Originally posted by RichardDSalyer:
What a bunch of garbage.
I believe we can all agree success breeds success. Not all students at Immaculata or Leavenworth are basketball players. The recent success of the football program at Leavenworth High School, a one year turn around by a new coach, proves my point. Fact is the lack of producing a winning program at Immaculata directly impacted participation by students who were not basketball players. Last I knew, part of the job of the high school coach is to promote the program in school and recruit in school athletes to participate and grow the program.
Sadly, the former coach was unsuccessful in his endeavors and the program was dropped. [/QB]
Richard, what you truly know about the wrestling programs at both Leavenworth are so sadly lacking, it not only defies belief, but only adds to your usual level of ignorance.
FIrst of all, yes, Leavenworth is a basketball town. Fortunately, the hard work of Dave Schmidt has created a competitive program at Leavenworth High. Unfortunately, the same history can't be said at Imac. After some tremendous years in the 1980s, the program fell on hard times and those have continued.
During my years there, we did attempt to start a middle school program, but despite some strong recruiting by myself and other staff in the school, we only ever managed to get two or three kids a year. And quite frankly, in a school Imac's size, with no tradition whatsoever, getting 15 kids a year out was pretty good. Unfortunatly, after the program really struggled during the 2002-03 season after I left, it was dropped last year.
Richard, I realize that your bashing of me despite your ignorance of the real situation only further proves my point -- if you don't agree with Richard, you are evil. Sort of like dealing with Fred Phelps, I suppose.
But despite you and Gibby's bashing of me goes, keep it up if you like. It doesn't really change anything, nor does it change my feelings as it what we accomplished in four years at Imac. I am proud of what we did and of the people that were part of those years and I miss them and think of them often.
And whatever way you try to spin it Richard, my comments about wrestling in Kansas have only been meant to show my respect for it and to voice my hopes to see it get better. That is a job of a coach, by the way. If I went too far with some of them, I apologize to my friends.
Richard, your passion for the sport of wrestling is admirable and I respect it a great deal. But your defensive attitude and your habit of speaking on topics of which you aren't fully briefed on makes you hard to take seriously -- well, that and bragging up getting people fired -- which I don't. Use you passion for good Richard.
