I have a question about the Weekly Announcment topic posted December 27th...pretty nasty topic, but what does everyone think of Mr Bowden's thought process?
Mr. Bowden compared the "Body Fluids" in the situation to blood time. Wouldn't you have unlimited time for clean up once the flow has stopped instead of the 5 minutes that Mr. Bowden describes?
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a college match i officiated the poor guys singlet ripped at the butt- I had compassion and turned him around on the starting position so the crowd didnt have to view everything. His teamates were rolling on the floor.
I have seen one........totally gross, especially how it was handled. Two wrestlers mid match, kid has white singlet on, has "loose accident"......the kids coach threw him his gym shorts to cover up. match back on. I felt bad for both, but the other kid, oooh......I would of not wanted to continue rolling with him. Poo pants won....came to next match in different singlet. I thought the match should of been stopped, and mat cleaned, kid cleaned.
Several years back (won't identify the tournament nor school) but there was a bout of stomach flu that was making the rounds and a wrestler was wearing a light colored singlet. As the match progressed a brown spot appeared and slowly grew through the 1st period. At the conclusion of the 1st period we started his 90 second injury time and he ran to the restroom to change and get what he could out of his system. He made it back within his injury time and we continued wrestling. this wrestler eventually stuck his opponent in the 3rd period and ran off the mat "before I explode"...I didn't have it in my heart to hit him for unsportsmanlike conduct for not participating in the post-match procedure. He did come back later and shook my hand, apologized like crazy and even sought out his opponent and coach to shake their hand and apologize as well.
Not something I've ever had happen before nor since. BTW: neither coach questioned me on starting the 1:30 minutes of injury time to correct it. Bowden's nicer, to give 5 minutes or more, if I read it right...
