LTC Coach Shea: As always my old friend, thank you.

Richard as for you, you're wrong about one thing: I'm not going to "...spend countless hours on this forum..." defending myself from you. I'm done with that.

See, the part you don't seem to get is that when you dump on me, you're also dumping on the kids that wrestled for me. I know you'll argue that point, but that's what you are doing. And while it might make you feel better it's pretty cheap.

You weren't there Richard and you didn't go through what Coach Shea and myself and my staff of Eric Stark and Danny Wright went through trying to build that program. And you weren't there the final year when Mike Connel tried his best to keep things afloat.

You were 150 miles away in a 4A program that had nothing to do with Leavenworth, the Kaw Valley League, the 3-2-1A class or the Immaculata wrestling program. To me, that makes your views on myself and the Immaculata program meaningless and unimportant. Perhaps you view yourself as final judge and jury, but I certainly don't, and neither do a lot of other people.

So Richard, rant on. Bash me all you like. I'll simply ignore you from now on. I don't need to compare myself with others to judge my own sense of value or self-worth. If that makes you feel better, have at it.

I'll still check in with the Kansas Forum to check in with friends and from time to time I'll voice an opinion. But Richard, I'm done with you. You're simply not worth the trouble.