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?
You've continued with your heartfelt speeches until blue in the face yet have failed to produce a single piece of information to bolster your claims that the US is falling behind in sports in any way whatsoever. This, despite rampant evidence to the contrary.
And, every single credible university in the world strives to have a well rounded student body, including foreign students, to improve the quality of the education and educational experience. Do you really think your beloved UT would be the world class institution it is if it closed it's doors? C'mon man, then it would be another Bob Jones U. People don't go to UT becuase it is a little ethnocentric closed door university. It took me 5 minutes (that you didn't take) to go to the UT website and note a whopping 3.8% of your student body is foreign. Interestingly, 30% of those are Chinese. Don't you think it might benefit UT students and the US in general to learn alongside students from the country that will be the greatest economic and military adversary to the US for the foreseeable future? Who is losing out with this?
Again, you fail to realize that in swimming, maybe, and in industry, absolutely definitely, the ability to interact and compete alongside the brightest and strongest only makes the US stronger. It's not rocket science, it's really rather simple.
You've continued with your heartfelt speeches until blue in the face yet have failed to produce a single piece of information to bolster your claims that the US is falling behind in sports in any way whatsoever. This, despite rampant evidence to the contrary.
And, every single credible university in the world strives to have a well rounded student body, including foreign students, to improve the quality of the education and educational experience. Do you really think your beloved UT would be the world class institution it is if it closed it's doors? C'mon man, then it would be another Bob Jones U. People don't go to UT becuase it is a little ethnocentric closed door university. It took me 5 minutes (that you didn't take) to go to the UT website and note a whopping 3.8% of your student body is foreign. Interestingly, 30% of those are Chinese. Don't you think it might benefit UT students and the US in general to learn alongside students from the country that will be the greatest economic and military adversary to the US for the foreseeable future? Who is losing out with this?
Again, you fail to realize that in swimming, maybe, and in industry, absolutely definitely, the ability to interact and compete alongside the brightest and strongest only makes the US stronger. It's not rocket science, it's really rather simple.
