Transfers column
Since transfers have captured much of the attention on this blog, I thought you might want to read a guest columnist from the Easton newspaper about Bethlehem Catholic.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/02/guest_column_recruiting_by_bec.html
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/02/guest_column_recruiting_by_bec.html
posted by Joe Tuscano at
6:34 PM
60 Comments:
Totally agree. I guess if you can't beat certain schools consistently (such as Connellsville, NA, Kiski, etc.) you take the recruiting path and then brag about yourself on internet blogs!
CM needs a 132lb transfer to be the powerhouse team. Someone please call Patrick Dugan!
Good Idea , we will look into that .
Here we go again SOS.
I wish CM and Beth Cath would merge and wrestle an exclusive schedule of teams from other states, countries and star systems. They would be called... The Golden McBig Hawks! The kids would get a superior education because their old schools academics,frankly, sucked and I'm quite sure every college wrestling coach in the country would love the idea because they could watch PA's best on one team. Talk about exposure! The only downside would be that they may not win every event they go to by a landslide or win at all. Of course that wouldn't be any fun. Its much more fun to round pound local schools that don't have their act together such as the Golden McBig Hawks do and criticize blog nay sayers by calling them jealous, talentless, cry babies. I for one am rooting for the Golden McBig Hawks because I know your time as a high school wrestler is fleeting as is being a parent of a high school wrestler. I also know that at 40 years old a good double leg is as about as useless as the life lesson learned by stacking the deck for a bunch of teenagers. Watch this sport long enough and you'll realize it's all relative. Just like the Honey Badger...I don't give a sh_ _! Build your teams, build your programs, teach your children well, take your vitamins and say your prayers for this is what the sport is all about.
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9:18...Very witty and quite funny. I actually laughed out loud. I love the Golden McBig Hawks thing. Genuinely creative. I was actually sold until you ended with "Vitamins and Prayers". That was a little weird. What a difference a year makes. Last years "prayers" would have been answered with with a Cougard, Coug-Cat, or a Buc-ger. This year..."Vitamins and Prayers".
It's been a great season...Everyone is quite happy in AA land and really not paying any attention to AAA and Vice-Versa, i'm sure. So, relax. If you are best of best, expect some barbs.
High school time is fleeting, indeed, and, amazing opportunities abound.
Sounds like 9:18 needs a big hug...
Shady side Academy...no recruits...no team....HMMMMM
I'm just glad my son's future, in the end, will be determined by his brain, not his brawn on the mat. It's comforting, because, as Patton is famously quoted "all glory is fleeting".
9:18...Can we call the new hybrid program The McBig Heads or The McBad Eyes? Catchy...
Good Riddance...
Wait a minute here I didn't think Cannon Mac was a catholic school. Apples and oranges my friend. They still need to win the outright tourny first before we can officially get our panties in a bunch. Who cares! Talk wrestling JOE. Again writing crap for the ratings. I guess the media never killed JOEPA either it was lung cancer. I hate journalism for ratings.
bellroi cougards,
One should not critisize one, for fleeing a burning building.
I hear say, the last star from bellroi just may shoot across the sky to a better horizone.....
God bless you.
Some people just can't get a life . 9-18 instead of the crying and wasting time moaning and complaining you should have been spending the time with your kid. .Maybe getting him better. Or if you're a kid maybe a little conditioning on the mat instead of running your mouth . All in all it's the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over . Jealously has taken the blogs over again .
Joe, Does Canon Mac have a Football Blog? I tried ten times last fall to find one but failed in each attempt. Any assistance you could provide in directing me to CM Football information would be appreciated, this wrestling Blah, Blah, Blah, is getting quite boring.
Obviously, someone is trying to provoke me into commenting so here goes...
First of all, maybe you should just call me out on here (or in mat room) instead of trying to demean what my son (CM's 132#) has accomplished these last two years. Last year he was a 14 year old starter at 119 and accomplished 20 wins in a very tough weight in the WPIAL on a team that wrestles a very tough schedule including several matches against kids ranked in the state and nation. This year more of the same 17 wins so far at 132, a weight loaded in the WPIAL also wrestling the likes of Kagan Squire, Joey Dance , the worst he has done has been majored. All of this season he has battled injuries that would have had some weaker minded people sit out while he has gone out and did what was asked of him time and time again.
Canon McMillan remains a powerhouse as they have been with him in the lineup and will continue to be! When I started coaching 15 years ago at his birth, I wanted to help create a similar atmosphere to what I experienced as a wrestler in Canon McMillan in the 90's (3 Team WPIAL Championships, 1 Team PIAA Championship), I cannot tell you how happy I am that not only is he and his teammates experiencing the joy of being the best at what they do but they are even in the midst of far surpassing the accomplishments of the teams of the 90's and perhaps of all time in Canon McMillan's illustrious and storied wrestling tradition 80+ years in the making! I am very proud of my son, his teammates, the coaches, the parents and all involved in what is currently going on in our school district and in particular the wrestling program.
I realize that when you are on top others always want to see your fall and because we have often been on top, often people have wanted to see our fall. But, I tell you this I would rather be a part of the best team that everyone hates or envies or even just strives to become then to be one of the many others always looking up and wishing. And for the record when we were the team not on top, a few of us got together and have worked extremely hard for over a decade now to get us where we are today because we believe the answer to everything is to work harder! With the good fortune of several parents and student/ athletes buying into what we were working towards you have the team that stands before you today! Without a doubt the dominant team in the WPIAL and now one of the most consistent in the PIAA ranks and finding itself creeping back into the recognition of the National ranks as they were in the 90's. The program is continuing to work even harder then ever these days in the hope of attaining even loftier goals by the end of the decade!
So let the bashing of myself begin, I am used to it. But, I urge you to leave any demeaning of ANY and ALL children out of it because they read these blogs also and have enough on their plate with school and sports and everything else that comes down the pike at them during their developmental years.
May the WPIAL continue to prosper and best success to all the young student/ athletes out there just doing their best. Do not let the jealously of adults affect you in any way because they never have tasted success in the ways you have simply because they have never worked as hard as you have and if they had they certainly would not make such immature anonymous comments.
Well said Slack!
Is it true CM's 132 pounder has the worst record on the team?
Not even close
All of us were athletes at some point and all of us can empathize with the frustration of watch a coaches family member get special treatment...I remember losing game after game because the coach would let his child catch instead of sitting the bench.
When I see the words "Brian Krezelak", I skip the post and search for an ignore button to no avail...
It is one thing to flee a building building, it is quite another to spill gasoline in the lobby on the way out...
God bless all the Mat Matter readers...
Get over yourself Krezalick. If you want to have your son in the lineup that fine. Don't try to justify what you do. You are long on wind, little on substance. I guess every team has there own Ed Ott. Sad. Oh well...
P.S. The early 90's are 20 years gone. Close your yearbook, turn off the "VCR", and put your "highlight tape" back in the dresser drawer instead of continuously reminding us about CM in the early 90's.
Good day!
Mr. Krenzelack,
I think this is the entire reason for the article. How would you or your son feel it Canon-Mac did go out and recruit someone to take your sons place. You see the recruits that you did bring did take a Canonsburg kid out of the line-up. Wouldn't be so great if it was your kid would it?
Don't swallow the hook, just let the haters hate.
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Tell me your joking , Slack? Call you out on the mat? Let us not forget you were Captain JV and now your some all star wrestler??? Come on bud! No one is demeaning your son! Get over yourself. We want a recruit to move in and take over 132, is that so bad? It was alright for the 2 other studs to move in and knock out kids that been involved from lil macs all the way up! You act like this was your idea. Was it? Why are you not coaching at the high school level? Why did they bring in a Char Valley grad? Nobody bought in to the krenzelak crap!!!! Your true colors are showing and we love it! Get a life bud your wrestling career is over!
4:15...JV Captain...love it!!!!
17-10 speaks for itself...must be that world class "JV" lineage...Spend more time with the kid and less time on here relishing the old times and he will do better...
It's hard to tell if this coward who is hating is the same person or if it is a bunch of losers who need to get a life. Either way, the personal attacks on Slack are not called for. If you want drama, go find a drama club blog. Slack has too much integrity to respond to anonymous slander. Any true wrestling fan knows how much Slack has given and meant to CM wrestling.
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Brian,
"How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?... Yeah... Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind. I would bet you could have bet Cary Kolat if you wrestled varsity. No doubt in my mind."
Signed,
Uncle Rico
anon, 3:27PM
I belive there will be only ONE star, after this year in the magic city.
Pick your words wisely, you also maybe served.
6:09, is this year over yet? I think not. There is still THREE
I think the Mc Big Hawk poster said that he doesn't care about the hybrid teams and to make your own team better. I think that's what was meant. But you still see the self conscience supporters bash the poster. That is text book existential guilt. Now back to wrestling. Has anyone seen a penalty point given for crossed head gear straps? It's in the rule book but have not seen it enforced in the WPIAL as of yet.
Wow,! there are some sick ## down there in that area . Man, what a bunch of cowards !.. Tough guys on a blog. Gutless in the Street I'll bet.. Keep talking tough guys, then look in the mirror and try to convince yourself your a man.. You punks make me laugh !
And Back to Wrestling...Never have I seen a penalty point for said infraction...
Big Dego from canton? Who are you talking about? What area?
4:36 who are you? Nevermind I know Assistant Captain JV! We are not buying in to all the Slack is there for the kids. A spade is a spade!
Wrastlin' talk
I would like to see the PIAA move to one division and eliminate the AA and AAA Classes. California and New York have great models to follow. This would make for one great state meet. Keep the team tournament in AA and AAA division for a state title but allow all Wrestlers to battle for an individual state title. This would minimize the effect the super teams have on winning the individual team title.
Fat Dego from Canton !, how do you figure your posting name is any less anonymous then the name Anonymous? Break that one down for all of us street cowards. I want to be a better person.
Fancy Pants Lance you are the man! It is funny that the people calling us cowards are always Anonymous!
private schools need to have their own division as some other states do. this would take care of the recruiting problem and let the public schools compete on a level playing field.this needs to be done in all athletics. need proof....look at the finals in the state play offs, more private schools than public especially in both boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball and more.
just not right to "load up" and legally cheat....PIAA has no guts to make things right...its all about the $$$$ just ask the WPIAL.
Hey Joe, who would have won on criteria. Wow what a match. Also give greensburg salum credit they came to wrestle. Score might not show it but a lot of good battles in that one.
I continue to feel like this sight is some evil scientific experiment and we are all being watched
We'll make great pets
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Will, hit the right on the button. Send that one to Captain JV (Slack)!
What up jimmy?
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Whoa...easy tough guy. Take a "chill pill". Now, back to more wrestling talk. In all reality, is there a team that can challenge Canon-Mac in the PIAA?
To the immature kid 5-19-pm . you are a little boy . I thought you were a man . Don 't bother me son . TO the Big Macs . Well done kids, coaches and parents.Another team title !. I can't wait to go to States with my son and watch you guys. Keep it going Big Macs.
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The big dego likes to see good wrestling ,what's wrong with that ..?
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I'ts very simple all you people are just jealous of certain schools and certain kids that probably beat your own kid at some point this season that's why their is all this bs on these sites. GROW UP or maybe you ought to try and transfer your kid to another school or stae.
state lol
For some maybe for most it has nothing to do with jealously. Grow up and quit using the lowest level of rationale. When you're in a league(WPIAL-PIAA) there has to be rules to keep the league intact. In competition you need just that, other teams to compete against. When inequality arises and it seems to be caused by breaking rules or skirting the intent of the rules of course people are going to get mad. If you honestly think the Charleroi kid moved to CM for anything other then wrestling you are a kidding yourself. The Big Macs have three powerful wrestlers that fit the same bill. It doesn't really matter if CM wins it is the inability of other teams to compete with a stable without transfers. That is the core problem here. When CM wrestles in the PIAA their stiffest competition will be from a mirror image team. This simply cannot be good for the sport. I personally think the statement about transferring your kid or moving to another state is about the dumbest BS I have ever read on this blog.
Has to be a krenzelak statement 6:01 from literatue 101
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