JustACoach1911

How about Centennial coming out of region 6. The team is only 24-3 with loses coming to Wilson Central, MBA and Blackman with the loses to Blackman and MBA being single digit losses while missing 3 starters. Centennial also beat Bartlett in the finals of the Huntsville High Dual tournament a few weeks back.

Coaches, This will be a great day of wrestling with the kids having some great competition. Nearly every school attending has a state placer and multiple are state dual teams as well The hospitality room stays stocked for the entire day and we will be out of there by 3pm.

With all of the regions duals set, does anybody see any upsets occurring to sneak into state duals?

Hello wrestling community, I have been meaning to write this post for a few weeks after enjoying a day of Sunday football and in each game there was a reference to a player on one or both of the teams who were high school wrestlers and how wrestling helps football players in so many aspects. I'm sure a lot of you all are familiar with the numerous professional players were also wrestled but just to name a few Bo Jackson, Ray Lewis( 2x state champ), Roddy White ( 2x state champ) and a former Nashville beast Scott Wells a TN state champ and Super Bowl champ. My question or reason for this topic is even though there is so much evidence that wrestling can be beneficial to football player we struggle getting guys to come out and compete and by struggle I mean 1 player. I'm just curious as to how you coaches are convincing the youth to come out and wrestle. I am open to all suggestions and feedback as to how many football players you are able to gather once the season is over and methods for doing so.

I completely agree BenAround. I am disappointed that this matter was not directed towards coaches that are involved, but displayed on a forum. I guess I am disappointed in every aspect, because when a wrestlers gets hurt and they sit out a tournament or don't go to a tournament on their own will it's all good and no questions should be asked, but when the TEAM does not go to get rejuvenated and ready to complete a feat that has not been done in forever and that's make state duals, better yet region duals its a bad decision and the coach doesn't know what he is doing. I guess that I am just disappointed all around because when parents wear their emotions on their sleeves then their child tends to do the same and while we believe we are helping our child or standing up for him/her we really are hindering them because now they know no matter what daddy/mommy will take my side and say something be it true or false. Maybe it just me and knowing how exciting it is to be apart of a good team and compete as a TEAM until february and then start wrestling as individuals, which by the way we never had to do because we focused so much on TEAM that we would take 10+ kids to state and when we got there we still wrestled for team goals. Maybe team doesn't mean anything anymore and I understand how the kids now are so arrogant and full of themselves. But like my name says I'm just a coach so what do i know.

I completely agree BenAround. I am disappointed that this matter was not directed towards coaches that are involved, but displayed on a forum. I guess I am disappointed in every aspect, because when a wrestlers gets hurt and they sit out a tournament or don't go to a tournament on their own will it's all good and no questions should be asked, but when the TEAM does not go to get rejuvenated and ready to complete a feat that has not been done in forever and that's make state duals, better yet region duals its a bad decision and the coach doesn't know what he is doing. I guess that I am just disappointed all around because when parents wear their emotions on their sleeves then their child tends to do the same and while we believe we are helping our child or standing up for him/her we really are hindering them because now they know no matter what daddy/mommy will take my side and say something be it true or false. Maybe it just me and knowing how exciting it is to be apart of a good team and compete as a TEAM until february and then start wrestling as individuals, which by the way we never had to do because we focused so much on TEAM that we would take 10+ kids to state and when we got there we still wrestled for team goals. Maybe team doesn't mean anything anymore and I understand how the kids now are so arrogant and full of themselves. But like my name says I'm just a coach so what do i know.

I guess you didn't know Centennial beat Brentwood last year and they had no seniors wrestlers and that over the past weekend at centennial went 5-0 vs Brentwood including a win vs Chip Brothers. Not my opinion, but the facts!

Coach Becker is no longer with the team and he is off living his life so can you say what he would have or would not have done? Also you are absolutely incorrect.. Coach Becker believes in team and not just individual!! Taking 4 kids to a tournament and out of that 4 1 having an injury and another being back to practice for 3 days since early October makes sense to you? If it does then i feel bad for your wrestlers and team and you as a man that having your TEAM so up so that 1 kid may or may not place. I am disappointed that you and several other people are talking about a poor showing when we took our TEAM to Tullahoma with 9 kids and had a bad showing losing to teams that we should never lose to. We are 2-0 in our district for the first time EVER and beat Indy for the first time EVER and your telling me that Becker would have wrestled in a tournament that is not harder than the one we wrestled in last week, to please one or two parents/wrestlers and not allowed that 2 who are 100% not get prepared for a very tough week of Ravenwood and Franklin and possible make it to State Duals which by the way was ALWAYS the ultimate goal. So while you are here throwing Coach Becker's name around as is you guys were associates; you obviously didn't know him all that well.