Hey Husker Fan. Thanks. Ask and you shall receive!
A passionate issue. I assume it was never adopted in Minnesota or even presented to the NFHS.
If I can get on to a couple of web addresses I am going to read some of the background and rational for the reduction. Until then I am unable to support such a proposal.
Two points that initially concern me about the Minnesota proposal. First point. Is the Minn Wrestling Coaches Association just a coaches association- and is there a Minn SHSAA comparable to the KSHSAA. I have stated before that I do not like coaches controling a sport. No where does the sport belong to just coaches. At all levels, MS/JrHS through professional, they are paid employees of the community/team owners. Yes, they can be surveyed, yes their input is important, and yes their inputs are critical to major decisions, but the community voice has greater standing. Where was the Minn SHSAA on this issue. Changes like this requires long and arduous study. Enough said this point.
Second point. Minnesota, Wisconsin, and ?? Dakota are not Kansas. I think all three of these states have another major winter sports activity that Kansas does not. Hockey. So, it may be that they have two sports competing for the same athletes-hockey and wrestling. How is hockey doing, growing or declining. Is wrestling being used as a bill payer for hockey?
Gots to do some more reading. I am sure this issue, and the proposal to have more but smaller brackets, will still be here next winter.
Thanks again
B. Mason
Lansing
Last edited by Contrarian; 03/06/09 03:21 PM.
