What is the biggest challenge in most elections???? Getting people passionate enough to care to vote or have an opinion!!!!

Will Cokeley has the one thing we need the most...The ability to polarize the KS wrestling community! (he also has as much knowledge, far reaching contacts, energy, and passion as anyone I know) You might not agree with Will, Heck I think he is nuts sometimes, but he does move for progress and more times than not he is right on the money.

When he talked to me about building a barn behind his house for wrestling, I tought he was crazy, but he was looking for a way to improve wrestling like East KS club had done. Several years later, he has organized teachers like Eric Akin, Tony Purler, Lindsey Duhrlacher, and many more. Look at the high level kids that barn has put out!!!!! Yes it has no doubt helped his sons as well, but my son and dozens of others are much farther in wrestling that they would be without some of his "crazy ideas". He was one of the first to put together middle school duals teams, etc. You can't list the things he has done. And yes he goes off the deep end sometimes, but so do I and probably most who are reading this. Bottom line however. Put Will in charge and a board that is respected and reasonable to "temper his enthusiasm" once in a while. At the same time realize he will constantly push the edge with new ideas for change. Many of them great, and some not so great. But all of them much better than doing nothing. Some will argue that KS wrestling needs no change, we are doing great. But look at those kids that people are hanging their hat on or taking credit for. They are the one doing the extra things Will advocates. This does not even take into account the non-wrestling issues most if not all want changed like, state tournament concessions, etc.

Not many stand on the sideline when Will is involved. You either support him, or you work to your last breath trying to defeat him. Either way KS wrestling wins with great involvement, deeper discussions, and more passion to move KS wrestling forward.

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