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The entire thread, summed up in one sentence.

The sad thing is that if somebody doesn’t get him out, he’s gonna ruin Tennessee wrestling

What a joke. Bowers is the clear problem and if he is one of the "coaches" that is a bigger joke. His knowledge about wrestling is worse than his ability to deal with people and communicate (which is saying a heck of A LOT).

You're beating a dead horse. The argument has been made, and so has the decision. In the proper format, and at the proper time, I agree with your point of view... right now the CA kids are enjoying a championship won fairly via current TSSAA rules, and shouldn't have that tarnished. "My" team has been part of a district with multiple privates throughout the years... at times I've thought that one of those bent the rules some, but at the same time, I truly feel that we've had a long and good rivalry with at least one who never used their format unfairly. As a disclaimer, I'm not familiar with CA and their "tactics", but I have to agree with BulldawgsRise when he says that nobody complained until they were good. In any event, it's over and done with. CA proved on the floor that they had the best team in 1A this season, they deserve to enjoy it.

It is because everything is just generalities about things, and why not address them with the board? Why on a public forum where all it is, is bashing. As for the NDA, I was told a VERY good reason why there is one in place, and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with talking about what ya'll are talking about. It has to do with a lot more than that, and legal reasons that could cause both TN and individuals, that are brought up in front of the board on improper behavior towards children, major legal issues. If any of ya'll would bother to ask questions, you might actually get the information you need. Instead we are left with grown men bashing on a public forum. NICE

Amazing but true! Maryville fan was, RED REBELS. Put a little respect on it! Simply, amazing! Thanks for starting this thread.

If the things that are said are true, how is that bashing? If one doesn't want to be held publicly accountable to a standard of decency and honor then that person should not ask for a public job where one is accountable to a constituency. If one runs for a public office or position then that makes them inherently open to public criticism, and when that person's constituents believe the job is not being done appropriately then it is their duty to air their concerns. While in his current position, Bowers has publicly lied and cheated (little kids no less), and is now trying to rip them off. Therefore he is subject to be held accountable in a public forum. If you can justify his actions, please do so. If not, then don't be shocked that when he called down the thunder and he got the lighting along with it.

Yes it is Bona. Just a Junior too so plenty of time for him to polish up. Looks like Foster saw some action on defense with a couple of interceptions. I like that we look to be continuing the trend of having some of our better athletes play on both sides of the ball. Worked out pretty well for us last year, especially in the secondary.

They lose all 5 starters and their 6th man. They’ve had some really good jv teams and freshman teams over the last two years.

Based on the results.....they are not facts. Your attempt to put down a team full of high school kids is pathetic at the least and shows what a sad individual you are at the most. Like I said previously.....thread didn't go as planned did it opie?

My man T-Mac goes to NO ands gets the LB MVP award, plus an invite to the 5-star challenge.

Stewart County had a great run last year in AA (reaching the final 6) and they return a great core this year and went 4-0 in the first week of the season. They split with Elizabethton last year in the State Tournament when the two teams met twice. Kelby McCaleb from Greenfield is going to do an excellent job leading the Rebels Baseball Program.

When I first heard that our two state wrestling organizations, the TWF(USA) and TNAAU were going to go head to head I’ll be honest I wasn’t happy. I would much prefer that we had unity between both organizations and that they were working together for the betterment of wrestling in Tennessee. But over the past week, I’ve changed my mind and I now think these two organizations need to start competing against each other if we are ever going to be able to build a strong freestyle and Greco tradition in this state. This is kind of long winded but if you read below you will see why I now feel this way. For the past decade, both organizations have had an agreement in place not to compete against each other so that the TNAAU would concentrate solely on Folkstyle in TN and TWF would concerntrate soley on Freestyle/Greco and neither organization would go into the others seasons and they would support each other. And I had heard that had the TWF President Ben Bowers not announced in a private call to the TWF BOARD two weeks ago that starting this fall, the TWF would start running USA Folkstyle youth tournaments statewide in an attempt to try to take out the TNAAU organization, we would still have the unity between both organizations. I don’t blame TNAAU for deciding to start competing with the TWF IN FR/gr events this spring now at all. I 100% support them taking a stand. I’m still flabbergasted and aghast at the stupidly of the leadership of the TWF in trying to launch this Initiative to take out the TNAAU. The TNAAU over the past decade has put 10 of thousands of volunteer hours by hundreds of people with one sole purpose of selfishly improving wrestling in the state of TENNESSEE. The volunteer work that Barnett, Bates, Hernandez, Sutherland, Bosken, Kremmerer, Salter, Teaster, Kramer, isabell, Elsea, etc has been nothing short of miraculous. Today, the TNAAU is one of the most financially strong, extremely well run youth and middle school wrestling organizations in the US and most importantly they have the support of the entire wrestling community in the state including all of our high school coaches. The TWF on the other hand is completely broke, extremely poorly run with a tremendous amount of infighting and most importantly their current President at the head of the organization he has become a lightening rod so the TWF has alienated the entire wrestling community in the state and all of their customers. Crazy Issues like not being able to provide Ref’s at the TWF State Tourney which is there premier event and having to get high school wrestlers to ref other matches between their own matches they were wrestling is just one of many examples of the sad state that the TWF is in today. And, not all of this falls 100% on current leadership as the TFW had major issues before current President and vice President took over and the TFW was in almost as bad of shape then as it is today. So the reality is that this no “compete agreement” between the TFW and TNAAU while it prevented the organizations from fighting, it has actually been extremely detrimental to growth and development of wrestling in this state. That agreement has allowed an extremely poorly run organization to have zero competition to force them to improve to control all freestyle/Greco activities in our state. They have over the past decade done such a poor job of running those events that it now dramatically impacting the growth and development of our high school wrestlers and TN high school wrestling in general. This is even more impactful today as popularity of USA Freestyle/Greco has exponentially grown over the past 6 years and it will continue to be even more important in the years moving forward. Today, TN is extremely competitive at the YOUTH and Middle school level nationally but we are losing ground as the kids get into high school. WHY?? I personally believe that competing in FS/GR is the most important thing a high school wrestler can do in the off season to continue growing as a wrestler. Our TN kids haven’t been able to do that because the TWF offerings for fr/gr events have been so weak. So ive changed my mind, I now think its great that the TNAAU is getting into FR/Gr game. They are going to run better tournaments and provide real competition to the TWF. The TWF will either colllapse or they will improve. This is the beauty of competition. Just look at their first fr/gr tournament the TNAAU will run. They will have 3 man mechanics something that’ I’m not sure has ever been seen in TN and they are doing a free coaches clinic that day. This first event is being hosted by the strongest high school program in the state right now and has the full support of 8 of the top high school programs in the state. The TNAAU’s first tournament will end up being more competitive and bigger than any fr/gr tournament that’s ever been held in Tennessee. The TNAAU is also going to be offering free technique camps statewide. The TNAAU can do this because they have money, they are extremely organized, they have access to attract all of the youth kids who most probably aren’t even aware that fr/gr exist and they are just extremely good at hosting and promoting tournaments. I have no idea what the future holds for fr/gr and growth of our Hs wrestlers but I think that competition between these organizations is a really good thing!

Congratulations to a great team. One for Knoxville and East Tennessee.

Congrats

They have a great team.

Great News!!! Camp is FULL!!!!! Look forward to a great clinic next weekend. Reminder lunch will be on your OWN!!

Liberty in West TN used to be a great job. With the championships and the great players that came through, it was a place you could win. Now, looking for another coach, in AAA with little to no support from administration.