TEMPE, Ariz. -- Bob Bowman knew that building the Sun Devil swimming program into a national power would be a multi-step process, and yet he offered a remarkably self-deprecating admission at the first team meeting on Monday.
"I felt like my first year here, we didn't do anything well other than recruiting," he said. "We were just kind of struggling to put it together.
"Last year, we did another good job of recruiting but we also put the college season together well. We performed very well at Pac-12s and we were reasonable at NCAAs, but after that we kind of dropped the ball.