Mr. Cokeley. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!.

MY only point is that good Kansas teams should seek to improve Kansas HS wrestling. They can best do that by wrestling--at least in season--the top local/regional/statewide tournaments--such as your hometown Johnson County Classic. Your good wrestlers can help other good Kansas wrestlers improve. All you are doing is helping wrestlers from Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, etc. get better. But perhaps you do not want Kansas wrestlers to improve---you may have to face them in regionals or at state.

One of your last posts I took to be a real personal slam. I was trying to congratulate and encourage a dad and his freshman son (who had a 12-3 varsity record) and said I would see them at state. Your caustic reply was that I did not know enough about KS HS wrestling to include that the 4A State Tournament is hosted at Salina. Sir, you need to find a dictionary and learn the difference between "figurative" and "literal. I do not have to "literally" go to Salina to see this young man, I can figuratively see/track him and his success on this forum, in the newspaper, probably on Tracwrestling, and hopefully someone will stream the 4A tournament. You Must have missed word study in HS and be a product of you Liberal education.

Don' knock soccer or my coaching. First, coaching is coaching. I have coached all levels of soccer (up to competitive HS club teams), T ball, and baseball, football and basketball up to ages 14 or 15. Never wrestled, never claimed to be anything other than a fan. Up to two years ago I was a volunteer soccer coach for a U10 co-ed recreation team (that's Under age 10 for you one sport fans). I am dedicated HS sports fan and watch all HS sports year around--from FB, VB and soccer in the fall, to BB, SB and track in the spring--probably a lot more so than you who has only one interest and knows only one sport.

So good luck in your travels but thought you would have scored/placed higher than you finishes in Council Bluffs or KCMO. I think that your team and individual scores relative to the top teams in those tournaments indicates your wrestlers were mostly getting slammed by their better wrestlers/placers, and/or at least getting beat by their lesser quality wrestlers.

Anything I have said in any of my posts is not intended to attack or denigrate or criticize any of the SJA wrestlers or their accomplishments. They are all fine young athletes, do a great job, and are willing to face/wrestle anyone!