The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at State!

[csemary]

Just wondering what's on everyone's mind.

 

Here's mine:

 

The Good-Cleveland's dominating 10 of 11 placers and another state championship.

 

The Bad-Of course the venue, especially the fact you couldn't read the match board from the the DI end of the barn.

 

The Ugly-Had to of been some of the worst calls at a state tournament I can remember. IMHO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fooseball96]

Bad calls and them giving medals while matches were going on

[marshiebaby]

No showers, heck even temporary ones would be acceptable

[tnlonghorn]

The good:

Watching the emotion and happiness by the wrestlers when they reached their goals.

The attempt of making the pre-match finals more exciting, (still needs a lot of work but atleast they tried)

Some great sportsmanship by wrestlers, coaches and fans.

Some great calls by refs in pressure packed situations.

 

The bad

 

The venue- being able to see the mats , score tables, score clock, 4 charis full of trainers all right in front of the bleachers on the A/aa and d2 end.

 

No excitement or electricity in the air. Most boring tournament in history. Its progressively gets worse every year as everyone’s expectations and faith in the Tssaa continues to decline.

 

Absolute chaos of the finals show

 

no reading of bios

 

no announcing of finalist as they wrestle because there were three mats and awards all going on.

 

no announcing of winners for the reasons mentioned above.

 

The fact that there was a a/aa tournament at all. It was a hard pill to swallow for some aaa and d2 kids watching a/aa kids medal and even win that they had beaten badly and they couldnt do the same in their division. I had two a/aa coaches who had champions laugh and say their champ wouldn’t have even placed in aaa. They were against the division as well. We have ruined the sport in Tn to be politically correct and make little Johnny feel good.

 

If they want their own tournament let them hold it somewhere else because its basically what caused everything else to be messed up. Nobody watched the matches except their families.

 

poor awards as usual

 

inconsistent officiating. ( some were very good and some were very bad).

 

Our paper in Chattanooga actually quoted Mark reeves as stating this was the most exciting tournament ever and that everyone loved it. I did not hear one single person say that. Everyone I spoke with in AAA and D2 hated it! absiolutley hated it!

[CupCake]

Good: I'm so proud of too many young men!

 

It's a beautiful thing to watch these boys over the years become men and win state (even more emotional to watch the amazing kids that for whatever reason don't win state).

 

Seems like yesterday I saw Eli Kings first season (I think he was 4 and his singlet didn't come close to fitting)... Watching Popp become a Beast....Knowing it was only a matter of time before Sutherland got healthy and returned to his dominate state....Mullins brothers carrying on a family tradition.....Russo getting it done....Very happy for the Westbrooks...and the Connells. Congrats to Cleveland and Debien....and Tullahoma for a great season...

 

Too many good things to say about too many people and teams...However; special thanks and congrats to Tullahoma, Baylor, and Soddy!

 

Bad: Now that we are in California and see how its done here, I can't understand why any state has more than 1 state champ per weight class....and I agree 100%, Cow Palace is a substandard venue...

 

Ugly: bcbiii is Good and Bad, but in no way Ugly!

 

All kidding and play-fighting aside...it was an honor to be a part of TN wrestling with my son for 11 years....and meet so many wonderful people along the way...Congrats to all 2014 State Champions and Teams.....

 

CC,,,sends...