In the wedsite for Swimming world, there is yet another story about a university possibly closing its men's swimmign program. It is the University of Rhode Island. I went to a very small Liberal arts college, Knox College. There were only 265 kids in my class. We had a very small team. It hasn't been a good swimming school since the mid 70s. It has a very smallpool. On this site it has actually been called a toilet bowl!
I'm kind of confused about these bigger state schools who can't produce a winning swim team. Why should they keep a team going with its expenses, if it can't produce a team that at least wins half of its meets? If I read the results right. URI finished 9th out of 10 school in its conference.
What is it like to be at a big school? I know here Illinois doesn't have a team, but all of our other state schools do. I'd relly like more comments. Also, does anyone think that schools who have losing records and areclosing down their program effect swimming nationally?
