As for do I think kids are better now than in yester-year. No I don't at all. Kids are much sloppier now and they are forced to be because of some of the rules that have been imposed on them. It is impossible to say that kids have changed or not over the years. Everyone likes to say their era is the best but if you look at how short a time that has been in the scheme of things the human animal just doesnt change that much. I will tell you one thing it is much harder to get kids to work hard now but on the other hand they have so much opportunity to wrestle so many more matches they should be better. I think sometimes we try to make wrestling appealing to the masses at the expense of good wrestling. People who know me know I was a leg coach and the rules makers have really tried to end that form of wrestling. Good setups are a thing of the past because the refs will call you for stalling before you can get a quality move set up. That is why, in my mind you see so many kids make desperate and very sloppy moves that cost them matches. Very crowd pleasing but crappy wrestling. I think kids are kids some are more talented than others but it is not the same game for better or worse and maybe both that it was twenty five or thirty years ago. Personally I think it was more of an art then than it is now and I miss that very much.