“It led to charges of pro-NYU bias. Which was fine. We aren’t biased toward one team or another”
Exactly what an NYU propagandist would say! I’ve known all about your NYU apologist behavior since 2018 D3, when you forced us to order only New York Style pizza at UAA’s despite the fact we were in an Atlanta strip mall. This blatant and totally real bias must end!
I feel that any discussion of the impact of diving on the results of any swim and dive meet touches on a growing divide in the sport(s?) at the NCAA level. Just in the comments of some of your previous posts, that's been visible, but also in some of the recent articles put out by SwimSwam.
For all intents and purposes, swimming and diving are separate sports, and only share the action of landing in the water. They also have different audiences, and generally different recruiting bases. I have heard many more stories about divers sharing a background in gymnastics or cheer, than coming from competitive swimming.
As our sport at the NCAA level continues to feel the squeeze of change brought by the House verdict and settlement, swimming and diving seem to be growing apart. Maybe the sports have already grown apart, and were only kept under the same umbrella due to administrative reasons, and the change in roster construction has merely revealed that divide, rather than contributed to it. I don't know.
To me, it seems that olympic NCAA sports are facing real, long-lasting change. That's pretty scary. I think rather than letting the fear of that change make swimming and diving more insular and separate, and thus more likely to suffer the consequences of being left behind by universities and conferences, both sports would do well to present a united front.
To loop back around to the actual content of the article, this year's NCAAs will be an incredibly exciting watch. I've always wondered about the level of variability of diving at the championship level. Considering how talented all these athletes are, Is it possible for divers to jump up multiple spots in seeding, and score more points than expected? Generally, in swimming, most of the top seeds carry through roughly where you expect them to, is it the same in diving?
“It led to charges of pro-NYU bias. Which was fine. We aren’t biased toward one team or another”
Exactly what an NYU propagandist would say! I’ve known all about your NYU apologist behavior since 2018 D3, when you forced us to order only New York Style pizza at UAA’s despite the fact we were in an Atlanta strip mall. This blatant and totally real bias must end!
Your struggles are an inspiration to the rest of us
Is this true? Haha.
I give D3SO credit from not wavering from their conviction - one of these times NYU has to win.
I feel that any discussion of the impact of diving on the results of any swim and dive meet touches on a growing divide in the sport(s?) at the NCAA level. Just in the comments of some of your previous posts, that's been visible, but also in some of the recent articles put out by SwimSwam.
For all intents and purposes, swimming and diving are separate sports, and only share the action of landing in the water. They also have different audiences, and generally different recruiting bases. I have heard many more stories about divers sharing a background in gymnastics or cheer, than coming from competitive swimming.
As our sport at the NCAA level continues to feel the squeeze of change brought by the House verdict and settlement, swimming and diving seem to be growing apart. Maybe the sports have already grown apart, and were only kept under the same umbrella due to administrative reasons, and the change in roster construction has merely revealed that divide, rather than contributed to it. I don't know.
To me, it seems that olympic NCAA sports are facing real, long-lasting change. That's pretty scary. I think rather than letting the fear of that change make swimming and diving more insular and separate, and thus more likely to suffer the consequences of being left behind by universities and conferences, both sports would do well to present a united front.
To loop back around to the actual content of the article, this year's NCAAs will be an incredibly exciting watch. I've always wondered about the level of variability of diving at the championship level. Considering how talented all these athletes are, Is it possible for divers to jump up multiple spots in seeding, and score more points than expected? Generally, in swimming, most of the top seeds carry through roughly where you expect them to, is it the same in diving?