Interesting that someone has FINALLY put Light on the LSU swimming coach. I have read all the responses. I am very familiar with LSU swimming and what is going on in the State of Louisiana as it pertains to swimming in general. (clubs swim programs etc.) i have followed the sport with a keen eye for at least 10 years.

BOTTOM LINE! LSU NEEDS TO FIRE DAVE GEYER!!!!

How Dave Geyer has been able to remain as Head Coach is mind boggling. He is a Horrible coach. He cant recruit!
Have you seen where the woman just placed in the SEC?!
The worst womens swim scoring in 10 YEARS!! keep the diving coach, BUT FIRE GEYER!
Just watch how bad the men perform this week. Best of luck to Curry but, he cant save Geyer!

Yes, facilities are bad, but if you get a good leaded then the rest will follow.

Mr. Woodward if you are listening you have a decision to make and it is an easy one. No doubt the easieest and best descion of your LSU career . FIRE GEYER immediately after the Mens SEC. Actually you should fire Dave Geyer NOW!!

Press release: LSU puts on a show in the pool at SEC Championships.

The LSU women's swimming team closed out the 2021 SEC Championships with bang on Saturday night with two swimmers swimming career best times. The LSU diving team closed out their portion of the Championship with Men's Platform. The Tigers will be back in action next week as the men's swim team heads to Columbia, Missouri for the Men's SEC Championships.

To start the night in the pool, Summer Stanfield swam the third fastest 200-Yard Backstroke in LSU history, 1:55.05, to finish in 12th place in the 'B' Final. In the 'C' Final of the 100-Yard Freestyle, Katarina Milutinovich finished in 20th place with a time of 48.91.

In the final individual event, the 200-Yard Butterfly, Hannah Bellina won the 'C' Final with a time of 1:57.18. After swimming the tenth fastest time in school history in the prelims, she moved up to No. 3 all-time with her final swim.

To close out the night, the 400-Yard Freestyle Relay team of Milutinovich, Olivia Taylor, Bellina, and Stanfield finished in seventh place with a time of 3:17.82. The team's seventh place finish marks the highest finish for a LSU women's relay team since 2017. [And that's all].

The SEC Diving Championships concluded on Saturday with the Men's Platform dive. After a first place finish on one-meter and a second place finish on three-meter, Juan Celaya-Hernandez finished in fourth place on platform with a score of 345.50.

For the championship, Celaya-Hernandez was voted Male Diver of the Meet for the third time in his storied career.

I would say keep Geyer personally. There are not many coaches that have been able to develop a swimmer like Brooks Curry, that potentially could be a catalyst for upcoming future classes. There are a lot of problems that have to be fixed like the facilities that are out of Geyer's control that have to be fixed. Some people on here are a little short sighted to see how the answer the past 20 years has been fire the coach to no improvement (I will add that the best LSU placement since 2000 at Men's SECs has been under Geyer and I believe the only SEC individual champions have been in under Geyer).

If you want to compare Geyer to someone, compare him to the Texas A&M coach Jay Holmes, the knock against Jay since he took over as coach was that he was a terrible recruiter, not personable, and didnt get along well with clubs swim coaches and was garbage at signing good instate recruiter, all of Texas' top tier talent went to UT, SMU, or out of state. Under Jay in the Big 12, Jay never beat UT and even lost to Mizzou one year to get last place at conference in the 3 swim team BIG 12. The first 5 year's of A&M in the SEC yielded results of 7,7,8,8,7. In the last three years, A&M has announced and completed two major new projects to their swimming facility, a new pool to add to their already world class pool and an $8 million dollar facility that includes weight room/dryland space, hydro therapy, nutrition center, team lounge space, and a world class locker room that would be the swimming equivalent of the LSU football locker room. Jay has been able to recruit off of this the last 5 years and he has built a powerhouse program that could win SECs this year and definitely will within the next 5 years are recruits can start seeing the finished products on their trips.

Any school in the nation right now would interview Jay if they had an opening. He really is very equivalent to the reasons y'all have pointed out against the LSU coach, only he was doing the same with not terrible facilities, once the facilities became great, he started beating everyone.

Also Wooly Goat, you only have 4 posts, created your account on Friday, and have a burning passion for firing the swim coach, alter much?

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My point is, LSU won’t compete in the SEC with LA kids. Baltimore/DC, Texas, Florida, California, etc

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False in the 90’s roster had a large amount of LA swimmers and we were 4th-5th in SEC usually, this was when auburn and Florida had Olympic teams, Georgia was good and we were close to Tennessee. I don’t know what changed with LA swimming, I imagine it is the retirement of the OG coaches and nobody else knew who knows how to coach

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you have to get kids from where the parents are pouring tons of resources into these ridiculous swim factories.

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we’re a poor state. We don’t have parents like that

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we’re a poor state. We don’t have parents like that

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Then there will be sports you’ll have to recruit from out-of-state. The good news is, the big two (football, basketball) aren’t quite as pay-for-play as the Olympic sports are. Poor states still do great at developing athletes in those.

Developing a top-level swim/crew/fencing/tennis/etc kid is really expensive. Just to keep my kid competitive in DC-area swimming in high school was like $800/month in practice time (6x/week practice). We had no illusions she’d swim Div-1 (where she wanted to go to school), but she kept in great shape and was a point-scoring part of the team, so it was worth it to us.

To keep up with the other kids she’d have needed better genetics and to have been much more driven (the top kids were swimming before and after school, all year).

My point is, SEC-caliber swimmers rarely just happen. They are kids that build almost everything in their schedule around pool time with trainers that are critiquing and refining minute details of their strokes while putting them through 1,000s of yards in the pool daily.

You are spot on with figuring out a way to incoporate a new pool with locker rooms, training, nutrician center, and great seating at the rec center. UGA is good in that besides the student, other sporting events take place there and there are views into the competition pool. GA Tech is similar but 100% dedicated to swimming. Their seating is the best by far.

Adding on: I haven't been to the rec center in person but just watched the virtual tour. It's a no brainer to add the team competition pools with great seating to this facility. That place is ridiculous.

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Honestly that is a great point. I am not sure that at this point he would be interested in taking on a head coaching position. I have heard he may not have too much longer there, I believe he is 70 or older. If he was to retire, Woodward should definitely reach out and ask about coming on board as a consultant or director of operations.