re: LSU Men Win SEC All-Sports Trophy

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I can absolutely say that no other school in this conference has a worse swimming facility than the Natatorium.

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Where do you start when you are dealing with the uninformed?

First, confricken grats to the lady Tiger Softball team.




Now. We are not talking about "conference" brethren. We are talking about NCAA, National, D1, "in the Country", the USA. You keep slipping back to "conference" when the discussion is NCAA.

Let's digress. Coach Shaffer (LSU Diving Coach) recruits the best coaches and recruits in the Country, year after year. He shows up at SEC's and NCAA's and Kicks U Know What.

He is not complaining about the facilities. The same facilities shared by the swim team. He produces results and the swim team produces excuses (at least for the past 5 years).

I am learning about baseball from the passionate and informed baseball fans and treads here on the rant, but swimming is my passion. I want nothing more than success for LSU Swimming.

So to the swimming uniformed, the development of the collegiate swimmer is two fold. Work done in the pool (50%), most would argue it is only 40%. And "dry land" workouts outside of the pool(50%), most would argue it is more like 60%. When I say "most" I am referring to coaches of the the top ten programs in the Nation, D1, NCAA, "in the country", USA.

So where do LSU swimmers do their "dry land" workouts (most of their development)?

1. In the best weight training facility in the Nation (which has A/C).
2. In the comfort of the LSU Football indoor training facility. (which has A/C).
3. With the best collegiate fitness trainers in the country.
4. They are fed at the best student athlete nutrition center in the Nation.
5. They have access to some of the best collegiate sports venues in the Nation.
6. Great Education !!!
7. I could go "on and on".....


Swimmers at LSU get the best of the best in 60% of their development as collegiate swimmers. Period. What they seem to lack is the 40% development in the pool.

You do the math.

Peace.