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Why are there no LSU swimmers?
Posted on 7/26/20 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 7/26/20 at 4:50 pm
I am watching the SEC championships in swimming, and I haven’t seen a single swimmer from LSU. Does LSU no longer have men’s or women’s swimming?
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Posted on 7/26/20 at 4:53 pm to Spankum
The program isn’t great. Need a facility upgrade in the worst way.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 4:56 pm to Spankum
Well, as sure as I posted, I see an LSU swimmer....and he won!
Freshman won the 100Y freestyle!
Freshman won the 100Y freestyle!
This post was edited on 7/26/20 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 7/26/20 at 5:08 pm to Spankum
I have a friend that has 2 sons that were very good swimmers,both went to Auburn. I asked both why they went there even though their father went to LSU and they both said the facilities weren't close, Auburn was much better.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 5:13 pm to LSUFanMizeWay
Interesting...I guess I am not used to LSU getting beat out for recruits.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 5:16 pm to LSUFanMizeWay
Our facilities are very outdated...
They tried to get athletics and rec to agree on updating our facilities but the two lsu departments could not agree so we got a lsu lazy river instead...
With such outdated facilities we can not attract recruits...
it is an expensive sport for a college due to the facilities... we should consider just stepping away ...
They tried to get athletics and rec to agree on updating our facilities but the two lsu departments could not agree so we got a lsu lazy river instead...
With such outdated facilities we can not attract recruits...
it is an expensive sport for a college due to the facilities... we should consider just stepping away ...
Posted on 7/26/20 at 5:44 pm to Spankum
Just take the Lutcher High School team and let them go compete as LSU. 
Posted on 7/26/20 at 7:02 pm to Spankum
Hard to swim with a beer in your hand.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 8:35 pm to Eyebesmacinhose
Not really, I’ve done it for years. You just swerve into other lanes a lot is the problem.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 9:18 pm to Spankum
They got a great freshman, hopefully that can help with recruiting. What I mean by that is they really developed him this year, he wasn’t sec champ caliber coming out of high school. Need facilities so bad, might get some traction with Woodward, but that’s a very tough fight to get funds for, even for the AD.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 9:34 pm to Stuckinthe90s
I’ll play dumb on this one: why are swimming facilities so expensive?
Posted on 7/26/20 at 10:07 pm to Honest Tune
Ever looked into an I ground pool at the house? Now multiply that by a school like LSU asking for it to be built.
Posted on 7/26/20 at 10:15 pm to Spankum
Posted on 7/27/20 at 6:40 am to Honest Tune
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I’ll play dumb on this one: why are swimming facilities so expensive?
I’m not really sure if it’s the expense or that swimming and diving isn’t a revenue generating sport. Other schools have aquatic centers with multiple indoor, outdoor pools, most having a competition pool with systems built in place to cut down on wave reflection (cut time). LSU has one pool 35 year old pool.
S&D also only has 9.9 and 14 scholarships for men and women respectively, which makes it difficult to recruit since if out of state/international athletes take a bulk of those then you have to rely on in state swimmers to fill the holes and Louisiana isn’t really known for competitive swimmers.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 6:48 am to The Hurricane
quote:All good points. I think a number of schools with really great facilities have saved some money by having their competition pools essentially share an engineering infrastructure (and maintenance cost) with their rec sports programs.
I’m not really sure if it’s the expense or that swimming and diving isn’t a revenue generating sport. Other schools have aquatic centers with multiple indoor, outdoor pools, most having a competition pool with systems built in place to cut down on wave reflection (cut time). LSU has one pool 35 year old pool.
S&D also only has 9.9 and 14 scholarships for men and women respectively, which makes it difficult to recruit since if out of state/international athletes take a bulk of those then you have to rely on in state swimmers to fill the holes and Louisiana isn’t really known for competitive swimmers.
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