Re: University of Washington Disgracing themselves?

UW on the other hand, has stated outright that the crew racing in
Russia
is an "alumni" crew, and thus not to be confused with UW's normal
varsity crew.  So, if this alumni crew does well in Russia, that
performance should not reflect on how good/fast the UW varsity is.

Except that the Moscow International Regatta, aims "to pit some of the
world's best collegiate crews against one another." It is a race for
colleges to compete against one another, not alumni assigned full-time
to national team training duties.

The PAC-10 has a rule forbidding its members from traveling overseas
to race more than once every four years (HRR is exempt from the rule).
This rule is in place to bring some financial responsibility to the
sport. UW is now flagrantly skirting this rule by offering a "reward
trip" as often as it like to its alums or how about we just call them
ineligible rowers. If this is not a UW sanctioned trip then why does
the UW website say "Fifty years after its historic victory over the
Soviets, the University of Washington crew is back in Russia."

As soon as these guys set foot on the plane the University of
Washington is breaking established PAC-10 rules...something the
Trojans did not.

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