I'm going to make it easy for Brands, so if he ever thinks, "Damn, I wish Tarp would tell me how to coach," he'll have all my insights here in one place:
1. Recruit only top-10 P4P guys.
2. Don't make them show you how badly they want you. Show them how badly you want them.
3. Whether they go to church and live a clean life should only be a deciding factor between two similarly talented recruits.
4. Have a detailed, weight-by-weight strategic plan for how you intend to score >130 points at NCCAs every year until hell freezes over. Review progress toward the plan every month, so that you're never caught by surprise with, for example, no 125 or 133 pounders. (Just a hypothetical example, as we all know that could never happen in real life.)
5. Maintain a strong freestyle club whose goal is to generate Olympic champs.
6. Wrestle a tough schedule that does not include community colleges, online colleges, or refrigerator repair schools.
7. If someone wants to transfer, shake their hand and give them a release.
8. When in doubt, ask "What would Tarp do?" He is always right at least 83% of the time.