Mike, Coach Lampe is a great man and a great coach and Joey would never take anything away from him, his program and would feel blessed to be mentioned in the same sentence as Coach Lampe. But your little shot at LCC was very pathetic to say the least. Lets take a look.

125 ks kid coached by LCC alum.
133 ks kid 30 miles away
141 OK kid 1 hour away
149 ok kid 2 hours awy
157 ok kid 2 hours away
165 ok kid 2 hours away
174 mo kid 1 hour away coached by alum
184 ok kid 1 hour away coaced by alum
197 ok kid 1 hour away
275 mo kid 1.5 hours away

Every kid on this roster is closer to Parsons than Parsons is to Colby by a long shot. Actually the 125 kid lives farther from Parsons than any of the other out of state kids on the above roster.

Labette County borders Mo and Ok and with no Jucos in either state that have wrestling the choice is pretty easy. Last I checked, Joey was not given the same directive Coach lampe got to only recruit KANSAS kids. He must have gotten it after the Louisiana and the other fella from over seas got out.

Labette only had 7 of 10 kids that had even won a state championship in high school, let alone being a 4Xer. Why would a 4Xer have a DNP by his name after the national tournament? Would not have happened at Labette.

Joey will take any Ks kid that wants to wrestle on his team. The enviorment at Labette is not real friendly to kids not willing to work hard and stay out of trouble. Thus, its hard to recruit folks not truely willing to do it the way it takes to be on top.

Also Mike, you seem to know so much about recruiting and wrestling, I hear there will be an opening down here in southeast Kansas, go apply and show nation how to get the job done. They are already on the Cardinal schedule and you wonthave to look real hard for the guy you are talking smack on, he will be right across the mat.