Posted on 07/11/2009 1:12:42 PM PDT by FlJoePa
Just watched the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” I think that’s the name. It was not a good movie. It had an interesting concept and anytime a movie is about the end of the world it is interesting. At least it is to me. There have been several movies lately on the end of the world and most of them are about how we lame humans are responsible for the end of days by not taking care of the environment.
It’s hard to not see the political and Hollywood ideas and agendas in so many movies these days. I am so thankful that the super wise Hollywood people are so willing to teach us clueless regular folks how to live and how to think. Really, how great of a society would we have if every household had the same values and lifestyles of Hollywood? The world would be perfect, right? (Cont.)
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I wonder if some PSU limp-wristed liberal (like president spanier) will want to get in his face and tell him to keep his thoughts to himself.
It won't be long before PSU is atop the NCAA Wrestling world again with leadership like this.
PSU’s gain was Iowa State’s loss in Sanderson.
“His resume is among the best of any wrestler ever (since the beginning of time)”
Not to be contrarian, but it’s a little difficult to imagine anyone coming along with a resume greater than that of the late Dan Gable.
I said “among”...while thinking about Dan Gable the whole time.
Gable is still alive. Yes, Sanderson is a huge loss to Iowa. We’re happy for PA.
the “late” Dan Gable??? when did he die???
He’s right. Aside from movies, there have been several books and a History Channel series about what things would be like if humans just disappeared (like in extinct). There is also something called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. These people sit around all day wishing the human race away—and now the Media is trying to inject a desire for extinction into popular culture. Us dumb Westerns might buy into it, but no one else will.
“I wonder if some PSU limp-wristed liberal (like president spanier) will want to get in his face and tell him to keep his thoughts to himself.”
I was thinking the same thing as I read that article. He’s great!
Spanier was hired while my son was at PSU and I just knew he was a flaming liberal! PSU has definitely changed since he’s been in charge!
Good luck to the PSU wrestling team and it’s new coach!
Was Dan Gable a four-time undefeated national champions?
“PSU’s gain was Iowa State’s loss in Sanderson.”
A shocking move for sure. Having personally known him; it was really disappointing.
He is a good guy, too bad we didn’t keep him.
HereIn...Do you think he can bring back PSU’s wrestling program to where it can compete with IA, ISU, OSU, and others? The last few years we’ve been owned by some teams in the Big Ten and obviously can’t compete for a national championship.
Can he recruit and train (and keep in school) the kind of kids that can WIN a NC for PSU? Obviously PA is fertile recruiting, but different from the midwest.
Just your opinion is all I’m asking.
I think he can definitely recruit and train. He is very hard working and goal oriented, but he also is a balanced person.
He has joked on his blog about parents who try to over push their kids
Ethically he is also on track.
His college GPA was very good as was his brothers, so academically he knows why kids go to college in the first place.
I think the big question is at what level he will win. Does being the only NCAA wrestler to go undefeated translate into a team championship?
Only time will tell; but he is a good guy to go the distance with.
Like I said earlier, he is a good guy, I could tell some good stories about him ( and probably others who know him better than I did)
He will definitely be a good addition to any university.
Three times - he was completely undefeated during his entire university career - except for one match, an NCAA final, which he lost by one point.
Whoops, my bad - Gable is still alive. I thought I read somewhere that he’d passed on - I’m happy to be wrong in this case.
Just for the record:
Simply put, Dan Gable was possibly the best collegiate wrestling coach there ever was.
After 21 years as head coach at the University of Iowa, his Hawkeye program accomplished more than any other college sports program.
Gable’s second stint as an assistant coach with the Hawkeyes will end October 1, 2007, when he returns to his role as special assistant to the director of athletics.
His first assistant coaching stint came (1973-76) under Gary Kurdelmeier.
As the University of Iowa’s all-time winningest wrestling coach from 1977 to 1997, Dan Gable compiled a career record of 355-21-5. He coached 152 all-Americans, 45 national champions, 106 Big Ten Champions and 10 Olympians, including four gold, one silver and three bronze medalists.
The Hawkeyes won 25 consecutive Big Ten championships, 21 under Gable as head coach and four while he was an assistant coach and administrator.
He had a winning percentage of .932 and captured nine consecutive (1978-86) NCAA Championships. At the time, that equaled the longest streak of national titles won by any school in any sport, and was also held by Yale golf (1905-13) and Southern Cal track (1935-43).
On only five occasions did a Gable-coached team lose more than one dual meet in a year. In fact, seven of Gable’s teams recorded perfect dual seasons. During his tenure, the Hawkeyes averaged over 17 wins and just one loss per season and posted an amazing 95-1 record in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The 1996-97 season added the final chapter to Gable’s storied career. In late January, he underwent hip replacement surgery, missing four dual meets while recuperating.
He reappeared in the Hawkeye’s corner just in time to lead the team to its 24th consecutive Big Ten title and 17th NCAA title. Iowa shattered its own NCAA team points record, scoring 170 points during the three-day tournament in Cedar Falls.
Gable coached many United States teams in international freestyle competition.
He is a three-time Olympic head coach (1980, 1984 and 2000). The 1984 Olympic team, which featured four Hawkeyes, won seven gold medals.
He was an assistant freestyle coach at the and 1976 and 1988 Olympics.
Gable also served as head coach of the World Team in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1994 and 1999, as well as 10 World Cup teams winning three team golds in World Cup competition. He has attended 29 World or Olympic wrestling championships.
In 1972, he won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics without surrendering a point to any of his opponents.
The Soviets came to the Olympics with only one goal in mind; to defeat Gable. They were unsuccessful.
In Gable’s final 21 Olympic qualification and Olympic matches, he scored 12 falls and outscored his nine other opponents, 130-1.
The single point being scored by Larry Owings, who had previously defeated Gable in his FINAL COLLEGIATE MATCH.
During his prep and college careers, Gable compiled an unbelievable record of 182-1.
He was undefeated in 64 prep matches, and was 118-1 at Iowa State.
His ONLY DEFEAT came in the NCAA finals his senior year.
Gable was a three-time all-American and three-time Big Eight champion, during an era where three years of eligibility was the maximum allowed to a student-athlete.
After college, Gable added titles at the 1971 Pan American Games, the 1972 Tbilisi Tournament and the 1971 World Championships.
He won an unprecedented six Midlands Open championships and was that meet’s outstanding wrestler five times.
He set NCAA records in winning and pin streaks.
Gable was named to the U.S.A. Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1980, and to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1985.
He was selected the nation’s outstanding wrestler by the AAU in 1970, and the U.S. Wrestling Federation in 1971.
Gable was the Amateur Wrestling News Man of the Year in 1970.
Gable joined the Iowa coaching staff for the 1972-73 season, assisting head coach and Hall of Famer Gary Kurdelmeier, until taking over the program for the 1976-77 season.
Since stepping down as the University of Iowa’s wrestling coach, Gable has served as Assistant to the Athletic Director dealing with team and individual performance.
Aside from helping out with Iowa athletics, he is aiding the University in their fundraising efforts and promoting the sport of wrestling worldwide.
Gable also coaches potential Olympic wrestlers in the local sports club, gives motivational and performance speeches nationwide, and does color commentary for televised college wrestling.
Some of his most recent accolades include being named THE TOP WRESTLER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Gannett News Service, listed as one of the top coaches in the 20th Century by ESPN and named Iowa’s top “sports figure” in the past 100 years.
In June 2002, he was appointed to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Several networks, including ESPN and HBO have aired documentaries on Gable’s life and accomplishments.
Gable was born on Oct. 25, 1948, in Waterloo; he received his B.S. degree from Iowa State in 1971.
He and his wife, Kathy, have four daughters - Jennifer, Annie, Molly and Mackenzie - and four grandchildren - Gable, Jake, Danny and Elsie.
Coach John Smith at OSU is probably the best pure wrestling coach in the world right now, IMO, but that's just MHO.
Wrestling is the absolute best individual sport for boys and young men. Any boy who is in good health can participate in wrestling training and benefit from it. (Still not used to the idea of girls wrestling, though...) It would be a crime for me to visit a rasslin' thread without mention of this guy, though.
The NCAA Champ who would become the prototype "good guy", Danny Hodge:
From Wiki: Hodge was a collegiate wrestler for the University of Oklahoma. He was never taken down from a standing position while in college and won the NCAA title three times and going undefeated at 46-0, with 36 pins. He is the only amateur wrestler to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
http://www.teamdannyhodge.com/
http://www.midsouthwrestling.com/photos-then.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Hodge
For you wrestling fans, this is the guy who was way ahead of his time, like by maybe 50 years or so. For folks who have a particular interest in OU sports, I say he's certainly in the top five of many great athletes to come out of OU because of his way of finding longevity in a young man's sport, and for his influence on kids.
The Dan Hodge Trophy, named after him, is the amateur wrestling equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.
Gable was a two time national champion.
Yes, you’re right; however, I believe that, in those days, a freshman athlete couldn’t enter the NCAA’s. In any case, during his entire college career, he only lost a single match.
But, you’re right - Cael Sanderson is certainly in the same league, and may even be the better wrestler. Who knows? There’s no question that PSU is very, very lucky to get him.
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