first of all, congrats to the meet directors and all the volunteers on a job well done. so organized and efficient!! very impressive. the only thing i wish someone could explain to me is why the usms champ. committee changed the team scoring from large, medium and small team to clumping everyone in the same category. seems extremely unfair to have what i call "real teams" competing against state mega teams. there is no possibility for "real teams" to ever come close to competing against them. if you are going to give team awards at the end of the meet, is there any way you can do it fairly? our team is extremely proud to have gotten as many team members as we did to go to natls. (most of them for the first time), but unfortunately they were very disillusioned (as was i) with the idea that we would be competing against state teams. as one of the coaches i didn't have an explanation. even though we were very proud of our 7th place finish in men's division, and our 12th place in combined, we were only one of a few "real teams" in the top ten. would appreciate responses. maybe even someone from the champ.committee could explain how they felt this scoring system would be more fair to the majority of swimmers. then i can pass it along to my teammates.. i don't want them to be so disillusioned that they lose interest in attending any future natls. thanks
Also, Karen, it's good to hear you say again that you agree there is no need for S/M/L.
Finally, Jim effectively describes how a team should not be "rewarded" by being placed in a smaller division for bringing fewer swimmers. Yet, the alternative of calulating the size division by number of registered swimmers will not work. A lot of teams cannot even tell you how many swimmers they have, and it changes drastically from month to month as swimmers come in and out, take a year or five off without notifying anyone but rather waits for the treasurer to figure it out when no checks come in. Are we talking "active" members or "total" members? S/M/L division open SO MANY more questions. What happened to KEEP IT SIMPLE?
-Brian
Also, Karen, it's good to hear you say again that you agree there is no need for S/M/L.
Finally, Jim effectively describes how a team should not be "rewarded" by being placed in a smaller division for bringing fewer swimmers. Yet, the alternative of calulating the size division by number of registered swimmers will not work. A lot of teams cannot even tell you how many swimmers they have, and it changes drastically from month to month as swimmers come in and out, take a year or five off without notifying anyone but rather waits for the treasurer to figure it out when no checks come in. Are we talking "active" members or "total" members? S/M/L division open SO MANY more questions. What happened to KEEP IT SIMPLE?
-Brian
