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“That’s not an answer!” Lol

Curious how this is an excuse? Also, having girls wrestling ride the coattails of boys wrestling seems like an old proposition. When you put your ppv program together, just have girls. If it’s profitable, you will do it and prosper and your girls will get the attention you want for them. Also, this wasn’t “the state of TN” putting this together, this was a group of entrepreneurs, their show, their call. Glad they didn’t mix another sport in with it or I would have put the PA finals on instead.

Because some people pay to watch one sport and don’t care to watch the other. Girls wrestling is strong enough to stand on its own and rightfully should.

I personally wouldn’t pay per view to watch it, but it is the fastest growing sport in the US and I’m sure plenty would.

IMO, there is an option to combine what we have today into two days (say Friday and Saturday) and then have the state champs from big and small school wrestle each other the next day. Or however you want to work out the schedule. Private school is off at prep nationals that weekend I believe, so would just be king of the hill for big and small schools. That way you pour more into the funnel and more kids get a chance to be state qualifiers and placers and you get to see who comes out the bottom of the funnel, which public school kid at each weight is the best on that day. Even if TSSAA doesn't want to do it, someone could organize it ahead of the backyard brawl to see who represents there. If private, it could be done after prep nationals and include one state champ from each division and do a round robin (two matches each in a day) or invite a fourth from the finalist pool and do a blind draw. You gotta beat the best to be the best and no one would be gunning for second place.

Wrestling: Fairview’s Curtis inks with UTC to continue mat success By Charles Pulliam • Sports Editor Mar 1, 2023 Updated 53 min ago 0 7 of 7 Buy Now Kendrick Curtis poses with his Fairview wrestling teammates and coaches after signing to wrestle in college at UTC. Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Buy Now “Kendrick is a model student-athlete for us here at Fairview High School," Fairview principal Chris Butler said. Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Buy Now Kendrick Curtis thanked his family, coaches, friends and teammates from the mats – both at Fairview and beyond – for helping him achieve his goal of wrestling in college. Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Buy Now Fairview senior Kendrick Curtis, flanked by his family and coaches, inks with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he will continue his wrestling career. Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Buy Now Kendrick Curtis Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Buy Now Kendrick Curtis Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Buy Now Kendrick Curtis Photo by Charles Pulliam @cspulliam Facebook Twitter Email Print Copy article link Save FAIRVIEW – After four medals, including a state championship last season, Fairview High School’s Kendrick Curtis signed to continue wrestling at the college level. The Yellow Jacket senior inked with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the only Division I wrestling program in the state. A signing ceremony was held Monday with family, friends and teammates. “I’m definitely excited about it, but a little bit nervous at the same time,” said Curtis, who overcame a semifinal setback in the Class A state wrestling championships over the weekend to finish third at 195 pounds. “I know it’s going to be harder and more time consuming. This will be my job at this point – but that’s super cool.” Curtis finished his high school career with an overall record of 222-32 with 154 wins by pin. Only eighteen of those matches won were by forfeit, while 18 of his 32 career losses came as a freshman when he finished fourth in the state wrestling at 152 pounds. He also placed second and first in his four runs at the state championships. “There are guys who wrestle four years and don’t get 150 matches and Ken put together 150-plus pins,” Fairview wrestling coach James “Bubba” Derrick said, shaking his head. “I tell you, it’s nice to have somebody set a bar because I’ll have other guys come in the room and I can tell them, here’s the bar, let’s go get it.” Beyond the mats, Curtis is near the top of his class at Fairview with a 4.49 weighted GPA in the classroom. He also played football scoring three touchdowns for the 8-4 Yellow Jackets this past season. He led the team in tackles with 94 and added two forced fumbles and was in on two sacks. “Kendrick is a model student-athlete for us here at Fairview High School and I hate that we don’t get four more years of him here,” Fairview principal Chris Butler said. “He’s done a lot here, and not only on the football field, the wrestling mat, but most importantly, he gets it done in the classroom. “It’s just remarkable the accomplishments he’s accumulated.” The senior was a heavy favorite to repeat as a state champion after winning at 182 as junior, and showed a maturity beyond his years in his final state tournament. He was upset with an 8-4 decision against Aiden Howard of Pigeon Forge in the state semifinals. Howard scored a big near fall late in the second period and extended his lead with a third-period takedown. Curtis recovered in the consolation semifinals with a 7-0 decision against Livingston Academy’s returning medalist John Geist following the unexpected setback. He ended his high school career with a 4-2 decision against Green Hill’s Nathan Downing, who was also upset in the semifinals as the No. 2 seed in the weight class behind Curtis. Going back to his semifinal loss, Curtis took an extra moment on the mat while Howard celebrated the major victory. Curtis didn’t show any emotion and lifted himself up, shook hands and refocused. That’s all he could do, he said. “Even if you didn't get what you wanted, you're still here to do your best,” Curtis said after medaling. “And anything short of your best effort is not only hurting you, but it's hurting all the people that support you and help you and have supported you. “I had a ton of support from my community and my city behind me. I had to keep going.” Page coach Benji Gray, who had senior Josh Ward sign with Gardner-Webb wrestling last month, was among the many who watched how Curtis handled himself in the state tournament. “In the wrestling community, all the coaches and wrestlers tend to have a knowledge of one another,” Gray said, noting how Curtis is the kind of kid he always rooted for even when coaching against him. “He personifies the qualities that any program wants: leadership, coachable, driven, just an all-around good guy and an outstanding wrestler to top it off. “Kendrick is the type of person any coach would want on their team. … I wish him the best going forward.” Besides the huge individual awards on the mat, Curtis said his best memories came alongside his Yellow Jacket teammates. Fairview won the 2021 Class A Dual Wrestling State title – the school’s first team title and Williamson County’s first dual championship since Franklin won in 2005. Earlier this season, Curtis had another great memory with his mat brothers. “One of the best moments was when we were at the Cheatham (County) tournament and the varsity came in first and the JV was second,” he said. “That was incredible winning as a team and coming together.” Fairview sent 10 wrestlers to the state tournament over the weekend with four others medaling alongside Curtis, including 120-pounder Henry Ribble – a state runner-up. The Yellow Jackets will graduate 12 seniors from the team this spring. Curtis said that despite losing so many wrestlers to graduation, he’s excited about the future of Fairview wrestling. “I feel good about the team,” he said. “They have a lot of support behind them. I can think of a few guys coming up and I see them being as tight as we are now.” When asked about what kind of advice he has for younger wrestlers, Curtis said this: “Don’t give up. There’s a lot of times I would lose and fail in every aspect of the word and especially in this spot, it’s easy to give up. Keep going forward and keep working hard and you can do anything you want to.” Wrestling: Fairview’s Curtis inks with UTC to continue mat success | Sports | williamsonherald.com

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/02/26/vote-for-the-tennessean-boys-athlete-of-the-week-for-feb-20-25/69947186007/ Being the best in the state in this sport is much harder than scoring some baskets in a tournament game.

I just went through the recruiting process with my son. We had a list of schools that reached out to him via email, text and cell and a list of schools that were HIS top choices based on 17 specific criteria. We were able to rule out schools that weren’t a good fit and we pursued the schools that were. We engaged first with his top choices and WE pursued, we visited them, we went to camps, met the coaches, met the guys in the room, checked out the actual rooms where he will be bleeding and sweating, checked out the dorms, checked out the campuses and then refined some more. Ultimately there was mutual interest with his top school and he was offered and promptly committed. Our experience may be different than guys who hit the Flo rankings, but out of all the schools he could’ve possibly gone to, he’s signed with his top choice where he will have the greatest chance to reach his full potential as a D1 wrestler. All I’m adding here is that we didn’t wait to be recruited, the same as finding that job you want or that house you want, or that wife you want. You go pursue it, you don’t wait for it to come to you. Just wonder if any of these guys that are talked about on this thread pursued UTC as their first choice.

Unless you live their championship experience, you can’t possibly understand. Theres a lot that goes on in these kids lives that put pressure on them that in those six minutes that can sometimes go by in what seems like 30 seconds, when you’ve stepped on the mat with your heart rate at 5000 rpms from the atmosphere and the pressure quickly going to 8000 rpms and you’ve fought like heck for takedowns and turns and your eyes are blurry and your legs and lungs and arms are on fire and you just went to your best move and it got stopped and you went to your next best move and it got stopped and over and over and over until you are beyond exhaustion. The fact that there’s a guy behind a keyboard somewhere that wrestled one time and he thinks the kid or the coach should’ve done more so he can be entertained or satisfied with a kids effort or believes he could’ve done better “back in the day”, (but didn’t for some reason), will be laughable to me regardless of what anyone on this forum thinks. These kids and coaches have poured their lives, heart and soul into this sport. If they could’ve done better in the moment, they darn sure would have and there’s not a young man across this state that lost this weekend that doesn’t wish they could go back and wrestle their loss over again differently. And there’s not one that isn’t consumed with regret and anger and frustration. I just know how hard these kids and coaches work and invest and it genuinely bothers me that someone would come on this forum and call out a kid I care about for “not going for it”.

What weight are we doing this at? I’m almost 50 and you got me wanting some more of this action! I will say there was a drastic difference in the 160 and 182lb matches and I know three of the four kids relatively well. The 160 match wasn’t a surprise, that’s how both turner and Magness wrestle. No real offense, but that’s their style and it go them to the finals and Tell earned a state championship. When you put those two matches side by side, there’s no comparison. Kobe and Logan was non stop action. This guy beat that guy so that guy can beat this guy isn’t a thing in wrestling. Styles and body types are different, pressure and expectations are different, preparation for one guy vs preparation for the field is different. I agree with Mitch24, this is one of those if you can’t (or won’t) do it yourself, keep your mouth shut. Stop reliving your mediocre high school wrestling experience and somehow trying to put yourself in the reality of these high achieving athletes. If you haven’t done it, then not only can you not do it, you can’t even comprehend it and therefore aren’t entitled to have a comment.

Three of the four finalists, including the champions, came from one side of the bracket. Gotta beat the best to be the best!

Searched it from the Flo app and not Flo website

Got it. Thanks y’all. I went to Flo, searched TSSAA then videos and then I was good to go.

I can find the archive in track, then it redirects to flo and spins. I have a Flo membership and when I’m logged in and search TSSAA, all I get is last year. Anybody got this figured out yet?

He didn't beat Justice, it was Browning Trainer that beat Justice. Luke actually beat Hicks by 1. He did beat Jenkins at GP West, and lost to the best 195 in the state rn in Atwood 1-0. But to your point, does have some bad losses, with the worst being the Vincent kid. RankWrestlers has Hicks as 11, rn. My only point is as an individual, I have seen him in person and he has wrestled tough in big matches and that would have me rank him above others, especially the Jenkins kids that he beat head to head. So invididual perspective vs mathematical formula, I'm taking the second one.

That's why I personally prefer ranked wrestlers, it takes all subjectivity out. Ive watched Lane Hicks wrestle a lot and if I were doing the rankings myself, I would have him ranked for sure regardless of what happened early season, simply because I've laid eyes on him and watched him wrestled A LOT of close matches in middle TN, even winning some of them like against Jenkins and Justice. But that's my subjective POV. If a guy is from East TN making the pin tn rankings, he will most certainly have his regional POV which would then influence the rankings. Fun to look at and discuss, but if anyone gets their feelings hurt for not being ranked, they shouldn't.

Halls, Page, and BA as well

Looks like a WNO of division champions may be in our future!!!

Quick note on father ryan, Casen Roark would be a difference maker for that team, but is battling an injury. Summit and Cleveland looked like a one match swing. In another two months both teams may look one match different.

It’s for the top percent of the 1 percent and it evens the playing field if a school is making money or growing the program off that one athlete. Totally agree that work is work. You are either working at your academics and athletics or working at your NIL.

You have to read the fine print on this one. The wrestler can make money from instructional opportunities, but they cannot associate themselves with a school or any accomplishment made through TSSAA. Also, any infraction carries with it a 12-month suspension from high school athletics. So if my kid is a state champ and he wants to run a clinic, he cannot state that he is a state champion wrestler. He also can't wear any school related clothing items for any promotional appearances. Sounds like you'd need to hire an attorney to make sure you don't burn a year of eligibilty and if you have that kind of money, you probably don't need NIL.

someone could post on Matscouts in the comments section below. It's a lot of guys to seed and not all of the bouts and outcomes are easily found.

According to the SEC wrestling isn’t something men are supposed to do either.

Guess you just have to define “break”. The guys I know that wrestled in wno and that have wrestled with me, may have taken a few weeks off after Deep South and Fargo, but they weren’t out of wrestling shape and looked prepared based on what I saw. When I say “Never taking a break” I’m just saying they didn’t stop wrestling in February. They’ve been wrestling all spring and summer.

These are guys that never stop wrestling. They are in wrestling shape, this is late in the season for them.