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5 hours ago, TomLHS said:

This will be a great game with contrasting styles. No one better sleep on Brentwood, they are legit. I see the outcome being decided by 7 points or less.

Ridiculous.   Oakland will kill Brentwood again....  

Some of these guys can dish it out,  but sure don't like taking it back in return.  

Always happy to see the Red Dragon go down in flames.  Congrats to the Patriots!!

17 minutes ago, Jetjock said:

i will say this....oakland is head and shoulders above maryville this year. Sure is interesting that all of the mediocre nashville schools seem to have all their good players transfer there.  so all you" maryville recruits"bandwagon can now have a new school to hurl accusations at.

Hahaha...whatever!

Assuming that Maryville wins tonight, is this their year to travel to Rutherford County?

Like I said, there are outliers on both sides.  Yes, Blackman had a great season and we have access to great coaching so certainly an exception in that area.  But we dont get D1 state champs transferring to Blackman either.  Especially not two or three at a time.

5 hours ago, cbg said:

Are you saying that the private school  wrestling coaches are better than you and your contemporaries?  When I was a public school student my coach would have been totally embarrassed if someone had even suggested that he was not as good of a coach as the private school coaches.  Let's be real and say that facilities are nice but facilities do not make a champion, that comes from hard working kids that are motivated by dedicated good coaches. Having a defeated attitude before you even begin is not what I wanted for my children or even my grandchildren.  I want coaches that are willing to accept the challenge and take on the very best the State of Tennessee has to offer.  When the public school students graduate they must compete for college acceptance with the private schools kids and they must compete against the private school graduates for jobs.  Why would we compete in everything that life has to offer but refuse to compete for a state championship in an individual sport?  Just because I attended a public school does not mean that I am not the best in the 100m, men's bowling, 1500m, pole vault, men's tennis, diving, 106/lb wrestling, etc... Is a defeated attitude before you even begin what you really want to convey to your student athletes? 

What?  This doesn't address the original argument in the slightest.  As a whole, private schools have access to better facilities, better coaching, better partners, and more travel opportunities.  Sure, there are outliers on both sides.

All this stuff about defeated attitudes is irrelevant to my original point.  Privates, in general have access to things that the majority of public schools do not.

17 hours ago, cbg said:

What is unfair about the two divisions competing for a single division state championship in all individual sports?  

First thing that comes to mind is access to high quality coaching and superior facilities.  Then I would add that practice rooms tend to have more and/or better quality practice partners on a day in day out basis than public schools.  And then...I would also think that access to higher level competition via travel creates an advantage that most public schools can't compete with. 

That's just off the top of my head tho.

3 hours ago, cbg said:

If the D1 schools want to close the gap on the D2 schools they must be.....

allowed to do the same things that D2 schools are able to do. 

Lots of condemnation and condescension from some of our Chattanooga friends.  There does seem to be a lot of misinformation on how fight nights go, what the purpose is, and what we are doing in Middle TN to improve. 

Cobra is correct. 

State Champs By Region

Medal Count by school:

Well well well....

AAA Team Scores:

1    Cleveland     247.0
2    Wilson Central     188.0
3    Blackman     156.0
4    Bradley Central     148.0
5    Dobyns Bennett     124.5
6    Science Hill     115.5
7    Clarksville     90.5
8    Rossview     90.0
9    Brentwood     87.0
9    Oakland     87.0

I can't wait to hear from DaBears1976 all about how the road to state runs through Bradley County, how many times out of 10 that Bradley would win, how much everybody else sucks and all that other jive.  Maybe next time, you will resist the urge to jump on your keyboard and try to make your program look good by running someone else's down.

On 2/9/2020 at 4:21 PM, DaBears1976 said:

Blackman was the most overated from what everyone was saying about them. Would be in the finals if they was on the other side of the  bracket. Got spanked by Cleveland and Bradley. Wasn't even close. Bradley is better than what most thinks or what they showed against Wilson. Believe Bradley wins 2 out of 3 against Wilson. Independence showed a good team. 

In all seriousness, congrats to Coach Smith and his six Bradley State medalists.  Bradley is always tough, and probably always will be.   I am gonna bask in the glory of 3rd place for a while longer now thanks.

1 hour ago, cbg said:

The only possible reason is to pass out more state championships and make LITTLE JOHNNY have more self esteem.  

I couldn't disagree more....but it's way too much for me to get into tonight...

Maybe one day I will feel like hashing it all out here on the T....just not tonight.  All I can say is that one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Good luck to all tomorrow.

2 minutes ago, Ummmno said:

Having more divisions doesn't ensure the strongest go, in any capacity. Its more like its giving out participation ribbons. Look at small school division here. Besides a very small select handful in the last x amount of years that it was implemented (2012 I think?). The other medalists are weak. Its not making the state stronger its making it weaker. if you want a stronger tournament and if you want stronger state champs cut the divisions completely. Don't add to them.

I disagree with this mentality.  TN as a whole has gotten MUCH stronger in the last several years.  The evidence of that is incontrovertible.  Too much focus on the elites drives out those who could have become contenders.  TN should stay focused on the beginners and the middle.  Those who want to be elite are going to become just that....no matter how many divisions are in the state

48 minutes ago, Bump11 said:

interesting. i mean, if it works, it works..but it’s not a necessity. i remember when i was in school and we’d have our home tournament, and all the coaches would come the night before and sit in a room and do it all. technology is taking over the world. but the “lack of results on track” isn’t a good excuse. it was done before track, it can be done without it. 

Why wouldn't you do it in track?  Coaches are already required to use it for OPC anyway.  

You won't get proper seeding until all teams are required to properly put all their results in Track.

23 hours ago, DaBears1976 said:

Blackman was the most overated from what everyone was saying about them. Would be in the finals if they was on the other side of the  bracket. Got spanked by Cleveland and Bradley. Wasn't even close. Bradley is better than what most thinks or what they showed against Wilson. Believe Bradley wins 2 out of 3 against Wilson. Independence showed a good team. 

Prior to state, AAA Rankings were

1) Cleveland

2) Bradley

3) Wilson Central

4) Blackman

Blackman did exactly what people thought they would do. 

Why the diss?

tssaasports.com

John Salter may have some of those results as well.  I found a link to some info here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100331191743/http://www.tnyouthwrestling.com/tournament_results.htm

Blackman will host the Iron Man THIS Saturday, April 20th at Blackman High School.   We work hard to put on a good tournament.  Last year we had nearly 300 wrestlers (the most ever) and we had some awesome match-ups.    

Team TN had a wrestler pull out and they are in need of two K-6 elementary age wrestlers THIS weekend in Kingsport.  One at 70 lbs and one at Heavyweight (up to 220).

They can take one out of state kid if necessary.  The heavyweight kid can be 160ish and up.

If interested, contact Jason Villers @ 423-316-6098  or Mike Workman @ 615-427-5646

On 2/22/2019 at 12:49 PM, WrestlingGod said:

160-

2019 Dominic Fields (Tennessee) vs 2017 Matt Sells (Blackman, Sr 2x State Champ)

A pair of 2xers. This one would be hard to pick. If I was playing that one game where you shout the first thing that comes to your mind I would probably pick Fields here but honestly I think its a toss up. Ill go with my gut here.

Fields by dec

 

 

 

You know I have to disagree with this one......  LOL.  After watching Fowler beat Fields at the state duals this year I don't think there's any way that Sells loses that match.  

This is a very entertaining idea however! I really miss getting to watch some of the guys mentioned.  Croy, Soloman and especially Fuller were so fun to watch.  And I agree, Hicks has to be the guy at 113.  Love that kid.

34 minutes ago, cbg said:

I was told two years ago that Metro Davidson County would lease Municipal Auditorium to the TSSAA for less than $15,000.00 

From what I remember, it will only hold 10 mats.  So you'd have to stretch the timeline a bit more or something.

Interesting question posed to me tonight.  Since Chattanooga is the obvious Mecca of TN Wrestling, why are there no girls teams?

With the way girls wrestling is growing in the US, why hasn't Chattanooga gotten on board?

Any ideas?

19 minutes ago, Fooseball94 said:

Just add AA to the current triple A title rankings and boom now the double A kids are included in the big school rankings

Cold!!