Looks like the number of foreign athletes taking scholarship money away from home grown kids has surged in recent years. 2/3rds are in Division I schools.
I wouldn't dream of accusing lazy coaches who don't recruit well of using "hired guns" from other countries to win championships. I'm sure they are only accepting foreign athletes for the altruistic good of helping to diversify the student body..... :-)
Influx of foreigners presents new challenges for NCAA
www.usatoday.com/.../2008-10-01-foreign-influx_N.htm
These numbers may be off but hope you see the point...
If there are 50,000 US men/women of college age who swim and would like to swim at a university or college. I'm assuming there are far fewer foreign swimmers of college age who swim and would like to swim at a US university or college, say 20,000. Why is it that a higher percentage of those foreign swimmers are of a higher caliber than the US swimmers enabling them to get the swimming scholarships? Maybe we should be looking at their coaching and training techniques.
These numbers may be off but hope you see the point...
If there are 50,000 US men/women of college age who swim and would like to swim at a university or college. I'm assuming there are far fewer foreign swimmers of college age who swim and would like to swim at a US university or college, say 20,000. Why is it that a higher percentage of those foreign swimmers are of a higher caliber than the US swimmers enabling them to get the swimming scholarships? Maybe we should be looking at their coaching and training techniques.
