I dont know how to convey how good some of the old guys were except to say that wrestling has been around for nearly 2000 years. I doubt that the human animal has evolved so much in the last twenty or thirty years that there is a great deal of difference in them. Its just that some of us wrestled in that era and coached in this one and we know that there were awfully good wrestlers in both and that things havent changed a great deal in that time. Ido think that kids worked harder in those days and had a better work ethic. I know when I first started coaching it was far easier to get kids to work hard and be dedicated than it is now. Maybe that is good maybe that is bad I don't know but I can tell you that some of those kids in the late sixties and seventies were very very tough and I wouldnt want to have to beat them for a living now. Who knows, I don't but I know they were tough and I don't want them to be forgotten in this state.