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SwimSwam Pulse: 59% Think Texas Can Repeat As NCAA Champs With New Coach

SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side, or you can find the poll embedded at the bottom of this post.

Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers if the Texas Longhorns can repeat as NCAA champs next year even with head coach Eddie Reese retiring:

RESULTS

Question: Will Texas repeat as NCAA Champions with a new coach next season?

  • Yes – 59.5%
  • No – 40.5%

Nearly 60% of voters believe the Texas Longhorns can repeat as men’s NCAA swimming & diving champions, even with a coaching change.

Eddie Reese announced his retirement the week after winning his 15th career NCAA team title. Reese is the most-decorated swimming coach in men’s Division I and had been coaching Texas for 43 years.

Reese will remain in touch with the program, though, suggesting he’d still be coaching practices for both the Texas men and women. He’ll remain in his head coaching role through this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, then transition into a “coach emeritus” role that keeps him coaching the Longhorn athletes, though not serving as the head coach of the team.

Texas won the meet by 27 points over California. The Longhorns only graduate 149 points from their senior class and lead all teams with 282 “returning” points from underclassmen. Further tweaking those numbers is senior diver Jordan Windlewho suggested on social media that he will return to take advantage of a fifth year of eligibility. Windle was the team’s top scorer, putting up 52 individual points.

 

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Coach Macgyver
3 years ago

My question is what direction will the UT swim camp take. It brings in more money than any other camp at UT and plays a huge factor in recruiting.

Austinpoolboy
Reply to  Coach Macgyver
3 years ago

Interesting point! A real feeder system. How many current swimmers came up through the camp. Just curious?

Drewbrewsbeer
3 years ago

Seems like there’s frequently a surprise or more on the women’s side.

Coach Steve
3 years ago

Assuming I get this job, I appreciate the confidence Texas swim fans in me and also my swimmers. While swimming fewer yards faster is trendy right now, I’ve pioneered a new method that consists of swimming even fewer yards but swimming them slowly and I can’t wait to show what we’re capable of. Hook ‘them!

Sun Yangs Hammer
Reply to  Coach Steve
3 years ago

USSPT- Ultra Short Slow Pace Training

PsychoDad
Reply to  Coach Steve
3 years ago

Hook ‘them? Really, Steve? Yeah, you are not getting that job. By the way, Alex Popov and his coach, Gennadi Touretski, practiced super slow swimminng, so you don’t have that working for you either. Now, if you want to apply for our summer league team as an assistant coach, I can put a word for you. We are 15 miles from Texas Swim Center – that is the closest you might get to coaching there.

Last edited 3 years ago by PsychoDad
Back2Back
Reply to  Coach Steve
3 years ago

Coach Steve,
I also hear you pioneered the “standing on the bottom” method! It will be the craze next year. Just stay where you are at and I trust you will be overwhelmed with the response from across the world. Got a T-Shirt with your logo???

Former Texas Longhorn
3 years ago

Since it’s been repeatedly said that Eddie will continue coaching, but in a non paid capacity, I think that means that Wyatt will be the new coach and that the transition will be unusually smooth. Eddie has said he will be “coach emeritus”, which means he still retains involvement in the program. It’s carefully chosen designation. Eddie will coach, which he loves the most, and Wyatt will coach and handle all the administrative duties including recruiting. If Eddie continues to have an important coaching role, it may not hurt Wyatt’s recruiting very much because now Eddie can focus on what he loves most, coaching. This may be a win-win for Eddie, Wyatt and Texas.

PsychoDad
Reply to  Former Texas Longhorn
3 years ago

Texas recruits love Wyatt and support Wyatt. Nobody can just replace Eddie, but I believe Wyatt will be very successful in selling Longhorn swimming magic.

Ghost
3 years ago

The question should be if they will win in 5 or 10 years IMO.

Swimmer2
Reply to  Ghost
3 years ago

I think the recruiting might start to slow down. Texas has a few advantages for recruiting. They’re attractive to in state kids because of in state tuition and there is a large talent pool in texas. They’re really good, who doesn’t want to be part of national championship team. And kids will take the chance to swim under Eddie. Eddie will still be around however. I see them being good, but qualifying 26 swimmers for nationals will probably go away over the next few years.

Horninco
Reply to  Swimmer2
3 years ago

Fun fact, only 5 of the kids on the NCAA roster are from Texas. Texas gets a large number of its studs from OOS

Rico
Reply to  Horninco
3 years ago

Since Texas no longer helps cover summer training costs, including classes, the OOS recruits will dry up fast. The cost of a summer class for an in stater is $500. The cost of the same summer class for OOS $2,000. Insane. More insane when you factor in the cost of living in Austin these days… easily $3,000 for the summer for housing alone. All others costs on the rise too what with half of CA tech moving in with their fat wallets. UT may not make financial sense for OOS.

Horninco
Reply to  Ghost
3 years ago

Will be interesting to watch.

Horninco
3 years ago

Hard to really make a good call without knowing how many Cal seniors will come back. Some good up and coming eams too. I agree that with what we know, Texas should be the favorites.

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