I think wrestling has a bright future. But I think at certain times a lot of sports are tested.

When you have that kind of injury, you have to change your whole style of wrestling. You have to learn how to defend a weakness you've never had before. But the harder it got, Ali just kept working harder.

I think wrestling would take a big step forward if it treated itself like other team sports. I?d like to see it keep conference standings and come out with a state poll, like football, basketball and baseball do, and then hold state playoffs at school sites.

So we have one of these for wrestling and hockey - the two most aggressive sports. Those are things that go unnoticed, and our people work hard at it. Our public needs to see that our kids are doing a great job.

I honestly believe that I have learned a thousand times more through and from the sport of wrestling than I have in all my academic classes put together. And I have my masters and 27 graduate credits on top of that.

They're proud of their heritage and where they're from. I think everyone can say that Syracuse wrestling helped them get where they are today.