Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Vote for Dan Gable

From TheMat.com forum:


Vote for Gable on the Greatest Coaches Poll on ESPN.com. He is currently second to John Wooden. This is a chance to show ESPN the enthusiasm of the wrestling community and let the world know how great Gable is/was. On September 20, they will air the show with the results on ESPN Classic.

Here is the link to the poll. Vote!

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/ballot?event_id=2397

Done...

It may be difficult to overtake Coach Wooden but I think Coach Gable can do it if we get behind him!

What...? No Roy Williams? Oh, that was on the biggest traitor poll.

How does Scottie Bowman not win this thing?

I went ahead and voted for The Man (with whom I share the same inability to successfully transfer a Y chromosome from one generation to the next.)

Wow! I just hit my 300th post on a reference to Dan Gable!

I am on my way to get a lottery ticket right now!

I hit up every Computer at Lindenwood's computer lab for Gable, so he better win!

Coach, I think you just blew the chance at the lottery.

Regarding the Gable vote, you can vote more than once. I have been able to vote once each day. Just FYI

I am somewhat disappointed that Bill Snyder is not on the list as least an honorable mention. He did what was said could not be done. Everyone laughed at him when he took the job at K-State. Not that I’m a die hard, bleed purple kind of guy but he took a program from laughing stock to a consistent winner that was labeled as the greatest turn around in college football history.

If you vote and then click "back" and submit again it will continue to let you vote. Over and over again.

Since when has it become morally aceptable to
stuff the ballot box?? Do you believe anyone
(especialy Dan Gable) wants to win anything that
way. I voted twice.

I am a K-State fan and believe Bill Snyder did a great job. But Please read the list of acomplisments of the coaches listed ( national championships, League championships,) Sorry but Bill does not belong on that list.

I agree that voting for Gable would be a good idea in terms of giving the wrestling community the best chance of having a wrestling coach head the list because of his notoriety and recentness.
I will say however though, if we want to really vote for the greatest coach, we should be voting for Coach Ed Gallagher who created the dynasty at Oklahoma State. His teams won 11 NCAA titles in 13 attempts. His dual win-loss percentage is the highest as well. His teams had 19 undefeated seasons. How then did they only win 11 titles, you ask? His teams were kicking butt 10 years before there even was an NCAA tournament, so he would have won even more. All of Art Griffith's championships at Oklahoma State can be directly attributed to Gallagher. Gallagher died of palsy complications and pneumonia while still young. He knew he was dying and hand picked Griffith, who was building a dynasty at Tulsa Central, to replace him. He wrote wrestling books and most of the holds used were developed by Gallagher under the influence of his engineering background. He was the first President of USA Wrestling and was known as "the Father of Amateur Wrestling". He also coached an extremely successful track program at Oklahoma State.
I agree that Gable is great. Was and is a great wrestling coach. I take nothing away from him. He has done so much for the sport of wrestling and has helped tremendously to take our sport to another level. He deserves a lot of credit. But, I also must say that the road was paved long before he got there. Gable was great but he stood on the shoulders of giants like Gallagher, Robertson, Keen, Griffith and Roderick. Gallagher created the program at Oklahoma State whereas Gable took over a program at Iowa that Gary Kurdelmeier had already taken to the top. Gable inherited alot. Gallagher inherited nothing. Plus Gallagher was born and raised in....that's right....Kansas.

I don't know that stuffing the ballot box will do any good! Afterall, I voted for Dilana 15 gazillion times and she didn't win.