Fixing Inj. Def's
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I don't have THE answer. That said to bury one's head in the sand as if absolutely nothing is wrong with the current system is defeatist and short sighted.
There are definitely tweaks to the system that would improve the current situation and decrease unethical moves by coaches that damage the integrity of the sport.
There are definitely tweaks to the system that would improve the current situation and decrease unethical moves by coaches that damage the integrity of the sport.
If a wrestler lays on his back at the opening whistle, is that fair to his next opponent? or the integrity of the sport in general for that matter?
Also, not in reply to you but another poster in Starocci last year. I think if he had to wrestle two matches he would have. So, in a sense his defaults were gaming the system. If the rules were different the actions would have been different.
I do not think anything needs to be changed. This situation with the bad optics had happened maybe 2 times with one coach being the common denomination. Changing the rule for that one coach is not worth it.
People aren't burying their heads in sand just because they disagree with you that a new rule is needed to fix a thing 1 coach has done twice in 10 years (and I don't know of any instances before that).
I’m in the I don’t care camp. I don’t want to screw with a mechanism that works for actually injured wrestlers.
It you want to injury default out, I consider that your problem and sends a goofy message. The book on Ryan is he underachieves. This could be a symptom.
I can’t get into the what-if game for his next opponent (or that of the guy he conceded to) in a philosophical discussion about fairness.
Guy gets abused and humiliated by Mesenbrink — is it fair to him that his next opponent didn’t have to go through a similar ordeal? Maybe, maybe not.
Let the guy quit, if he thinks that’s the right thing to do. This happens how often? It affects my day exactly zero. Conversely, it provides us knuckleheads with years and years of joke-making material.
I think you should be forced to lay on your back at the opening whistle with your opponent standing over you, one foot on your chest, flexing in victory.
This is a rare occurrence. Generally speaking, I am against letting the tail wag the dog by generating a rule to fit a rarely occurring event.
When else have coaches purposely had their guy forfeit into the consis and then keep wrestling? The two times I can think of are Tom Ryan with Jake and Paddy.
Shenanigans are reserved for the Big12 weigh-ins. A wordsmith of your caliber needs a different go to. Dresser used it first this weekend.
Sorry man, I wasn’t keeping up with the news. Looks like Jefe has it covered!
Sure they do. If a wrestler gets hurt in a match and can't get to mat for the next match its a FFT. You have had to taken the mat to lose by default.
Not in the context we're discussing here. All of the objectionable matches are 0:01 or 0:02 INJ. None are MFF.
