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re: Did Alleva fire the swimming coach?
Posted by garmn on 4/12/10 at 3:02 pm to tigerbulldog
Dave took a job in Lafayette coaching COLA last Monday. On Tuesday, he resigned and went back to Baton Rouge.
Yes, he will be the coach and he may be a good diamond in the rough that no one knows about on a national level. And there will be some really good swimmers at TAQ looking to join LSU if Dave is still there when they graduate high school. (eg: Smacker Miles - Les Miles daughter). Hopefully, Dave will recruit Louisiana better than Adam. Adam seemed to have no interest at all.
Yes, he will be the coach and he may be a good diamond in the rough that no one knows about on a national level. And there will be some really good swimmers at TAQ looking to join LSU if Dave is still there when they graduate high school. (eg: Smacker Miles - Les Miles daughter). Hopefully, Dave will recruit Louisiana better than Adam. Adam seemed to have no interest at all.
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re: Did Alleva fire the swimming coach?
Posted by garmn on 4/9/10 at 10:13 pm to LSU NO Tigah
He's around 54 or 55. Years working for state jobs gets you retired earlier. See him every once in a while around the pools.
Ricky still lives in the Baton Rouge area. He helped Crawfish Aquatics with the Masters program after Scott Rabilais left for South Carolina. I think Ricky is working in private industry closing in on retirement or something like that. After Stickles in the late 70's came Scott Woodburn (I think that was his name) in the early 80's and the team almost imploded. Look at old yearbooks, they had less than 10 swimmers.
The program seemed to resurrect itself with Ricky and Sam took it to the top of the SEC.
The program seemed to resurrect itself with Ricky and Sam took it to the top of the SEC.
re: Did Alleva fire the swimming coach?
Posted by garmn on 4/8/10 at 10:49 am to LSU NO Tigah
Yes, I know who it is but am not sure if they have made it public so I will leave it at that. He has ties to Baton Rouge and LSU. From what I gather, swimmers like him.
As for Auburn, I have swam in that facility several times and it is outstanding and fast. Maybe LSU officials should visit the place to see what a real facility looks like.
As for Auburn, I have swam in that facility several times and it is outstanding and fast. Maybe LSU officials should visit the place to see what a real facility looks like.
Bolts are long gone. Dick Bower lives in The Woodlands. Crawfish Aquatics have been winning state championships left and right and won this year short course championship by over 900 points. They have over 500 swimmers in two cities (Baton Rouge and Lafayette).
As for the LSU swim program, we use to swim in the old Huey Long pool prior to the early 1980’s. If you think the Nat is bad, try swimming in a bubble enclosed pool that was so hot and humid it would literally rain inside. You had to worry about pulling the bubble off the bottom of the pool when some airhead left the doors open and let the pressure out of the enclosed facility.
The chlorine was so strong you could barely breath. The shallow end was almost too shallow to hold a meet. Taller swimmers worried about hitting their heads on a flip turn.
From my understanding LSU has selected a replacement (interim or permanent-I am not sure yet). For LSU representing Louisiana as the “Flagship” university, it is embarrassing with the quality of facilities they have. It is either hot in the summer or freezing cold in the winter.
As far back as I can remember LSU has always short-changed the programs, even when we had Ricky Meader swimming. He was a true Olympic probability straight from Baton Rouge (and one heck of a nice guy). That is until Jimmy Carter screwed up his 1980 Olympic dreams.
Sam Freas brought LSU an SEC championship and from what I have observed, Adam was not aggressive in recruiting in state. You would think with Smacker Miles, who is a solid college prospect; LSU would consider better support for this sport. Someone with some pull, please impress upon the current AD to properly fund facilities and commit to making LSU swimming an elite program before it gets shut down.
As for the LSU swim program, we use to swim in the old Huey Long pool prior to the early 1980’s. If you think the Nat is bad, try swimming in a bubble enclosed pool that was so hot and humid it would literally rain inside. You had to worry about pulling the bubble off the bottom of the pool when some airhead left the doors open and let the pressure out of the enclosed facility.
The chlorine was so strong you could barely breath. The shallow end was almost too shallow to hold a meet. Taller swimmers worried about hitting their heads on a flip turn.
From my understanding LSU has selected a replacement (interim or permanent-I am not sure yet). For LSU representing Louisiana as the “Flagship” university, it is embarrassing with the quality of facilities they have. It is either hot in the summer or freezing cold in the winter.
As far back as I can remember LSU has always short-changed the programs, even when we had Ricky Meader swimming. He was a true Olympic probability straight from Baton Rouge (and one heck of a nice guy). That is until Jimmy Carter screwed up his 1980 Olympic dreams.
Sam Freas brought LSU an SEC championship and from what I have observed, Adam was not aggressive in recruiting in state. You would think with Smacker Miles, who is a solid college prospect; LSU would consider better support for this sport. Someone with some pull, please impress upon the current AD to properly fund facilities and commit to making LSU swimming an elite program before it gets shut down.
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