The team has its biggest meet of the year to date against #20 SMU tomorrow night at the Rec Center 6PM

This team is about to kick it into gear after its tough loss against LSU last weekend where two of its key men where temporarily ineligible to compete.

Come out and watch and help them get ready to move towards the top 10 this year at NCAA's which are in College Station!

Thanks & Gig 'Em

BTHO smu

WHOOP!

WHOOP!

How are you ineligible temporarily?

Go Aggies!! Gig'em

Paperwork issues....mid-semester enrollees etc...

http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/m-swim/stats/2008-2009/resultsamsmu.html

dear spicewood,

is that 200 good enough?

love,

everyone

1:36.21 ...yes!

what was the deal with the touchpads for the 50 Free where the officials stepped in and changed results?


good crowd tonight?


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You are correct. Not you GoBLue....at all...

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Incredible that meet officials can change an electronic touch pad time. Their eyes are not that good. Shameful.

Here's what I posted in the other thread:

From what I understand, the SMU coaches disputed the result, so the officials consulted the buttons, which said the kid from SMU won.

The ruling on whether there's supremacy in the touchpad is basically when there's greater than .3 difference between some combination of the buttons, touchpads, and stopwatches, then the results must be investigated and adjusted, if the officials find a reasonable issue.

It's really complicated once you get into how they adjust the times, so if you really want to read it, go to page 60 of the NCAA rule book. The gist is that if it's a 1 lane error, they figure which of the backups is valid (buttons or watch), and adjust that time by the average error between that same backup (buttons or watch) and the touchpad in all other lanes.

If the issue is deemed to be in the electronic timing of the whole heat, then whatever backup (buttons or watch) is deemed reliable for every lane is adjusted by the average of the errors of all lanes between the backup (buttons or watch) and what the touchpads actually registered.

Clear as mud?

The rule book is online here: scroll down to page 61 of the PDF. they have examples and all.
http://www.ncaapublications.com/Uploads/PDF/Swimming_Diving_ReadyforWeb7b42da3b-b35a-43bd-bba0-0b7323b5561b.pdf

We can only assume that the officials used correct procedure, and the discrepancy probably came from one of the Kines 199 all-stars doing the manual timing. It happens. At least it wasn't a qualifying cut, because then it likely wouldnt've counted because there were only 2 timers for each lane.

If anyone wants clarification of "what if this had happened or this or this" just post a response and I'll do my best to answer.

[This message has been edited by gobluwolverine (edited 1/31/2009 11:05a).]

Anonymiss, to whom exactly are you referring?

Also, do you not remember the previous discussion about alienating your fans? Your last post is a good way to do that. It will really turn people off if you're that cocky to your fans, and especially if you try and somehow relate (and attack) peoples' personal/political beliefs to your swim team, and ESPECIALLY if you didn't win and there were only about 4 B-cuts, and they weren't even that good of B-cuts. If you're referring to me with your comment, then just so all the other team members know, my previous comment wasn't meant to put you guys down as a team. Some of you guys just need to stop talking so much **** to the few people that bother following your team. Prove us wrong in the pool, not with "blah blah liberals suck blah blah" posts on texags.

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