Dan Gable climbed to the top with such determination and focus year after year as a wrestler. After going 117-1 as a collegiate wrestler, only losing his last match, he went on to win a world championship…
+ See More +Dan Gable climbed to the top with such determination and focus year after year as a wrestler. After going 117-1 as a collegiate wrestler, only losing his last match, he went on to win a world championship…
+ See More - See Less -Dan Gable climbed to the top with such determination and focus year after year as a wrestler. After going 117-1 as a collegiate wrestler, only losing his last match, he went on to win a world championship and a Gold medal at the 1972 Olympics. During his Olympic run in Munich, Gable never gave up a point.
The only thing that surpassed his remarkable and dominating wrestling was his success in coaching and training his Iowa Hawkeyes. Coach Gable won a record nine straight team titles at the helm of the Iowa Hawkeyes. His teams attacked the competition with an aggression that was uniquely "Gablesque". In fitting style, Dan Gable retired in 1997 only after his team took to the most dominating National Championship the sport has ever seen.
Dan Gable is a wrestling icon and a one of a kind leader of men. He currently has pulled himself out of retirement to, once again, help bring the Iowa Hawkeyes to the top, as an assistant coach to one of his former wrestlers, Tom Brands.
I love what Jimmy Z did as a wrestler and as an asst. coach...but he was not the HEAD COACH that Iowa needed. BTW....Where is Oregon State? How did they do? Nuff said.
You (Brands) know the history. If Gable had such good judgement, than a lawyer might argue that he is illogical in keeping him on for so many years. Jim's Bio:
http://hawkeyesports.cstv.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/zalesky_jim00.html speaks volumes for Jim's responsability in developing the program for years!
Is it bad blood Gable (for some reason) that you actually denigrated yourself?
Good luck Brands, your guys did yeoman's work!