I have no issue's with The Church, negative or positive, besides what has transpired over the last couple days. I just call it like I see it. The kids signed on being able to participate, and half way through the season were told they could not. Two wrestlers missed the opportunity to battle for a true placing at Regionals and a trip to State. Two wrestlers were forced to add a loss to their record. Public Schools were upset because, in their opinion, once again Private Schools do not have to follow the same rules. These are just a few of the problems that the "Man" in charge has created. And if anyone speaks ill of the church they will be punished? Defend him if you want, but this man has hurt this sport, the wrestlers, the coaches, the parents, and public opinion. Something needs to be done so this does not happen again. I can think of at least 6 kids that were hurt from this decision, and that is 6 too many.
I am almost positive that SJA and STA have not been able to wrestle girls for a long time, it was just that at regionals, some superiors from their schools were there, or something of that nature. That is sort of irrelevant now though. I am not defending the person in charge, the rule, or anything like that. I am trying to explain how the rules are not different for public and private. If a kid from a public school had to wrestle a girl, and he, his parents, his coaches, or anyone supervising him made the decision to not have him not wrestle the girl, he would have done the same thing as the kids in question today, and then been able to wrestle on the backside. I understand that this scenario is different, thus the only response to this should be, change the rule, allow the boys the option to compete, but I have seen numerous complaints of how people are trying to spin this into how evil private schools have their own agenda of destruction, or that the church has too much power over the state. These ideas, arguments, theories, are insane. This is a very simple problem that has a simple solution. If anyone felt marginalized by this decision, that is life, sometimes people make decisions for you and they have consequences. People have to quit making this out to be some sort of crazy deal. This man just needs to change the rule.
