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I see. Was curious because I knew they had started a program and were using those means to get it going. Very cool if they can get their country more involved. Only makes our side of the planet...

Was the Mexico team actually from Mexico or are they still doing that program where if you are of Mexican descent, you can wrestle as a part of their National Team? Similar to what Israel Silva does.

What a great tournament. Our kids had a great time, we're humbled and will be back next year.

That is definitely the hardest thing to adjust to, coaching your own kids in HS, as the HS coach. I try my best to let our head coach, handle the stressful stuff. Its difficult. My son was only a...

Also, something I've noticed over the years and coaching various sports(soccer, football, wrestling, track and tennis), girls seem to wish coaches would be more intense. At least around here. I was...

I would be categorized as a nutcase dad, trying to keep his sanity while he coaches his sons.

I coached for 6 yrs before my oldest was able to be coached, so it wasn't like I was solely focused...

UO had virtually no fan base. Outside of an ocassional wrestler, wrestling is pretty much non-existant in the Eugene area and always has been. I blame our state for that because we could've fixed...

I would say I have more of an idea of what a mutli-division system can do than you do, thus the reason why I chimed on the subject. If only like-minded people are commenting on things they've never...

I was waiting for you to bark out some kind of reply. Best advice people should live by, especially in our sport.

Never be so set in your ways, that you aren't willing to change because that...

Maybe the reason why they aren't coming together to stop programs from being dropped is because we lack numbers. Even double the amount of HS wrestlers competing and you'd have 55,000. Say for every...

In CA, they have lost many college opportunities, than have been gained. I think you could directly credit some of that to lack of interest in the sport, throughout the state. CA has a large amount...

I think CA would be tough no matter what.

Question- has Ca ever had a state dual tournament? If not, how come?

In OR, we have an unofficial state dual tournament called the Oregon Classic. Some of you may know of this as they also host a...

While 5 divisions is too much, OR, when compared to the population of CA, has more kids wrestling overall.

OR has nearly 5500
OK has 3000
CA has nearly 28,000

OR's population is 3.8 million...

Food for thought. Since CA state is typically dominated by large schools or private schools, if a small school division was created, for say schools with 1000 kids or less, what would change overall?...

When people talk in OR about wanting a one state champion, my arguement always is, while 5 classes is watered down, it still doesn't diminish our top wrestlers. The top kids aren't the ones winning...

The biggest problem is travel, I assume. We aren't blessed to have states that are several hours apart, like the east and even midwest. If we want serious state to state matchups, we have to either...

I come from OR, a state with 5 divisions(which IMO is too many). And can tell you our state finals is well attended. We get around 9400 fans in the stands in Portland for our finals.

While yes,...

Any luck with the brackets? Mainly interested in how Grants Pass Or wrestlers did. Thanks

Big win for Jake Smith over Rossi Bruno.

Was looking over their current roster and saw a few new CA faces in their lineup.

Steven Fitzgerald transferred from Northern Iowa
Peter Gidlund
Anthony Harris transferred from a CA JC

I'm hearing Lou Montano is the man at Cal Poly.

Glenn also wrestled for the US Army and won a couple of US National titles.

Dan Hicks has the utmost respect from myself and many others. I had the pleasure of Dan coming to my hometown to run a clinic and seeing him interact with the kids and coaches was great.

I think...

The HWT lost a match, went bananas and start throwing chairs everywhere, in which no one tried to stop him. When the OR coach confronted the AV coach about getting his guy under control, after he...