I want to clarify my position:
1. Travel all you want and can afford. But, take your whole team. Don't leave your subs and JV for our local tournaments.
2. Don't call you subs and JV a varsity team that cheapens our local varsity tournaments and competition.
3. Entering a team of your second string and JV robs everyone else of a varsity training opportunity. There is limited/no training value for a good/ranked varsity wrestler slamming an inexperienced JV wrestler
4. As an exception, nothing is wrong with entering a JV wrestler in a varsity tournament to fill a temporary team opening due to injury, illness, poor grades, or coaches or school discipline.
5. Nothing is wrong with entering a limited number of JV wrestler in a non-team scoring status to flesh out bracket openings (to minimize byes and as approved by the tournament director and/or as included in the tournament guidelines or rules). Have mixed feelings on including a varsity wrestler's team points earned by beating a non-scoring JV wrestler.
The only intent of my posts is to keep Kansas HS wrestling strong and growing. The way it is some times being manipulated concerns me!!
Nuff said by me on this topic!
