papbear3

Nick Marable, and he is not done yet.....

This is not an effort to take anything away from Simpson- he was phenominal- and a NCAA finals appearance certainly confirms it. However, I don't see how he made the most noise nationally in the last 30 years. Jordan Leen was a Senior Nationals champion and a three time NCAA All American with a third place finish and a NCAA Championship. That's pretty noisy.

In Division 1, Jeremy Miller couldnt even leave the state for weeks and come back and wrestle for Greenback because of D1 rules and this kid can live out of state for the whole 5 years and wrestle for TN.

 

Does that really seem ok people???

 

Not sour guys, just telling it like it is. TN has some backwards ways in their sports rules.

Not a D2 rule, it is a boarding school rule. Doesn't apply to everyone, just boarding school. Does not change the fact that TJ is a great wrestler and a 5 time Tennessee state champion.

Very interesting stuff in Dll tourny.

There are 22 byes in the tournament.

Tow weight classes have pig tails 17 wrestlers in 135 and 189 and DCA has wrestler in both pig tails.

In the 112 weight class there is a situation where a wrestler can win only one match and earn state medal because only 10 wrestlers in the weight class.

The 103 weight class has 14 wrestlers and 6 of them are in the 8th grade.

Total number of 8th grades in state tourny 12: 103(6), 112(2), 119(2), 130(1), 215(1).

Only weight class full of 16 is 119.

Fresh: 28

Soph: 49

Jr: 59

Sr: 56

What's your point, Jack?

That there are 17 schools in DII? That it is tough to fill a 16 man bracket with 17 teams?

TSSAA created the divisional split based on financial aid back in 1997. It is what it is.

Kaleb Baker is top eight and more work to do.....

Yes, Cleveland beat CBHS at the Cleveland Duals 37-36.

On a side note, congratulations to Bradley for their championship.

Cleveland, well done Coach Phillips! Great job, enjoyed getting to know you this year and looking forward to future battles. Science Hill, awesome job, Coach Price and staff, you got a great bunch of guys on that team. Tom Graham and Collierville, great tournament showing and some well deserved respect. Pat Simpson and the Ryan group, Congrats, that was fun, let's do that again in two weeks with Baylor and McCallie and the rest.

Joe Blair and staff, great job!

Chris Lewis

CBHS

Semis

Collierville over Arlington

Cordova over Houston

no score on finals yet...

fractured humerus, he will be fine.

perhaps Mike Newman might know...

Christian Brothers Assistants - i can't function without them

Rusty Morris - youthful vigor and intensity

Armand Aaron - the sagely, wiley veteran

Grady Harbor & Marcello Donato - patience and teaching acumen with the youngsters

LMAO

CBHS 59, Houston 9

103 – Nick Gray © beat Tyler Smith 12-10

112 – Matt Johnson © pinned Cameron Yoho 3:28

119 – Brandon Oliver © beat Adam Greenberg 13-3

125 – Blake Hataway © pinned Trey Kotara 2:34

130 – Steve Beall (H) pinned Eric Tarver 3:14

135 – Alex Johnson © win by forfeit

140 – Zach Johnson © pinned Landon Mosley 5:13

145 – Brian Feltus © pinned Thomas Watkins 3:38

152 – Adam Kilkenny © beat Zach Amos 10-1

160 – Nate Rupiper © beat Holden Schay 5-1

171 – Daniel Gallagher (H) beat Jamie Perry 10-9

189 – James Lammey © beat Mitch King 8-1

215 – Alex Wilkinson © pinned Brendon Harris 3:40

285 – Andrew Woodley © win by forfeit

Congrats on continuing this thread.....

Hilarious, keep it coming, the more jocularity, the better. I'm not upset, just amazed that a little dual tourney could generate three pages about nothing, kinda like an episode of Seinfeld. Nice chatting, gotta get ready for Houston...

Herrin has never beaten CBHS. Won by 15 three years ago, only other time we have faced them

Geez, we went to southern Illinois to wrestle, had a good time, worked in some younger guys, did well, some guys got a good match out of the day, competition was fair, after KCI and Cleveland duals (where we wrestled Cleveland, Science Hill, Collins Hill and Baylor) and before Ryan Invite and Fandetti brawl, it was what was needed, nothing more or less. Enough about this foolishness. Good to see Hendersonville there kickin' tail too. I am amused this got to two pages...

Okay, Christian Brothers High School is coming up to Johnson City early on Friday to wrestle a couple of duals the night before The Fandetti Brawl and I know that one of the teams had to back out of the duals. If you have a date available, we would love to wrestle Parkland, and Science Hill would probably be interested too. If you are connected to the Parkland program, give one of us a shout and we will set it up.

Chris Lewis

CBHS

Thanks. After the pounding ya'll gave us, we'll need it.

I am fairly certain that if BCB says the DII schools are jv, then he must concur that the DI small schools tournament at the state duals would be the freshman, or maybe, middle school division.

This is from the TSSAA handbook http://www.tssaa.org/Handbook/wrestling.pdf

Participation in an invitational tournament shall count in the total number of dates in which a

member school is allowed to participate during the regular season. No school may participate in

more than four invitational tournaments.

You can compete in four individual tournaments, this does not include Dual Tournaments, which you can compete in as many as you want.

Good Luck John Young! We'll miss you down here in Memphis.

HOSE-A!!!!! I miss ya buddy!

Scott, I believe, came from Pennsylvania. He mauled people. I also believe that he was offered bu Oklahoma St. for footabll and wrestling but chose Tennessee. He is the staring center for the Green Bay Packers.

no again.

Financial aid, non-financial aid.

Same silly argument. Bradley has wrestled other DII schools. If I am correct, Bradley was at the CBHS duals in 2005 and wrestled CBHS and Father Ryan, so the argument that Bradley does not wrestle DII is faulty. Secondly, it is just a poll. Did it ever occur to the critics out there that there are not as many wrestling schools as their are football and basketball schools? Roughly 130 to, just guessing, 300 or so that play football and basketball. So the poll is combined, it was combined before the split and has continued since the split, big deal. The coaches, DI and DII, take the poll seriously and know what is going on state wide. Many of the coaches have come forward (myself included) and stated that they vote. I am sure that both DI and DII are fairly represented in voting. Believe it or not, their is a great deal of respect among the coaches of the two divisions. The poll is all for fun anyway to get people talking about wrestling, no one get a bogus BCS crystal ball because of the poll like college football, and by this (discussion) and other threads, the poll is working. If you did not combine the polls what would you be talking about? How much Bradley and Baylor were going to beat everyone else in their respective divisions? That would be an exciting discussion. Enjoy the banter and stop the hating. Steve, congrats on the 300 wins. Look forward to seeing you and Coach Henry (among others) at the state indies. Peace!

Chris Lewis

CBHS

Bronzegoat-

Ghouse is not on my staff, he works with the middle school club team. Independence has a very good team, different circumstances involved in their rise, and Coach Grindstaff is a big part of it as is the success of wrestling teams across the state. The coach(es) is/are a big key to any programs success. How many times have we seen a rising program collapse when there is a change in coaches. Too many times to count in the 19 years that I have been involved in the sport. The sport is always changing and video has revolutionized the sport. DVD's, youtube and flowrestling have changed the sport dramatically and either you keep evolving and learning or you fall behind the curve. Change or die, as with any other sport. Rest assured that we are always looking and learning on that curve. You have some valid points, I personally do not believe that they are aimed at myself or my staff. If they are, so be it. Good luck to you and you kids, wherever you are coaching. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Chris Lewis

CBHS