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I don't think school is JUST about academics. If that were true, schools wouldn't support any extracurricular activities. Most educators would agree that activities outside the classroom teach kids many things they can't teach in the classroom. In my opinion, school is about preparing people for life and hopefully offering opportunities upon graduation. Let's face it, athletics offer opportunities for many kids to attend colleges that they could never attend on academics alone. Furthermore, being a college athlete pays dividends well after college. Most employers value employees who were athletes and will hire candidates who wrestled or played another sport over some frat guy any day of the week. So if transferring to a school for athletics is going to open doors for a kid for potentially the rest of his life, I have no problem with it. Besides, in many instances the schools with great athletics have great academics also. Would more college coaches be looking at Brock or ATM if they were at SPG? I don't know why you are so confident there wouldn't be. I think its safe to say that SPG is one of the best teams in the country and wrestles one of the toughest schedules. That can only help expose their kids to more college coaches. Also, as good as the coaching staffs are at CC and UC, they are not as good as SPG. Any wrestler, not just Brock or ATM, that spends 4 years in the room with Jordan and the rest of that team would improve more than in the room at CC or UC.

Private, public, big, or small, it makes no difference. Success is only defined by the one trying to obtain it. If you have an able willing wrestler with a knowledgable coach, the wins will come. Any coach that says he doesn't care if his kid is a State Champ, is a liar. We all want our kids to succeed. Now, that being said, does that define success? In my opinion, no, it does not. If the kid we coach learns the value of hard work and learns to be more than he ever expected, now that's success. Values, that's what this whole country is missing. As far as transfers go, everyone's situation is different. Do I always agree with it, no. Do I sometimes understand it? Sure. Bottom line, if you don't agree with transfers, make sure you can coach a kid to beat them. I could blow the lid off this site with what I know about less than admirable coaches, parents, and wrestlers from multiple teams, but it's not my story to tell. Back on subject, once again, Congrats Kyle. Job well done.

I tell you what, during 20 years at one school I had more talent move out of state then I got in transfers.

You know, college coaches do 90 percent of their recruiting at national level tournaments during the late spring and summer , except for the Ironman, Beast, and NCWA. They don't want to watch a Brock or ATM wrestle a weak kid. Same thing is happening in all sports, club coaches are closer to college coaches than anyone. Highest level coaches I ever talked too were at camps and clinics. When I coached club soccer, I got a call from Anson Dorrance (UNC Womens coach All time winningest coach in any sport) and Jerry Yegerley (IU natonal champion coach) If you go to po dunk HS and you place at Fargo, Flo or NHSCA, they will fill your mailbox and phone. The advantages of Graham is that every time you wrestle for them, there isn't bad competition.

We will be taking two teams to Illinois March 28-30 for middle school nationals duals. Team ky will be competing against some of the toughest kids in the country.

Removing the srs does a lot more than just launch the team with the highest score minus srs into the top spot it moves many around and brings kids who scored lower in some classes automatically higher due to the absence of higher placing srs , you could break it down further and take out the srs and move everyone up in their spots and look at what the scores would be to get a more realistic view of what scores can be projected to look like next yr .