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Awesome!!  I gotta get control of this Central vs Eastern time zone thing...LOL

When will the replay be up?

Fortner was at King I noticed.

There honestly may not be enough crows in all of Mt Juliet to make even a small dent....

3 hours ago, MJGOLDENBEARS said:

You know what, I'm a man of my word... if we lose I'll delete my account and no one will ever see me again. If we win, everyone apologizes and eats their words. Deal?

DOH!!!!  Get to steppin.... 

Dario would smash Horst.   My 2 cents...

What's with all the unsportsmanlike penalties?

Why is it that your uniform cannot identify a particular school?

I never did buy into that business that the bracket doesn't matter at all. Of course it does! Look at the state tournament.   The strategy is to win one tournament. There's been plenty of number one wrestlers who were defeated at the state tournament partly because one side of the bracket didn't favor them as much as it did the other wrestler.  Just my two cents. And looking at all this, I have no idea how they would be seeded. But I certainly think that Rippy and Fowler are the top two of the listed wrestlers in that class once again

NEWSFLASH!  15 year old kid experiences a loss of self-control and made a bad decision!  No one was hurt!!  Pandemonium ensues!!

smh

Oakland will murder Cookeville...book it.

cbg,

Originally you said that most wrestlers from TN don't want to be challenged by wrestling against the best that the country has to offer.  I disagreed.

I think that kids from TN are like kids from anywhere else, they want to be challenged.  They also want to be competitive.

One thing I learned from traveling to many out of state events and camps is that the success of a wrestler from any given area is almost always connected to the collective success of ALL of the wrestlers in that area.

For example, I see most TN state champions going to to national FS/GR tournaments and getting manhandled by kids from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and Ohio.  Why is that?  Is it because that kid didn't go to enough national tournaments and face the best competition?

No...it is because TN is not as committed to FS and Greco as those other states and those kids don't have the practice partners to push them up to the next level.

Practice rooms are where champions are made. 

You mentioned recruiting.  I agree that there are lots of college coaches at Fargo.  I'm sorry but I do not think that they are there to recruit kids from TN however.  First, there are what, three college programs in the state?  Most coaches are looking for kids who are either super studs or solid kids who are closer to their home school. 

Now, there are exceptions.  guys like Jordan Leen, Matt Keller and now, guys like Boykin, Flynn, Reiniche.  Those kids of wrestlers have divine gifts to compliment their work ethic and toughness.

I would like to see TN increase the offering here at home for good competition.  At the TN State FS/GR tournament, there were about 8 kids per bracket in the junior division.  EIGHT.  That's not going to cut it. 

That's all I'm saying.  If we were going to see 20 or 25 kids a year to Fargo, I would like to see most of them having the ability to at least medal at SE regions.  Particularly the juniors.

On 7/18/2017 at 7:46 AM, cbg said:

......... There is no reason that Tennessee does not take 20-25 kids out to Fargo every year other than many of the wrestlers from Tennessee don't want to be challenged by wrestling against the best wrestlers in the country.

 

That's not true at all.  How many kids competed in the SE Regions?  How many competed in the TWF State tournament?

Not enough. 

Many people I talk to don't see the need to spend the money on the trip to Fargo when their kids are not being developed enough here in TN to make a competitive run. 

Until all of TN starts to take a bigger interest in FS/GR these numbers are going to be the norm.  

Congrats to Cooper and Sammy.   I was glad to see them representing!

Seeing the lineups may create more interest from wrestling fans in the area.  Just saying...

How many paid wrestling coaching positions do they allow at MNPS?

Just curious. How does the football coach view having his players involved in wrestling. Is he supportive?

Are there match by match results somewhere?

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What I do know is that when a program is on top people become very jealous and will stop at next to nothing including lying to try and bring them down.

This is very true in high school athletics as well!!!

The problem may very well be the inability of the UTC coaching staff to land the top kids from Tennessee.  Recruiting is the life blood of college athletics and if you cannot recruit you will never be successful.  Great wrestlers make great coaches.

In order to recruit the top TN kids, you would first have to pursue them.

Blackman Wrestling will resume Fight Night on Tuesdays beginning March 14th.

First whistle will blow at 6pm so please arrive 15-20 minutes early to dress and stretch out.

Travis is a great guy!!

Matthew has been several times. Great camp and even better people running it.

So what are the pros and cons of Tenway?  I have looked online and I dont see a schedule?

AAA - 1st Place Medals:

Region 1 - 0

Region 2 - 2

Region 3 - 1

Region 4 - 4

Region 5 - 2

Region 6 - 2

Region 7 - 3

Region 8 - 0

AAA - 2nd Place Medals:

Region 1 - 3

Region 2 - 1

Region 3 - 1

Region 4 - 3

Region 5 - 2

Region 6 - 1

Region 7 - 3

Region 8 - 0

AAA - 3rd Place Medals:

Region 1 - 1

Region 2 - 0

Region 3 - 1

Region 4 - 5

Region 5 - 1

Region 6 - 1

Region 7 - 3

Region 8 - 2

If Fowler wins, he has to be in the conversation. If he does win, he will have had to defeat 4 state medalists.