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Winning that battle must've felt great! I honestly haven't kept up with Wrestling as much since Rj graduated. Though I do attend the Finals every year since its here in town now. My two sons started club wrestling last week and it has made me feel alive again. That sounds weird, but it's so true in a way. In terms of schools you're correct in that scoring a can be misleading and I know many teachers at metro schools from Church that work their butts off for their students. So i agree with you on each person having to do the research and make their own decisions. Honestly if I could get my kids into MLK or Hime Fogg without the lottery I would've stayed. Can't argue with #73 and #74 best public schools in the nation. I just couldn't risk the gamble so to speak. Thanks for the kind words about my family! We are doing well! I hope you and your wife are doing awesome and your Momma and siblings too! Nothing like a Drinkwine gathering to put a smile on one's face!

Has Metro backed off their stance on Coaches having to be school employees? I know for a niche sport like wrestling it's been a problem in the past where qualified coaches with non metro professional careers get turned away. Many wouldn't care about the pay and have the resources, time, knowledge, and passion to do so and are barred. This kept me from coaching 4-5 years ago at JFK actually. And again I'd have done it for free out of love of the sport. As to kids moving and being recruited out of the schools I don't have a lot of knowledge to speak on, but when my son Kael was starting Kindergarten this fall we looked at our current zoned school in the McGavok zone, and saw a 2 rating and decided to move into a better over all scholastic zone. Spring Hill on the Maury side may not even have a wrestling program, but it is rated across the board better than where we were. My thoughts are some may be moving for more than just Wrestling reasons. Because as much as I and you love Overton, there is no way I'd send any of my kids there even if Gabe still coached there 10 years from now. Just my honest opinion on the state of Metro Schools in general, wrestling' decline is just a symptom of a bigger issue. Glad to see you back(last I remembered you had headed to Cali for health reasons. Though I could be making that up in my head.) and investing in this amazing sport! Edit- hadn't logged in in years and ended up signing in through Facebook and thought my name would show. So you know who is responding and not think I'm some insane stalker, Sean Denton.

What's interesting to me is that a good number of the schools listed as voting yes will never benefit from this. I mean they have small wrestling programs or none at all, but have large student bodies already. So creating a new tourny for small schools won't get them wrestlers in their rooms anymore than before b/c they'll be forced to compete with the large schools still anyways b/c of Football and Basketball. I went to MLK for 3 years of my highschool career and know that in a building of less than 1,000 for grades 7-12(average graduating class is barely 100) with the middle school having almost half the body(kids drop out left and right in 7th and 8th grade) there's no real chance they're ever going to compete with other metro schools like Overton/Antioch let alone region foes Franklin/Ravenwood/Indy/Brentwood, and never in their wildest dreams a Bradley/Soddy/Cleveland for state championships. This is why i thought the dual state split was awesome. But even i think that to make a seperate individual tourny is not going to be good idea. Every wrestler at MLK dreams of being it's first State Champ. They've never had a place winner higher than 4th, but I'd imagine none of us would want to win it in a watered down Tourny. Do you think that Brown from Hunter's Lane's story would have been nearly the same if he wrestled against 7 wrestlers from schools that barely have enough interest to even have a team? Beating Cox at Regions and then taking state were amazing accomplishments that mean something. It's an individual tournament! Every individual has the same chance to work their butts off to earn a title. You can choose to wrestle from Nov to Feb or wrestle year round. You can choose to get up at 4:30am and run the 3 miles to the nearest YMCA and lift before school, or sleep in. Yes, coaches can make a huge difference, but camps exist for a reason and if you truly want to be a champion beg and plead to go to a better school. Put in the work for your State Title, I know i didn't do all i could and have learned to live with that, but don't hand out medals and State Titles to kids because they have "set backs" to deal with. Growing the sport has more to do with educating and getting the sport to the masses. If Nashville shared the love of the sport that Chatt has we wouldn't see 2k plus student body schools with only 10 or fewer wrestlers. We have to learn how to market our beloved sport to the uninformed, to the people who think WWE when they hear wrestling and not Dan Gable or locally the Simpsons. That's how we grow the sport. Get more local coverage, get tv time for big matches and tournaments throughout the state. Promote ourselves. How is that accomplished, I don't know, but that's how we get growth. NOT handing out more medals.

Complaining about refs goes back as far as the dawn of man. No matter how good a ref is he'll be remembered more for a blown call than any correct call he makes, ex: Ed Hochuli(NFL Ref). These guys aren't making millions to do this and do it because they love the sport. I say cut them a break and move on.

IT'S THE FINAL COWDOWN!!!!!

It may be because it's early and i've not had my coffee yet, but this just made me laugh. I can't for the life of me see how something that has been "debated" can possibly begin, Do like the site and wish it was even half as good when I was wrasslin in school as it is now

OMG! Awkward....

Pointing out for those who are unaware, one who does not use profanities would say something along the lines of "... a piece of work" which is entirely different than "... a piece of (insert what you're thinking)". I've been accused many a times of saying the later when I really said the former.

Unless there was a stenographer on site that has this encounter recorded my suggestion is to drop it. It'll never be resolved on a message board and those of us who could care less would rather have our message board devoid of pointless threads that boil down to personal he said/she said battles. I'm inclined to believe 90 is willing to drop it, she obviously regrets her in the moment choice of words, but can ynotme do the same? I hope so cause you're just making yourself look more and more like a troll. /thread

Awesome thanks for the clarification Coach G(I think)!

Thanks for your input Bobvark, but now I'm a little confused. Nununu made it seem that the Metro district was wreslting to determine their #1 and #2 tonight and none of that would seem to involve wrestling enough times that the region dual could/would take place tonight as well. I could totally be wrong though. Anyone know for sure?

So we looking for wrestling to start at 4 or closer to 5 Nununu? And do we know matchups yet, or will that be figured out on site? What will gate prices be so i can get enough cash out. Thanks in advance.

My ole wreslting haunts! I know that joint really well then. Thanks for the info!

Hey WG since you seem to be the man in the know where are the Region Individuals being held this year? and is it over the 3rd and 4th of Feb or the 10th and 11th? Thanks in advance.

Psst... in case you missed it he referenced a returning state champ wrestling this year at 140... from Bradley even... once a champ always a champ... that is all...