Richard,

First off I think you've missed my point entirely. Try to folllow my line of thought.

#1) As I have heard various stories from qualified sources of what actually happened and everyone is an athority on the subject, I have chosen to dismiss all as he said she said. Will we ever know the actual truth? Probably not. At this point it is immaterial.

#2) Since I know that it's time to move on, I have suggested how I would handle the problem if one of my wrestlers were to ever be in a similar situation and came out on the short end of the stick. Knowing that there is no real way to correct the error at this point, I help guide my wrestler in the process of moving on.

#3) How do we rectify the situation for the future? I offered two adoptions. One, to adopt the rules of the national tournaments which don't allow a wrestler to enter the weigh in area then leave to cut weight. The way I see it, if it's a rule good enough for All Americans, it's good enough for us. Two, to adopt a rule that includes incliment weather and mechanical error. If this rule is good enough for KHSAA, I think it would be good enough for us.

I live my life as trying to be proactive instead of reactive. To me, the error is immaterial and instead I look to ways to make sure that this error is not given the opportunity to happen again. Would you agree that the rules I look for in adoption are good rules and would help rectify the situation in an attempt to see that this never happens again?

I know your Freudian slip of Seamen and not Seaman is a subliminal jab at me, maybe not original, but a jab none the less. After reviewing the tone of the posts that I have sent your direction, I deserved it. I questioned your volunteerism and your discretion of where to send kids and that was wrong. If you still feel the necessity in calling my AD, feel free.

Before you do however, I think it's important to know that I have resigned from the school.

Please e-mail me if you would like to help me figure out how to put these adoptions in place.

jgibson@usd345.com