We suck, we’re a loser program
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Not without getting free rent at the shell house with all it's marvelous floors, and some massive cutbacks to overall cost of the program. I'm talking about going back to Yella era (and before) with no more scholarships, higher percentage of local, tall Viking kids. They'd have to buy slower Pocock shells made in Everett vs those German made Empachers (the Porsche/Ferrari of rowing shells)
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Rowing is going nowhere.
Montlake Futures is going to subsidize it over just about every other Olympic sport if it came to that. It won't though.
Softball, baseball, track, and tennis is what needs to get figured out.
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This is really confusing since you're usually a fairly proud alum and on the lists of greatest things achieved by the University of Washington, sporting or otherwise, Rowing is on the list and is typically the top athletic accomplishment of the university. 1991, Rose Bowels and the early 1900s unbeaten streak are there, but it is the Seattle PI's defining sports moment of the 20th century. https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/events-of-the-century-3835569.php
PBS didn't make documentaries about the '91 football team. We haven't even mentioned the boat that went behind the iron curtain, beat the Soviets and popped off.
Anyway, obviously the world is different now and if the UW would like to continue that tradition it needs to continue to fund it.
But if the attitude is "it doesn't matter unless it makes money" then that's pretty fucking dystopian.
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Nobody at Washington thinks like that wrt rowing.
