Recruiting

Originally posted by Frank Thompson Now I read a lot of the posts recently and say Michael Heather's one makes sense to me to get on a team if the current one does not have representation at a National Meet. I know he swam for Mission Viejo and his wife actually did the records for the meet so I don't have a problem with that. Its the INTENT that matters. People in the last few days have provided evidence of INTENT of ethics regarding this issue. It does not take a rhodes scholar to figure the different INTENTS of what clubs and swimmers are doing. You're in error saying that Michael swam for Mission Viejo. Michael is attached to Rosebowl Aquatics and did not change his attachment to or from Mission Viejo. His wife, Julie is our LMSC Registrar, and If I remember correctly the rules state that she has to swim unattached, and she does. I'm not sure what you mean by the statement that his wife was doing the records for the meet, and why you'd have any sort of a problem with that. Almost sounds like you're making some sort of an alusion (errorneous at that, and an uninformed assumption) that something was not up to par? What sort of a problem would you have with a long standing reputable and respected Registrar doing the records for the meet anyways? (You can look up the Nationals results and you'll find a substantiation for what I just said) You may have Michael confused with our LMSC Chairman, who attached to our team this year, mainly because he's known our coach for a while, and both are very active in the LMSC Comittees, AND our chairman's team disbanded earlier this year due to losing pool time. So, partially due to friendship, and partially due to frustration with his home team pool director, he decided to change team affiliation. For example, several of our satellite swimmers have been attached to the team for at least 2 years or longer. I also happen to personally know the 'canadian' that swims for SDSM, if you check results as far back as 2002, you'll see that he's swam attached to SDSM that whole time, and I know that he is a close personal friend of one of the SDSM swimmers. (Although, he might attach to our team soon considering he found me more charming to hang out with then his buddy :p ) If some of you think that these people have suddenly attached to the teams just because of the nationals or a chance to be on a winning team or have been recruited, you are mistaking. Plus, it takes little more then a last minute decision to unattach from one team and attach to another, and it should be voluntary. One of the comments about if a swimmer attached to a team "b", and later on wanted to reattach back to the team "a", suggesting that team "a" shouldn't allow them back is an intimidation tactic, and much more unsportsman like then someone wanting to switch teams becaue they're under the impression that the grass is greener...

Originally posted by Frank Thompson Now I read a lot of the posts recently and say Michael Heather's one makes sense to me to get on a team if the current one does not have representation at a National Meet. I know he swam for Mission Viejo and his wife actually did the records for the meet so I don't have a problem with that. Its the INTENT that matters. People in the last few days have provided evidence of INTENT of ethics regarding this issue. It does not take a rhodes scholar to figure the different INTENTS of what clubs and swimmers are doing. You're in error saying that Michael swam for Mission Viejo. Michael is attached to Rosebowl Aquatics and did not change his attachment to or from Mission Viejo. His wife, Julie is our LMSC Registrar, and If I remember correctly the rules state that she has to swim unattached, and she does. I'm not sure what you mean by the statement that his wife was doing the records for the meet, and why you'd have any sort of a problem with that. Almost sounds like you're making some sort of an alusion (errorneous at that, and an uninformed assumption) that something was not up to par? What sort of a problem would you have with a long standing reputable and respected Registrar doing the records for the meet anyways? (You can look up the Nationals results and you'll find a substantiation for what I just said) You may have Michael confused with our LMSC Chairman, who attached to our team this year, mainly because he's known our coach for a while, and both are very active in the LMSC Comittees, AND our chairman's team disbanded earlier this year due to losing pool time. So, partially due to friendship, and partially due to frustration with his home team pool director, he decided to change team affiliation. For example, several of our satellite swimmers have been attached to the team for at least 2 years or longer. I also happen to personally know the 'canadian' that swims for SDSM, if you check results as far back as 2002, you'll see that he's swam attached to SDSM that whole time, and I know that he is a close personal friend of one of the SDSM swimmers. (Although, he might attach to our team soon considering he found me more charming to hang out with then his buddy :p ) If some of you think that these people have suddenly attached to the teams just because of the nationals or a chance to be on a winning team or have been recruited, you are mistaking. Plus, it takes little more then a last minute decision to unattach from one team and attach to another, and it should be voluntary. One of the comments about if a swimmer attached to a team "b", and later on wanted to reattach back to the team "a", suggesting that team "a" shouldn't allow them back is an intimidation tactic, and much more unsportsman like then someone wanting to switch teams becaue they're under the impression that the grass is greener...