I for one do not know exactly why this happened but I find it revulsive. A man, Mike Furches, A Coach, A Father, A Supporter, and most of all a man. He says what he feels is right and is his own opinion. He doesn't do it for the attention or the controversy he does it because that's what we all do. Sure there are the few people who do it for the wrong reasons but overall everyone on the boards does it out of pure entertainment, that is to reply to posts and be as witty and funny as we can be and serious also when needed. Just because Mike may be one of the more vocal people on here doesn't mean he's an "attention whore". It just means he has a lot to say or feels stronly about an issue at present.

If you cannot trust a minister with your kids who can you trust? You must be a true waste of an individual and need some help. Mike is a family man, that truely has experienced things we can only imagine in today's society, from his upbrining to where he is now. If you don't believe this, get to know him as a person not who he is on the boards. He truely has won a life long battle and now you come on here and attack the kind of man he is. Worse yet you come on here and don't even tell him what you think, last time I checked that was spelled c-o-w-a-r-d. If you really feel that strongly may I suggest you talk to him next time first before you go renting and raving on about how bad of a person he is to someone else?

Mike "pimping on the boards" I don't believe that for even one second. He has done nothing but support USA Wrestling to the fullest and has done things to further the advances of the sport. He was the one who organized our tag team match at state last year, a person who is such a bad person wouldn't have done that. A bad person also wouldn't have setup a foundation to honor an 8 year old hero like he did. A bad person wouldn't care so much about what he does and what he stands for.

I know first hand that those shirts were handed out at state last year, I helped throw them out to the stands. You never heard him say how much he lost and how bad the state was for not backing the idea. He just took his loss and kept fighting.

Now to whom this may concern-

I find you a coward as mentioned above. If you want to attack me I don't care. I believe that if you were any kind of man at all you wouldn't have done what you did but rather called Mike or emailed him etc. and told him how you felt instead of trying to act like an immature child about it and emailing someone and telling them how you felt. That's really mature on your part let me tell you.

Alex Ryan


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