With the continued growth in USMS membership, I would submit that it's time to eliminate the regional teams at Nationals. Case in point: NCMS sent a "team" of 123 swimmers to Atlanta, enough to enter A, B, C, and D relays in many events (e.g. the mens 35+ 200 free relay in which our club team placed 13th behind eight regional teams). It's been argued that the formation of regional teams allows more swimmers to participate in relays, yet local clubs from North Carolina sent as many as thirty or more athletes and could have entered relays on their own as our club (with eight swimmers) did. Swim with the guys you actually train with.
I for one kind of agree with Doug...maybe if we treated people with a little bit more respect on these forums ...
Wasn't it Doug who was being rather patronizing and telling us what to care about and what not to care about? Very school teacher-esque type "scolding" ...
Besides, even assuming we cared about the regional team issue, how would that preclude us also from caring about growing USMS? You can be interested in both and still have a so-called "heated" discussion if you are wont to.
I for one kind of agree with Doug...maybe if we treated people with a little bit more respect on these forums ...
Wasn't it Doug who was being rather patronizing and telling us what to care about and what not to care about? Very school teacher-esque type "scolding" ...
Besides, even assuming we cared about the regional team issue, how would that preclude us also from caring about growing USMS? You can be interested in both and still have a so-called "heated" discussion if you are wont to.
