At risk of "beating a dead horse"....at least in respect to broaching this topic again! I had a number of conversations at convention with people who would like to see USMS move to a 3rd Championship meet in the fall for short course meters.
There are some great Zone meets going on...when you have 600+ going to Long Beach or New England why not up the ante a bit?
Thoughts?
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As a Brit, I can see the dilemma, but I do think that having SCM, SCY and LCM Nationals is a bit like having your cake and eating it!
Part of me thinks that the solution is to get with the rest of the world and ditch yards, but another part of me thinks that SCY is wonderfully idiosyncratic and would be great fun to do! It's also part of your swimming culture and heritage over there in the States, so I guess ditching SCY isn't going to fly as an argument any time soon.
The problem is the ratio of SCY to SCM pools is probably 100:1. You can "create" a SCM pool in a LCM pool, but then you're back to only 1 course (with the exception of the 52m long pools with bulkhead).
Plus, Americans give up one of their idiosyncrasies?! :laugh2:
As a Brit, I can see the dilemma, but I do think that having SCM, SCY and LCM Nationals is a bit like having your cake and eating it!
Part of me thinks that the solution is to get with the rest of the world and ditch yards, but another part of me thinks that SCY is wonderfully idiosyncratic and would be great fun to do! It's also part of your swimming culture and heritage over there in the States, so I guess ditching SCY isn't going to fly as an argument any time soon.
The problem is the ratio of SCY to SCM pools is probably 100:1. You can "create" a SCM pool in a LCM pool, but then you're back to only 1 course (with the exception of the 52m long pools with bulkhead).
Plus, Americans give up one of their idiosyncrasies?! :laugh2:
