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Originally posted by mchurchJR.:
Wrestling is wrestling! I was not making excuses.. I just said, I was not bumping! Maybe my views will change somedays... but I want the key matches to happen.. Not bump the good ones away from each other. The goal is always to win, but I want to win with my 14 best wrestlers. Not 12 or 13 and some J.V. kid who is a sacrificial lamb as a great coach "Todd Porter" once told me! haha!
Coach Church

I agree with your "not bumping" philosophy in that you are telling one wrestler that you don't believe they can win their match. But it is not always a JV sacrificial lamb that is being sent out on the mat. One year when I was in high school, myself and another wrestler were back and forth about every week as to who was the varsity wrestler at 135, our coach would put in whoever lost at 140 and bump everyone else up and take out our 189 lber. The 189 lber wasn't very good and our 171 lber was better than him even at 189. So this worked to our advantage to actually have our best 14 wrestlers. But it did also make the 189 lber feel that the coach didn't believe in him.