Go Auburn said: “Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous! Watch out next year for these Tigers! They only graduate a few guys and pull in huge sprinters like Chris Fox, Adam Brown, Joey Hale, and Kyle Owens.
WAR DAMN EAGLE!”
That is a very good point. All those guys were there last year and they were in either 5th or 6th. They really stepped it up and made the championship a total team effort.
Lets not forget they are also pulling in some kid named Stuart Ferguson. I hear he's kind of fast...
Nice try said: “Dont get me wrong Auburn was awesome at this meet but you are most def wrong...Do note that only one of those american swimmers was actually on their winning 200 free relay”
I agree you said Target didnt score as many points as he could have but dont try and down play the fact that he scored a huge amount of points. they couldnt have won without him
Go Auburn said: “Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous! ”
Dont get me wrong Auburn was awesome at this meet but you are most def wrong...Do note that only one of those american swimmers was actually on their winning 200 free relay
Go Auburn said: “Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous! Watch out next year for these Tigers! They only graduate a few guys and pull in huge sprinters like Chris Fox, Adam Brown, Joey Hale, and Kyle Owens.
Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous! Watch out next year for these Tigers! They only graduate a few guys and pull in huge sprinters like Chris Fox, Adam Brown, Joey Hale, and Kyle Owens.
Why are people talking about football still? Football and swimming are two completely different sports... and since I have done both Football and swimming I will let you know both have really hard practices... can we get back to how awesome Auburn swimming... Garrett should go film them rolling Toomer's !!!
Jonny Cash said: “Its funny how everyone comes out knocking their education when AU wins a swimming championship. Hilarious, because there are many teams at that meet whose school is actually consistently "ranked" lower than Auburn (including one by the name of Arizona.) We are very lucky in swimming to have the majority of our top twenty teams be very good academic schools (i.e. Stanford, Cal, USC, UNC) This is absolutely no reason to knock the others because they cant be consistently ranked on the Princeton Review's Top Ten. And the "mercenary" thing is pretty hilarious too. Besides Texas, which top ten school DOESNT have a foreigner? Eddie Reese, in my opinion, needs to wake up and recruit foreigners if he wants to win a national championship again in his career. Like it or not, the foreigners are here to stay.”
Texas doesnt not need to do that,D'nessenzo and Cragin are good enough haha.
1: Texas didn't "fail again". They never have up until this year. The talking heads who always predict Texas as #1 are stupid. I remember 3 or 4 years back when Auburn stomped on everyone (and everybody knew it was coming), for some reason Texas was "the favorite" in the polls, when anyone with any intelligence could have told you Auburn would run away with it. This is the first "surprise" champion in a very long time. Even though I have no respect for their past antics, 23/24 year old foreigners, and so-called academic standards, they swam out of their minds this weekend. Congrats to Auburn for swimming so fast.
2: Stanford and Michigan rarely recruit foreigners. The Dunfords weren't recruited (by the way, they're the appropriate ages for their classes, unlike most other foreigners around college swimming). Markus Rogan lived in the US. Matthew Swanston will be at Stanford next year, but he's from Canada (not exactly "foreign").
Andre Schultz and Alon Mandel are the only ones I'm coming up with in recent history for U of M. Oh, and Andrew Hurd from Canada, if that even counts
Dustin Myers said: “You say Texas failed to win a championship but I disagree. Yes, Texas did not win but they did not fail. They did the best they could. It's just that Auburn was better. I mean, they still got second... in my book that's really frickin' good”
You say Texas failed to win a championship but I disagree. Yes, Texas did not win but they did not fail. They did the best they could. It's just that Auburn was better. I mean, they still got second... in my book that's really frickin' good
Its funny how everyone comes out knocking their education when AU wins a swimming championship. Hilarious, because there are many teams at that meet whose school is actually consistently "ranked" lower than Auburn (including one by the name of Arizona.) We are very lucky in swimming to have the majority of our top twenty teams be very good academic schools (i.e. Stanford, Cal, USC, UNC) This is absolutely no reason to knock the others because they cant be consistently ranked on the Princeton Review's Top Ten. And the "mercenary" thing is pretty hilarious too. Besides Texas, which top ten school DOESNT have a foreigner? Eddie Reese, in my opinion, needs to wake up and recruit foreigners if he wants to win a national championship again in his career. Like it or not, the foreigners are here to stay.
Well, it's pretty hard to tell if the Jaked is the fastest suit out there when events were being won in other suits as well, (LZR's, Blue Seventy, Aqua Zone, TYR Titan). But one cool thing about them is that they come in different colors like gold, red, pink, and lime green
the JAKED suit is quite fast actually!! My guess is that it's the fastest suit out there...Haven't tried it yet but from what i've saw...incredibly fast times...it appears that in breaststroke and fly the benefits are just CRAZY!! But I thought in the states THIS particular suit wasn't known...?!?!
Apples vs. Oranges said: “Swimmers, swimmer, swimmers...don't lower yourselves to the depths of this football junkie. They can't do what we do and we can't do what they do. It is as simple as that. No point in disputing this. The reason they play football is because they can run faster than us (RB, WR, QB, TE, LB, Safeties) or they are so huge they can stop the fast guys (O line, D line). They could not make it through a swim practice - no doubt about it. But then again, I wouldn't want to try to make it through the hitting they do - pads or no pads. I swam because I was faster in the water than on land. I think most of us are in the same boat. I would like to see Phelps or Thorpedo take a hit from Ray Lewis - ouch! And I would love to see Tom Brady, TO, Tony Gonzales, LT, Vick (if he can get out of prison) and Palamalu swim a 200 free. Apples vs. Oranges.”
i don't think so Phelps would put pads on and ripe it up!
I know i should be mature and everything but I'm sick of all these people saying swimming isn't a sport when they are so lazy and pathetic they wouldn't know a real sport when it hit them in the face. i'm sure all you guys know what I'm talking about.
i love to see any football player swim a full 500 without being tired. football players have no endurance, your cardiovascular fitness blows. man up and swim a few laps and then come back and tell me football is harder
Swimmers, swimmer, swimmers...don't lower yourselves to the depths of this football junkie. They can't do what we do and we can't do what they do. It is as simple as that. No point in disputing this. The reason they play football is because they can run faster than us (RB, WR, QB, TE, LB, Safeties) or they are so huge they can stop the fast guys (O line, D line). They could not make it through a swim practice - no doubt about it. But then again, I wouldn't want to try to make it through the hitting they do - pads or no pads. I swam because I was faster in the water than on land. I think most of us are in the same boat. I would like to see Phelps or Thorpedo take a hit from Ray Lewis - ouch! And I would love to see Tom Brady, TO, Tony Gonzales, LT, Vick (if he can get out of prison) and Palamalu swim a 200 free. Apples vs. Oranges.
it takes a hell of a lot more skill and effort to make it through a mid-season swim practice than it does to make it through ANY football practice... and this is coming from a former football player. besides, i dont know any swimmers who are thugs, shoot themselves in the leg(plexico burress), tear locker rooms apart(terrell owens), or slap around their baby's momma (santonio holmes)
also, most swimmers who i know have nearly immaculate grades... cant say the same about any football players i know, save one or two
who is this is fat ass football player. if u new about swimming u would never say it wasn't a sport. You couldn't make it through one day of a swimmers workouts. I hardly think 350 pound lineman falling on each other is a sport. By the way we have a saying in swimming, " if swimming were easy they would call it football!" I also played 5 years of football and know for a fact swimmers are tougher and harder working than football players.
Thats great that these guys get to celebrate every once and a while. You see, swimming is just like Chess-- it requires a lot of skill and work, but ultimately, it just isn't a real sport. Now football, that's a sport. Football players train harder and have more influence when it comes to the big $!
Not all Podunk said: “Auburn actually is a really good school for Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Architecture, and a couple of other brainiac majors. I live in Huntsville, AL and I know lots of NASA scientists and engineers that went to Auburn. There is a lot more to Auburn than Football and Swimming. My darling daughter's dream is to swim for Auburn. She could do a lot worse.”
Auburn actually is a really good school for Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Architecture, and a couple of other brainiac majors. I live in Huntsville, AL and I know lots of NASA scientists and engineers that went to Auburn. There is a lot more to Auburn than Football and Swimming. My darling daughter's dream is to swim for Auburn. She could do a lot worse.
the whole team stepped up and this is proof that everyone on the team matters and when everyone steps up huge, great things happen. what an amazing win!! War Eagle!!
lots of teams recruit foriegners auburn goes the extra mileS to recruit the fastest people they can get recruiting is pretty vital in college swimmin and thts part of their success no doubt but everything they are doing is legal
Who cares if Auburn has foreigners - all the matters is its a team event. Swimming is such an individual sport its nice to see team competition, regardless of what nationality they are. Give me a break, hockey is full of canadians and europeans and I still root my team.
Just Say No To Foreigners March 29, 2009 at 10:13am
I don't blame Auburn for hiring "mercenaries". When you're located in Podunk, Alabama and you offer a second tier education in everything but agriculture, you gotta do what you gotta do. Very disappointed in the others, though.
Anonymous Coward said: “They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.”
i love auburn said: “war eagle fly down the field ever to conquer never to yield war eagle fearless and true fight on you orange and blue go go go on to victory strike up the band give em hell give em hell stand up and yell HEY war eagle win for auburn power of sea and land! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR EAGLE, HEY TEAM!
what a team they are
couldn't be prouder
WAR DAMN EAGLE”
Anonymous Coward said: “They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.”
It's LEGAL. Auburn will do what it what would give it its best chance to win every year. Some of these Texas fans need to be a bit more classy.
Anonymous Coward said: “They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.”
war eagle fly down the field ever to conquer never to yield war eagle fearless and true fight on you orange and blue go go go on to victory strike up the band give em hell give em hell stand up and yell HEY war eagle win for auburn power of sea and land! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR EAGLE, HEY TEAM!
what a team they are
couldn't be prouder
WAR DAMN EAGLE
They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.
Auburn Celebration
“Football players train harder then swimmers? That's kind of like saying football players are smarter then swimmers.”
smarter "than" swimmers.
and just fyi I am a Longhorn fan....so I guess we are not that arrogant huh?
“As always, Auburn takes their celebrations wayyyyyyy too far. That and their foreigners. Their fight song has an accent!!”
“Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous! Watch out next year for these Tigers! They only graduate a few guys and pull in huge sprinters like Chris Fox, Adam Brown, Joey Hale, and Kyle Owens.
WAR DAMN EAGLE!”
Lets not forget they are also pulling in some kid named Stuart Ferguson. I hear he's kind of fast...
“Dont get me wrong Auburn was awesome at this meet but you are most def wrong...Do note that only one of those american swimmers was actually on their winning 200 free relay”
“Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous!
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“Auburn won because of their AMERICAN swimmers! Not because of their "mercenaries." It was swimmers like JARED WHITE, KOHLTON NORYS, LOGAN MADSON, ADAM KLEIN, AND TYLER MCGILL that Auburn won this meet. Targett and Jakob both didn't score nearly as many points as they might have, so the "foreign mercenaries" theory is ridiculous! Watch out next year for these Tigers! They only graduate a few guys and pull in huge sprinters like Chris Fox, Adam Brown, Joey Hale, and Kyle Owens.
WAR DAMN EAGLE!”
WAR DAMN EAGLE!
“why are one of the tags "bob saget"?”
“Its funny how everyone comes out knocking their education when AU wins a swimming championship. Hilarious, because there are many teams at that meet whose school is actually consistently "ranked" lower than Auburn (including one by the name of Arizona.) We are very lucky in swimming to have the majority of our top twenty teams be very good academic schools (i.e. Stanford, Cal, USC, UNC) This is absolutely no reason to knock the others because they cant be consistently ranked on the Princeton Review's Top Ten. And the "mercenary" thing is pretty hilarious too. Besides Texas, which top ten school DOESNT have a foreigner? Eddie Reese, in my opinion, needs to wake up and recruit foreigners if he wants to win a national championship again in his career. Like it or not, the foreigners are here to stay.”
2: Stanford and Michigan rarely recruit foreigners. The Dunfords weren't recruited (by the way, they're the appropriate ages for their classes, unlike most other foreigners around college swimming). Markus Rogan lived in the US. Matthew Swanston will be at Stanford next year, but he's from Canada (not exactly "foreign").
Andre Schultz and Alon Mandel are the only ones I'm coming up with in recent history for U of M. Oh, and Andrew Hurd from Canada, if that even counts
“You say Texas failed to win a championship but I disagree. Yes, Texas did not win but they did not fail. They did the best they could. It's just that Auburn was better. I mean, they still got second... in my book that's really frickin' good”
“Swimmers, swimmer, swimmers...don't lower yourselves to the depths of this football junkie. They can't do what we do and we can't do what they do. It is as simple as that. No point in disputing this. The reason they play football is because they can run faster than us (RB, WR, QB, TE, LB, Safeties) or they are so huge they can stop the fast guys (O line, D line). They could not make it through a swim practice - no doubt about it. But then again, I wouldn't want to try to make it through the hitting they do - pads or no pads. I swam because I was faster in the water than on land. I think most of us are in the same boat. I would like to see Phelps or Thorpedo take a hit from Ray Lewis - ouch! And I would love to see Tom Brady, TO, Tony Gonzales, LT, Vick (if he can get out of prison) and Palamalu swim a 200 free. Apples vs. Oranges.”
“well you're an anonymous coward... and probably a terrorist. This is AMERICA”
if you CAN do this
also, most swimmers who i know have nearly immaculate grades... cant say the same about any football players i know, save one or two
“why would you ever say that on a swimming website? you're dumb”
Congrats to Auburn they swam great this week.
“Auburn actually is a really good school for Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Architecture, and a couple of other brainiac majors. I live in Huntsville, AL and I know lots of NASA scientists and engineers that went to Auburn. There is a lot more to Auburn than Football and Swimming. My darling daughter's dream is to swim for Auburn. She could do a lot worse.”
“... but everything they are doing is legal”
It seems like Ricky just had a bad race. He was swimming very well up to the point at which he swam the 200 fly.
“They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.”
great "team" effort..that's what wins championships!
“war eagle fly down the field ever to conquer never to yield war eagle fearless and true fight on you orange and blue go go go on to victory strike up the band give em hell give em hell stand up and yell HEY war eagle win for auburn power of sea and land! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR EAGLE, HEY TEAM!
what a team they are
couldn't be prouder
WAR DAMN EAGLE”
“They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.”
“They only reason why they won that title because of their mercenaries. If they didn't have that, they wouldn't be where they are. If this were a real amateur sport, auburn would be thrown out of the main competition.”
what a team they are
couldn't be prouder
WAR DAMN EAGLE