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Message: [QUOTE="dvegas, post: 3591869, member: 2590"] This is a post from "[B]B1G Daddy[/B]" over on SwimSwam - Big props to him . . . "My heart goes out to the senior class. Kyle Dunlap, Joey Homan, Rowan King, Bill Mudlaff, Josh Wroblewski. They’re trapped in that no-man’s land, too close to graduation to transfer without their diploma yet still carrying a year of eligibility. It’s likely each has swum their final college race. I’ve heard speculation that some rising juniors may redshirt this year to gauge where to go. Somebody is going to get a GEM in Emils Jurcik. He’s a 1:45 IM’er that has gotten better every year and projects as a 1:44/1:36 200 Free type before he’s done. Gavin Moak becomes a really interesting guy in the transfer pool. A 15:07 miler that dropped considerably as a freshman. On his improvement curve he has a chance to challenge for NCAA’s in his final three years somewhere. I hope Billy Regan and his 1:59 200 Breast finds a home as well. He’s got three years left too. Look for North Hanson. A 4:24/15:13 combo that could really help the right school. He has two years remaining and is coming off the best season of his career. If Jack Muratori’s last race was a :44.40 split anchoring UConn’s 400 Relay at AAC’s, that would be a shame. In Houston he looked like a guy that could be :43.0 someday. Still raw with two years to go. Let me finish where I started, with that Class of 2021. Kyle Dunlap is one hell of a kid. A fearless anchor on numerous Freestyle and Medley Relays, he was at his best in Houston with a 20.5/44.3/1:38 combo. He has persevered at UConn and swam like a captain of the 2020-21 Huskies in Houston. You just felt like he was on the brink of something much bigger. And I conclude, with the case of Joshua Wroblewski. In 2016 he was a Junior National A Finalist in the 500 Freestyle. In 2017 he became the fastest 17-18 200 Freestyler in Connecticut history. He chose UConn where he swam on the school record 400 Free Relay, was a 7-time AAC A finalist and got his Olympic Trials cut in the 400 Free in December. He has one year of eligibility left. Where do he and Kyle go? What are they to do, other than get their degree? Josh has already said he plans to be in Omaha in 2021 regardless, but that dream of ending his career there became so much harder today. When he takes the block in Omaha, I’ll be the guy at the top of the stands making an absolute jackass of myself for about three minutes and 53 seconds. If he’s going to do it big, he’ll have to do it largely on his own…thanks to UConn’s decision today. That’s his story. That’s a few of their stories. Another program lost. Like UCLA, Miami, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa State, Maryland, Illinois, Fresno, Eastern Michigan, East Carolina…they’re not coming back. It’s sad to watch them picked off. Pour a little out for the fallen Huskies." [/QUOTE]

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