I'm with you Will but we live in a reactionary society.
Somethin BAD happens and BANG a new rule.
Look at our laws. Lets just face it as bad as the VA Tech situation was this last weekend, some politician will propose a law to require all students in America to go through medal detector before entering their college classrooms. Pretty soon you wont be able to do anything in this Country.
Plenty of speechless high school coaches would like a change but lets face it somethin happened in the past to cause these rules to exist and it will be hard to get them off the books. You may do better getting each of the member school to sign a petition saying they would like to change XYZ rule then you would to post on the forum because honestly this is a wrestling forum OF COURSE it will be a little one sided.
MAYBE wrestling isnt the problem... maybe its football or BASKETBALL... are u familiar with the Kevin Ross story. I will give u a short summary. Kevin Ross was a really tall kids who grew up in the early 70's. of course if u are dunkin the ball in the 6th grade you might make a good basketball player. Kevin attended the same Junior High that I work at now then later on attend Wyandotte High School. He had a very successful high school basketball winning a state title. He was recruited to Creighton University and played for 3 years. He was injured most of the time and after an injury in his senior year of college not only was he cut off the team but his scholarship was dropped. Kevin eventually sued the school not because they used him for basketball but because after 6 years of elementary education, 2 years of junior high school, 4 years of high school, and 3.5 years of college... KEVIN ROSS COULDNT READ!!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/page2/tvlistings/show103transcript.htmlI dont want to be negative I am sayin that is the type of stuff you are up against. Maybe not so much in wrestling but maybe so!
I am just sayin what can we do NOW to improve within the guidelines. Because waitin on KSHSAA to change or tryin to force KSHSAA to change may take years.
P.S. ... If they are goin to change a rule I dont care about goin to the East Coast to wrestle, or wrestling 1,000 matches, get the rule changed what would allow more coaches to coach more kids in the off season.
