CoachK

I have a nephew in the nicholasville area that wants to try wrestling. I am in Louisville, so not real familiar with the area at this level. Are there any clubs around there? Thanks in advance...

Ok, do you have an email for him by chance.

The second ref is there to look for locked hands, out of bounds or other calls that the first could not see. They are there to assist the first one in the calls if asked or if questioned. Correct, not to blow their whistle and stop action or interrupt it. But if they see locked hands they are allowed (and expected) to call it or let other ref know. As well as out of bounds takedowns etc. They don't need help with time, there are two table workers and a buzzer for that for the other 755 matches and it goes just fine with one then.

My problem with the refs is two of the best two in the state weren't even wearing shirts to ref. They should have taken the two worst that were on the mat and put them in the position of errand runner and paper person instead of those two. Also I think there needs to be a better use of the two refs on the mat. The whole purpose for having two refs is not to just catch the wrestlers when they go out of bounds, but to look for locked hands and pay attention to what is happening in the match and make calls and discuss things to get the best outcome in the match. Not to say "well Im not the official you need to ask him". And then when you ask the head one he shouldn't say "its my call".

Rosado most likely will not be this weekend, still battling an injury. I think first three will be between, St. X., Moore and Southern. They had a good showing last weekend at Woodford.

Part of what hurt Moore was we had several guys already have 5 matches in the day and had to forfeit their final match of the day and lose the placing/advancement points to other teams. If I remember right from that night we had 4 guys who forfeited their final match and got fourth instead of the possibility of third. Then to lose by only 7 when if just a couple of those 4 kids had won (one forfeit was to a Trinity wrestler as well) it may have been a different outcome...man I wish 6 matches in a day would happen!! And we had three guys who got stuck in the losing bracket early and only had two or three matches all day, that hurt as well. And had three varsity starters still not in the lineup.

There are some differences there, his kids were in Catholic grade school and just continued on through Catholic school and was just at Fern Creek program due to his past as well as availability. I think really the only ones that people question are those kids that aren't in Catholic School up until High School and then start going. As far as out of county kids there are no Catholic schools in surrounding counties to Jefferson that they would be able to attend and continue wrestling.

I would disagree with that statement. But say that for SOME people of the catholic faith there is no topic more important than religion. So say that for everyone is way off. I deal with the public on a daily basis and am surprised at how people react on a daily basis to certain situations, nothing to do with sports or schools but rather adult life in general. Many are the first to complain and cry about what is going on until the get something that they feel is fair to them. Usually it means that they get something for free out of my company. I go into peoples houses all the time and see religious artifacts and slogans up and yet the are quick to curse and complain when something comes up that they personally have to take care of that I will not do. Again this isn't for everyone but the same goes for school. Not everyone sends their kids to catholic school because of that. My kids are the first generation on my wifes side to not go to catholic school for 5 generations. But her and her brothers don't care for the attitudes that the catholic school institution has right now in combination with the rising tuition costs. And like many people have said, neither side is going to change their mind about how they feel but it's just a shame that they get away with it like they do.

But the problem in using percents is that there is a large number of public school students who don't even take the ACT test becauses they aren't going to college, they are going to a trade school that doesn't require it, going to work in the coal mine or local factory or the family farm. And then there are the number of kids who don't graduate and don't ever plan on it so they don't take the test. And this is considering the amount of money that someone else is paying to get an athlete to the school not just the kids who are going to public school and paying nothing for it. And the percentage of kids going to college is of course higher for these reasons. I would never pay for my kids to go to high school just because of the school...I am not Catholic so that wouldn't convince me to send them there for that reason. Like Trent said it starts at the top...way too much money being made off of them and so they don't want it to stop.

And there is no way any money from a local supporter could mysteriously find it's way in account outside of the place in Ohio...right....like saying noone in college gets extras either because they are regulated...

All I gotta say is....wow? You believe that???

I believe so, and then he went to St. X for a few years didn't he until Coach K got there?

He tends to not push the pace as much as he should and of course I am biased but there was two questionable calls in the match against Fausz, one that gave Fausz points and one that didn't give Rosado points. But he has one more year so we hope he will improve as much from this year to next year as last year to this year.

The money was no issue for his parents!! He transferred for the sports reasons more, there just isn't much good at KCD, no offense to them but it isn't there priority like it is at X. I couldn't remember if he won his freshman year or not.

I don't know about championships, but did Tendai Charasika place as a middle schooler for KCD? I believe he placed for St. X.

I don't have a dog in this fight one way or the other, but don't say ANY other team would have taken them because that would not be true. Our team would not have as well as I know others that wouldn't. There is also a sportsmanship and lessons in life that coaches are supposed to be teaching as well. That is what we do..

Friday should be run with 7 mats, 8 might be too many if a team has many kids up at the same time, but 7 would let them get another round in probably on Friday or at bare minimum a half a round like the 1.5 on Thursday. Then back down to 6 for Saturday and the semifinals definitely should have been done on 4 mats. That was the longest round of the whole tournament, it was over 2.5 hours.

Seneca is definitely due to Anderson leaving and the coaches that took over just don't have what the "Old School" coach did. I think Woodford is more due to the fact that other schools in the area and state started getting better and catching up in combination with Coach Parks leaving.

I don't remember the JCTC ending at 5 last year. Wasn't it at Iroqouis? It was late that year, like 11 when we got out, maybe that was two years ago. But like BigEd said, I have been to everyone for the last 20+ years and they are never done by 5 because we used to clear out the gym at 3ish and come back after that. I agree with the prices being too high at some places as well, and I could be wrong again, but I don't remember a $7 all session pass in many years, at least 5 or 6.. Cooler fees I have no problem with, its money thats taken away from the concession stand and you said in your post to make up the higher gate fee at the concession stand, but if a team brings in 4 coolers then there is no way you will make money off them but will have to clean up all the mess they leave behind.

They are trying to start a middle school sports program just as the high schools have. They have football, basketball track and field and a few others. so they are trying to expand them all now to make it a full competitive area. Of course the hard part right now is financial, as other programs and services are being cut because funding is being cut.I believe there are only 3 schools in Jeff Co that can because the middle school and the high school are in one school. Moore, Brown and one other, cant think of it right off.

They are in two different regions, but I would guess just due to the fact it says "Bullit East". But they are still far south of any of the others, closest is Spencer. I would put BE in region 4 and move Fern Creek to Region 5 where they are now.

It has been talked about many times and I thought that was something that was going to be addressed this year after state. I may be wrong though.

It appears from the video that one end of the arena has very little seating, so maybe 95% of the seating is in 80% of the arena. If that is the case then it would be fine putting the mats more towards one end. Also there is no upper deck so the seats are lower down. I don't think that the state tournament has ever drawn more then 3500 people in the Frankfort center. They don't allow people sitting behind the screen they put up so that took out about 200+ seats right there and there were always open seats in the rest of the arena as well. This venue should be fine. I would say for many it will come down to the concessions!! Everyone agreed that they were getting out of control in Frankfort so we shall see what they are like here!! Everyone will know by noon on Friday....

Maybe if we double the number of schools that participate in it then we can get to that size arena...but for right now it is way too expensive for one that huge.