I don't necessarily disagree with you however, as long as the USAWKS offers team placings and team trophies we have to take that into account when making decisions that can impact a team's chance of winning that. You can disagree with the idea all you want but from an organizational change perspective we have to look at all the factors and weigh the pros and cons. I originally just threw that out there because it is a factor that nobody had mentioned.
As far as the point about clubs only allowing kids to wrestle where the club is going....you bring a valid perspective. I would offer some other ideas as to why a club may have that rule...If a club has 100 wrestlers and a limited amount of coaches then the club as an organization has to determine how to divide its resources (ie the coaching staff). Some clubs make that rule because of that, not because they are on a power trip. Other clubs make that rule to promote a concept of team unity. A lot of folks don't agree with that idea and see kids wrestling as an individual sport...others disagree. Not a power trip, just a different perspective and apportach. Along with that I have seen clubs that have that rule but they tell the wrestlers and parents that if they want to go to a different tournament then they can....just don't expect to have club coaches there to coach them. A lot of times it then becomes the parents who get upset because the club won't send 1 coach to coach 1 kid at a separate tournament.
Who's right, who's wrong....neither. They are just different organizational approaches to coaching a team.
