"Jake cares about Jake, he will say an do anything to promote himself and the program. Then when you join you'll see a completely different person and program. Nothing about his "innovative" style of coaching is new or up to current swim standards. Old school mentality of grind it as hard as you can with same repetitive things. During recruiting he'll give you all kinds of attention, long talks, and glorious stories of the program and culture. But then as soon as you're in season the self importance of Jake begins. He has zero idea how to deal with girls and give motivation. There is no positive energy and everything is based on fear and a negative occurring. He will find his one or two favorites on the team that are the fastest and those are the only swimmers that get the attention or any positive feedback. Now even before the House vs. NCAA settlement has been approved with roster limits he's taking the Liberty Team Culture and throwing it out the window for his own ego. In some delusion he believes he will get transfers from other Major D1 schools to Liberty. Just look at his bio on the Liberty swimming page, it's nothing but a diatribe of how great he thinks he is and ego boost. Beware of the bait and switch. He'll talk a good game, but once you're in the program you'll realize you've been sold a lemon."

"Jake is a robot, who is programmed to impose his beliefs on you and nothing else. He has a complete lack of regard for the mental and physical well-being of his athletes. All he is concerned with is winning and promoting himself further in the swimming world."