Rob Koll coaching Nahshon Garrett in the NCAA finals in New York City (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com)Koll didn't see the move as the best decision for Garrett.
"I don't think it was a particularly good decision to leave a place where you've been incredibly successful and you've got people who are going to hold you to a very high standard," Koll told Takedown Radio on Saturday. "I think he'll do well despite being in a different environment, not because of it."
Koll believes wrestlers benefit the most from staying in the same training system throughout their careers. He cited the Russians, Kyle Dake and the Smiths as examples of wrestlers who were successful training in the same system throughout their careers.
"I actually think it's a big mistake for people to try to jump from ship to ship," said Koll. "It's funny, you see these golfers … They're always looking for a reason why they're failing. They're changing their swing coach, or they're changing this or changing that. At the end of the day, sometimes when you don't reach your goals it's not because of the coaching. It's because it just wasn't in the cards.
"Some of these parents I see, they take their kids to every coach and every person across the country and they move from school to school to school, and some will say, 'Well, they're successful.' They would have been successful if they would have stayed where they were. I do think it can be very confusing to have 25 different messages being given to an athlete."
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