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?
The tone of this thread is pretty typical of the tone of sports in general these days. One off year (if you even consider a 2nd and 5th place to be off) doesn't really mean a darn thing. It's like all the crazy other sports where if your team doesn't win it all you replace the coach. But, I guess we have to assume the sky is falling at all times rather than have some historical sanity about it.
First, no sports program ever in the history of the universe can sustain championship calibre for year after year. There are a few cases that could be used (Auburn swimming, UCLA basketball, Celtics basketball, and others) but, as a whole, expecting to finish first is unrealistic every year. And, the expectation that anything other that first yearly is the only possible outcome, is really crazy.
Second, it is pretty well established that following a coaching legend will inevitably bring a drop in performance. I won't quote the ten zillion times this has happened but it does.
Reading the threads these days all you get is doping, demise of swimming, a program gone bad. Hard to believe that right now the USA is actually probably the strongest it has ever been. There are actually a few of us that still enjoy swimming and aren't the black clouds of doom and despair. What a bunch of chicken littles.
The tone of this thread is pretty typical of the tone of sports in general these days. One off year (if you even consider a 2nd and 5th place to be off) doesn't really mean a darn thing. It's like all the crazy other sports where if your team doesn't win it all you replace the coach. But, I guess we have to assume the sky is falling at all times rather than have some historical sanity about it.
First, no sports program ever in the history of the universe can sustain championship calibre for year after year. There are a few cases that could be used (Auburn swimming, UCLA basketball, Celtics basketball, and others) but, as a whole, expecting to finish first is unrealistic every year. And, the expectation that anything other that first yearly is the only possible outcome, is really crazy.
Second, it is pretty well established that following a coaching legend will inevitably bring a drop in performance. I won't quote the ten zillion times this has happened but it does.
Reading the threads these days all you get is doping, demise of swimming, a program gone bad. Hard to believe that right now the USA is actually probably the strongest it has ever been. There are actually a few of us that still enjoy swimming and aren't the black clouds of doom and despair. What a bunch of chicken littles.
