“We’re moving way too slowly when it comes to ‘righting the ship,’ that is College Swimming,” Kyle Sockwell, founder of heatoneswimclub.com , dropped a long tweet over collegiate swimming on August 29. He wanted changes, pointing out: budgets were shrinking, programs being cut, and coaching staffs being reduced. “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,” Sockwell continued. And now, Michael Phelps’ Olympic teammate has responded to this.

“Do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always gotten,” tweeted Ryan Murphy today in reply to that. He added, “It’s well past time to try something different in swimming. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel here. Nearly every major sport ends its season with

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