I just can't believe how big some of these Div 1 schools are. I was there in 2005 for business and really checked out the campus. That whole town is orange. Their football stadium is the biggest (or was at the time) in all of football and is always packed.
The state of Tennessee really needed a facility like this - WOW! Those future recruits are in for a treat!
Hopefully some MASTERS MEETS will be held there someday?!?!?!?!?
Those blocks are incredible - from the color of them to the adjustable backstroke start handles!
:applaud: Go Vols!
I also know their women's swim coach is a tremendous young guy.
He is, despite the poor judgment he showed in choosing to attend -- and swim for -- Duke as a youngster.
He was our previous coach at U of Richmond and one of the factors in his decision to look elsewhere is that our administration refused to build a 50m pool when they renovated the rec center.
Um, he doesn't appear to have that problem anymore...
Chris,
I have to work on you and your Duke bashing!
As to Nationals in Knoxville...LC Nationals were in Knoxville in 1975. What I remember most is that they deck seeded every event. You had to report to a Clerk of Course for seeding. It was tough if you swam two events in a row since there was little time for cool down. I can't remember much else except that I had lots of fun.
Betsy
Let me get this straight. They now have three 50 meter pools on campus?
Awesome facility. Looks like a good place for Masters Nationals to me.
Unless they have gotten rid of any, at least three. There were two (one in/one out) in 1975 when we had Long Course Masters there, where our son of 10 weeks was breastfed between his mother's events.
Let me get this straight. They now have three 50 meter pools on campus?
They have 3 on one campus and there aren't any in my entire STATE. :frustrated:
The only thing real about the University of Washed Up Orange @ Hill Country is that it became a real university about 100 years after UT.
They do excel in implanting some teenager chip in their athletes which forces them to get pre-pubescent tats at age 48, trying to relive the glory I suspect.
Sour grapes from a jealous dog.
