The AD should have fired the old guy before school started as he had a DUI and could have went a different route.

I think Cody Cole will do a great job, but I have coached at the JUCO level. Those athletic directors want 35-40 in numbers, but the kids flake out fast because a majority were coddled. I was asked to wake up kids at Neosho...hell with that, I recruited enough that if a star didn't show up a hard working kid that may not be that great of a wrestler could come to the front. I think Cloud will do well in the future as it is in a great area of the team. Heck there was one year where 4 state championship teams in the same year were within an hour of Concordia, KS.

National qualifying is based on numbers at qualifiers too (or used to be)....it's based on percentage of total that show up to the qualifier...every year you see some team weigh in a random person that can't wrestle due to injury to get percentage up to qualify to nationals. I have seen teams bring random non rostered kids to regionals. It's bad enough Ark Baptist can't field half a team in the region...they even lost hosting abilities this year because of that. I think there should be a penalty on qualifying directed towards the teams that can't get it together as it effects the entire region for qualifiers...then again NEO just puts 10 in the finals every year and don't have to worry about wildcards, so as long as Joe Renfro is in the region...it won't matter how many numbers any Kansas team brings to the tournament.