'27 OH LB Brayton Feister

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Archbishop Hoban

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247 Comp: ..... NR
247: .................. :s::s::s::s: #2 LB, #60 OA, 90 Rating
Rivals: .............. :s::s::s::s: #6 LB, #119 OA, 5.8
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On3 Comp: ... :s::s::s::s: #10 ATH, #61 OA, 90.53

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Freak & probably Ohio State's to lose but there's a chance until there isn't.

First off, he's a 7x national champion wrestler. Was 31-0 as a FR but got injured and couldn't get cleared to continue.

Was a Maxpreps All American.

That's his younger brother standing in the middle btw. He'll be FR this fall at Hoban.

Both are 1st Team Bobby Mac All-Salad too.

Hard to believe that's a freshman:

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And the plan is for him to play in the NFL, not pursue wrestling.
 

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As a Hoban Alum, is still cannot understand why ND has a tough time getting some of their talent. That school is loaded with ND supporter and it being Holy Cross. Their strength coach is even a die hard ND supporter. ND has had success with the Cleveland Catholics but can’t seem to get any traction just south.
 

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As a Hoban Alum, is still cannot understand why ND has a tough time getting some of their talent. That school is loaded with ND supporter and it being Holy Cross. Their strength coach is even a die hard ND supporter. ND has had success with the Cleveland Catholics but can’t seem to get any traction just south.

When there are guys who are no brainers as Freshmen (or earlier), you don't wait till St Paddy's Day 2 years down the road, you get in first or later the same day when Moorhead offers for the Zips.

And it's one of those schools you have to offer PWO's to.
 

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As a Hoban Alum, is still cannot understand why ND has a tough time getting some of their talent. That school is loaded with ND supporter and it being Holy Cross. Their strength coach is even a die hard ND supporter. ND has had success with the Cleveland Catholics but can’t seem to get any traction just south.

Fun fact. I coached their strength coach in college.


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Ok. Maybe I'm just too high rn. But his profile says LB/DE. But I just watched a highlight reel of a RB?
 

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Ok. Maybe I'm just too high rn. But his profile says LB/DE. But I just watched a highlight reel of a RB?
Yeah he got a lot of playing time as a true frosh at RB. That is impressive as the Hoban RB room has been a constant rotating door of studs for the past 7/8 years. Last true frosh I can think of taking RB time was Deamonte “Chip” Traynum who scored the winning TD for OSU last year against us. Supposedly Brayton was wrestling the end of his frosh year as a heavy weight, so do not know how much weight he has added or how much he will continue to grow.
 

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Officially blew up in Jan. Reporting 6-3/230 now.

Man, does he look like a guy who shoulda played for the '88 team.

Wonder if he's in the plans? Even if he isn't, I'd publicly offer and simultaneously recruit him and the Hoban staff... who all work for a guy in South Bend (sorta) since Hoban's a CSC school.
 

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Placed second this past weekend at the Ohio High School State wrestling meet. He didn’t show up to stand on the podium (guess he lost on a questionable call), then his brother won state at 190 lbs and didn’t show up to the podium. More I learn about these guys more it makes me question if they’d be a good cultural fit here at ND and with the culture Coach has created.

Again what do I know. I have full faith in this staff.
 

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Sorry to hijack the thread but i didnt grow up in a culture where wrestling is a thing but man i've gone to a few meets here because a buddy of mine has kids who compete but hands down youth wrestling has got to be the most toxic environment i've ever seen in sports. The divorced dad energy off all the guys involved with it is insane. Going into those gyms is like a workshop of terrible parenting and borderline child abuse at times. The other day I observed a grown man call his probably 10 year old kid "a retard" for losing a match and then made him do wind sprints up and down a high school corridor while about 50 kids/families watched. Kid was bawling his eyes out. Just a total humiliation job, was sickening. This stuff just seems normal, i dont understand it at all.
 

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Sorry to hijack the thread but i didnt grow up in a culture where wrestling is a thing but man i've gone to a few meets here because a buddy of mine has kids who compete but hands down youth wrestling has got to be the most toxic environment i've ever seen in sports. The divorced dad energy off all the guys involved with it is insane. Going into those gyms is like a workshop of terrible parenting and borderline child abuse at times. The other day I observed a grown man call his probably 10 year old kid "a retard" for losing a match and then made him do wind sprints up and down a high school corridor while about 50 kids/families watched. Kid was bawling his eyes out. Just a total humiliation job, was sickening. This stuff just seems normal, i dont understand it at all.
I wrestled through HS and was a PWO for the ND team before title IX happened in summer '92.
My coach, for most of those years was a USMC Colonel who was volunteering his time. I volunteer as I can to my son's HS team.

Have never seen anything like you describe, but AZ is not a wrestling hotbed.
Now baseball dads are the frickin' worst - whole bunch of Uncle Rico going on there.
 

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I wrestled through HS and was a PWO for the ND team before title IX happened in summer '92.
My coach, for most of those years was a USMC Colonel who was volunteering his time. I volunteer as I can to my son's HS team.

Have never seen anything like you describe, but AZ is not a wrestling hotbed.
Now baseball dads are the frickin' worst - whole bunch of Uncle Rico going on there.
Tbh watching my nieces/ nephews go through sports, as well as helping coach youth baseball, in today’s world there are a TON of parents who take sports over the top and it’s a complete shame. At the same high school as this young man the head football coach wanted players ONLY playing football which is ridiculous. That way he had control over their lifting in the off season. This same high school with their success over the past 10 yrs has some of the worst helicopter parents I’ve ever seen. It’s great to have faith and love your kid but to think they are the next LeBron/ Manning/ Trout. IMO it’s fathers living through their kids and hoping they can do something that they never ever sniffed themselves. It’s hurting our society and our children. Complete shame. But to get back on track, this behavior as described above is learned from the parents and it’s a complete shame.
 

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I wrestled through HS and was a PWO for the ND team before title IX happened in summer '92.
My coach, for most of those years was a USMC Colonel who was volunteering his time. I volunteer as I can to my son's HS team.

Have never seen anything like you describe, but AZ is not a wrestling hotbed.
Now baseball dads are the frickin' worst - whole bunch of Uncle Rico going on there.
Having seen baseball, hockey, football, soccer here id definitely rank wrestling the most toxic followed by baseball
 

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Tbh watching my nieces/ nephews go through sports, as well as helping coach youth baseball, in today’s world there are a TON of parents who take sports over the top and it’s a complete shame. At the same high school as this young man the head football coach wanted players ONLY playing football which is ridiculous. That way he had control over their lifting in the off season. This same high school with their success over the past 10 yrs has some of the worst helicopter parents I’ve ever seen. It’s great to have faith and love your kid but to think they are the next LeBron/ Manning/ Trout. IMO it’s fathers living through their kids and hoping they can do something that they never ever sniffed themselves. It’s hurting our society and our children. Complete shame. But to get back on track, this behavior as described above is learned from the parents and it’s a complete shame.
the funny thing is that in Asia and Europe the thinking in youth sports is to get away from keeping scores and having competition. Like youth soccer in many places in Korea for example they dont even have goals, the kids just practice technique and individual skills before they actually get to play in game scenarios. America on the other hand is totally opposite, kids must constantly be competing against other kids to win trophies and have that gratification (for them or their parents?)
 

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the funny thing is that in Asia and Europe the thinking in youth sports is to get away from keeping scores and having competition. Like youth soccer in many places in Korea for example they dont even have goals, the kids just practice technique and individual skills before they actually get to play in game scenarios. America on the other hand is totally opposite, kids must constantly be competing against other kids to win trophies and have that gratification (for them or their parents?)
Love it when these youth baseball teams have the banner “State Champions” and all these rings when they play at a tourney with 20 teams lol. Don’t even get me started on the travel sport industry. Complete scam
 

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the funny thing is that in Asia and Europe the thinking in youth sports is to get away from keeping scores and having competition. Like youth soccer in many places in Korea for example they dont even have goals, the kids just practice technique and individual skills before they actually get to play in game scenarios. America on the other hand is totally opposite, kids must constantly be competing against other kids to win trophies and have that gratification (for them or their parents?)
Oh dublin, I saw that with my boys getting the opportunity to train in Spain and England for soccer (futbol)...It opened their eyes and my eyes as well how screwed up things are here. Here its all about the fancy team names...

My boys experienced a different approach at Barcelona, Real Madrid, West Ham and Man City...they played some games vs local talent and their Spanish (in Spain) coach didnt care if they won or lost...just that they competed hard...
 
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Oh dublin, I saw that with my boys getting the opportunity to train in Spain and England for soccer (futbol)...It opened their eyes and my eyes as well how screwed up things are here. Here its all about the fancy team names...

My boys experience a different approach at Barcelona, Real Madrid, West Ham and Man City...they played some games vs local talent and coach didnt care if they won or lost...just that they competed hard...
yeah in ireland for grades under 12 in our indigenous sports (the GAA) there is a blanket ban on trophies, medals being handed out and for the very young grades under 8/9's they just have games that are played over 30 mins or whatever but absolutely no score keeping is allowed. The reason these rules were brought in were to slow dropout rates as statistics were showing that kids were quitting sports due to lack of fun, lack of perceived competence and an over-emphasis on competitive outcomes (which usually come from coaches and parents)
 

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Not showing up to the podium is a red flag IMO. Emotions are high in a setting like that, but you man up. Whether he would fit in or not I don't know, but if I'm recruiting him, I'm really looking hard at his personality.

My two youngest started wrestling when they we 6 & 8 and I ran the club for the HS until they graduated. I've been to hundreds of meets. Overall most parents are pretty grounded, but there are plenty of these parents who don't know how to handle things. Wrestling is unique in a couple of perspectives. Unlike baseball, BB or FB, spectators can be down on the floor right next to the mats. Your club team can have multiple kids wrestling at the same time, so you can't be coaching everyone. That means some parents will be coaching their kid. If I had a parent like Dublin described, I tried to make sure I was coaching his kid to keep the emotions tempered. The environment in the gyms with announcements and cheering going on all the time is a lot more busy and loud compared to other sports, so it gives the appearance of chaos.

If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing. Wrestling teaches kids to believe in themselves and to work through adversity. No blaming the team, coaches or refs. Like they say, it only takes one ball to play baseball, football and basketball. lol
 

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Not showing up to the podium is a red flag IMO. Emotions are high in a setting like that, but you man up. Whether he would fit in or not I don't know, but if I'm recruiting him, I'm really looking hard at his personality.

My two youngest started wrestling when they we 6 & 8 and I ran the club for the HS until they graduated. I've been to hundreds of meets. Overall most parents are pretty grounded, but there are plenty of these parents who don't know how to handle things. Wrestling is unique in a couple of perspectives. Unlike baseball, BB or FB, spectators can be down on the floor right next to the mats. Your club team can have multiple kids wrestling at the same time, so you can't be coaching everyone. That means some parents will be coaching their kid. If I had a parent like Dublin described, I tried to make sure I was coaching his kid to keep the emotions tempered. The environment in the gyms with announcements and cheering going on all the time is a lot more busy and loud compared to other sports, so it gives the appearance of chaos.

If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing. Wrestling teaches kids to believe in themselves and to work through adversity. No blaming the team, coaches or refs. Like they say, it only takes one ball to play baseball, football and basketball. lol
Did you ever have any dealings with Dan Pleak? He won state at Cathedral, but I believe went to middle school in Franklin Township.
 
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