twotwenty

As a former X wrestler and grad, 502 you absolutely disgust me. Anyone who cheers while a kid is injured is a coward and shell of a person. As a competitor, I had the utmost respect for opponents, and would like to assure the remainder of this community, do not discount a school from one pathetic example. Mr. Krebs, I wish your son a hasty recovery.

Exactly right

I came from a large school with a large program. However, most see a big school and think big funding. That we had the complete backing of the school. We were allowed to have one home event each year. We had to ride some POS bus up to Ohio and Indiana tournaments where the wrestlers had to pay entrance fees and had to make the drives back home at 2-3 am. There was not some big hotel we all stayed in and we didn't have some grayhound bus as most of you imagine it. Our "big school" had about as much funding as most of the "small programs". We did not even have our own room. We maintained our room each and every day but most of the time we had to waste 30-45 minutes waiting for other teams to get out. As for the number of kids in the room, I always preferred to have just a handful of kids in our room. As much as it may sound negative, size of program is not nearly as important as say coaching or motivation of the kids. Whether you choose to believe my first hand accounts, the success of a program does not require thousands of dollars of funding. It require kids who are willing to push themselves further than other kids. That is why you have several teams in KY who are always in the top 10. The kids have grown up knowing hard work or the have grown up knowing how to do just enough. That is why you have small teams and programs like Union, WV etc who are always beating big programs and that is why you see big programs who have always been top level maintaining the traditions of past years.