I appreciate the nice compliment. I do miss coaching and would love to help coach, but I can't commit to it with my schedule. I'm certainly getting my fill of middle school activities (nothing beats a 15-13 basketball game ), but I'm also getting a lot of time with my own family that high school coaching didn't allow. I'd like to get more involved in freestyle/greco if possible and if they'll quit changeing the rules every hour.

I am enjoying officiating right now, too. I feel like I'm still involved and hopefully helping out. I'm glad I was relatively easy on officials before, because it's a different world now. I'd encourage anyone that can't commit the time to coach to get involved as an official, especially guys right out of high school and college. It's pretty decent money, and you still get to be around the wrestling family.

have a good one,
Ryan