Bowman leaving Michigan!

I don't know why so many people think coaching at the collegiate level is the zenith of a swim coaches career? Yes a handful of schools pay the hugh salaries w/benefits and you get to work with incredibly talented swimmers who by most parts where created by their USS/High School coach, but there is so much more to coaching college than these wonderful things. Most of your time is spent dealing with office duties, budgets, recruiting, swimmer academic problems, and a whole host of small insignificate things as a coach you don't want to deal with. To be quite honest, when I coached college, everything I loved about coaching ended up being the part I spent the smallest amount of time doing. I'm not saying that either Bowman or Marsh left their positions for these same reasons, but leaving the ncaa ranks to actually coach somewhere can be very attractive.

I don't know why so many people think coaching at the collegiate level is the zenith of a swim coaches career? Yes a handful of schools pay the hugh salaries w/benefits and you get to work with incredibly talented swimmers who by most parts where created by their USS/High School coach, but there is so much more to coaching college than these wonderful things. Most of your time is spent dealing with office duties, budgets, recruiting, swimmer academic problems, and a whole host of small insignificate things as a coach you don't want to deal with. To be quite honest, when I coached college, everything I loved about coaching ended up being the part I spent the smallest amount of time doing. I'm not saying that either Bowman or Marsh left their positions for these same reasons, but leaving the ncaa ranks to actually coach somewhere can be very attractive.