Billy Mc:
Just to stick up for the Gonzales'. I don't think Bob wants to change what ain't broke. He knows the tournaments you mentioned are good ones. I believe he would like to make some minor changes possibly to the pre-christmas schedule. By possibly adding a dual tournament and maybe going to 1 tough 2 day tourney before Christmas with pool wrestling like they do at Baldwin or Lee's Summit, those 2 changes could add 5-6 matches for each wrestler. Instead of 9-10 matches in 3 small one day tournaments they could get up to 15 or 16 matches, only using 1 more competition pt., which I believe Manhattan can spare. I think he would also like to see more matches for the JV kids.
Also I don't know what the toughness of 189 in 2004 has to do with Bob's ability to run a program, but to retort: Pietrzyk from Salina S. is now a 2 time champ, he was 3rd in that bracket. Willy Cochran (2nd) from GE was a returning state placer, Sheldon Pipkin from Liberal only had 2 losses, none to a Kansas kid before state and Brad Page from Paola was tough too(I believe he may have beat out Jimmy Stewart for that spot). Jordan Best was 6th and is now wrestling for Labette, pretty tough kid,(even though he doesn't like my coaching). Tyler Gonzales won in 04 he is a 2x finalist and posted a win over 3 timer Pursel. Maybe that's weak to you but I beg to differ.