I might not have been an impact player when I was recruited, but by my junior year I had become one. Swarthmore gave me the opportunity to succeed on the athletic field and through hard work I was able to attain success. That is why this decision is so disheartening to me, that by cutting Football and Wrestling the opportunity to work as an individual and as a team to succeed is being taken away from the underclass members of these teams. The very members you made a commitment to when Pete Alvanos was hired as head football coach. Also, I think cutting football will also cripple a sport I hold near and dear to me, baseball.
Baseball is played by a number of two sport athletes.
In fact the football players represent the highest percent of two sport athletes on the baseball team. Between the decision to fill the baseball position with a part time coach when Ernie Prudente retired and cutting the football team, I have a hard time believing that Swarthmore will be able to field a competitive baseball team and maybe not one at all in the future. Actually, I was recruited for Basketball first and Baseball second. I think this is the way it is with more athletes. So if there is no Football program, I find it very hard to believe the baseball team is going to be able to recruit enough players to field a team.