Jerry McSwords Quotations

We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.

Last year we took nine to district and got only one to state, so right now I'd like to take at least one, but I think we can get three or four out.

Legg and Barlow aren't undefeated anymore. I'd rather have it happen now than in two weeks.

Barlow's match was tremendous. He came out and shot a double and almost took him to his back in the first 10 seconds. It was 4-0 after a blink of the eye. Brendan wrestled a smart match. He got ahead and stayed ahead.

Grove City is good. It will be a battle. They match up with us relatively well. They graduated a lot of seniors last year, but it will be a good match.

I thought the kids came together and wrestled exceptionally well. The best thing is we came back from adversity.

Paul had a great tournament. He had a couple big wins early on. He was never intimidated by anybody or anybody's ranking, so I was really impressed with him. I thought all of our kids wrestled well.

I thought his shoulder hit first, but they said his head hit first. They took all of the injury time and they said his head injury was so bad that he couldn't finish the match.

We have to come back, get better, get ready and get focused for Grove City, and sectional, district and state and see how many guys we can get out.

Brendan wrestled smart in the first couple of periods, but when he broke him down and broke him flat and got that tilt, we thought it was going to be 3-0. And as soon as we thought that, it was over.

Brendan wrestled (Nicholson) a pretty athletic and pretty strong heavyweight from Marion-Franklin.

Brendan has always been a heavyweight, but he was a small heavyweight. We started the program with freshmen and sophomores, with no upperclassmen and we were going out and wrestling a varsity schedule. We've been wrestling a varsity schedule for three seasons.

Ryan did a nice job scoring points for us. He got the monkey off his back by qualifying. He was a state alternate at South, so for him to get down there was a big deal. Ryan wrestled his heart out. The two matches he lost in overtime were heartbreakers. He was one match away from placing.

Ryan came through. He wrestled an exceptional tournament.

Ryan came out on a mission. I thought he wrestled a little flat at sectional, and obviously this week he didn't wrestle flat. He had something to prove.

This is what we've been working toward the entire season. We want to prove to the state how much we've learned from the previous year.

It's going to be a tough, tough league. I think our kids can battle.

I'm disappointed, but I'm not greatly upset. We're just not in the driver's seat anymore in the OCC and I would like to be in the driver's seat.

I liked the way we bounced back against Delaware. I was more upset that we were sort of flat and intimidated by Marysville. It looked like we were wide-eyed. We didn't know what to do. Against Delaware we knew we were back on the track, but I thought we looked a bit timid against Marysville where we shouldn't have been.

I like the way we've moved up. The kids work together. It will be different next year because this is the first time we've graduated a class, so there will be people missing in the room. Before, we had the same number of people coming back.

Chillicothe gives up four or five weight classes. I like the tough schedule to continue because sometimes when you know you are going to have a down match, your kids take some time off mentally. They need to be pushing themselves every week.

Gary did a super job. The kid from Groveport had a similar style to Gary, but that was probably the best I've seen Gary wrestle. He wrestled a smart match. He went after the kid and he was aggressive in all the right ways.