I'm calling BS on the whole article.

All this probably did was make 10 coaches decide they wouldn't be interviewed by Flowrestling.

Originally Posted by ODH

If wrestling wants to be considered a big time college sport this is part of the baggage that goes with it. No one would blink at an article about college Football coaches that are on the "hot seat".
I do think the thread title of "worst" coaches is harsh, but the article title on the Flo site is "Highest Ranked Coaches and Coaches in Must Win Situations".

I think the writer was fair and it was an interesting article. I can't disagree with any of his picks.

So, your vote is to just deal with it and go with the flo then, huh?

Originally Posted by ODH

If wrestling wants to be considered a big time college sport this is part of the baggage that goes with it. No one would blink at an article about college Football coaches that are on the "hot seat".
I do think the thread title of "worst" coaches is harsh, but the article title on the Flo site is "Highest Ranked Coaches and Coaches in Must Win Situations".

I think the writer was fair and it was an interesting article. I can't disagree with any of his picks.

I agree that football would definitely have something like this. The difference between Football and wrestling is that (besides the money) they have a much larger pool to draw from. These Universities aren't necessarily sitting on a guy like Spates or Penrith because they like them - they keep them because they are better than what else is available. In football, because of the sheer number of participants, you have solid replacement coaches. When a guy like Terry Brands would rather be an assistant at Iowa than a Head coach at the OTC you have a severe under-staffing problem.

Originally Posted by ODH

Are you saying that there are not enough qualified people to fill DI coaching slots... I disagree. They are plenty of good wrestler that may have become great coaches that leave the sport because there are so few prospects in coaching wrestling.

I'll agree with that. I think Matt Demaray, Cary Kolat, and many others would have made excellent college coaches, however, they did not express the interest necessary to make the positions at these colleges available (plus they went on to be successful in other areas) Then you have guys like Marty Morgan and Terry Steiner that decide to stay at a successful school rather than building up and competing from a new school for one reason or another.

Calling out college coaches who may or may not be as successful as these other programs is not the best way to create a winning situation. The qualified assistant coaches that are staying in a dominate program need to bring their winning ways to other Universities *and stay there* if we want wrestling at the collegiate level to grow.

The title on Flo is simply a more diplomatic way of calling them the 'worst'. Any way you slice it, if they "must win" in order to keep their job, they are considered [by the author(s) of the article] to be the 10 worst.

putting the two list together in the same article you cannot help but think 10 best and 10 worst.