Due to popular demand, We have the duck of the month club. I started a thread on the mat and people have mentioned it here.
PLEASE..if you are one of those that thinks NO coach ever ducks and it’s in the best interest of the athlete, PLEASE don’t post here. You can start your own thread of how no one ever ducks. I’d like this thread for people that do believe coaches duck.
I will preempt everything by stating I believe 99.9% of the time, it’s the coaches fault, NOT the athletes that are warriors in my mind.
Criteria..must involve highly ranked wrestlers (seeding implications) but can also include up and comers that are not ranked yet and people ducking them. If a coach wants to sit a guy that has a minor injury against a guy that’s not great, go for it, not a duck. But if we expecting a big time matchup, let’s see it and stop this ducking that IMO ruins the sport for the average fan.
2. If a guy wrestles one match and the next match he sits out against quality opponent and comes back the next match..it’s a duck
Recent examples from last year..
Tom Brands made the list twice, both with Stoll, ducks Snyder with match still on the line, ducked again vs Hermedia later in year. Please don’t argue that Snyder “gets to the legs”, isn’t that the objective of every wrestler? Weak sauce
Tom Ryan with NATO last year vs Suriano, comes back with weak opponent on a Friday, sits out vs Suriano Sunday and back at it following week
Those are 3 clear cases of ducking IMO.
Now this thread is for this year, if you see a duck, list it here. If it doesn’t get at least 5 likes in a few days, I would ask the poster to delete it since it didn’t get acknowledged as a duck.
Ducks so far this year..
Sean Bormet/Micic wrestles first 2 duals then sits against Suriano. Coach even said he wasn’t injured
Tom Brands/Sam Stoll returns to the list vs Wood. Brands didn’t mention injury like he did with Warner. Since Brands mentioned Warner is dealing with injury, he not on this list.
We not looking to add injured wrestlers to this list, so no Seth Gross.
Have fun, interested to see who gets added as year goes on and what coaches are the biggest duckers.
Again..if you’re one of those who thinks there is no ducking going on please refrain from this thread. TIA
PLEASE..if you are one of those that thinks NO coach ever ducks and it’s in the best interest of the athlete, PLEASE don’t post here. You can start your own thread of how no one ever ducks. I’d like this thread for people that do believe coaches duck.
I will preempt everything by stating I believe 99.9% of the time, it’s the coaches fault, NOT the athletes that are warriors in my mind.
Criteria..must involve highly ranked wrestlers (seeding implications) but can also include up and comers that are not ranked yet and people ducking them. If a coach wants to sit a guy that has a minor injury against a guy that’s not great, go for it, not a duck. But if we expecting a big time matchup, let’s see it and stop this ducking that IMO ruins the sport for the average fan.
2. If a guy wrestles one match and the next match he sits out against quality opponent and comes back the next match..it’s a duck
Recent examples from last year..
Tom Brands made the list twice, both with Stoll, ducks Snyder with match still on the line, ducked again vs Hermedia later in year. Please don’t argue that Snyder “gets to the legs”, isn’t that the objective of every wrestler? Weak sauce
Tom Ryan with NATO last year vs Suriano, comes back with weak opponent on a Friday, sits out vs Suriano Sunday and back at it following week
Those are 3 clear cases of ducking IMO.
Now this thread is for this year, if you see a duck, list it here. If it doesn’t get at least 5 likes in a few days, I would ask the poster to delete it since it didn’t get acknowledged as a duck.
Ducks so far this year..
Sean Bormet/Micic wrestles first 2 duals then sits against Suriano. Coach even said he wasn’t injured
Tom Brands/Sam Stoll returns to the list vs Wood. Brands didn’t mention injury like he did with Warner. Since Brands mentioned Warner is dealing with injury, he not on this list.
We not looking to add injured wrestlers to this list, so no Seth Gross.
Have fun, interested to see who gets added as year goes on and what coaches are the biggest duckers.
Again..if you’re one of those who thinks there is no ducking going on please refrain from this thread. TIA
