OK just read that Katie Hoff has gone professional. Not that this has any bearing on anything but I am bit bummed.
I really was hoping that she would break Pablo’s NCAA records for most wins in college. There is a part of me that
really wants to have swimmers be amateurs, but that is quickly blasted out of the water with all the DUAH! Why
wouldn’t an oober athlete get millions of dollars for their athletic talents --that is years overdue. Does any one think
swimmers will get to be “divas” or “divos” like some professional athletes?
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Originally posted by aquageek
What I found amusing is your constant belittling of our sport saying its dying because there aren't enough sponsors of our gold plated membership rolls, we aren't setting world records everyday, and the endless other ways you try to say its a dead or dying sport. Yet, you then get all goo goo over a swimmer going pro.
As to this deserving thing. No one deserves anything in life. You work for what you get and the market determines your financial value.
Maybe it's the other Smith who has this attitude, I can't keep your two straight.
Aquaugeek,
The number of competitive swimmers in the US has extremely decreased in the last 5-6 years. Look at how they have had to increase qualifying times to get the same numbers of swimmers at meets yet there are fewer swimmers registerd at collegiate levels according to the NCAA. Also, many Y programs and club programs are losing students. One reason is that there are fewer people in the age-group category. This is even more upsetting. There is a bubble of 9-13 year-olds but they aren't enrolled in swimmign programs.
I have been told that the market for swimmers is very lucrative. We spend a lot of money. However, we are very small compared to ohter sports. Having a big name swimmer as a client and an endorser is supposed to help sell products to us because of product compettition
Originally posted by aquageek
What I found amusing is your constant belittling of our sport saying its dying because there aren't enough sponsors of our gold plated membership rolls, we aren't setting world records everyday, and the endless other ways you try to say its a dead or dying sport. Yet, you then get all goo goo over a swimmer going pro.
As to this deserving thing. No one deserves anything in life. You work for what you get and the market determines your financial value.
Maybe it's the other Smith who has this attitude, I can't keep your two straight.
Aquaugeek,
The number of competitive swimmers in the US has extremely decreased in the last 5-6 years. Look at how they have had to increase qualifying times to get the same numbers of swimmers at meets yet there are fewer swimmers registerd at collegiate levels according to the NCAA. Also, many Y programs and club programs are losing students. One reason is that there are fewer people in the age-group category. This is even more upsetting. There is a bubble of 9-13 year-olds but they aren't enrolled in swimmign programs.
I have been told that the market for swimmers is very lucrative. We spend a lot of money. However, we are very small compared to ohter sports. Having a big name swimmer as a client and an endorser is supposed to help sell products to us because of product compettition
