Wrestling Blogs - Mike Tamillow

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I have already done that in 2005, in regards to many of his opening questions. Agree with his concluding statements.

Look to other programs who have turned around; Harvard, Cornell, CMU, etc. Gable is unmatched, but similar patterns can be found in programs that have built themselves up to a high level; consistencies and commonalities seen; establish those as foundations to build upon.
For wrestling, it needs to be a two way road: you need to Lead a culture that your building, but a culture needs to share the values, vision, principles, perspectives, and goals that you do or you wont get anywhere trying to take them there. You need to work hand in hand with parents, youth groups, administrators, and local supporting businesses, who share the culture and the cultureal goals that you are trying to establish and acheive. As a wrestling coach building a new program, its on your shoulders to make a break; but no man is an island, and success cant be found without similarly minded people to buy into what your selling. Gable had that in Iowa to build about and expand upon at probably the most ideal levels/combinations, and thus we see the results written in our history books.

I'd like to know more specifically what Mike is referring to-a single program at a school, wrestling in the US in general, or a need for the US to improve internationally? Perhaps all of these and other applications. Recently I've read several books on talent and performance excellence. The clear consensus of the authors, researchers, and the referrences they cited is that talent is not inherited, it is developed and learned, and excellence by organizations is achieved by the same intense, deliberate effort and systematically applied, empirically sound principles. There is no "talent gene' for wrestling, golf, playing the cello, calculus, or brain surgery. Champions are made, not born, despite the myths perpetuated regarding this. Google Sir Francis Galton - he tried to prove genius is a heritable trait but couldn't do it. Flashforward to Adriaan De Groot and his research regarding chess masters- he demonstrated that the masters learned to perform at that level by intense effort and voluminous practice (I won't use up the space here discussing these. It's more fun to look 'em up.) So as Mike states the path to excellence-whether athlete, coach, or program administrator can, be, indeed is, learned and can be executed systematically. (I wrote a response to Ben Askren's blog Gable Trained' and discussed some aspects of the Iowa system and Gable's impact on wrestling -please read and comment). As far as defining success, it would depend on what you're trying to achieve. A huge television market? A great number of programs? Success as a nation against other wrestling nations? I guess it would depend on the position you hold in the sport. As far as performance success goes, we often look to the Russians. I've never been to Russia, but I'd like to suggest some reasons they achieve at the level they do. First, wrestling is a highly regarded sport. Therefore, champions are held in great esteem by the youth, and provides the desire to imitate. Instead 'be like Mike', it's 'be like Mikhail'. There's more to that one, but moving on to the second factor - the application of sound motor learning concepts and an emphasis on technique. Wrestling is a power sport, and power sports are technique sports (another topic). More hours of emphasis on skills and skill acquisition, guided by coaches wha are masters of sport, and not English majors or Math majors (no offense to anyone intended). No genetic advantage, no nutritional secret, or some bizarre training regimen. There's alot more to say about these things but you're probably already asleep on to the next comment. And finally, as Anthony states below, Title IX is not wrestlings enemy, and it could be our greatest ally. Before I'm lynched, consider the World Team Trials this year (aand other USA Wrestling events). Women and men, competing side by side-same time, same venue, etc. Women officiating, serving as pairing masters, coaching together. No other sport, to my knowledge is so well integrated. And the participation of girls and women is growing at all levels. We should be the darlings of Title IX but we have decided to draw a line in the sand and fight the wrong battle. We should be fighting to add women's programs. What business would exclude half the potential market? Wouldn't you fight for access to that other half of the market? More on that one later. Thanks Mike - your blog always inspires thought.

I recently wrote a paper which started out to be a Title IX "bashing", but upon doing alot of research, and really, really thinking about it, I believe too much blame is put squarely on Title IX. Out of control budgets for "revenue" making sports, inflated football and basketball coaching salaries, and just flat out redicilous spending within the athletic departments have just as much to do, if not more than Title IX with wrestling and sports like them not flourishing like we would hope.

Well said. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

If I were Coach Gable nowadays, I think I'd look to Texas for the solution regardless of whatever state I'm in. Texas has 195 different high school wrestling teams for gals, and now an NAIA college wrestling team for them too. The more our sport grows with women, the fewer Title IX problems there will be and the more fans there will be in the stands. Media coverage, sponsorship interest and administrative support would grow for wrestling too. How could a men's wrestling program do anything but benefit as a result?

I know Dan Gable personally. Terrific guy, from what I've observed. And a good activist for Title IX reform. He realizes what an impediment the "proportionality" interpretation of Title IX has posed to wrestling. That father of all daughters (no sons) has tried hard to help us achieve a win / win situation in terms of legal reform. How about if we start lobbying our respective states to finally offer a high school-sanctioned state wrestling tournament for gals? Texas does, and it sells out the Delco Center in Austin each year. Your thoughts?