How many guys from other countries does it take to win a National Championship?
Good thing they all attended classes on campus the entire year..... :-)
Makes everyone feel proud to see the American Record holder on the 4th place podium.
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In other words you have no idea who I am, what I stand for or an understaning of my posted postions here.
Paul, I know that you care about swimming. I know that you care about American swimming and want to see it be the best swimming country in the world.
But it also comes across that when a college, like Auburn or Arizona, use foreign talent to improve their swim programs, people seem to want to see them burned at the stakes for supposedly taking away spots for American kids. If ANY school is breaking the rules in terms of what their student-athletes are doing or how they are taking classes, then yes they do need to be punished...regardless of foreign talent or not. BUT, if AU, UofA, Cal, use foreign talent legally...then what is the fuss about? If the top American kids don't want to go to Auburn or Cali to swim, then the coaches shouldn't have to waste their time going after lower level swimmers, if they are able to legally get good swimmers from other countries. There is nothing wrong with bringing in foreign kids to help improve one's program. I swam with a lot of foreign kids. To this day, I am grateful for that opportunity.
In other words you have no idea who I am, what I stand for or an understaning of my posted postions here.
Paul, I know that you care about swimming. I know that you care about American swimming and want to see it be the best swimming country in the world.
But it also comes across that when a college, like Auburn or Arizona, use foreign talent to improve their swim programs, people seem to want to see them burned at the stakes for supposedly taking away spots for American kids. If ANY school is breaking the rules in terms of what their student-athletes are doing or how they are taking classes, then yes they do need to be punished...regardless of foreign talent or not. BUT, if AU, UofA, Cal, use foreign talent legally...then what is the fuss about? If the top American kids don't want to go to Auburn or Cali to swim, then the coaches shouldn't have to waste their time going after lower level swimmers, if they are able to legally get good swimmers from other countries. There is nothing wrong with bringing in foreign kids to help improve one's program. I swam with a lot of foreign kids. To this day, I am grateful for that opportunity.
