Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Freestyle/Greco

I was just wondering how yo guys feel about the fact that High School coaches can not work with their athletes until school is out, approx one week before the national qualifier. I know that in the "big cities" it is not a big deal b/c you have the clubs available for your dedicated athletes. But when one of my kids wants to do that little extra, all I can tell him... sorry. Garden City has a FS/GR club but what if our athletes can not afford to get there twice a week.
I feel that the rule preventing HS coaches from freestyling with their kids is one that favors larger communities and wealthier families. I am still relatively new to KS, (from OK) so I guess my question is: Is this a dead horse that has already been beaten? Is there anything to be done? Do we want to perpetuate unjust rules?

I'm not sure of the rationale, but I also disagree with the rule. I'd support any effort to change it...first, one would need to know the rationale before making a good run at any changes...not sure where to start.

From what I undedrstand the rationale behind the rule is that if HS wrestling coaches are aloud to work with their athletes and heaven forbid take them to FS/ GR tournaments, then that would cause baseball and track to lose athletes.
I think "they" are trying to prevent sports from competing for athletes. It goes along with the same rule that is being questioned now by the state legislature about kids playing a club sport at the same time as the school sport. For example right now a kid can not swim for a club and also swim for their school. but again in Western Kansas in our league we have a six week MS program if their is a club tournament that does not conflict with our schedule I would enourage my athletes to go, shoot I'd like to go with them and coach them if we did not have a school tournament that day etc... except that I would be drawn and quartered by KSHSAA, and the kid would be ineligible to competed the rest of his life. Oklahoma has none of these types of rules, in fact they (OSAA) have no rules at all regarding Freestyle and Greco competition, and they do relatively well in wrestling.

and basebal and track

This could be something that the wrestlers in the state could try to change to help the state take the next step to becoming better. I still will play other sports, but being able to practice with my wrestling coach in the off season, and get tons of matches at freestyle and Greco tourney's? Sounds like a win win situation to me. With more and more kids in kansas putting in the extra work, the state as a whole could only get tougher.