nick

NBA All Star Game is in Indy next year on the same weekend

Yea, while I would always prefer an Indy venue over anything else, I’ll take the Ford Center - it’s modern and since we already go there for semi state, it’ll just be a continuation more or less But would suck for folks out in Chicagoland or Ft Wayne, having to make that drive

In Indiana, it’s currently listed as emerging status and will become a full sport once the numbers hits a certain amount. Once that happens girls will not be able to compete against boys (currently they can) There has been pushback in the community by folks that have high level girls and believe they will no longer have good competition. But it has to happen to grow the sport at the HS level - for instance I can’t get an additional girls coach stipend, my district said no until it reaches full sport status. Our girls team had 11 kids on it (we had a state champ at hwt this year) and no additional coaches so it’s hard for us to do right by everyone

I call it the Little Caesars line - every pizza gets judged by is it better than a $5 Little Caesar’s pizza (so taste + cost) One of my favorite moments from NCAAs in Detroit was getting Little Caesar’s in Little Caesar’s Based on that, Jet’s is by far at the top for fast franchise pizza. Papa John’s is also above that line. I can’t put Dominos above that line, it always just feels smaller and not as good.

My view for the finals! Now we get to see where it goes next year (I’ve booked refundable rooms in Evansville already)

Thank you! Didn’t go the way we wanted it to go but battled out there and hopefully inspired my HWT to get there next year Man, the younger Thrine - wow! Taking out Frazier and just dominant the entire time Leighton Jones getting the title was great to see - super nice kid and always super respectful

For me in duals, don’t allow phones out on the bench and you have to be cheering and involved. No leaving to see parents and all matches are recorded in MatBoss so no reason for phone. For tournaments, you do you. Odds are it’s on Track and I’m not gonna tell you when your up so you’ll need your phone for that and I typically bring two full teams to tournaments so no way I could even manage any sorta rule there (we bring our B and JV teams to tournaments in Kentucky while varsity wrestled in Indiana) For the varsity kids, we will do team meetings between rounds to go over stuff but that’s about it

The University of Louisville - they throw money at all their sports and their facilities across board are top notch. I would imagine they would make a splash hire for coaching and the room itself would be awesome It would make for some interesting meets for the city with Bellarmine 10 minutes down the road Wrestling a Big10 team in the YUM would be great too

I'm fine with one class, but we need wrestle backs at some point in the state tournament With that said, I get the plight of small schools - mine is the smallest big school (smallest 4A for team state which puts us up against Brownsburg, Center Grove, Crown Point, Cathedral, etc...) which more or less drops us from making team state ever

Thank you! Our guy has done the whole glow-up (JV to Varsity B to Varsity) and put a tonnn of time in, so it's awesome to see him move on We have New Castle's 145lber - will be an interesting matchup

I had one qualifier out of the hardest semi state…. Had to beat a kid who has pinned him twice (once this year and once last year) in the ticket round and ended up in the finals Can’t wait til Friday!

At least in Indiana, he would be the guy kids coming up watched growing up (to a degree). He did it with a ton of swag too None of my kids remember Tsirtis, but you ask them about Red, they all know. I would say the same for the coaches, everyone knows his dad and at the coaches clinic this year, I would say he was the biggest draw this year (in which every Indiana college was represented, including Purdue)

As far as instate, I thought Jason Tsirtsis would have helped with that, I guess not the case (and now he's gone) Having C.J. Red is big tho, he 100% draws folks in Indiana...

Did you watch it on the stream? Just curious

Coach Shuck and co have Bellarmine going the right direction, interested to see how recurring picks up Being the only D1 in Kentucky and in Louisville, a metro of over a million folks, they have a prime opportunity. Cincinnati is 1.45 hours from campus, Indianapolis is about two hours hours, Nashville 2.5, and St Louis 4.5 hours away

Bellarmine picked up the win with the last match, down team score wise two points The HWT match was a fun one, plus the lat match to pick up the pin down 8-1

That was a fun won to watch as a Bellarmine fan - so much improvement from last year already

https://athletics.bellarmine.edu/news/2023/1/21/wrestling-cruises-to-home-victory-over-queens.aspx

The Bellarmine / Queens dual will be streamed online for free https://www.buknightssportsnetwork.com

Wasn’t a coach, was an athlete on that team And yes…… not the best time

Momir is awesome... He's been helping locally in the Louisville metro for a little bit, during the last Bellarmine dual I heard their coaches yelling "do the Momir"

https://www.flowrestling.org/video/10314449-ned-shuck-building-d1-bellarmine-from-scratch

I'm not sure of that, but I can tell you the numbers stayed the same (around six/10 girls, 20ish guys) my entire time there No one was really happy since no one got full attention - there was never a complete staff with you at meets since they were split and as a light weight, we rotated daily into the girls mat to work with them (which I had no problem with, but that's not what we signed up for). A funny story with it, first meet of the year is the Michigan State Open and we get one assistant coach for it (rest of staff is with the girls), we have an exchange student from the UK, his first match in America is against Ohio State and he has no coach in his corner

At my small NAIA college in 2013, we had both a men's and women's and both shared the same coaching staff and practices so I would say both teams were setup for failure to some degree

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