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Post by beaverchew on Mar 4, 2019 19:19:57 GMT -8
Really a sad day when the university has to give up a sport. Choosing to compete of OSU was a huge decision for these girls, something they trained for years to do and now their lives have been turned upside down.
I had kids that swam for the Corvallis Aquatic Team so was able to be around the OSU team a lot. They were terrific representatives of OSU. Hard workers and usually the highest GPA of any sport on campus. Truth was we were never terribly competitive in a hyper competitive conference. We would have been somewhere in the lower middle of the Mountain West this year. When you have teams like Cal and Stanford that attract Olympic gold medalists you just can't match up. We also didn't have any divers so next to impossible to score points at conference.
Good luck to the coach and these athletes.
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Post by lebaneaver on Mar 4, 2019 19:21:30 GMT -8
I hope the Athletic Dept can withstand the anger from all the important swimming boosters and swimming season ticket holders. 😅 |
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Post by sagebrush on Mar 4, 2019 21:39:37 GMT -8
Easy answer for a women's sport is wrestling.
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Post by blastingsand on Mar 4, 2019 22:13:29 GMT -8
My vote is to add women's beach volleyball. It probably would be the most that would make sense since you already have athletes, plus its the biggest growing NCAA sport right? Surpassed cheer a while ago. It also seems to be very popular on campus during spring. Could be a party scene in corvallis during these games with baseball going on simultaenously.
And to be honest swimming just didn't make sense. We will never win anything except for individual because it's paired with diving in NCAA competitions.
Another sport they can sneak in is women's tennis. Another low cost sport. We are the only Pac-12 team without women's tennis. Don't think it would catch on in Corvallis, but it would be low maintenance.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 5, 2019 7:35:39 GMT -8
Whatever sport is added - if one is added - will be done on the cheap. This is a budget move, the competitive aspect of the conversation is simply a smokescreen. If something has to be added, sand volleyball is the easy option; little money, no expenditure for added staff or players.
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Post by Judge Smails on Mar 5, 2019 7:58:43 GMT -8
Whatever sport is added - if one is added - will be done on the cheap. This is a budget move, the competitive aspect of the conversation is simply a smokescreen. If something has to be added, sand volleyball is the easy option; little money, no expenditure for added staff or players. It definitely will be done on the cheap. The reason that they added women's track and started with distance runners is that it allowed them to double-dip and count scholarships towards both track and cross country. If they do not need more women's scholarships, they will not add anything. This move not only affects the women's swimming athletes, but it will greatly slow down the effort to add men's track. |
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Post by bennyskid on Mar 5, 2019 9:59:56 GMT -8
I wonder if the timing had anything to do with the gas company intermittently cutting off the Osborn Aquatic Center? It's bad enough that we're the only program depending on a community pool. Even worse when we can't even guarantee that the pool is heated. Maybe we quit to save the embarrassment of being kicked out by the conference.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 5, 2019 10:36:01 GMT -8
I wonder if the timing had anything to do with the gas company intermittently cutting off the Osborn Aquatic Center? It's bad enough that we're the only program depending on a community pool. Even worse when we can't even guarantee that the pool is heated. Maybe we quit to save the embarrassment of being kicked out by the conference. This decision was quite some time in the making, had nothing to do with that whatsoever. The department has to balance its books. Eliminating a $1-million plus sport we could never be competitive in was an easy place to start. |
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Post by messi on Mar 5, 2019 11:47:45 GMT -8
What? No one offered the suggestion of Acrobatics and Tumbling as a possible replacement? Weren't we told 10 years ago that it was growing?
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