I am on this forum to start a postive post about TEAM OF Hard Knox. This post is just for postives for TOHK. I am painting thoughts. I will start with this my greatest atribute I am a child of God. In wrestling our ninth guy sign a division I scholarship. This post is design for only postive thoughts even if they only come from our members or me. If you are not a member please feel free to comment.

TOHK is positively one of the toughest team in KS. if we lived near wichita we would practice with coach knox and crew.

I have great respect for TOHK, they are tough and well trained! We would also practice with them if we were in the area. Keep up the good work TOHK!!!

Positively love the way you guys conducted yourselves at highschool state. Positively loved the chants and jeers toward our team. Positively loved being stared at and pointed at. Way to stay positive and help out that negative image that you are "trying" to change. Mike Pirl

I like the way you keep the forums interesting ?
Kinda odd to solicit favor ? maybe just me, im kinda odd myself
its like playing a self help tape " I am somebody, I am great, everybody loves me " kinda thing.

Come on if you can't say anything postive about TOHK start your on post. Or put in my private box. Misery likes Misery.

Give it a rest no section cheered louder than yours when Scoot Deshazer lost,your fans were as vocal as any til you knew Heights had the title.

Jason Murdock

Your a good man coach Knox. And know matter what you might think about me we will always difend hard knox. We know better than most what goes on in your room its a good hard workout with lots of knowledgable coaches. Keep doing what you do. Belive it or not we are still big fans of hard knox. It was a good nine years. See ya at the next tournament.....

Coach Knox - ran a free style clinic up in Valley Center last summer. Top notch coaching and he may have got a couple of young converts to the free style arena!! Skill & encouragement from Coach Knox was the key.

Coach Taylor - At the Valley Center tournament, I came off the mat with a first year U6. Coach Taylor was on the hard wood floor on his (est 60 yr ??) knees working with one of his kids on a stand up. I was giving sage advise on the stand up to my wrestler who was not really listening and nodded to Coach Taylor. He smiled, grabbed my Valley Center kid, put him next to his TOHK kid and they worked on the stand up together for about 10 minutes. He was chewing on them hard to get it right with a big smile when they made progress.

This was mid-afternoon, my knees hurt and here was Coach Taylor on his (old than mine) knees coaching his kid and a Valley Center kid because he saw my kid was watching what he was saying went to work with him. It reminded me of one of my favorite childhood martial arts coaches...I had not thought of him in a while. THANKS.

Cory Schrater
316.371.0250

OK OK OK, I could choose to say nothing or say something positive as you posted earlier. I think I see where your coming from, so I did some research.

I will say this, your club has endured and come through some rough roads. Sometimes when all the controversy never seems to stop or give you a break it can seem overwhelming to anyone. This tends to give most a little thicker hide and would make any of us more defensive. TOHK provides an outlet and alternative for a lot of youths that may find other ways to spend idle time.
I went back and found articles from Furches family ministries and the bottom line I got is, TOHK really does care about youth, youth wrestling and involving Christ in what they do. Does this mean they are perfect... ahh no. BUT I believe the effort and heart is in the right place.

Coach Knox, I am proud to say that I wrestled for you. Your program came along at a tough time in my life and taught me lessons of toughness, hard work, and determination. Not only was I a State Champion because of you...I am a college graduate, wrestling coach, and official. You inspire me to stay in this sport.

Coach Taylor, you are the man!!!! I am 32 years old now and have been in your company since I was 8. I can honestly say that between you and your wife I always felt welcome. You always showed interest in how my brother and I were. For that I am eternally greatful. Even if you think I don't see locked hands when I should

Thank you both for teaching me lessons of life and wrestling!!!!! Doug Mitchell

Coach,
My best memories of you and your guys are not the DI kids you have produced or the time and effort you dedicated to cadet duals and freestyle and greco. It is of seeing you, like I did, hauling a boatload young kids every week to tournaments. Exposing them to a great sport where the lesson is the harder you work, the better you get. It is seeing you take the time to encourage those borderline kids who may not have the god given athletic ability, it is encouraging young officials...keep it up Charlie...people often mistake passion for other things...it is exactly what we need more of.

I really don't know why anyone would have a problem with anybody from the team of hard rock. There coaches and wrestlers always seem to behave perfectly well. I think they were at several tournaments in kc area this year and I didn't see any issues. I really don't know why there coach has to defend them when they run a good team.

I know I was very impressed when Charlie and at least a half-dozen of his wrestlers came and sat down by my family at a Thunder hockey game a couple of weeks back. Here he was sharing a local sporting event on a Friday night with these boys. He thoughtfully apologized to us and corrected them when they kept going in and out of the seats, which was no big deal to us.

I coach two other kid sports and admit I have never taken a group of my players to some other event.

As a kid, I would always see this guy running down the street, not knowig where he was going. One day I started running behind him and asked what he was doing or where he was going. He told me he was jogging and then just took off. I ran behind him for what I thought was 10 miles but was only 2. I then started wrestling for Coach Knox soon after with the Wichta West Wrestling Club during the 1988-1989 season.

Coach Knox has been there as a father figure and a friend for over 20 years. He drove all the way to Lincoln Nebraska on this own dime to support the State of Kansas but especially Nathan Bumphus and Myself. That year I took 8th in Cadet Greco Roman and Nate took 7th in Greco and 8th in Freestyle. He was also there to support me when I won my High School State Title in 1996. And,with the years of incouragment I finished my 4yr degree at Wichita State last year and Coach took off work and was there to watch me walk across the stage. Thanks CK for everything.

I know it has been a hard battle over the years and I know the "solict" is not for you but for us! People will always hate the dedication you give for they will never be able to stand taller than you and I think you a little over 5 feet tall(lol, had to get that in. lol!)

Oh yea, Team of Hard Knox Oklahoma coming soon!!!!

So the rumor that Charlie is starting a club in Guymon has legs?

Charlie, Please bring back the hair and the hats.

Coach Knox I for one appreciate the time you give not only to TOHK but to the Freestyle and Greco teams you also coach. You may not hear this enough, so THANK YOU for being a positive roll model for the youth that have had the honor to wrestle for you.


Ted Huck
School Boys 09' 10'

Good club, good wrestlers, Charlie is a good guy, But a couple of the coaches on that team are idiots that give the entire club a bad name

i'm sure that statement can be said about every club in the state. for that matter every club in the nation.