I would say a good excuse is that they had to help their family out, which has happenend. The kid came back the following year and did quite well. A bad excuse is not wanting to waste their senior year, which translates into going to parties and getting bombed every weekend. I just dont understand how something you put so much blood, sweat, and tears into how you could just walk away because of feeling the need to party. My biggest beef is the upper classmen who quit. Although I do not condone the freshman who come out and give it a try just to quit, I can understand some what. But the fact that you go through all the trials and tribulations, using hard earned money on camps, clinics, and summer wrestling just to quit is terrible. I graduated high school some ten years ago and went to a lot of parties but not during wrestling season. I can say that I did not waste my senior year