Eastern Michigan University
ACHA W2 • NULL
Date: March 8, 2025
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How do you take a top 3 in your conference program and force it to bottom 3 within your first few years coaching? Be Derek Perkins. So much hype online, on our instagram page and on media day for what? What you see at the surface couldn’t be further from the truth. We look ridiculous. I don’t know if it’s a humiliation thing but Derek is completely out of touch with what he thinks he’s doing here and it’s embarrassing to say the least. The complete and almost total erasure of this programs history speaks for itself. Why hide all the pictures where they can barely be seen? Why attempt to keep the banners in storage? How Derek runs this program into the ground by mismanaging, contributing to toxic behaviors, engaging in inappropriate favouritism, and overall just being a horrible person is why we have been pushed completely away from all of Eastern athletics and barely recognized at all, why else would you want the past to show everyone just how far you’ve fallen. Have you seen anyone publicly thank Derek for what he’s done for them? Have you seen anyone publicly acknowledge Eastern Michigan University swimming? Have you seen Eastern Michigan athletics publicly acknowledge the swim program? Aside from those AI generated post swim meet articles. Have you seen the MAC publicly post anything regarding Eastern Michigan swimming to any of their pages aside from athletes winning “blank of the week”? It was my first year here this past season and I am just bewildered. Upon first glance on my trip and what I saw later on instagram, I thought I was joining a top program. It looks like they had money that a top program would have. If anything, what an amazing cover up for such a waste of time. I used to love swimming and now I wake up in despair at the thought of spending even 1 second with Derek as my coach or just him bringing there. I am hardly talked to by him anyways so that saves me from grief but god forbid I upset him over spilt milk and he makes sure that the whole team ignores you for however long he sees fit. Everything said by anyone before is entirely true and has continued to get worse and worse while Eastern athletics strings Derek along instead of just letting him go. He is so paranoid that it seeps into everything. I don’t know how he is still coaching here in all honesty after hearing from seniors that he’s thrown chairs across the pool deck in frustration. Do everyone a favor and just let him go. This program and the history it holds deserves better than be shoved away by an incompetent coach who in every way except verbally tells everyone how big of a loser he is. Local coaches dislike him and he’s I don’t think any coach in our conference likes him either with the way they were all avoiding him like the plague at MACS. Dump Derek, Save the program