Coaches' Poll Voting (and so much more!)

High school coaches, please email your picks for the top ten teams in 4A and 5A swimming. Deadline is December 19.

Need more info on 4A before casting your ballot?

Frisco 4A TISCA

As athletic departments cite Title IX and budget issues as reasons to cut men's sports like swimming, football battles to maintain their over-the-top bloat. Read more here.

Big football is not happy with the suggested cuts, which include five fewer FBS football scholarships and new regulations limiting noncoaching football employees to a dozen. (Peer down the sidelines at many games, and you’ll see two or more times that many athletic-department workers.)

Their defense has been "We're a revenue sport!"

The media bought into the term and John Q. Public ate it up. "Of course we can spend millions on football," they think, "it's a revenue sport!"

Honest reporters would label football an "expenditure" sport. Almost every football program spends waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than the revenue it generates.


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Dr. Keith Bell speaks for many of us when he says "Here we go again." Read his take on the new "system" Speedo's marketing here.


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Timing issues at a state championships? A couple of readers put me onto one that didn't involve Texas (or swimmers). Read Bizarre timing mishap costs Florida team potential state title and Florida runners donate medals, trophy to disqualified foes.

A South Florida girls cross country team missed out on a potential state title because of one of the strangest technical disqualifications to pop up in recent times: Two of the team's runners were disqualified because they unintentionally swapped the timing chips on their shoes.

Tech-wrecks - they're not just for swimming anymore!


Want more on boys swimming in the Massachusetts girls' state meet? No? You've had enough of the idiocy? Okay, don't click here.


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