2012 Div 1 NCAAs

This year more Women made the cut than Men... ...Now Rich had mentioned that there is kind of a discrimination if you are not part of a relay but have say the 20th time and you are not invited to the meet. This statement is true to a certain extent but in some cases would not be true if a swimmer had a significantly slower time than others on the team, you would be committed to swimming this person in a relay and you might not make top 8 because of this. The times are so close in both the 100 Free and 200 Free that a person would have to be in the running in the event otherwise you could become a casualty of not qualifying top 8 or not even top 16 in the relay event. For both NCAA meets, if you qualify as a relay swimmer, you can swim any event that you make a B time standard cutoff time. But you must swim that relay that the team committed you to or you will not be permitted to swim the other events. You are only committed to swim the prelims of that event. For most of the big schools, I think they want to maximize the talent they bring and with the cap of 18 swimmers, I don't think there is more than 4 to 5 swimmers per team because you do not want to get in a situation where you have to use these swimmers when you have swimmers on your roster that made either an A or B cut and with relays being double the points, a coach is not going to risk that.... Skip, you never cease to amaze me with your knowledge of swimming minutiae, history, and lore. Question 1: does the fact that women appear to have qualified at higher rates then men support my contention that changes in FINA legal swimwear has affected men's times more deleteriously than women's? And if so, could you please communicate to dearest Leslie just how much things have changed for us fellows--and how little they have changed for the womenfolk? Question 2: Given your expertise in deciphering NCAA regulations, I was hoping you might deconstruct a few quotes from the Talmud that I find puzzling. Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. www.quotationspage.com/.../icon_blank.gif The TalmudInstinctively, I sense this is true. But why then are there so many great Jewish comedians? Is this a prophetic smackdown of Seinfeld, Louie, and Curb Your Enthusiasm? Why would God do such a thing to the Chosen People?Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. www.quotationspage.com/.../icon_blank.gif The TalmudIs there some sort of book end to this? I am about to enter my first FINA 60-64 age group competition, God be willing and I do not ruin myself with laughter's oblivion before then. I am FINA-Three Score. Surely, as one approaches the years of ones dotage, there comes a time when his cognitive and moral capacities decline--bell-shaped curve-like--back towards the capacities of his toddler years. When, I ask you, will I once again be incapable of sin? (It cannot happen too soon!) Thanks, Skip! And Rich, please feel free to contribute your own Talmudic insights to these two puzzling passages.

This year more Women made the cut than Men... ...Now Rich had mentioned that there is kind of a discrimination if you are not part of a relay but have say the 20th time and you are not invited to the meet. This statement is true to a certain extent but in some cases would not be true if a swimmer had a significantly slower time than others on the team, you would be committed to swimming this person in a relay and you might not make top 8 because of this. The times are so close in both the 100 Free and 200 Free that a person would have to be in the running in the event otherwise you could become a casualty of not qualifying top 8 or not even top 16 in the relay event. For both NCAA meets, if you qualify as a relay swimmer, you can swim any event that you make a B time standard cutoff time. But you must swim that relay that the team committed you to or you will not be permitted to swim the other events. You are only committed to swim the prelims of that event. For most of the big schools, I think they want to maximize the talent they bring and with the cap of 18 swimmers, I don't think there is more than 4 to 5 swimmers per team because you do not want to get in a situation where you have to use these swimmers when you have swimmers on your roster that made either an A or B cut and with relays being double the points, a coach is not going to risk that.... Skip, you never cease to amaze me with your knowledge of swimming minutiae, history, and lore. Question 1: does the fact that women appear to have qualified at higher rates then men support my contention that changes in FINA legal swimwear has affected men's times more deleteriously than women's? And if so, could you please communicate to dearest Leslie just how much things have changed for us fellows--and how little they have changed for the womenfolk? Question 2: Given your expertise in deciphering NCAA regulations, I was hoping you might deconstruct a few quotes from the Talmud that I find puzzling. Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. www.quotationspage.com/.../icon_blank.gif The TalmudInstinctively, I sense this is true. But why then are there so many great Jewish comedians? Is this a prophetic smackdown of Seinfeld, Louie, and Curb Your Enthusiasm? Why would God do such a thing to the Chosen People?Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. www.quotationspage.com/.../icon_blank.gif The TalmudIs there some sort of book end to this? I am about to enter my first FINA 60-64 age group competition, God be willing and I do not ruin myself with laughter's oblivion before then. I am FINA-Three Score. Surely, as one approaches the years of ones dotage, there comes a time when his cognitive and moral capacities decline--bell-shaped curve-like--back towards the capacities of his toddler years. When, I ask you, will I once again be incapable of sin? (It cannot happen too soon!) Thanks, Skip! And Rich, please feel free to contribute your own Talmudic insights to these two puzzling passages.