on blocking and want to try to fling the ball around? It is mind boggling that the Govs have so many big boys and the coaches still can't ever put together a serviceable line. The orange and blue clad men ought to be able to compete at the line with any team they go against. There is no excuse for the ineptitude plaguing the program. Wholesale changes need to be made.

Nope.....Just reminding everyone how disreputable you are

Ed, heres the deal.. yes our junior teams have done sightly better the last 2 seasons but why? Right now, TN currently has 7 wrestlers wrestling in D1. 8 if we count Oliver as a TN wrestler. This year’s graduating class of seniors has 7 TN wrestlers that signed with D1 programs. That is a huge jump in the number of D1 wrestlers that TN inormally produces each year. This year’s Junior class is even better and looks to have about 10 D1 wrestlers and then it really starts to explode with this year’s sophomore and freshman classes as they looks to have about 15 to 20 D1 wrestlers for each class. Tn wrestling is exploding and we are starting to become very competitive at the national level. Go back and watch some of the matches from National Prep, Willie wouldn’t stop gushing about TN Wreslting. Now why is TN wrestling exploding right now and jumping levels and why did our USA Junior team do slightly better the past 2 years? The answer to that goes back a little over a decade ago, when Don Barnett took over TNAAU and slowly every year he improved that organization until it became one of the best run, most competitive, largest youth wrestling program in the country today. TN wrestling interest and numbers are growing as fast as any state in the country and the quality of our wrestling is exploding. Every high school coach in this state should call up Don and the current TNAAU board and tell them thank you! I would guess that almost every kid that stood on the TSSAA podium was a product of the TNAAU system and it is the TNAAU that has become the feeder program to TSSAA WRESTLING!!

They would forfeit. lol