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Pretty much everyone acknowledges PA is number 1 for hs wrestling. The arguments are always about the order of 2-5

It’s on YouTube posted by Big Ten Network. He didn’t slap Brands hand and head butted the pole

A chippy Spencer is pretty interesting. Especially with the interaction with his coach’s.

Ruth needs more offense but nice start

Someone I’m close to reffed a girls dual and there was 4 matches. They probably need to do 1 division for everyone at first excluding NAIA

Few things. No it shouldn’t be made legal in high school. College is adults wrestling do it’s hard for me to see the need to make it illegal. Same way handfighting till fist fights in high school practices would be stupid, problematic and create problems.. but doing it in college has a purpose and it’s grown men training. Not every athlete is the same. Most wrestle best calm. Some wrestle best ticked off. Same with techniques and who they work for. So bringing up one that youve coached as your example of why you’re right seems… eh. And I’d prefer refs make the judgement calls to make sure newer athletes aren’t ran out of the sport by guys trying to showboat. Most athletes that depend on the move tend to be bully style guys anyway. Which means they’ll eventually hit a wall on that working consistently anyway

I’m not perfect. But I’ve definitely trended towards the latter way of doing it.

It’s always a conundrum, using examples of elite athletes but trying to find examples you’re relatively sure aren’t juicing. Edit: grammar

I feel that. I can barely eat during tournaments

It added an extra hour on the tournament I hostess today

Flo, if you could get Trackwrestling back up today that’d be nice

Nope

The real problem is that, a significant chunk of the community does really seem to understand that Wrestling could compete with bigger sports eventually.. but the year round club wrestling approach. Which only focuses on a couple tournaments and what’s only convenient for the athlete has taken over. They insist it’s just a “niche” sport run in “niche” ways “so why even bother” doing things to make it more appealing or more professional a product. Im at the point where it is what it is. I just want people to start being more honest and transparent about what’s going on. It’s hard for me to get in an uproar about it when many of the people complaining the most(not saying you, but other people) are directly involved in creating the culture to make this stuff happen

My issue is that fixing it, and making sure sure the “boring” but important stuff that needs to work reliably.. actually does work reliably, does not seem in any way a priority for them. Im well aware that many will find it boring or not a big deal that Track is glitching more often running tournaments and not going to school emails. But it’s the sort of thing that actually causes a lot of issues and makes doing routine stuff a time wasting hassle. What makes it even more stupid is that they now charge for teams “just” to put in their athlete records and team results. So they are getting even more money to do a bad job.

Damn that sucks.

Well it needs to get addressed. Sports emails usually don’t have issues in my district. I’ve heard nothing but consistent reports, and also seen that Track has steadily gotten worse over the last year. Given how awkward FloArena is. And given that entire states depend on track for keeping track of(no pun intended), official records and eligibility. And FloArena doesn’t have those functions. I really hope Flo addresses the issues

Track has never had issues with school emails and wifi before Flo bought it

Maybe Flo could at least make sure Track isn’t having trouble sending emails to .edu emails. That’d be a start. When half of tournament registration emails keep not going through the .edu emails of the coaches and have to get resent to to personal emails.. that seems like an issue

“This is the thread that never eeennnds it goes on and on my friiieend” ”some people started posting, not knowing what it wass” ”cause it’s the thread that never eeennds”

Chicken wings rely on the person trying not to go to their back

Or a recruit

He’ll get heel hooked out in 2 fights

It’s most definitely easier to start a culture from scratch with more control than it is when there’s a “tradition” and you don’t have leeway

I won’t be shocked if PSU only has 2 finalists. I will be shocked if they don’t win as a team

You’re acting like “nothings changed” and that the sentiment the season is too long is something new.