Kyle you are preaching to the choir about football and about wrestling helping football players be better football players. There are about 500 guys out there that will get a kick out of that. I am one of the biggest advocates of that theory in the history of this state.

Problem is, there are quite a few football and baseball coaches out there that are quite willing to keep a lot of kids from playing that don't do all their camps, clinics, or weight sessions and they do keep them from being a part of their program because of it. Hell some of them are friends of mine and they have been doing it for a while now.

I don't think any thing about playing multiple sports is a negative. I think they should be competing in the arena all year round in three sports a year. The problem is they don't believe that. There are a large number of prominent football coaches in this town who would cut kids for not going to their camps or weight sessions because they are wrestling freestyle or playing in showcase baseball tourneys.

I am talking about kids at the highest level of athleticism here. I've coached forty two kids who have gone to college for four years and paid zero dollars for it. They were all football players. Those scholarships do not exist anymore in any other sports except football and basketball. Coaches who keep those high level athletes from competing in any other sports are limiting them and keeping wrestling from seeing them in a singlet. That is just the reality of it. I think that is dead wrong in every respect, but I know it is happening because I know a lot of the guys that are doing it and have done it. Coaches are worried about their own sport and they don't have a heck of a lot of respect for the other sports or what those sports can do for their kids. I think it is a horrible thing to do to them but I know it happens and up here, in this city, it has happened for a long time. Parents have nothing to say about it. I know that because I am one and I have seen it happen. It isn't right, but it is a reality.