Originally posted by VS Vike coach:
Mike:
Second, keep this in mind: So long as you guys stick to home weigh-ins, the opportunity for abuse and cheating will always be there. There is no way to avoid it. You could put in a rule that says everyone has to wear pink lace underwear when they weigh-in, but if everyone is weighing in at home at 7 a.m. (or whatever), there is no possible way to prove it. How often does cheating happen? Who knows? When I was at Immaculata there was always someone saying Lansing cheated on weigh-ins. First, knowing Ron Averill, that’s laughable and insulting, but even it was true, how would you ever prove it? Unless you want to be the ballsie one who’s going to pull the challenge, it’s impossible to prove. The only way to eliminate the doubt is to do shoulder-to-shoulder.Holmes
I think cheating will typically be caught! People (in particular kids) always talk. It may not come to light until down the road a ways but someone will talk. Isn't that the way the last weight cheating was discovered?
Originally posted by VS Vike coach:
Finally, how it was done 30 years ago is irrelevant. Legal drinking age used to be 18, now it’s 21. Were there less problems with drinking 30 years ago than now? That’s debatable, but what’s not is that for one reason or another, the rules changed. The NFHS made the rule change and whether we like or not, that’s what it is. If Kansas doesn’t want to go along with it, that’s up to you guys. But the thing is that this isn’t a bad rule, it’s not hard to administer or maintain and it’s the legal expression of evil incarnate. And it won’t bring the end of society (or wrestling) as we now know it. It’s simply a new idea.Holmes [/QB]
But there are now talks of lowering the drinking age on a national level. They are in their infancy and I haven't followed them enough to know the reasoning but they exist none the less. That's why it is important for the KWCA and KSHSAA to get this as close to right the first time as possible.
