I'm just sitting here, pondering a missed day of practice. Suddenly, I recalled maybe the most controversial poster of recent times, Gutwrench!

Gut was always good about stirring up the homeboys and playing devils advocate. I wonder what his predictions would be for the Metro this year? He probably would placed Missouri as the favorites in a land slide!

And though he liked to antagonize he did author some very worthy discussions

I for one, miss the old cuss!

Ya, i dont, haha. Although he did on rare ocasion have a good point, but i dont enjoy people who are always so negative, but i do have to give the guy props for saying he would get off the forum forever if he was wrong and he did. Although he was probally on here as another name at some point or another, but all in all i dont miss him that much.

... it's just on days like today, he was a good read!

Coach Sondregger is busy these days it appears,,,,good riddens

Yeah, did anyone ever find out for sure who that guy was? He was a funny character cuz I sent him a personal message one time asking him why he was so negative and he replied with positive encouragement about how I could win, but was still bashing on the public posts....

Andy, I think his intentions were mostly for the improvement of Kansas wrestling. He did post some great things like his topic on how to become a state champion and the one on how to conduct yourself at the state championship in Wichita. It was just that the methods that he used to encourage and promote often crossed a line. He really irritated me with his post about the quality of the wrestling and its effect on the spectators at the 2006 SM North tournament. It is just not appropriate to insult high school kids and their coaches that way on a public forum.

He probably did not mean to be that inappropriate and it was no doubt part of his overall goal to elevate Kansas wrestling to a higher level like he was when he posted something like the next time he saw Andy Hurla it would be at the Metro and you would be on your back kicking like a junebug. I must admit I thought that remark was funny. I am not sure if you did. I remember talking to you a little about it right before the Metro last year and you told me about how he had given you some good advice before your Metro match in an e-mail. I thought that he was wanting you to win and trying to honestly motivate you towards that goal. It seemed to me that he had got your attention. I do believe he wanted Kansas to win against Missouri at the Metro.

At times he could be amusing. He reminded me of my old football coaches who would often use some humorous expletive filled commentary to motivate the troops to a higher level of performance. Often I did not find their motivation to be so funny. In the end I guess that is how I viewed him and what he was trying to accomplish. To me he was like one of my old coaches who would shout, cuss, embarrass, harass, joke, instruct and sometimes even positively encourage my teammates and myself to do better. It was just that too often he crossed that line that my old coaches did where he went to far to achieve his goal. That doesn't work or go over as well on a public forum most of the time preaching to dedicated adults.

It is too bad that he was unable to do a better job of not crossing that line as often as he did on this forum. I hope he is now actively involved developing young Kansas wrestlers to a higher level like he was preaching to the rest of the Kansas wrestling community leaders.

that guy was a tool. im glad he's gone, maybe he found something more productive to do with his life rather than start crap with kids.