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?
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... just my :2cents: - YMMV...
I don't know Marsh at all, but as a college swimmer I did encounter many quality college coaches over the years, some of which had less than stellar personal reputations. Only a few ever left or lost their jobs because of it...
I also had the good fortune to swim for a quality program and a first-class coach (yeah, Nort!), and I could see - even back in the 1980s - the pressure that recruiting puts on the coach every season. I can only assume that it has gotten worse over the years.
I personally cannot imagine "selling" your program to high schoolers and foreigners being chased by many other equally attractive schools, year after year after year. Perhaps it wore on him?
Of course, nothing compares to dealing with age-group club parents, so perhaps we'll see him back at a college program in a few years.
... just my :2cents: - YMMV...
I don't know Marsh at all, but as a college swimmer I did encounter many quality college coaches over the years, some of which had less than stellar personal reputations. Only a few ever left or lost their jobs because of it...
I also had the good fortune to swim for a quality program and a first-class coach (yeah, Nort!), and I could see - even back in the 1980s - the pressure that recruiting puts on the coach every season. I can only assume that it has gotten worse over the years.
I personally cannot imagine "selling" your program to high schoolers and foreigners being chased by many other equally attractive schools, year after year after year. Perhaps it wore on him?
Of course, nothing compares to dealing with age-group club parents, so perhaps we'll see him back at a college program in a few years.
