Losers who daydream and miss their heat

Originally posted by Leonard Jansen Actually, I'm surprised that this hasn't turned into a snit about "take personal responsibility" per the "discussion" we had quite some time back concerning people who sue after spilling hot coffee or whatever in their laps. My solution: Each team going to the a meet brings a (or hires a local) mother who has kids in age group swimming. It's her job to walk around, keep track of everything and nag at those who aren't paying attention to their time schedule. In addition, she could hand out those little boxes of juice and small baggies with Cheerios or carrot sticks in them to the swimmers. As an added bonus, she could give "serious talking-to's" to swimmers fraternizing/flirting with the "wrong type of people". ("Johnny, she's a distance swimmer. Do you want your children to be predominantly slow twitch ?") -LBJ Awwww, that is called a bullpen. And by age 10, most kids strongly believe they are too old for a bullpen and should be allowed to just report to their lane. As my daughter says, I am old enough to take care of myself Mom.......right before she misses her heat! :rolleyes: Meg, I understand what you are saying about the difference between rules and policy for the meet. But if it is in the meet information, than isn't it a "rule" for the meet. We had a different visiting ref for a meet that was adamant we could not do deck adds because we did not put that wording in the meet information that deck adds could be done. Normally, I was loosey goosey about it, because coaches do forget swimmers or mess up on events, and since it is for the swimmers, as long as it is done before positive checkin is closed, I have no issues. This ref said, no, but said just put it in your meet information next time...which we are.

Originally posted by Leonard Jansen Actually, I'm surprised that this hasn't turned into a snit about "take personal responsibility" per the "discussion" we had quite some time back concerning people who sue after spilling hot coffee or whatever in their laps. My solution: Each team going to the a meet brings a (or hires a local) mother who has kids in age group swimming. It's her job to walk around, keep track of everything and nag at those who aren't paying attention to their time schedule. In addition, she could hand out those little boxes of juice and small baggies with Cheerios or carrot sticks in them to the swimmers. As an added bonus, she could give "serious talking-to's" to swimmers fraternizing/flirting with the "wrong type of people". ("Johnny, she's a distance swimmer. Do you want your children to be predominantly slow twitch ?") -LBJ Awwww, that is called a bullpen. And by age 10, most kids strongly believe they are too old for a bullpen and should be allowed to just report to their lane. As my daughter says, I am old enough to take care of myself Mom.......right before she misses her heat! :rolleyes: Meg, I understand what you are saying about the difference between rules and policy for the meet. But if it is in the meet information, than isn't it a "rule" for the meet. We had a different visiting ref for a meet that was adamant we could not do deck adds because we did not put that wording in the meet information that deck adds could be done. Normally, I was loosey goosey about it, because coaches do forget swimmers or mess up on events, and since it is for the swimmers, as long as it is done before positive checkin is closed, I have no issues. This ref said, no, but said just put it in your meet information next time...which we are.