Bishop McCort vs Wyoming Seminary

[1032004]

I see there was a thread on this on the HS forum but guessing not many people go over there.  I know these guys are really from all over the country but this may have been the most high level high school dual I’ve ever seen.   Probably at least 15 guys from this dual that wrestle D1 if I had to guess, maybe more.

Was also cool to see Shane Sparks call a HS match

 

[BruceyB]

1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

I see there was a thread on this on the HS forum but guessing not many people go over there.  I know these guys are really from all over the country but this may have been the most high level high school dual I’ve ever seen.   Probably at least 15 guys from this dual that wrestle D1 if I had to guess, maybe more.

Was also cool to see Shane Sparks call a HS match

 

Sparks and JD have a good rapport. Sparks has enough knowledge, and is willing to defer to JD as the color guy often enough that I feel like you get the most relevant duo of announcers in wrestling right now. I despise a lot of Shane Sparks wrestling takes, but I do think he does the best job as a professional broadcaster that the sport has right now. I like guys like Jim Gibbons, but even he at times seems like it's more of an annual gig where he is fed reader cards to make him seem more in the know than he is actually watching throughout the season.

[1032004]

3 hours ago, BruceyB said:

Sparks and JD have a good rapport. Sparks has enough knowledge, and is willing to defer to JD as the color guy often enough that I feel like you get the most relevant duo of announcers in wrestling right now. I despise a lot of Shane Sparks wrestling takes, but I do think he does the best job as a professional broadcaster that the sport has right now. I like guys like Jim Gibbons, but even he at times seems like it's more of an annual gig where he is fed reader cards to make him seem more in the know than he is actually watching throughout the season.

Love Sparks as an announcer.  I didn’t realize he called headlocks “head throws” though…

Favorite normal duo IMO is Rock Harrison and Shawn Kenney.  But when I believe they put Sparks and Harrison together for NCAA’s is the All-Star duo

[BruceyB]

8 hours ago, 1032004 said:

Love Sparks as an announcer.  I didn’t realize he called headlocks “head throws” though…

Favorite normal duo IMO is Rock Harrison and Shawn Kenney.  But when I believe they put Sparks and Harrison together for NCAA’s is the All-Star duo

Rock and Kenney are also very good. 

FWIW I don't think Sparks calls headlocks "head throws," or at least I haven't heard it. Has he done this multiple times, or was it maybe just a mashup of words in his mind at the moment?

[1032004]

14 minutes ago, BruceyB said:

Rock and Kenney are also very good. 

FWIW I don't think Sparks calls headlocks "head throws," or at least I haven't heard it. Has he done this multiple times, or was it maybe just a mashup of words in his mind at the moment?

He did it several times in the McCort/Sem match, right away in the first match and then at the end of the Forrest match as a couple examples off the top of my head.

Edited Saturday at 10:06 PM by 1032004

[jackwebster]

9 hours ago, 1032004 said:

 he called headlocks “head throws” though…

idk, "Leg attacks" used to sound weird. Maybe, "head throw" will catch on. "Coffee grinder," though, I cannot abide.

[Disappointed_Badger_Fan]

1 hour ago, jackwebster said:

idk, "Leg attacks" used to sound weird. Maybe, "head throw" will catch on. "Coffee grinder," though, I cannot abide.

Shane is from Wisconsin and all those terms are common in Wisconsin youth/high school wrestling lol.