Yeah, the jokes were expected.
For a little context and background:
We are taking over a club that has been in existence for about 20 years or so. The person that ran it before us kind of let it go for the last 2 or 3 years. Registration numbers were very small pre-Covid and Covid certainly did not help. He let our tournament date get away from us, so we've had to work to get that back. I have had 2 boys wrestle for the high school (one graduated in 2020 and the second is in his senior year now) and I have another 2 that are interested in wrestling - one in 6th grade and the other is in 3rd. I've been kind of involved helping the high school coach with keeping score, running tables for tournaments, stuff like that for the last 5 years. I've seen that we do have decent numbers on the high school team, but the better programs in the state have much larger participation. One school in particular has over 100 kids in the wrestling room every year. We, on the other hand, have about 20-30. We typically have more kids on varsity than we do on JV. About this time last year, the high school coach asked if I would be interested in helping out with the youth program because he wanted to give it a re-boot. So, here we are.
I know you guys are just messing around, but there really are no bad intentions. The high school coaches are going to be running the youth practices. This will get these kids familiar with the way they work and hopefully have them ready for high school wrestling as freshmen. He's just trying to build the program up from where it is now, which is not horrible, just not where it could be. He's been good to my boys and I feel an obligation to help as much as I can. He turned the older one into a 2 time state qualifier and the one that's a senior now is in a good position to wrestle in the final match on the last day of the state tournament this year. Neither of my boys that have wrestled for him started until 7th or 8th grade, so their success is entirely on him and how he developed them. So yeah, I kind of got roped into this, but I did say "sure" when asked.