rcpatriot

can someone post the seedings for the small school region at Elizabethan?

Would it be an option to have the team duals at one location and the individual tournament at another? Even separate parts of the state for the 2 different tournaments?

Jack, is this where you are coaching now?

Is it just a Saturday tournament or is it Friday/Saturday

Thank you. I'm looking for a varsity tournament other than the Halls Invitational.

Does anyone have any information for a tournament on this date? 

The problem that I have with the idea is that you say that you don't know if it will work but there was no other proposal on the table to help grow the sport.  At that point why not just step back and take a deep breath and table the idea until you can give it some serious thought?  That idea of just voting for something is much like today's politicians that throw everything against the wall with the hope that something sticks.  The only way to grow the sport of wrestling and to sustain that growth for a long period of time is to build a solid foundation with the "grass roots" youth programs.  The YMCA method of passing out trophies to everyone and calling them a champion has been proven not to work over the long haul. 

cbg, there was a lot of thought and discussion about how we could grow the sport with the coaches for over 2 years prior to the final proposal being voted on. The final decision was to split small/large individuals. Again, the proposal was initiated by the HS coaches and voted on by the HS coaches at the time. After that, the proposal was provided to TSSAA for there approval.

Please don't make it sound like all the coaches that voted for this structure did so without serious thought or effort. A lot of time and discussion took place before it came to a final vote. 

I can't disagree with your statement reftn. At the time that this was proposed, it was the best idea to attempt at gaining participation. Will it work, don't know but there was no other proposal put on the table that had even an inkling to helping grow the sport.

As I've said before, in a perfect world every HS program would have a feeder program, fill every weight class, and we'd only have 1 true state champion for each weight class. We may or may not disagree with the ideas on how to get to that point, but an effort of sorts has to be made. That's what was done by the coaches that voted to separate small/large individual state tournaments.

The coaches (including me at the time) voted to have the split with small/large school individuals. Obviously, our intent was to attempt to grow the sport not to dimenish it. I see both sides and agree with both sides, but if this change helps grow the sport we've accomplished our goal. If not, it can be scrapped with very little, if any, damage.

Those that know me know that I'm about as "old school" as they come and believe's in the theory that there is only one true champion, but as a coach at a small school without any surrounding support, I recognized that an attempt at something different was needed to help increase interest and/or participation.

This may or may not increase interest and/or participation, but an attempt needed to be made and this was the best option. Not sure that it will work, but we had to try something.

Let's give it a shot for a couple of years and see if it's done what we had hoped it would. If not, changing back to the previous structure or tweaking the current one may be the answer. Either way, like I said, I don't believe this change is going to "damage" anything.

Actually, based on the quotes in the paper, it doesn't sound like it was due to health issues.  Stated that he would be looking for other opportunities in coaching and teaching. Maybe he's looking for something administrative.

Insurance and lawsuits, pretty much sums up the reasoning for this.

how about Kingston vs Cumberland Co? Both have had similar years.

Please post all the match-ups as soon as possible.

Does TSSAA get any of the gate?

Said it before and will continue to say it.....Greenback was good because of the assistants that Ridge surrounded himself with. Made him look like a good coach.

My son should be ranked #1!

Young man looking for an opportunity to assist with HS wrestling this season around the Knoxville area.

Contact me at chrisadams@alba1.com or at uga1609@aol.com if anyone is in need of assistance.

The team with the least amount of personal fouls wins this game.

If I'm the head coach at this point I take over at OC. No question. But the overall discipline Of the team is on ridge.

He's never been a disciplinarian. WB jumped all over him because he is a WB grad and had success at GB, but I think the success at GB was due to his assistants more so than his own skills.

That's just not right 

GCA could have beat Kingston by 50, but didn't. They took a knee to end the first half on the 1 yd line against AE this year. I think that says plenty about where the program is. But thanks for the hater comment.

Hates a stong word....more like dislike

The first half is wide open. Teams should play their first team and try to score the entire first half. Like I said, I wasn't at the game and didn't see how the scoring went. This is obviously not a Science Hill vs Davey Crocket type of incident. Science Hill intentionally ran up the score.

 

I still say Coalfield rebounds and comes together after the injuries to pull out a district win.

The way GCA has ran up the score the last few years on anybody and everybody they could, you really shouldn't be commenting about anyone else running up the score, although that wasn't the case with the OS/Oakdale game this year.

Prophet.

Not quite, just know how it works around this area!

Kingston fan's are impatient

This didn't take long!

Is S. Gulmire assisting with the OR football team this year?

I completely disagree with the rule!

 

Did Ronnie really say "I thought the dead period started on a Monday", or is that a misprint?

 

The "dead period" is a joke.

I don't like the rule, nor do I like the suspension for Coach Bray. Not bashing him or what he did, at all.

I coached for wrestling and football for over 15 years at the HS and MS level in TN. I may be wrong, but the dead period has always started on a Sunday to my knowledge.

I completely disagree with the rule!

Did Ronnie really say "I thought the dead period started on a Monday", or is that a misprint?

The "dead period" is a joke.