Time out
When the WPIAL Class AA section tournaments begin Saturday, it will mark Day 24 since the official end of the regular dual meet season. How many other sports take a nearly month-long break at the most important time of the schedule? A better question is what did wrestlers and coaches do with all this time on their hands.
Some coaches brought their teams together for meaningless dual meets. They are meaningless because the scores don't matter, the intensity level is not as high and you just use it as a workout to stay sharp.
Some coaches brought teams together for combined practices, which sort of strikes me as odd because hardly any other sport does this. Golf? Swimming?
It's also tough on us bloggers, who have virtually no news coming out of these schools because no one is competing. It's difficult to comment on a sport when there is nothing taking place.
Through it all, coaches have asked their wrestlers to hold their weight, keep sharp and be ready to wrestle their best in the most important part of the season, after a 24-day layoff.
And you wonder why it's hard to get athletes to come out for wrestling.
Some coaches brought their teams together for meaningless dual meets. They are meaningless because the scores don't matter, the intensity level is not as high and you just use it as a workout to stay sharp.
Some coaches brought teams together for combined practices, which sort of strikes me as odd because hardly any other sport does this. Golf? Swimming?
It's also tough on us bloggers, who have virtually no news coming out of these schools because no one is competing. It's difficult to comment on a sport when there is nothing taking place.
Through it all, coaches have asked their wrestlers to hold their weight, keep sharp and be ready to wrestle their best in the most important part of the season, after a 24-day layoff.
And you wonder why it's hard to get athletes to come out for wrestling.
posted by Joe Tuscano at
12:06 AM
2 Comments:
The season should start after Christmas, avoiding conflicts with football in early December and eliminating the dead of February. The team tournement, if continued, should be weekends only.
There is a proposal to start the season a week later because of the problems with football. But the team tournament eats up two weeks even it's held on weekends. Until they shorten that, then the month-long break between the end of the regular season and beginning of the individual season will continue. Crazy, isn't it?
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