Oh Jacob don't kid yourself, you wouldn't have had a chance of beating me when I was in high school and defiantly not now, Of course if you really want to find that out im sure we can meet up at a tournament this summer, that is if you know how to wrestle freestyle. Second this wasn't the first time you've been upset after your brother lost, I saw it at District too. I just think its funny that’s all cause I was sitting there watching you and I looked over at another coach and said "Watch what this guy does in about 30 seconds". And sure enough there you went. You should have seen the look on his face when he asked me how I knew that was going to happen. I myself get very angry when 1 of my kids loses a match but I have to keep it under control. wrfan, as far as singling out people they were just a few of the events that I witnessed and they came to mind when writing the post. Its not like I was making fun of them, I was mentioning special cases that stuck out. With 1500 kids wrestling and only 105 of them becoming Champions you can imagine that all of the other 1395 kids were disappointed when they lost but that doesn't mean they threw a fit. Let me ask you this question? Did anyone see an Abilene kid throw a leg band?, a headgear?, not shake the officials hand?, shake the opponents hand?, shake the opponents coaches hand?, Cry on the mat?, Hit the mat? Stomp off the mat? Now is all of this because of me? No it’s all of the coaches in the Abilene club, it’s the way the kids are taught, emotion is fine but negative emotion should not be displayed in front of others. The best example I could give is Tanner Dawson 16&U 125 lbs. He placed second last year and had hopes of winning it this year. However he was beat twice in the tournament both times by a point or too and both times the official missed a call that would have won him the match, but at no time after losing those matches did he do any of the aforementioned actions. I never said im perfect, I never said I was a good coach, or a role model for that matter, what I do is make wrestlers good, and I make sure that they are sportsmanlike at all times. The sad part about some of the events that happened last weekend is that some of those kids would never get that upset if their parents wouldn't push them so hard. Some parents have a bad habit of not letting their son/daughter live down their defeats. I know I personally saw at least 5 separate occasions where a parent was literally screaming at their kid when they lost. And most of the time it is these parents that object to any names being mentioned because they don’t want to have to exonerate their kids for their behavior, which they couldn't anyway. And amazingly there was a club at the state tournament which has been notorious for bad sportsmanship in the past, and they were absolutely flawless this weekend I was very very impressed. Anyway bottom line, these are my opinions and this is a forum and im speaking my mind.