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?
As to the doping issue---you of all people being the consummate pragmatist have to admit that quite a few of these recent swimming achievements are way, way over the edge of plausible. The only one I came out and said, "I do not believe" is Dara's comeback. A few others are suspect....
I do find some achievements to defy logic. But, not all achievements are dope induced. Not all achievements are due to new technology. Not all sub-par achievements spell the end of a program or swimming in general. We hopefully agree on that.
There seems to be no real consistent argument on these topics. For instance, a performance that is not deemed good enough is due to poor coaching or poor technique or poor training or what not. Conversely, a great performance is due to new suits or drugs solely. Seems like a no-win these days on this forum. I just hope this same logic is applied to all swimmers at Nats, so we can be equal opportunity offenders.
As to the doping issue---you of all people being the consummate pragmatist have to admit that quite a few of these recent swimming achievements are way, way over the edge of plausible. The only one I came out and said, "I do not believe" is Dara's comeback. A few others are suspect....
I do find some achievements to defy logic. But, not all achievements are dope induced. Not all achievements are due to new technology. Not all sub-par achievements spell the end of a program or swimming in general. We hopefully agree on that.
There seems to be no real consistent argument on these topics. For instance, a performance that is not deemed good enough is due to poor coaching or poor technique or poor training or what not. Conversely, a great performance is due to new suits or drugs solely. Seems like a no-win these days on this forum. I just hope this same logic is applied to all swimmers at Nats, so we can be equal opportunity offenders.
