Coach
You may know me you may not, if you do you know that I am a coach just out of high school and I know what its like to be out on the mat now. I understand that it is sometimes like that and gets a little intense out on the mat seeing how I started wrestling at the age of four.
I understand what you are saying but the way it sounded from what I heard with the Johnson match they were clearly out of bounds and he gave a little extra jerk on the leg. (just what I heard) I was more of a laid back wrestler and cant say I was always the best sport in the world but I regret what I did and learned from it. Hopefully these boys can do the same and learn from the mistakes they made.
The way you tell it with the language on that mat they should have both be ejected. As an official of sports if any one is using that language it should not tolerated. No matter if the language comes from an athlete, fan or a coach. The athletes and coaches are the easiest one to catch this on but there is no place in sports for that. If we were to stop that stuff when kids were younger there would be none of that language when they get older. (I think I may adapt this as one of my policies when I umpire baseball and softball this summer)
With the Taplin match I agree with the fact that the coaches and fans were to numerous around the mat and should have been backed off. I think that's one thing we need to figure out at state is a way to keep everyone back. I don't know how to do this I know that officials do the best they can but somehow we need to do that.
And I am not saying that Rhodes is a bad guy or anything like that, most of what I know is hearsay from people that I know and trust. (I did watch the taplin match but as far away as I was dont know what was really said)
