I don't think anyone is saying that the coaches for TOHK aren't good coaches and no one is saying the kids are quality wrestlers. I am just saying you don't have to rant and rave and be disrespectful to be a good coach. I have not put down the wrestling ability of any of the TOHK wrestlers and I am not saying that all of the coaches are disrespectful. I personally had a nice chat with their head coach on the side while we were both watching matches. Decent guy polite and friendly. He even mentioned to my husband in a conversation on Sunday after learning that both our boys would be wrestling his wrestlers.."maybe you should be wrestling for TOHK". Thanks but no thanks.... IF my husband or any of our coaches was to act the way that his coaches act their butts would be getting tossed out of tournaments right and left. I have witnessed at every tournament we go to the atmosphere around a match invoving the TOHK coaches (not kids COACHES). My husband is vocal and will argue any point he deems necessary to win a match! But there is a point where you have to draw the line...My husband and all of the other coaches for our club ALWAYS shake the other kids hand and offer words of encouragement or a slap on the back..win or lose! They will not allow one of our wrestlers to get away with displaying bad sportsmanship. They are great coaches and we have a great club with a lot of talented wrestlers! There are no other teams that behave this way to this degree. If you know of any please let me know. I am not saying that there are not individual coaches that act wrong...I have witnessed several along with parents in the stands from other clubs. But I don't see it time and again tournament after tournament! You do not have to act that way to have a great wrestling team! Their wrestlers are good and we know we'll get a good match when we meet up with them. I am not knocking the kids at all. I am not saying the coaches don't do their jobs in the practice room! They just need to clean up their act on the mats! And race has nothing to do with it.
