When Jeff first told me that he wanted to stop hosting the event I told him, as I had Sharrock in the past, we needed to go another year as we have several projects that need funding and this event was one of several fundraisers we did to help us grow.
In years past the criticism from everyone was the gym is too small, the gym is to0 crowded, the gym is too hot, Clarksville is too far to drive. No unfair advantage there. Our guys got to sleep in their beds after hauling mats and placing them on the floor and setting up chairs and tables etc and then finally going to bed often quite late, no unfair advantage their. I thought Wards job was to report the news correctly and fairly. He did not tell you that Clarksville did wrestle on other mats, mats in the small gym, mats across the gym after wrestling their way back from a defeat in the quarter finals. He did not tell you that there are actually other padded chairs in the big gym , they were on mat three on the right side of the mat as you look at them from the stands. He did not tell you about the Cleveland coach telling Coach Jordan to sit down when he went to the side of one of his wrestlers when he was bleeding and he did not tell you about Clevelands Coach having to stop one of the people on his bench from going into the stands after the last match to fight? with a Clarksville fan after flashing the "Loser" sign on his forehead. Yes, it was a heated match, then it was over,except evidently for Ward Gossett who appears to like to encite his fans into a Hate Clarksville Coach frenzy.
Coach Jordan is a competitor but above all else he believes in the concept of a level playing field and is willing to give up something good for him to make it happen. What about Ward Gossett, what would he do in Jeffs place? If the possibility of a referee being put in a compromising situation exists, why not remove that possibility, that is all Jeff has asked, quietly in the past few years,is that unreasonable? Its not that Jeff thought that all Chattanooga refs would cheat us , but what if a Middle Tennessee ref helped us. Either would be horrible for the sport so just eliminate that very remote possibility by using the same neutrality rule used in every other TSSAA sport.
Is that too much to ask or Ward Gossett to understand , my answer to the first is no and only Ward can answer the second. What do you say Ward?
Prep wrestling blog: A few minor complaints and guess who wants to quit?
When Jeff first told me that he wanted to stop hosting the event I told him, as I had Sharrock in the past, we needed to go another year as we have several projects that need funding and this event was one of several fundraisers we did to help us grow. In years past the criticism from everyone was the gym is too small, the gym is to0 crowded, the gym is too hot, Clarksville is too far to drive. No unfair advantage there. Our guys got to sleep in their beds after hauling mats and placing them on the floor and setting up chairs and tables etc and then finally going to bed often quite late, no unfair advantage their. I thought Wards job was to report the news correctly and fairly. He did not tell you that Clarksville did wrestle on other mats, mats in the small gym, mats across the gym after wrestling their way back from a defeat in the quarter finals. He did not tell you that there are actually other padded chairs in the big gym , they were on mat three on the right side of the mat as you look at them from the stands. He did not tell you about the Cleveland coach telling Coach Jordan to sit down when he went to the side of one of his wrestlers when he was bleeding and he did not tell you about Clevelands Coach having to stop one of the people on his bench from going into the stands after the last match to fight? with a Clarksville fan after flashing the "Loser" sign on his forehead. Yes, it was a heated match, then it was over,except evidently for Ward Gossett who appears to like to encite his fans into a Hate Clarksville Coach frenzy.
Coach Jordan is a competitor but above all else he believes in the concept of a level playing field and is willing to give up something good for him to make it happen. What about Ward Gossett, what would he do in Jeffs place? If the possibility of a referee being put in a compromising situation exists, why not remove that possibility, that is all Jeff has asked, quietly in the past few years,is that unreasonable? Its not that Jeff thought that all Chattanooga refs would cheat us , but what if a Middle Tennessee ref helped us. Either would be horrible for the sport so just eliminate that very remote possibility by using the same neutrality rule used in every other TSSAA sport.
Is that too much to ask or Ward Gossett to understand , my answer to the first is no and only Ward can answer the second. What do you say Ward?