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Folkstyle- Super32 Freestyle and Greco- Fargo

Our friend, Springfield supporter, and long time Coach T poster @TheCommissioner is going through some health issues right now. I’m sure he won’t like that I am doing this, but if you could throw up a prayer for him I, for one, would greatly appreciate it and I know he would too. There is not a finer man around.

Interested in seeing the responses for this one; With NHSCAs a few weeks ago and Adidas Nationals this weekend, I see a lot of social media posts about wrestlers being National Champions. What tournament(s) would you consider the champion to be a true National Champion? Super32? NHSCAs? Fargo? Tulsa? Any others?

It all makes sense, if I were a great receiver and I wanted my talents to be exposed big time I would be headed to the school that has a proven All Star QB hands down.

Heck no to Nico. We have W5 for 2 more seasons.

Yeah, it's pretty bad. They have a big sign on the wall that says they "strive to build men that live up to a high moral code". Here are some if the things coaches have done. Made fun of parents Pressured kids to wrestle against doctors orders Denied kids requests to see a trainer if they thought they were injured and forced them to finish practice. Made fun of one of them for not wrestling on a torn acl, mcl. Spencer Lee story got told. Lee had world class Healthcare, we had a trainer that got $15 an hour. Kid was never going to wrestle in college anyways. Called kids ###### Told kids to lie to parents if they are injured Hit illegal cutbacks/scissor sweeps on kids in practice but tell them not to do it. Show up smelling like weed. I don't care if you partake, but don't show up smelling like it. Would you trust your kid to ride to a tournament with a coach that did that? Advertise a coach as a D1 wrestler. He was on the team long enough to get his picture taken before he quit the team and school. Didn't make it through a season, or even a semester. There's much more to it but those are the highlights. To be clear, this is the newly formed White Buffalo club that feeds into the high school. It's run by the booster club which has all new members. The actual high school coaches Matt and Tate are nothing like this and are great to the kids.

Well idk anything about Cocke County but looking back they haven't won more than 3 games since 2018. So I think its fair to say the same ol same ol wasn't working

Probably not a bad move for Cocke County. Shorten the game and give your kids a chance to compete with more talented, deeper, and more athletic schools.

Let’s be completely honest and say that Oakland is an “open zoned school” in the middle of Rutherford County, which is one of the fastest growing counties in the USA. Yes, they have some good coaches but when a school has that much talent available to them it does not matter what offense they run. Ask yourself, if the Oakland coaching staff took over the Cocke County program would they win a state championship and have as many athletes going to NCAA D1 programs?

I'm not saying that a shot clock is bad - I'm stating we don't NEED it. The high school game is a great game. It's not needed. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. What is needed is a restriction circle for block/charge calls. I've coached and played with shot clocks. It doesn't necessarily ruin the game, but it also doesn't positively impact the game. Almost every state that has adopted the shot clock had their scoring go down from the previous year. Shot clocks actually help the defensive teams instead of speed up play. To say that a coach that uses a tempo (fast or slow) that doesn't fit your style of preference is a bad coach is just silly. There are numerous slight differences in the level of game play from youth to middle school, to high school, to college, to pro. It's what makes the game best for that age/stage of play. Should a middle school team or youth recreation team also have a shot clock? What about preparing those kids for high school or college? That's right... it doesn't make sense. Where do we cut it off? 3% of HS players will play collegiate basketball. I feel that the number is actually getting smaller now as well. Again, it's not needed. Less than 1% of all basketball games are actually "stalled" with the ball on the hips standing at half-court. We shouldn't change the rules for the 1% or even the 3%. If a team is letting the ball be stalled, then that's on the defense. Strategy should not be hindered for entertainment. My take... a shot clock is not needed to make the high school game better... the game is already great.