I've actually talked about this alot with a freind of mine. What is interesting is that the staff is made up of blanket riders. Terry, Tom, Mike, they all rode blanket ride, pinning the arm on the back alot of forward pressure. And they were all successful with it, and they teach it well (example: metcalf, daniel dennis, etc)
BUT when you don't ride legs, and don't crab ride it is difficult to teach it because it is such a "feel" style of wrestling. Thats why I thought retaining Mark Perry as an assistant (perry was very open about his desire to stay and coach in iowa) would have been a great compliment as he would bring something different to the table. He rode legs, he crab rode, he was great sitting the corner and funking on counter shots. These are all things the current staff didn't do as wrestlers. In no way am I saying the staff doesn't know what their doing or doesnt know how to teach these things.
I'm just saying that while the staff does a great job of recruiting people who wrestle their style, I have to wonder if a great wrestler who wrestles a different style wouldn't be dissuaded from coming based on the style of the coaching staff. I mean while the coaching staff prefers to recruit someone with Daniel Dennis' style. They did pretty well with a kid like Jay Borschal who wrestles a different style. I just would hate to see the team lose a great recruit because he wrestles a different style for any reason.
