As I said in the other thread on the Varsity versus JV rule, I have not yet received the survey on this rule. I hope to get the survey and get it turned in, but I did send this letter to the NSAA anyway. I think it might be a good idea for others to write also.

Dear Mr. Colgate,

I am writing in reference to the new rule, which was
put in place this year, which stipulated that no
matches which were wrestled against Junior Varsity
competition could be counted on your varsity record
for districts. Mr. Colgate I am writing to let you
know that I am strongly opposed to this rule and hope
that it can be eliminated for next year. I believe
that if this rule continues it may hurt both large
schools and small schools which field wrestling teams.
Many Class C and D teams invite Class A JV teams to
their wrestling tournaments. This seems to be a great
fit for both the small schools and the large schools.
The small schools often have a difficult time finding
enough teams to fill their tournaments. Being able
to invite Class A JV teams in their area allows them
to fill out their tournaments. Also because the
Class A JV teams often have a more full roster than
the Class C and D teams, it also helps fill out the
brackets at the tournaments and makes for fewer byes.
My concern is that if the lower class schools are not
allowed to count their matches against JV teams in
their varsity records they will stop inviting the
larger schools to their invites. This will hurt the
large schools because they will no longer have a
chance to get the excellent competition for their JV
wrestlers that they are able to get at these lower
class varsity meets. This will hurt the smaller
schools because they will now have a more difficult
time filling their meets and their brackets (this is
if they choose not to invite the larger school JV
teams).

Mr. Colgate it is my understanding that the rational
for the new rule was to prevent larger schools from
dropping their varsity wrestlers to the JV level to
get them varsity matches against lower class schools
to inflate their records. It is my contention that
the previous rules already accounted for this and
prevented it. It is my understanding that the rules
already state that a wrestler can only count matches
wrestled for his varsity squad on his varsity record.
If this is the case, as I believe it is, then if a
wrestler drops to JV and wrestles against smaller
class school varsity competition it should still not
count on his varsity record, if he returns to varsity.
Now it is true a coach might cheat on the record but
they could cheat on the new rule as easy as they could
cheat on the old rule.

There are only two exceptions where I could see a
coach taking advantage of the old rule to inflate
records for members of his team. One a coach could
take his varsity team and enter them into a
predominantly JV meet. I just don’t think this
hardly ever happens. The other way a coach could
abuse the rule would be to invite primarily JV teams
to his own tournament to lower the level of
competition. Again I just don’t think this hardly
ever happens. When the lower class schools invite
larger class school JV teams to their tournaments I
believe it is for the reasons I have already stated.
The large school JV teams allow them to fill out their
tournament and even fill out their brackets.

I urge you to reconsider this new rule, as I believe
it hurts both large and small school wrestling
programs.

I agree with you Tom McCann Fan, i think it should be over turned simply for that one reason right there, I would like to see the poll also. I'm gonna start a poll right now.