I was just wondering what people thought of managers? My girlfriend and my sister are wrestling managers. my girlfriend has 2 cousins that wrestle and, well i did last year. and my brother still wrestles. Our new head and assisant wrestling coach told them this year that they weren't even considered part of the team. they wouldn't need them and they were basically wasted space. I really appriciated (sorry for the spelling) the managers and how they mop the mats take score and tape the matches. I really think it is a bunch of crap that my girlfriend has been a manager for 3 years now and her senior year is the only one she can't go to state because she ain't part of the team. and my sister has put 2 years into it and basically told her go fly a kite. I was just wondering what other people thought about this topic. what would you do if you worked your *** off for the team and then the coach just sh*t on you?

Well.. the coaches pretty much **** on all managers. Most of the time I feel like I'm not wanted or needed. They take managers for granted. This is my 2nd year as a manager and I love it. I was a JV manager last year and now I'm concidered a "varsity" manager. I'm going to state because I asked. I have to have a female with me, which means I have to have a wrestlers mom come with me and I have to pay for it which I think is b.s. The school pays for the team why not me? I'm supposedly part of the team. I feel that I should be apart of the team, BECAUSE I'm in the wrestling room just as much and dedicate just as much time as the wrestlers and the coaches do to the sport. I give my spare time to them! Thats just my opinion.

In all the years I've coached, I've had some great managers, but they would have to go a long way to top the group we have this year. In our minds they're not just a part of the team, they are part of the staff.

Your coach will soon find out that these young ladies who are "not part of the team" might be its most valuable members. Sorry your girlfriend got dumped on over this, too. We only got three guys to State, but you can bet all four of our managers are going. Other than lettering, it's their lone reward for a pretty thankless job.

I am a manager for our wrestling team and I would agree our job is pretty simple but we do it because we like it. We dont do it to be a slave to any of the guys or to start a controversy about whether or not we are needed. Our coach never makes us feel unwanted or worthless. I would have to say our coach treats us with just as much respect as he does his wrestlers and considers us part of the wrestling team and makes sure we know whats going on and that we are taken care of. We attend every doul and tournament, including state every year if we have the qualified number of guys going. And if and when a wrestler needs something we are there to get it for them. So I don’t see a whole lot wrong with wrestling managers.

As do I. I go to every dual and every tourny. And I do get treated with SOME respect but not as much respect as I would like. But I guess I have no choice in that.

There's one other thing I wanted to add...

In most schools, wrestling rarely gets the support of other sports. To have people who are willing to put up with the workload, the schedule, the wrestlers, and all the other crap that goes into this sport deserves the best treatment possible. I wouldn't even want to think about where we'd be without dedicated young ladies to wash our mats, keep our stats, videotape, carry the kit, do the laundry, get water, run errands and whatever other duties we as coaches add to their job description. I can't even imagine what it would be like to try and run our program without them.

I agree with 100% BigRedcoach

I don't understand how managers cannot be considered part of the team. Our managers wear team shirts, ride the team bus, sit with the team at matches, get out of school early. They do an incredible, albeit under-appreciated, job. I know our coach appreciates his managers.

I appreciate managers. I like some better than others, though.

uh huh Mark.. :-)

whoa... harsh. Is that what you really think of all managers or was that a sarcastic remark?

I'm just saying that from experience because all the managers that i have ever had all want me!

Well.. maybe thats because your good looking? Thats not the managers fault. They cant help it if they think your good looking!

No, it's because im a PIMP

ha! what school do ya wrestle for kido?

It's a secret, but look for the buffest guy at state and that's me.

hmmm.. I'm sure they'll be a few of those.

My arms look like boulders and my abs look like a big washboard

hmmm.. well i have short DARK brown hair and im pretty short myself and im a manager for SMWest.. ill be there as well.. good luck to ya

Oh ya your the girl that kept getting in my way at League