Coach R

Seymour won the dual a few days back to win the Region 2 championship. Had to wrestle Elizabethton today for the chance to represent Area 1 in Clarksville. We won so I guess we will see you next weekend.

Way to Build a program SEYMOUR Community. This program has had a lot of great people step up over the last few years. I would love to drop a few names, but will not for fear of leaving someone out. The wrestlers and their families work hard to try and be competitive both as a team and as individuals. Thanks to all who have helped!!!!!!!!! Rusty

Since he participated in the Catholic Tournament as a High School Wrestler for CAK this season; I'd say he is pretty much a lock for staying at CAK. Would he not loss a year of eligibility if he transfers?

The Seymour Middle School program plans on attending the duals as well.

Region 2 Seymour will be hosting the Eagle Challenge. (CANCELED) BayouBear, We failed to change our schedule, but the Eagle Challenge has been canceled this year. Only had three teams who were going to be able to make it. We see all three at later dates so we decided to try for something else. We have an open date if anyone is interested in a Dual. Would like to hold something here at Seymour, but will travel if need be. Rusty McCroskey Seymour High School

The dead mats were mostly in the morning sessions when the computer was being used only. When we went to both computer and folder in the evening session we were held up only when the computer could not keep up. The folder system has been used for several seasons with great success. One computer can not keep up with six mats and two divisions at the same time with this many wrestlers. We have tried many different programs and individuals without success. With the folder the wrestlers are on one mat for the entire tournament with much less confussion. This makes a huge difference for the younger kids and also for the parents trying to keep up. The Fiscus system was used Friday night and they were wrestling well after midnight. This also happened to be the least amount of wrestlers for a division. I really don't think that they were very well prepared for the numbers that wrestled in this tournament. Most tournaments that Mr. Fiscus has run don't come close to these numbers. They are very capable with a smaller number of wrestlers IMO.

Guys, I think there was only about 650 kids that actually wrestled in this tournament. Either way that's still a great number for a State Tournament. Cookeville High School has a great facility. The management of the tournament maybe needs to be looked at as wrestling a 2am is tough on some of the younger wrestlers (not to mention some of the OLDER coaches).

Last time!! I have never said that either region 3 or 4 are weak!! They are by far the toughest in the STATE top two both regions year in year out. Once you drop below second in either region who knows. My Post regarding shear numbers only. If you don't think your chances are much better three out of twelve instead of four out of twenty three I'm not going to challenge that. There is no disrespect intended to anyone's program anywhere. That's it!!!!!

It is simply a numbers thing. There are three chances for 10 teams or 4 chances for 23 teams which would you want?? It has nothing to do with talent or lack of it simply stands to reason the less teams the greater the chance to carry a younger wrestler. Somebody do the research and tell us how many wrestlers have Bradley, Soddy and Cleveland carried the last few years? Having named the varies programs above is not slighting them in any way. They get the chance to bring there younger guys up in the State Tournament how better do you build a winning program. They just seem to be the top teams yearly out of those two Regions. They of course would certainly dominate any Region in the State IMO. but to say they don't have a certain advantage in numbers for the State Tournament is not correct.

"Based on their placing at the State tournament, the top four teams of Region 10 and Region 6 had a combined total of 42 and 48. Region 2's top four teams had a total of 77 (Farragut 6th, Union Co. 17th, So. Doyle 24th, Seymour 30th). " Just my thoughts, It is very difficult to bring much of a team out of a twenty something team region. So to compare apples and oranges is really not fair. You put any of the teams mentioned out of region 2 in most any other region you would have much more potential for teammates to score points. I really think even the Bradley's and Soddy's would have a heck of a time carrying a whole team through a twenty team region. ( I certainly mean no disrespect to either of the above mentioned programs.) Simply think that shear numbers alone would not allow for a team to carry all 14 team members to the State Tournament. I truely think if your were to take the top 10 or 12 teams from Region 2 you would see a much greater chance of higher team scores. Again this is based on numbers alone. You give a team the chance to score points in 14 positions your sure to catch a break somewhere along the way. Having said this I know that there were several other large Regions out that could make the same argument. Hence the 10 Regions instead of 8 in the up coming season. Perfect answer of course not, but at least it is a start. You still have the argument of several loaded teams in this Region or that Region, but you are always going to have ups and downs. Except of course the four or five top programs in the State. Make no mistake folks I don't think any team in Region 2 is ready to make a run just yet but with a fewer number of teams they certainly could be more competitive. (I truely love the growth that has taken place in our great sport and don't wish to regress by dropping programs to even numbers.)

Thanks, we wrestled this weekend with good numbers around 350 total wrestlers but my sons weight class was not very competitive. We were just looking for a little something else maybe we will see you guys down the road.

3 minute modified folkstyle. Meaning anything going out of bounds starts back on their feet, ten to fifteen seconds to try and turn from top start over on their feet. Everything else is folkstyle rules. No quick pins no roll thru backs nothing like true freestyle.

What was the total number of participants? Without counting those that wrestled in two seperate divisions.

I would take a team of quality wrestler over a lot of stars anyday!!! Congrats Bradley Bears!!!!

Rigger this had to be early 80's. I wrestled 77-80 and top four qualified. How long was it used and why?