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Apparently he’s switched again. Oklahoma state now

Spencer Lee, - more obvious. Gases, and if you can create space he struggles Fix - someone mentioned it on themat before it closed, hes a better fit style wise for Iowa than OSU. Leaving aside the.. chemical thing. His offense is.. predictable Sasso - his offense was always lack luster and he doesn’t use his underhook that much to actually score. hamati - agree, but think he’ll fix it. He’s going to rely on just trying to keep scoring. Which makes me worry less than a marinelli. He wrestles to score the next points not just to get guys tired. carr - his offense never has impressed me and he leaves matches too close when he doesn’t have to but it might have been his cut last year Starroci - if refs get aggressive on his ankle pinch he’ll be a lot closer to the field (yes I know he had a broke hand) Parris - has always been the best athlete since middle school, doesn’t know how to deal with guys who can match his athleticism the way he should, great kid though

More so things that’ll trigger people and derail the thread. Like the way you suddenly will start seeing and hearing a lot of casual racism when you start. The way black males get treated differently, even by those who like to show off how liberal they are. The way reffing mysteriously always goes, and all you can do is try to build good relationships with the refs so it doesn’t happen too often unless it’s a school like St Ed’s. and im not saying those things to look good on twitter or anything. They are simply things every coach who’s coach inner city for more than a couple years has dealt with. Whether they are the young super liberal hipster living in the gentrified neighborhood or the grizzled mostly conservative 20+ year coach who’s lives in the.. not gentrified area. Im genuinely worried stating crap that simply does happen will derail the thread so I want I stated clearly that if people want to discuss the reason why what I talked about happen.. do it elsewhere.. As far as advice. People should think real hard about whether or not they can handle kids they put a lot into letting you down or even screwing you over. If you know you can’t deal with it and help the next kid… you might as well coach elsewhere

I’m debating whether I want to give the controversial advice or say some quiet parts out loud

I’ve been in school districts where Flo was not allowed through the normal school firewalls. Track, no matter where I’ve been in the country, the south, out east, Midwest, rich preppy suburban district, poor rural one with crap wifi and old ass systems.. it works. Id rather have the old UI that works everywhere. And honestly with Flo, things like that nationwide crash that happened to Track around Christmas is 2016 or 2017 might increase. oh wait, insert my prayer of benediction to Flo

Sioredas doing work

I wouldn’t stress about 97. Braunagaul (I know I misspelled it) is healthy and I think a legit contender at 197

Hamati seems to be on the upward trajectory. I’m curious to see if it was the weight cut that contributed to Carrs lack of offense at times last year or if he’s stagnated. how’d the match go? I only saw 7-5

Kids and families are spending thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars to train year round. To be elite, to wrestle in college, occasionally because dad is living through them. A lot of these kids are training year round and are not given normal chores or responsibilities because the focus is wrestling. Some do it because they love it. Others do it to make sure dad mostly shuts the hell up on the way home. The prominent style is folkstyle. Of course they’re going to maximize their chances to compete and keep wrestling. I could keep going. But guys redshirting and maximizing their competitive career is a natural result of the way things are going

Putting in results has been paywalled

Dear lord Flo, hallowed be thy not awkward UI. I apologize for any potential offense I may have caused. Please do not make any decisions based upon what I have posted upon here. We humbly beseech you. Holy Flo, do not worry about the coach I talked to today that paid his own money so his team could be in a tournament. Such coaches are not those type who you make your money from. Please accept our humble benedictions. And keep track wrestling as it is. Yay, we know thee shall seem to only care about the type of customer that can spend for the Flo account and every fancy pair of wrestling socks. Amen

Because it works in every school systems network and isn’t blocked

I understand that, still extremely petty by Flo

Apparently track wrestling discontinued the free accounts for coaches to put in their teams stats… everything is apparently behind a $50 pay wall now.. Is it true that Flo bought trackwrestling? Because this actually puts a lot of hs coaches in a bad spot. Especially if their state requires results to be put in on track. And no, this doesn’t hurt me or my team but I still think if Flo did that.. it’s super petty

- One on one works better than posters. Telling a kid you think they could do well because of what you see in them works better than passive recruiting. - Get two pieces. Make them look look good. Roberto Duran joined boxing because he wanted a pair of shorts like his buddy. Much like the rest of the things you’ll deal with. It’s a day to day process

The point about the Dan Gable posters is especially relevant. People talk all the time about “growing wrestling”. Then act utterly bewildered when people who have no familiarity with the sport don’t automatically just accept singlets or tournaments going till 6pm. I’ll restrain my rant about it though. Everything else I agree completely. Though I can’t churn off tshirts the same way lol

I was told colleges will avoid him like the plague until charges are settled or the universities won’t let them in

*also, if your in a big city district, you’ll have extra administrative crap to deal with. Do t spend all your time whining about it. Yes it sucks. Deal with it, you aren’t in the suburbs

1. While this applies to all coaches, especially where you are make a point be friendly with and work with the other coaches. Especially Basketball. If you become the “angry wrestling guy” you won’t get any support or anything done. 2. Actually follow through on benching kids for discipline issues. Even or especially if it costs you a couple wins. Otherwise culture won’t change. 3. Buy 2pieces. Don’t be the stubborn youth coach that thinks people who nothing about the sport won’t make because singlets seem weird at first. They do t know anything about wrestling culture or have only heard seen the crazy stories or negative stereotypes about things like weight cutting. 4. In general, but especially if coaching by yourself. Find good managers. They’ll be the difference between you making it through sane and with something done or overworked and burnt out. 5. Make starting on time and attendance the most important part of your culture. 6. If you have the numbers, don’t do wrestle offs as the way to determine starters unless both are dedicated. The first way you should decide starters is who’s not skipping practice and not in trouble at school. Otherwise culture and work ethic will not change. 7. find a way to keep track of your kids grades. Be okay with the fact they may have to come to practice late because they need to go to after school tutoring. 8. You will have one of your better kids miss an important match because they’re getting a “haircut” or a family members birthday party. Don’t lose you crap over it. 9. End practice by or before dark if possible or some parents won’t let their kids participate 10. Right when you think they’re turning a corner and about to break out you’ll have a practice or match they flake and don’t show up to. And they won’t understand why you’re upset. Keep building and working they’ll do a little better next time. 11. if you can’t get admin to provide practice clothes. Go to Ross and buy a few pairs of cheap sweatpants and shorts/shirts for kids who forget workout clothes. Managers will do laundry during practice. 12. Don't let them leave competitions without turning in their competition gear. Not because they’ll steal it. But because they’ll often ruin them in the dryer at home when “washing it for you”. If you can afford it have them put numbers(as part of the sublimination)on the gear for inventory purposes. 13. have a parent text or email group. 14. Attendance/waking up for Saturday meets will suck at first. Only schedule tournaments you know for a fact will be out by 2 or so.. or parents will pull their kids. Remember, they know nothing about wrestling culture. It just looks unnecessary and badly run when they go all day. Your kids probably wo t be ready for the bigger tournaments until year 2-4 anyway. 15. really work on and coach top wrestling

I don’t think people always totally get how much of this stuff has not been uncommon but is now widely available public knowledge because of social media. Im sure Smith and them tried to handle in house. The way many college coaches have handled issues in the past.. But there’s only so much you can do. Especially when the athletes.. “support system” seems to not discourage the behaviors he was exhibiting. I actually think if he hadn’t gotten in trouble he’d have still left Oklahoma State. Again, there’s only so much the coach can do now a days

Considering half the administration difficulties wrestling faces would be solved if more of our people became ADs and other sports admin.. I think Spencer is looking big picture

Damn that sucks.

Gotcha no worries

Do you mean the hokie/southeast open?

The two programs are “level-changer” and “Mattboss”. both require iPads to use. Both seem great. i was looking into getting iPads for it this year but my managers/stat girls overwhelmingly voted to keep doing pencil and paper and it saved me money to get new competition uniforms.