Hey Disney; Do you think Zach Roberson (the best wrestler who ever wrestled in this meet) was as good as he was because he was from Kansas? That just the nature of the state he was in was responsible for him being what he was. Oak Park scored 260 some points in the Missouri State meet because they are darn good at what they do and Gary and some others have done a marvelous job but do you really think just because they live in Missouri that that will always be the case. Not going to happen, it comes and it goes and there is a cycle to everything and one night or specifically last night does not endow one state with lifelong superiority. If you dont think Oak Park right now is a long ways above anything else Missouri has to offer and I dont just mean the metro, I think you really undersell what it is that program has done. They are right now, what Ark City was years ago, they are national good. Nobody else in Missouri or Kansas for that matter is at that level right now. I'm not slamming the state of Missouri or Kansas with this but I am not naive enough to think that based on one night of wrestling you can make some sweeping statement about how good a whole state is when the big chunk of that statement is coming out of one or two rooms.

Last edited by Westfahl; 03/07/08 01:46 AM.