Missouri's winningest coach in any sport is longtime Mizzou wrestling coach Brian Smith, who’s written a brand-new book that will be released on Monday. Coach Smith has led his team to a 334-120-3 record in 27 years of coaching. His book called “Tiger Style” comes out tomorrow morning, and he’ll be signing books Monday evening from 5-7 pm at Memorial Stadium’s Columns club, which is on the east side of the football stadium in Columbia. Coach Smith is known for having basic rules, and those rules are for his wrestlers to attend class and to live “Tiger Style”. Those are eight things: know your identity, the small things win, focus on what you have (not on what others have), believing and finding a way, compete, think right/speak right, never be satisfied and expect to win. Coach Smith is known for his writing and his wrestlers are expected to read books. But he wasn’t always interested in reading. Coach Smith joined host Fred Parry in-studio for the hour Saturday morning on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable” to discuss the book and his career. Coach Smith tells listeners that he was kicked out of English class in once in grade school by Sister Mary Margaret, and that she put him in a convent for a week. He read “Sports Illustrated” articles during that week, and Sister Mary Margaret had to write summaries of those articles. He credits that exercise for helping him love English class and become a writer and a better student. Mizzou’s wrestling program generally finished last in the Big 12 before Coach Smith was hired in 1998 by then-Mizzou athletic director Joe Castiglione. The wrestling program and budget had little funding. Since that time, Smith has coached 64 individual conference champions, 192 NCAA qualifiers, 69 All-American performances and six wrestlers to ten national titles. Coach Smith also discusses some of his wrestlers over the years in the book and on Fred’s show, including Mark Ellis and Michael Chandler:

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