Southern Plains attendance would double if the Gross Coliseum would install air conditioning..........

Sounds like Fargo needs to do the same. If you are sleeping in hot dorm room, your body can never get ahead of the dehydration...........

I haven't spent much time thinking about it, but after helping set up and tear down the FSGR tourneys in Andale this summer, and seeing the pathetic attendance, I was totally frustrated. A tourney that close to Wichita should have had 150-200 wrestlers minimum. Instead I believe it was in the 60-80 range.

What is eventually going to happen is what is happening in Illinois, where the kids that want to be good, are going to have to drive to the Overtime training center to get the partners and coaching they need. Right now it seems like if practice isn't a block away, or parents can't find someone else to take their kids, they aren't much interested in pushing their kids into it. That goes back to the kids running the household in today's society. "Dad, I'm no good at FS GR, I don't want to" "OK son, whatever you say, now, do you want me to go get you another popsicle?" Until we get parents that will MAKE (yes I said it) their kids do it, we're swimming against the current.

We have some parents that are like that, but not nearly enough. How many great wrestlers do you know that have parents that are "ok honey, just try your hardest" type of people? Corner one of the Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania parents and ask them what the REQUIRE of their kids. You'll shake your head in disbelief. I am an absolute pantywaist dad compared to some of these parents.

I'm not saying we have bad parents, but I am saying that we don't have enough parents willing to take the chance on their kid not liking them by pushing them.....And in these same parents' defense, how do we expect to increase interest in our sport, when the largest showcase of FSGR wrestling that we see in this area, at Southern Plains, requires these parents to sit in a muggy, hot gymnasium, for 3 days?

My two cents worth..........