Ryan Murphy
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Ryan Murphy
@ryan_f_murphy
3x USA Olympian, 9x Olympic Medalist - 5🥇 2🥈 2🥉



Jaguars fans gotta be the hardest people on Earth


We’re moving way too slowly when it comes to “righting the ship” that is College Swimming. The ship is sinking. We should’ve acted 25 years ago, but today is the best we’ve got now. Rosters and being slashed. Programs are being cut. Budgets are being reduced. Coaching staffs are shrinking. We need to start modernizing, quickly, if we want to retain any sliver of what we’ve become used to over the last few decades. If not, we’ll quickly see the effects of our complacency trickle into every part of the sport at the collegiate level. Streaming will get worse. Budgets will continue to shrink. Programs will continue to be cut. As we move into this new world of college athletics, we’ll be forced into becoming even more reactive as a sport. That makes what we CAN still do, proactively, all the more valuable. Fans are the lifeblood of any sport, and the bottom line is that we aren’t giving them a consistently consumable product, in person or online right now. We need to build that product, or at least start trying. I’m more worried than ever for this sport’s future at the collegiate level, and that worry comes from the heart of a fan whose endurance for hoping for change is running out.




Likely one of the (if not THE) most crucial heats of prelims and we get this disaster...




