Oak Grove legend steps down

After 25 years, 12 team state titles, 22 top-four team finishes, 67 individual state champions and three four-time state champions, Bob Glasgow is stepping down as Oak Grove head wrestling coach.
Glasgow made the announcement Sunday at the team’s postseason banquet.
“I’m not walking away, I’m stepping away from the program,” he said. “I’ll always go to matches and duals. I’ll just sit back from afar. I’ll still be a part of it.”
Glasgow, who is the activities director for the school and head golf coach, said he will be stepping down as golf coach after this year as well.
“We don’t have a lot of teaching positions,” Glasgow said. “Hopefully we can find a replacement. The plan is for me to be out of coaching all together.”
Glasgow said he has been planning this for a couple of years, part of it because of his son Riley graduating and another part because of the symbolism of 25 years.
“I’m real simplistic,” he said. “Twenty-five is a good number. It’s Riley’s senior year. This senior class I came up with from little league football, baseball and wrestling. It was a good place to end the story. Twenty-five years is a long time. I would have gone 30 years max. I don’t think I could have gone 26 or 28. They weren’t round even numbers for me.”
Oak Grove finished third this year at the state meet, as Riley Glasgow finished third, winning six matches after falling in the first round.
Riley Glasgow said he knew two years ago his last year would be his father’s last year.
“We’ve talked about this since my sophomore year,” he said. “He announced it (at the banquet) but everyone knew.
“I did a lot (this year) to try to get to where I thought I should have at the state tournament for me and him.”
Bob Glasgow said he always said he’d retire after winning a team title. Then he said he realized that was not necessarily how he wanted to go out.
“That didn’t happen this year, but it was still a great year,” he said. “I might coach another 100 years and might not win another title. And I thought it was being selfish. This is my time.”
Through 25 years and all the accomplishments, Bob Glasgow said one thing stands out through his time as coach.
“My highlight is maintaining a level of excellence for the high school level of wrestling and maintaining that expectation level for 25 years,” he said.
“We’ve had a great run. People accuse me of being ho-hum or being matter-of-fact about my accomplishments. I just tried to do the best job I could do. You look back and someone says, ‘you had 14 straight years of finishing in the top two,’ or ‘you’ve won 22 team trophies in 25 years.’ That’s impressive. If I looked at somebody else’s career objectively, it would be pretty impressive.
“I try to be objective and humble. But I’ve had a great 25 years.”