As of 8:10am this morning one of the finer programs in the country is lost due to "budgetary" problems.
No one saw it coming and they just recently signed some top level recruits that gave them one of the top 3 recruiting classes in the country.
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I'm not a great researcher but from what I can tell, only Vandy in your list above has ever had a men's swimming program. I could be wrong about this. I did not see any of the other above mentioned programs in any SEC results going back to 1937. Wait - Miss State did have a team in 1937 but I don't see them competing again after that. Guess all the water holes dried up in '38.
Fearing some schools haven't been in the SEC since 1937 I have confirmed that Miss and Miss St were charter members back in 1932. Arkansas joined in 1991 from the SWC. I can't find any history of Arkansas men's swimming but that doesn't mean it didn't exist. SWC is a bit hard to dig up info on.
Arkansas had a men's swimming program, I swam there. They dropped it in the early 90's (we were a top 10-20 program by the way) and had a phenomenal training facility. I also spent a semester at Nebraska-Lincoln and they dropped their program also.
It was truly sad when they dropped this, the women's team went down. They are trying to build it back up, but no question it lost a lot of momentum when the men went away. Same for Nebraska and countless other programs where women stayed and men were cut.
I'm not a great researcher but from what I can tell, only Vandy in your list above has ever had a men's swimming program. I could be wrong about this. I did not see any of the other above mentioned programs in any SEC results going back to 1937. Wait - Miss State did have a team in 1937 but I don't see them competing again after that. Guess all the water holes dried up in '38.
Fearing some schools haven't been in the SEC since 1937 I have confirmed that Miss and Miss St were charter members back in 1932. Arkansas joined in 1991 from the SWC. I can't find any history of Arkansas men's swimming but that doesn't mean it didn't exist. SWC is a bit hard to dig up info on.
Arkansas had a men's swimming program, I swam there. They dropped it in the early 90's (we were a top 10-20 program by the way) and had a phenomenal training facility. I also spent a semester at Nebraska-Lincoln and they dropped their program also.
It was truly sad when they dropped this, the women's team went down. They are trying to build it back up, but no question it lost a lot of momentum when the men went away. Same for Nebraska and countless other programs where women stayed and men were cut.
