Mr. Church,

I think that it is very funny that you have changed your original post that bashed me. Your original post claimed that Elliot was elible and that I obviously had no idea what I was talking about. Since Elliot was not elible at the time of your original post, I can only draw two conclusions to your statements. First would be that you are the one that had no idea what you were talking about and failed to gather all information before your not so nice post to me. Or, second would be that you knew at the time of your post that Elliot was not elible, in which case you are a liar. I think that a portion of my post was misunderstood by you. I do support giving athletes every posibility to compete, but at the same time, I do support the rules which govern our sport and support that those rules should be followed. I never questioned you or your intentions. I know that you and the other coaches at South had nothing to do with Tim transferring schools. My original statement was that maybe instead of letting a stupid disagreement with a coach and father interrupt an athletes season, maybe the father, athlete and coach should have sat down to discuss the issues and come to an agreement that would have allowed them to work out their differences. But instead, the kid, either through the influence of his parents or on his own, decided to run away from a difficult situation to a program that would allow him to wrestle the way that he wants to. I think that allowing him to transfer away from a supposed difficult situation, which was merely a disagreement over wrestling styles, the kid should have been encouraged to stick it out and find a way to make things work.

Either way, Elliot is now elible and I truly happy for him. Contrary to your opinion, I do know about the dwindling numbers and do understand the importance of allowing those who are able to compete to do so. I'm glad that his coaches were able to get all of the paperwork cleared up to allow him to compete and I'm now looking forward to an interesting league tournament.