Gibby:

My point wasn't that D-I is the best -- it is percieved that way.

I love D-III wrestling (as well as everyother level). But D-I is the top level, it's the one that kids dream of doing and it gets the most notice. In Kansas, basketball kids grow up wanting to be Jayhawks and football kids grow up wanting to be Wildcats. Do they all make it? No, but that's what sucks them in.

There is nothing like that in Kansas. There is no bigtime D-I program to hang your hat on, the kind that will bring in 4,000 fans on a Friday night in January, including lots and lots of kids. Then they see that kind of wrestling, the coaches do and so do the referees.

When I moved back this season (and this is not meant to be derogitory) but the difference in style between seven years in Kansas and being back in Iowa was night and day. The Iowa kids (even mine) wrestled like college wrestlers, at least that style. Singles, doubles, stand-ups; few if any throws; no Granby system (or very little), can't turn them then cut them and take them down; wear them down.

Kansas isn't like that. It's a different style altogether. And