To Shudog's defense. Many districts including Contrarian's own home district of Lansing have "open enrollment". You fill out a form, get approved, and your in. If you do not move you have to sit for the mandatory 18 weeks. But several districts have out of district students that transfer in for a variety of reasons, social, academic, athletic, all of them combined. All perfectly within the KSHSAA rules.

I am a public school guy but my belief is...if a private school is 4a 5a, 3a or whatever by enrollment, leave them there and beat their ass. That is all I am saying to clear up the quotes sportfan02 was questioning. We are put in classes to give us a reasonable shot. It is perfect that Lansing with 577 kids has to compete with Emporia with 925? No wonder they beat us. Seriously, I choose to believe they beat us because they have a strong kids club, great tradition and coaching and they were simply better. Now it's on us to work harder to beat them.

Sportsfan02 don't be an irritant comparing this to having only one weight class in wrestling. A better comparison would be to make all kids that get extra help or go to Purler, Akin or any camps carry an extra weight provision like Jockeys do. So if you have been to Purler you need to weigh in 2 pounds less than a kid who has not. Gotta keep it fair.

Finally, rule are generally put in place to watch over the masses, the flyers or one achieving at the very high or low end are usually not covered. If we legislate for every possible option or scenario we create a burden to everyone like we are doing in Washington right now....Oh that is another subject.