Last night I had a wonderful evening officiating two well coached teams, Flower Mound and McKinney. The kids were respectful and wrestled well and the parents cheered them on. I felt pretty good and several of the parents that know me and some I just met came up and thanked me for a good job officiating. This was a marked difference than what happened 24 hours earlier at the Allen-Creekview Dual at Allen High School.

In 34 years of officiating, and 18 as a wrestler at all school levels, I have never witnessed or had such bile directed at me from a group of parents and fans.
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