Not having many colleges that wrestle does more harm to the sport in Kansas than not providing opportunities to our own athletes. Additional four year schools with wrestling programs would benefit the coaching pool in Kansas, also. Many of those young men would graduate with degrees in education wanting to fill coaching postions here in this state. The technical skills of those former college athletes as coaching candidates would be huge.

The states that surround Kansas all have several colleges that offer the sport, and they have former college wrestlers coaching clear down into their kids clubs. There has to be a great many skills that are being passed along to those young wrestlers. In Kansas we send many of our best wrestlers off to complete their college careers in those other states, and to later occupy coaching positions in those states.

I know that was not the point of this topic originally, but the conversation drifted in that direction and I had something to say.

Gary Ulmer