The women's team swims lights out at conferance and craters at NCAA's now the men are in a battle to finish 4th...
No one ever revealed the entire story behind Marsh's departure...interesting that Quick was brought in mid-season...takes the rains...and now we see the results...so...one more year or is he gone after this season?
I think lots of people were jealous of Auburn's success and assumed they must be cheating (sound like some other topic to anyone?). Especially on the men's side Auburn always seemed to add a couple studs mid-season that proved to be just what they needed to win NCAAs. The fact these guys tended to be foreign raised red flags to a lot of people.
There was a lot of discussion about this on collegeswimming.com. I tried to do a search there, but the search function doesn't seem to go back far enough for the thread or threads about Marsh's departure. I'm going purely by what I read over there. I have absolutely no personal knowledge about Auburn or Marsh and as far as I know they're pure as the driven snow.
Leaving Auburn for MAC was a major step down in my opinion...sorry but if you think otherwise I won't try to convince you.
According to some Auburn has some very serious issues with regards to recruiting, hazing and scholarships...I've met Dave and have a lot of respect what he accomplished as a coach...however it seems there may have been some serious issues with the program and the timing of Quicks arrival and the departure of Marsh have never been fully disclosed....and may never be.
As for the meltdown....hard to say but it will be interesting to see how long Quick stays around and if/how this will effect recruiting in coming years.
Finally....I have to give a huge kudos to Cielo for his standout swims given the apparent training/taper changes this season and how much of the rest of the team fared.
I think lots of people were jealous of Auburn's success and assumed they must be cheating (sound like some other topic to anyone?). Especially on the men's side Auburn always seemed to add a couple studs mid-season that proved to be just what they needed to win NCAAs. The fact these guys tended to be foreign raised red flags to a lot of people.
There was a lot of discussion about this on collegeswimming.com. I tried to do a search there, but the search function doesn't seem to go back far enough for the thread or threads about Marsh's departure. I'm going purely by what I read over there. I have absolutely no personal knowledge about Auburn or Marsh and as far as I know they're pure as the driven snow.
Leaving Auburn for MAC was a major step down in my opinion...sorry but if you think otherwise I won't try to convince you.
According to some Auburn has some very serious issues with regards to recruiting, hazing and scholarships...I've met Dave and have a lot of respect what he accomplished as a coach...however it seems there may have been some serious issues with the program and the timing of Quicks arrival and the departure of Marsh have never been fully disclosed....and may never be.
As for the meltdown....hard to say but it will be interesting to see how long Quick stays around and if/how this will effect recruiting in coming years.
Finally....I have to give a huge kudos to Cielo for his standout swims given the apparent training/taper changes this season and how much of the rest of the team fared.
