Nigel, I know you are young and have not been a parent yet from previous posts. Do you own a house? People concerned about going home so they can sit on their butts to watch TV?????!!!!! You got to be kidding. When you have children (especially more than one that might be involved in other activities besides wrestling) and a house, you will realize that most people are not wanting to cut short a typical 8 to 12 hours wrestling tournament day just so they can go home to watch TV. There are other things going on in life you know. "5 or 6 hours" where are you coming up with that? Most of us would love it if a typical tournament day only took 5 to 6 hours. The only people who whine about it are people not dedicated to the sport?? Is Mike Juby not dedicated to the sport? There are plenty of others who are very dedicated to the sport who have come out for strongly for split tournaments. "I mean come on is 6 or 7 hours out of 1 day really all that much to ask?" It is not just one day and it is a weekend day. Most people with families, homes and busy schedules realize the importance of a giving up a weekend day. Many of us are giving up this weekend day for at least 12 weeks in a row and that does not include all the other time during the week going to practices. It is not just one day. I know how much time a parent puts in for their wrestlers. I am in my 8th year of doing it now. You should be grateful to parents instead of putting them down so much. You would not have this youth wrestling without parental involvement and support.

Nigel, I know you think all of us parents should just grin and bear. People are not going to do that. What they will do is just not participate, and you will never see wrestling grow like it should if you don't start trying to be more user friendly to these people who you say are not dedicated to the sport. Wrestling needs to attract these people. Wrestling would be wise to think of more ways to do it like these split tournaments. Otherwise wrestling will continue to be a secondary sport with limited media exposure and we will see even more college programs falter. I hope someday you realize it because I know you are very young and dedicated to this sport. I would like to actually see you become a leader in positive change to make wrestling more popular instead of always trying to just slam down people's ideas who are honestly trying to give some input to improve it.