Lost all respect after he was willingly used as a prop during the last election.
Rogan interviewed Gable
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Gable has demonstrated very little loyalty to ISU in the public arena...yah. he coached at Iowa but his Hawk schtick gets old. If he is an ambassador for wrestling ...he has a lot of work to do with his Alma Mater...Iowa State University.
Please expound on this. I've seen Gable on TV wearing his ISU letterman's jacket a couple times...is there hostility between him and our AD? What is this "work" you suggest?
Admittedly, I'm not tuned into the wrestling program as much as I should be (was really tuned in when I was a classmate of Cael's...) but I thought Gable and ISU had a good relationship. Not so?
Anything remotely in that ballpark became even more of an issue on Jan 6.
Someone can correct if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure JP consulted with Gable on the best candidates for the ISU job after Jackson was fired.
Dan Gable is a bona-fide hero, even if he doesn't share my political views or doesn't always wear a Cyclone jacket. I can't believe the sniping.
Believe it. There’s plenty of jackasses on this board that love to take a wrestling thread and turn it into a political grandstanding showcase that gets thrown into the cave.
A bona-fide hero? Why exactly? I'm not going to claim to know all his exploits, but being really good at wrestling and winning Olympic gold do not qualify. So what am I missing?
Not only was he really good, he was the best in the world (at wrestling). Then, he became the best college wrestling coach, akin to John Wooden's accomplishments in basketball. He has continued to be an ambassador for wrestling when he could have quit years ago.
I don't know your qualifications for a hero, but in my book he is a giant.
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After serving in the military for 32 years and as a veteran, I can assure you and I might have a different definition of hero.
Your story is true. Your account of strife between FB and WR doesn't ring true. Wrestlers were always getting into trouble. Guys like Ernie Gillan were notorious, but he just picked on anybody.Or exactly like it was when Gable was a student at ISU. There was always scuttlebutt about their drunken brawling but nothing hit the papers till Chuck Jean and some other wrestler thought it would be cool to get drunk and wrestle a penned deer at Ledges State Park on a dare, and killing it with a knife. And later cooking and eating it at a kegger. Also a lot of tension and some fights between the wrestlers and the football players that, IIRC, were racially related. Not good times at all.
Pretty good summary of what kind of ******** we used to have at ISU when I was in school:
https://www.usawks.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=129920
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It was Nik's house that he provided for the wrestlers where they cooked the deer.
I define what you describe as achievement, not heroism. Gable certainly has accomplished much in the sport of wrestling.
If I accomplish something great in life someday, I hope no one brings up some of the really dumb **** I did in Ames in college.
Good god. We have the biggest babies on this board. It’s a Joe Rogan interview. Get over yourselves.
I always like these types of interviews. Don't always like Rogan but when he has a good guest on they are always entertaining.
I simply like noticing interviews with what makes the great ones tick, and morality aside Gable is the Michael Jordan of wrestling. His work ethic and dedication to the sport are impressive in their own right. If he had been born in a later generation he could have maybe been a UFC great.
