Given all the debate in the other thread about Qatar "buying" up some of the top talent in swimming, my question is how many people feel the USA should do the same?
Hoogie & Thorpe for our 800 free relay?
Schoeman & Hoogie for our 400 free?
How about on the W's side, a couple of th Aussies maybe?
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Originally posted by TheGoodSmith
These are two competing thoughts. Either there are enough students and athletes here to do the job or there are not. My opinion is that there are certainly enough here, and they deserve our money and attention first.
Your steadfast refusal to separate out the different actors and their interests is undermining the logic of your arguments. There is no contradiction in saying that there are enough great swimmers in the US to fill the Olympic roster and saying there are not enough high quality students to do all the research that universities want to do or enough world class domestic swimmers to allow all the college teams to have a few.
So far the disagreements all eventually come down to different ideas on what the motivations for offering athletic scholarships are or should be. Ignoring those differences just results in people talking past one another.
Originally posted by TheGoodSmith
These are two competing thoughts. Either there are enough students and athletes here to do the job or there are not. My opinion is that there are certainly enough here, and they deserve our money and attention first.
Your steadfast refusal to separate out the different actors and their interests is undermining the logic of your arguments. There is no contradiction in saying that there are enough great swimmers in the US to fill the Olympic roster and saying there are not enough high quality students to do all the research that universities want to do or enough world class domestic swimmers to allow all the college teams to have a few.
So far the disagreements all eventually come down to different ideas on what the motivations for offering athletic scholarships are or should be. Ignoring those differences just results in people talking past one another.
