Originally Posted by JensenS

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I guess I just don't get the whole Cael is too laid back to be a coach thing.
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Your problem is that you are looking at results. If you want to know how good a coach is or his ability to motivate wrestlers, look how he acts in public, his quotes at press conferences, the intensity of his stare, if he goesg crazy on the bench during matches...that is what makes a good coach.

Conclusion: Tom Brands great, Cael unproven.

I think you guys are picking apart 1/8 of his post...anyways.

This will be the real test for Cael and his opportunity to shut people up. At ISU he really did inherit some very good wrestlers, that cannot be refuted. He did good things with them, damn near won a title when nobody thought they would be close.

At PSU he'll start with some good wrestlers, but far from anything that will resemble a national contender. We will see what he does with it, and i think he can make them a contender in about 2 years.

Terry Brands never won an NCAA team title as a coach, but Im almost positive(99.9%) that Hawkeye fans would swear that Terry is a GREAT coach. Maye you are on to the yelling/screaming/intimidating/gesturing from the bench thing... thats the measure of true coaching greatness, at least in Hawkeyeville

Because Im sure no one else had anything to do with Cejudos performance...
Riiiight

Originally Posted by grapplefan

And it makes me sad for ISU to be left in the lurch by a coach who says he has to move to a university that won't fill the seats, with championship banners already hanging on the wall in Ames.

Won't fill the seats? At Penn State?

And after the Alton boys verballed to Cael today, the Hawkeye Anti-Cael rhetoric has cranked up even a little further, not like that wasnt predictable or anything.

BTW, I never said Terry Brands wasnt responsible for coaching Cejudo, obviously he played a big part. But coaching one young man to greatness has very little to do with coaching an entire team of very different individuals to an NCAA team title. Terry Brands definitely has not proved he can do this. But in Hawkeyeburg, it probably has already happened in most peoples minds.

But he must be a way better coach than Cael, hes from IOWA for crying out loud, LOL