Sportsfan,

The other side of that coin is that by creating a super team or playing a national schedule vice purely a state schedule that school district incereased its revenue enough to fund the athletic program for 10 years. This is evidence provided in the article you gave. This is not such a bad thing.

Here's the 800 lb gorilla that nobody wants to address.....you said it will create a state of "haves and have-nots". So what. Isn't that what we currently have in this country given our economic system?

The bottomline to this whole issue has nothing to do with wrestling or any other sport specifically but the basic fundamental premise of freedom. In my opinion, a school district should have the freedom to chose where they compete. They make that choice based on a variety of factors, one being resources available.

If this creates a system of haves and have nots so be it. You can always go out and work to improve your lot in life. The more we try to equal the playing field on any of this, the more we inch closer to socialism.

Keeping things at the local level seems to work the best. That way school boards and the local population can vote to increase bonds if they want to support school events travelling outside the state greater than 500 miles. It shouldn't be a blanket policy.

Just my thoughts.

Shawn Budke