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  1. 2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    he’s not fucked either way. the propmaster and on-set prop guy will take the hit. they’ll never work again.

    they typically have shields in the firing line, which tells me this wasn’t during a live take or rehearsal, so prob no footage. 

    insurance company will write a check. 

    Except for the fact that he's going to live with this the rest of his life.  I can't imagine how I would handle that.

  2. Yeah, the jokes were expected.

    For a little context and background:

    We are taking over a club that has been in existence for about 20 years or so.  The person that ran it before us kind of let it go for the last 2 or 3 years.  Registration numbers were very small pre-Covid and Covid certainly did not help.  He let our tournament date get away from us, so we've had to work to get that back.  I have had 2 boys wrestle for the high school (one graduated in 2020 and the second is in his senior year now) and I have another 2 that are interested in wrestling - one in 6th grade and the other is in 3rd.  I've been kind of involved helping the high school coach with keeping score, running tables for tournaments, stuff like that for the last 5 years.  I've seen that we do have decent numbers on the high school team, but the better programs in the state have much larger participation.  One school in particular has over 100 kids in the wrestling room every year.  We, on the other hand, have about 20-30.  We typically have more kids on varsity than we do on JV.  About this time last year, the high school coach asked if I would be interested in helping out with the youth program because he wanted to give it a re-boot.  So, here we are. 

    I know you guys are just messing around, but there really are no bad intentions.  The high school coaches are going to be running the youth practices.  This will get these kids familiar with the way they work and hopefully have them ready for high school wrestling as freshmen.  He's just trying to build the program up from where it is now, which is not horrible, just not where it could be.  He's been good to my boys and I feel an obligation to help as much as I can.  He turned the older one into a 2 time state qualifier and the one that's a senior now is in a good position to wrestle in the final match on the last day of the state tournament this year.  Neither of my boys that have wrestled for him started until 7th or 8th grade, so their success is entirely on him and how he developed them.  So yeah, I kind of got roped into this, but I did say "sure" when asked.

  3. Not yet.

     

    Edit to add:

    I fully expected something similar to this as the first response, so kudos to you.  What I should probably say is that we are working closely with the high school wrestling program.  We're in Missouri, where high school wrestling is kind of a big deal, not quite to the same level as Iowa, but more so than when I left Texas.  The very successful high school programs up here have very strong youth programs, which is why we are doing this.  Good intentions, all that.

  4. Hopefully there is someone on here that has done this before.  We recently started a youth wrestling club in town.  I have registered the name with the state, got an EIN from the IRS and opened a bank account.  I have also registered the club with AAU.  My concern, however, is how to proceed.  Do I need to register as a non-profit somehow?  Also, how can I be certain that board members' personal assets will be protected if something were to happen? 

  5. 18 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Wong didn't.  Hicks definitely didn't.  I would assume most of the younger guys didn't like him.  Do you not remember him letting redass Bud Norris haze the rookies?

    And maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I thought Matheny was wildly anti-analytics, which couldn't have gone over well in the front office.

    You are exactly right.  Matheny was stubborn.  He also wasn't great with the press.  Honestly reminded me a little bit of Mack.

  6. 2 hours ago, Doak said:

    2011: After SMU won in 2011 in Fort Worth, Gary went on to claim that they "will never help SMU again"...simply because he got his ass beat. https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/patterson-tcu-never-going-help-smu-ever-again-000100263.html

    2019: SMU whips TCU

    2020: Gary says this year that SMU never returned a phone call and TCU 'wanted to play SMU'. When in reality, SMU said they would even play the game in Fort Worth (game was supposed to be in Dallas) on a date of their choosing...even at the end of the year after conference play. Hence why Rashee Rice said TCU was scared to play SMU last year.

    2021: SMU whips TCU. Gary says a SMU player took a helmet and literally bashed his 60 year old Assistant Coach in the head knocking him down and giving him a concussion. Utterly Udderly ridiculous and video proof has totally proved that was a false scenario by a mile. In reality, his own team knocked over the coach. He also claims the flag plant was a stunt that was coordinated well before the game, simply because a camera guy was following Rashee Rice to midfield. 

    Dude has been a complainer his whole career. . Hope the Horns send GP packing once and for all.The dude is a washed up pansy.

    Can't wait to see what Gary comes up with next year after SMU punks TCU in Dallas for a third straight time. They will be even better next year.

    FIFY

    You're talking about Patterson.  Get it right.

  7. 51 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I agree with all of this. 

    Most of the bad decisions Shildt makes tend to be sticking with a guy too long (DeJong, Reyes).  But his willingness to stick with guys and trust them is a big part of why his players love him, though.

    That and he's WAY better than the last guy we had.

  8. It helps that multiple guys have quit walking so many guys.  Nothing makes a manager look stupider than a bad bullpen.  
    But Shildt is not going anywhere.  Even before this streak, the players loved playing for him.  Paul has never talked down any manager to me, even Chip Hale, who kept batting him third behind Mike Bourn and Rickie Weeks, so that he was always getting walked in the first with two out and none on.  But he freaking loooooooves Shildt.  
    Shildt wasn't getting fired even if they missed the playoffs (unless Moz got canned), but he's especially safe now.
    Yeah, I didn't think that Shildt would be fired, but I do believe that he made a ton of bad decisions this entire season. Another issue was the amount of time that he gave Dejong before finally going with Sosa. I get it, Dejong is the guy with rime and a bigger contract, but he has been horrible this entire year.

    Also, the walks were pretty much the entire staff, not just the bullpen. But you are right, the issues weren't just Shildt, guys were simply not performing. He did make a lot of bad decisions, though. He stuck with Reyes as the closer for far too long.
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