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A high school coach would have to be extremely careful concerning the "athletic coaching linkâ€. There is plenty of gray areas associated with that one. A kid comes to your camp, your open mat, or is on your summer team and then transfers to your school? I think he would violate that rule and lead to an ineligible kid. The rule makes no mention of high school or middle school like you suggest in your post. I think we will see this rule violated pretty quickly, especially in wrestling where most of us have open rooms. I hope that I am wrong. Here is the language used: "Coaching links include a player's attendance at an individual camp and then transferring to that coach's school, playing on a non-school team and then transferring to that coach's school, transferring to a school where a former coach has just been hired and transferring to a school where a former or current personal trainer or strength-and-conditioning coach is employed."

Greeneville High School is looking to fill the following dates: 12/1 - looking for a quad, home or away 1/21 - looking for two more teams for a match @Greeneville If you are interested, please e-mail me at sheltonr@gcschools.net

Anyone know where to find information on this tournament? Is it still on? Thanks.

Region 1 A/AA - Greeneville

Add the push-out rule from freestyle. Stops playing the line. Change stalling to one point per call after the warning. That lets the refs call it without DQ'ing a kid. Wrestling should be actively working to score unless they are overpowered. If they are overpowered, top man is stalling. Put the focus on scoring points. I know. It won't happen but those are my two coppers.

I've been trying to get track to load for the last two days and I have had no luck. It just keeps timing out. Anyone else having issues or is it just here in Greeneville?

We don't have room in our facility for a climbing rope. Does anyone have any experience with the climbing rope system put out by Ivanov? I don't think that I need the whole package but you can buy 4 resistance ropes and the climbing rope for $295. I am just wondering how much resistance that gives and if it is worth the money. Thanks for any advice and help that you guys can give.

Great hire. Jeff is a good man and an excellent coach. He will be a great addition to the UTC staff.

Coaching - TSSAA Handbook Section 9. All coaches will fall under one of the following categories: 1. Full-time employee (a minimum of 100 school days) of a board of education with a Tennessee state teaching license or the equivalent. 2. Retired educator (five or more years' experience) with a valid Tennessee state teaching license or the equivalent. 3. Non-faculty coach – Anyone approved by the principal, superintendent, and/or local board of education in the normal course of employment procedures in accordance with applicable state law. All non-faculty coaches shall be submitted to the state office annually. A school must pay an annual registration fee of $50.00 per coach. Use of a non-faculty coach who has not met all the requirements listed below or who has not been submitted to the state office shall result in a fine of $500.00. 4. Classified Employee – Any individual employed by a member school or school system in a position that does not require a teaching license or the equivalent. The use of classified employees as coaches is subject to the following restrictions: a. the classified employee must be employed 30 hours or more per week in a non-coaching position and may not be an independent contractor or an employee of an independent contractor; b. Although not counted as a non-faculty coach, he/she must be submitted to the state office annually and meet all requirements listed below. Use of a classified employee coach who does not meet all the requirements listed below or who has not been submitted to the state office shall result in a fine of $500.00. A. The position shall be advertised and no full-time employee with a teaching license who meets the qualifications required for coaching the specific sport in question is available. B. Head coaches in football, basketball, baseball, girls' softball, and track and field must be full-time employees or a retired educator (see #1 and #2 above) or meet the requirements of subsection E. C. Head coaches in girls' volleyball, cross country, golf, wrestling, tennis, girls' soccer, soccer, and bowling may be full-time employees, retired educators, classified employees, or a non-faculty coach.

The one with the single mat on a raised platform with the dome light looks awesome.

How do we know that a complete D2 split is being contemplated? I knew about the D2 schools meeting to form their own tournament.

Four from each of the three regions will go to state.

You guys are all crazy if you think that realignment, classes, districts or regions have anything to do with wrestling. This state makes it decisions on two things - 1. What is best for football. 2. What is best for basketball Wrestling is not even in the equation when it comes to who is aligned where.

There are only two returning medalists that I can think of - Jon Boatman from Greeneville and Packy Mullin from Notre Dame. Every bracket will be a random draw other than returning medalists.

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Thank you. Got it.

My google-fu is not working. Can anyone point me in the direction of the 2014 USAW schedule for Tennessee? I would like to get an off-season training schedule in place for AAU and TNUSAW. I checked the tennwrestling.com site and didn't see anything. Thanks for any help that you can provide.

You can join the new Big 8 conference next year. Several of the upper east TN schools broke away from Morristown and Jefferson County to form a new conference this year. They started in November and just had the conference duals and conference individual tournament last week. Many of those wrestlers are now on the AAU circuit and are starting to prep for AAU regionals, AAU states and nationals. I know that we have several that are planning on going to middle school nationals in Virginia Beach. Talk to Jason Shelton at GMS or Jeff Price at LB/SH to see of they are accepting new members next year. You are not limited by the TMSAA but by the conference that you are in.

Send him to camp with a notebook. If the notebook comes back empty, you wasted your money. He will forget 90% of what they tell him if he doesn't write it down.

What amazes me is how many of these match-ups are previews of matches that we might see again in the state finals or the state medal rounds.

I don't like it. I think that meeting after the match to shake hands is enough. As a coach, I either want to talk to my losing wrestler immediately or get my next guy up ready. We shake when the captains go out, before we wrestle, after we wrestle, then shake the coach's hand, and then after the match...we shake hands again. I give my guys the choice. If they want to do it, fine. If they don't, fine.

Adding the push out rule to high school wrestling would eliminate most of these issues. As a coach, I like vocal refs. They are just saying what we are all thinking.

It was actually hemlock with arsenic on the side.

I think that the mercy rule at 35 points is a great idea.