Dave who? Radiodave? Yeah that guy's DEF tapped into the goings on of FR from Rockford, IL.
EDIT: Okay, so apparently he did email the superintendent. So there is validity.
Here's the thing. I don't mind if we add wrestling, it's whatever to me. I know there was a Grieshop kid that wrestled under the FR banner, but traveled and practiced with Coldwater. Heck, here's some deep FR trivia for you. Norman "Buzz" Hull Jr. walked on to the Maimi (OH) University wrestling team (I want to say in the 1950s) having never wrestled before and winding up being conference runner up his Junior season.
But here's my issue... Fort Recovery has a participation problem. We consistently have the lowest participation in most sports that involve having numbers to win matches/meets/games amongst the rest of the MAC. It's not even like we're the smallest school by enrollment. As a previous post laid out, we're smack-dab in the middle. But you look at our Football, Track, Swim, and CC (mostly boys in that case) teams, they're dwarfed by some of the smaller (by enrollment) conference counterparts. Heck looking at this seasons track and field photos from the Daily Standard, we're the only school that had our boys and girls teams take their photo together to look like they had the same amount as the other schools separate teams. And the thing is, we typically always seem to have one, sometimes two, individual athlete(s) from the last 3 sports mentioned as some of the highest ranked in their respective game within the conference on a yearly basis from the last 15 or so years. But typically always fail to come home with the team titles due to not having enough kids to score more points.
The year we won the boys track and field title we had a really solid core, but still had to overcome lack of bodies compared to Minster, Marion and Versailles. Our swim team, though typically small, has always seemed to be high quality over high quantity. There was a year not too long ago the girls won EVERY SINGLE EVENT in the unofficial MAC-Meet and still only got 3rd because Versailles and New Bremen had more numbers to take those 2nd 3rd and 4th place points. And I've already vented my frustrations with my schools football program, so I won't bother making this text wall a text fortress.
If Minster and New Bremen can regularly and historically turn out the same number of participants as Coldwater and Versailles, there's no reason we can't either. But we don't. And I don't know how to fix that.
Going back to what spurred this post in the first place.
I'd love to see us excel in a sport. And not just have 1 or 2 really good athletes like I mentioned before, but I mean like RUN THE TABLE. If that, for some reason, is wrestling. Fine. Cool. Neat. But I know the faults and I fear this will not only be another sport that under preforms as a team, but also takes away from the other winter varsity sports.
