I can't say how bad any other teams are. My son wrestles for Eudora. I won't say they are bad but what I will say is they have 12 kids on the team. 2 have high school experience. 5 have injuries. So out of the 6 that wrestled at the tourney. 2 had more than one yrs of wrestling. One was a soph and one was a freshman. Both have wrestled since they were 5. And the freshman placed 5th in 120lbs. The other 4 are first year wrestlers. All gave their all. It's just the cards we was dealt..
Good show with what you had. Hope your coaching staff is building your team by entering your younger wrestlers in every JV tournament he can find. Entering a varsity tournament and getting your butt slammed teaches nothing. Nice for a 9th or 10th grader to say he is on the varsity, but if not winning needs to go down to his competitive level. Sitting the varsity bench just to talk up the girls at the lunch counter means nothing!
A short story. 19 years ago when my son was a HS freshman--and a very good soccer player--the HS coach told me he was going to keep him up with the varsity. My response to the coach was if he was getting varsity playing time OK. But I did not want to see him just sitting on the varsity bench and not even getting JV experience. He got varsity time as a sub and by the 3rd game he was starting--and continued starting for the next 3 years--all conference soccer 3 years, 2 years junior college soccer. My point is, sometimes the parent has to manage both his athlete and the coach. Seen too many kids sit the varsity bench and get no playing time at any level.
