"As long as it is a move to make some feel better without fixing the overall problem�I will never vote for it."

You might find this an interesting piece of material that discusses leadership in wrestling. Bottom line is that our leadership in Kansas has a doggone job to do. Report back to the community what the options are and let the community have some input in this. Watching 4 kids from D4 walk into the state tournament without ever having to win a match is an embarrassment.

Terry Brands on the future of wrestling

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29583110

�If the IOC talks, you listen,� Brands said. �You open your ears and you follow the protocol. Whether you think it�s right or wrong, you have got to do that job. It�s not sucking up to them, it�s not playing the game. It�s doing your doggone job.�

Brands said this about Rich Bender, the executive director of USA Wrestling:

�This is something that�s beyond him. I don�t say that to attack him. I�m friends with him. But if we want to do the right thing there has to be a leadership change domestically, and that�s the bad news. There hasn�t been. He�s hanging on, he�s going through the motions, kind of doing what they tell him to do. And there needs to be a change.

Bret Stouder
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