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Im going to presume that it is merely a name issue. Whatever the name is doesn’t matter. Cleveland. Higher Calling. Cirque de Bosken. No effect.

How long constitutes “homegrown”?

Noted.

Wait… @TheTreyB and @Rasslinking arent you both Cleveland people?

And it’s safe to assume that I know nothing at all times. It’s much less disappointing that way.

I just assumed that y’all keep a pretty tight grip on the kids in the club, so I assumed the vast majority went there. My bad, I guess?

I thought Roller was a Knoxville kid, no? Im not arguing that most wouldn’t mind sitting and waiting their turn. I’m saying, hypothetically, at the rate HCWC is producing good wrestlers that there might be a time when a good wrestler might only get a one year window, if, and under those circumstances, do they lose that kid? Obviously if they’re not good enough to start there, it wouldn’t impact CHS much, but they could be a nice addition to another team. Sorry if I’m not making sense. It’s the off-season and I miss talking wrestling.

I imagine it takes a great deal of managing. Flood and Raske were in the same weight class, as were Maughon and Schuft. Then Haun and Ledlow were an eyelash away from the same weight class, as were Davison and High, and Dennard and Shurette. Lots of talent real close to one another. I imagine Shurette and Dennard separate naturally even more since 171 and 189 is pretty far apart anyway. And 140/145 probably hurts Davisson and not High (if Davisson ends up at Cleveland, that is), but the rest are crammed in there tight.

Let me ask this. Is there any point where Cleveland’s depth starts to work against them? For example, let’s say when a kid hits HS and he’s, say, 106. Let’s also say the kid is easily good enough to start just anywhere else, but can’t break into either of the 106/113 weight classes probably until senior year, if. Since, sports wise, we are in the era of the transfer portal in college, or “I’ll go start my own club so my kid can start” in youth sports, do you ever foresee kids hopping over to Bradley or Soddy (just using those two as an example because of proximity and relevance) rather than sitting? Higher Calling is producing droves of good kids, and there are a few spots where it seems, at least from the outside, where a few really good kids could get log jammed into the same few weight classes. There were several weights this year at the youth state in the JR/MS ages where there were 2 HCWC kids in the finals. I believe, and I of course could be wrong, that this is where the reclassifying comes into play some, to avoid that and to stagger the really good kids, but at some point, I don’t believe it can be avoided. Do you foresee that ever happening? Or am I way off?

Resilite, IMO, is the best mat period, albeit a bit cumbersome at times.

I really hate to can the flames from last year, but Cleveland vs McCallie…who’d win? It’s an honest question.

I concur.

Holy cow. That kid grew.

Going back and checking out the youth state results right now. Is Roller hitting HS this year? I saw he was still pretty light in March. There are some tough kids in this class, but I’m not sure how many will be kids that will walk in and make massive impacts out of the gate. High for sure. Dominic Cordero at 106 perhaps, assuming his brother moves up. I couldn’t say what Sanders weighs these days. Payne Walker is tough. I think he will be Christian Brothers kid. He finished 2nd but he’s still a stud. I think the kid that beat him has another year before he hits HS, and I couldn’t tell you where he will go to school. Stinnett kid from Cookeville has been around a while and won a few state medals. Will he go to Cookeville HS? if the Brandon Buck kid ends up at Ryan then it’ll be a few years before he breaks into that line-up, I’m sure. Fowler will be a good add for Wilson Central. I don’t know where the Daylen Davis kid will end uP in the Memphis area. He looks tough. Will the Davisson kid that won it at 140 go to Cleveland? Or is he a GA kid? The Barlow kid should be tough if he’s like his brother I don’t recognize many of the others

That’s gross.