But coaching legend not positive he’ll return next season
By J.R. Ogden
EAST LANSING, MICH. – Dan Gable said “it’s still yet to be determined” if he’ll return to the Iowa wrestling coaching staff next year.
But if there still is work to be done after this season, expect the 58-year-old coaching legend to back.
“I really kind of planned going a couple of years,” he said Saturday before the start of the Big Ten Championships at Michigan State University. “I think I want to work full time another year, in one capacity or another. After that, a couple of years of phasing down.”
Gable, of course, still has a deep love for the sport of wrestling. But he also relishes his time with family, especially his young grandchildren.
If the family support wasn’t there, he said, he would step aside.
“I think we’re in a pretty good position right now,” he said. “But if there ever is a decision, that if I move on and they can bring in someone else, and it doesn’t matter, then I’ll move on.
“If it still matters, which I think it does right now, then I shouldn’t” step down.
Gable said he hasn’t had too much trouble connecting with these athletes after nine years working in administration.
“I want to be able to contribute,” he said. “I told Tom I don’t know if I can get it all done in one year.”
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