To any and all that have posted on this topic. I do know ALL of the TOHK coaches personally. I know Mike Vukas personally. In fact I know most who have posted personally so here is what I can tell you: Much of what has been said on this post is the truth. Coach Knox and Coach Taylor Sr. do NOT typically engage in the intimidation warfare. In defense of Mr. Vukas's comments. When the entire section supporting this team boos a competitor and then continues to throw objects at the official what else do you do? If you are new to the game you have to generalize. Did any other team make themselves overly apparent in such a negative way during the tournament? I am no angel to the officials either but I promise that I have gotten by with WAY, WAY less than what happened this weekend. In fact, Jerry Dale has been asked to leave for doing nothing more than being irritating. I am not going to go into the name the culprits as they know who they are or have been. I put up with the remarks and attempted intimidation for years. It has passed and I am thankful for this but I know it has continued to happen to others. I wish it would stop because I do know that all of them want the best for their wrestlers but in the end we all do and not all of us lose control of our actions and words. The bottom line is two sets of rules have evolved over the years. One set for TOHK and another for the rest of us. If the same set were applied uniformly to all of us this post we not be necessary.

Danny, Sean, Ulysses, Charlie, Quincy, Kenny, and the rest of the staff are assets to our organization but they could be so much more valuable if they would accept the fact that bad calls happen and that it is okay to lose even if it was because of a bad call. I know this is hard to accept but the good calls will NOT come if you make such a huge deal out of the bad ones. I know it is hard because I refuse to accept it so I try to stay out of the corner as much as possible.

I know Mike Vukas too. He is not a coward and he doesn't have anything against a single person involved with TOHK. I doubt either of his boys have ever wrestled a TOHK wrestler. He is new to the sport and not used to seeing a group (again, generally speaking) go so over the top. He just wrote down on this forum what many others have been afraid to say or write in the past.


Until next year...