I appreciate your passion Will, and respect your right to protest, but I you are in a very vocal minority here, and KSHSAA is here for the majority.

You have the right, as a parent, to move your family if you don't like the way things are being done where you are. Or, you have the right not to have your children participate in KSHSAA sponsored sports and get them private training. But if you choose not to do those things, you live within the rules.

St. James Academy can have that clinic because they aren't members of KSHSAA. The aren't bound by the same rules the rest of us are, but then again they can't compete for State championships. That was the choice they made.

KSHSAA works at the behest of the members schools. The rules are recommended by member schools and get approval of the KSHSAA Board of Control. It's not just Gary Musselman and Rick Bowden sitting in Topeka trying to figure out how to screw everyone. They have thousands of young athletes in this state they have to serve and they are doing what is best for the vast majority.

I agree with Sport0 in the idea that I can't figure out what is so wrong. Most of the rules we compete under in Kansas are the same ones that they compete in in other states. And as I pointed out earlier, with our weigh-in rules and travel rules, we are luckier than many states.

The high school season is what three-and-a-half/four months? After that you can travel all you want and live under whatever rules you want. But instead of raging against what it appears the majority of the wrestling community and schools in the state want, why don't you work within the system and be an agent of change the right way?

The worst thing about living in a democracy is that when you're in the minority, you lose.