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It wouldn’t be summer if we weren’t debating the differences in play today versus the Golden Era of wrestling in New York State: the ‘70s. Yeah, I hate……
Great article.
I remember that in section 8 we called the division tournaments the sections and the section 8 tournament was called the counties.
Yes, we called it the counties too, but I don’t recollect calling divisions the section.
top 4 at each weight in each suffolk league should qualify for counties. never understood why this was not the case, especially with no wrestlebacks in the league tournaments for years. also, why does Suffolk not consider a dual meet tournament when it would be a huge success and allow fans to see the best teams wrestle each other.
I’m thinking have the top 3 qualify and wild cards for each weight. This way you give the best the greatest opportunity to qualify.
A dual meet tourney would be great as long as to qualify means you have to win your League or top 2. Once you let nearly everyone qualify, the league schedule becomes a pre season warm up, which in my opinion would destroy the competitive nature of the Leagues.
Bill:
I think the big difference between the 1970′s and today
is the number of wrestlers competing.
In Nassau County we had way more kids competing than
we do today.
Remember HS teams were almost always just grades 10-12
and almost every hs had a full varsity, full JV and some
3rd stringers.
The number of kids participating is down in Nassau.
Also Nassau has become a very prosperous county over the past
30+ years. The result is the kids are more pampered.
They have more things(cell phones, video games, computers,
inernet).
Obviously the pampering is the parents fault. Some parents feel
guilty that they are working so many hours so they indulge their
kids wishes to make up for it. Instead of using a tough love sport
to make your kid physically and mentally tough. i am not talking about the winning and losing. I am talking about the process of
trying to be your best and the sacrifices one must make to do that.
I look at wrestling as a tough love sport. You have to work your
ass off to be the best. Sometimes you win on strength, sometimes
on conditioning and sometimes on technique. You must have all
three to rise to the top.
Also not enough gym teachers in Nassau wrestled. If every school had a phys. ed teacher that wrestled you would bring back those numbers as well.