The debate is not dead although it should be.
I want the debate to go away as much as anyone because there should be no debate. Times have changed and 5A and 6A no longer take a back seat to 3A and 4A. The reason that it is not dead and decaying is because 4A and 3A advocates keep bringing it up.
There are a lot of great coaches that don't make some great kid's state champions including there own kids and Salyer's kids must know how to wrestle. How else could one of them be a regional runner-up in a MIGHTY 4A regional tournament?
And no you do not have to wrestle to be knowledgeable. One of the greatest coaches of all time if not the greatest coach of all time did not wrestle. Ed Gallagher led OSU to 11 national titles in 13 attempts. He was an Olympic Coach at the Berlin Games. He built the program at OSU. He played football and ran track in college and did not wrestle because there was no wrestling at OSU until he built the program after he graduated.
We now see that some of you, but I will not name you, are not only mean spirited but dead wrong.