Good Luck today to the TN wrestlers who are still alive: Michael Murphy (Baylor), Sean Kennedy (Riverdale), John Kramer (Wilson Central), and Sammy Evans (Alcoa)!!!!!
Other than Murphy no one else from Tennessee has looked impressive. Hope Murphy can keep it up and represent TN well. By far the best wrestler in TN after placing up in Fargo and with this deep run here.
The kids respected him in that wrestling room. I personally saw him running that room and every single wrestler in there was 100% zoned in on him. He is a great coach and is more technical then almost all the head coaches in Tennessee. He was a D-1 wrestler at Oklahoma State when they as a team won the National Championship. He did help coach Eli as well but he is not completely responsible for that. And I would hold off saying Eli is a beast right now. He hasn't wrestled one high school match yet. As far as a replacement they have that guy they hired last year to coach the middle school team who was also a former D-1 competitor. I can't remember his name off the top of my head. He would be a great replacement. And other thing is Damon Smiths wife just announced she is pregnant so that was the major factor in why he left.