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  1. First off, no football coach will directly say they don't want their kids wrestling. That would cause quite a big fiasco in a school if a coach was telling kids not to wrestle or play any other sport.

     

    Football coaches do not like to hear about kids cutting weight. Most are old fogies who remember the days when they were in high school of crazy weight cuts. The best thing to do is EDUCATE them about the new policies about cutting weight. Football coaches also want kids lifting weights. The best way to solve that is to lift during the season. Make sure your kids are in strength class and/or take time a couple times a week to actually lift. This won't hurt their wrestling and will also appease those coaches to a degree.

     

    Some other things that might discourage coaches from having their athletes wrestle is flat out culture, expectations, and leadership. This can go for any coach encouraging kids to partake in any sport to be honest. For instance if you are at a program that holds kids out if they miss practice, then another sport lets them get away with that then those sports will not mesh well. If one sport has a leader that is very detail oriented with practice plans and goals for the team and another just shows up at practice with nothing, those programs will not mesh well.

     

    As a coach I know there were some issues with a sport that was at the club level. There were no expectations for the kids, no structure, and on top of that the kids were not held accountable. Of course every kid wanted to do it for those reasons. In the end, many did not stick with it due to the lack of structure, expectations, etc. If done right that sport was a great compliment to wrestling and football, however none of the coaches truly supported the kids partaking in the sport.

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