It was a sad day for me a few weekends ago when I coached against Ben Davis at the Westfield Duals. I refused to go last year because I didnt want to coach against any of my former athletes. Just too many still around. For Coach Gill to imply that I had nothing to do with the last years 138, 170, 220 and HWT from last year is another sad story but a story that's been unfolding for 3 years now. We all had an involvement in bringing Nick, Dylan, Kasha and Norman up as great wrestlers. Hence the reason Coach O'Neil walked with Dylan at the state finals face-off last year even though he left the same year I did. The even sadder story is that the athletes are the most important part of this equation. Not what accolades we rack up as coaches. I enjoyed watching in "secrecy" the boys success and wish them the best as they are off as grown men finding there way at school.
When I was hired as the head wrestling coach at BD, I said I would work hard and leave the team in a better place than I received it. I feel that I stuck behind that statement.
It is always best practice to make sure you use statistics accurately. The way it was presented, we actually placed more than that at state but again its not about the numbers, its about the athletes.