tiltfor3

Now that was a clear, concise, and thoughtful post. You have no business writing something like that in this forum.

Valid observation. Is it not?They said same thing about football until last season when a couple of Louisville schools put it on the darlings of GCCL. FWIW, I am from Ohio and learned most everything I know about wrestling there under the tutelage of Casey Fredericks and Harry Houska. To your point, I am in agreement regarding closing the gap. I would argue that although there's still a long way to go, Kentucky is closing the gap faster on SW Ohio than SW Ohio is on NE Ohio. Moeller is in SW Ohio but, geez get a map. Graham is farther north than Columbus. Your statement is further flawed in the fact that those percentages have increased based mostly on coming from weaker sectionals and having 3 divisions.

So, it has come to this: Kentucky wrestling is to SW Ohio wrestling what SW Ohio wrestling is to the rest of the Buckeye state

Dr. Jason Talbott, MD, PhD after wrestling for and graduating from Stanford began his Radiology Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He was the Chief Resident in 2011 at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Not bad. Not bad at all.

Yo funny Bo. When I wrestled in Ohio, it was Maple Heights putting the fear into SW Ohio.

SMH. Who is buying them the beer?

A wise old coach once told me in order to win a state championship you have to do all the right things. Do them better than everybody else. And, have some luck. So many great wrestlers have been there and done those things but came up short. I say Brock does not. Not because he can't or doesn't deserve to but, merely because the math says it is unlikely. As a fan, I will be rooting for him.

What started off as a safety concern thread and has degenerated into bashing youth club programs. Let me just say that schools need clubs more than clubs need school programs. I do not think weight cutting is a big deal.

I saw him with his grandson yesterday. He better start training again.

You are overlooking the club aspect of MS wrestling. Until there is an official governing body for schools, it is what is. If you wish to further divide clubs and schools, schools are going to lose and Kentucky wrestling is general will suffer. Look at little attention is paid to weights on the USA freestyle.greco circuit. Show up, weigh-in, and wrestle.

I know there were quite a few but, how many regional finals were also the state finals? Seems as though separating the 1&2s from regions works fairly well.

Oldham

Are they doing another round of consys tonight? I can't get any work done with this thing going on.

Not out. Just in the wrestle-backs, right?

Myron had Tommy John surgery and Josh took a red-shirt.

Wky, I stand corrected. I was told today that the transfer rule/penalty will not apply to a middle school wrestler.

Uh, it is USA wrestling and as far as I know there is no middle school equivalent to KHSAA.

This would only be possible at the middle school level. Who wouldn't take advantage of the top coaches, travel etc..? What parent is going to screw around with a 12 year old's amateur status? If you limit these club options for middle school, it is my belief the high school program will suffer in the long run.

Because someone of importance thinks that is better for the kid. Besides, when it comes time for high school, they will be getting a better wrestler if, as you posted earlier the club is a better program. I don't think you should limit the options of our children as to how they want to improve themselves as a person and a wrestler.

That is just human nature. Too bad because I was really looking forward to rooting against Larue. That being said, one of the most disgusting things I have ever witnessed was the booing of a young man from Woodford County. Everyone knew the kid's story but, no child deserves that kind of treatment. Stay Classy, Kentucky ~Ron Burgandy

You are totally forgetting the home-schooled. It is becoming more and more, not to mention easier to do than ever before. I know that in West Virginia the court declared a home-schooled child could wrestle on a high school team that was in his district. Just because they are home-schooled doesn't mean they don't pay taxes and aren't US citizens.

Consider a situation where a MS wrestler fills a spot at 113 on a HS team as an 8th grader. He would really like to attend a private, magnet or soon to be charter HS school for reasons more important than sports. He will have to sit out at least one year or go the HS he wrestled for as a 12 year old. Does anyone else see something wrong this? Middle schoolers should wrestle middle school.

There was a gentleman's agreement among the HS coaches that if a MS wrestler competed at the varsity level in high school, that wrestler would not wrestle at the MS state tournament. So much, for all the HS coaches being gentlemen.

Until St. Ed's opens a campus in Hamilton County, NE Ohio will remain the mecca of high school wrestling. Good Luck this week.

Someone earlier had said that CC is going to have to carry this "black eye" for long time. I agree. What I saw coming up from their feeder program is going to be outstanding. Too bad they will be the ones to have to overcome this. The blame squarely goes on the khsaa for putting Coach B in a compromising situation.