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(GYM) Women's Gymnastics Televised Schedules

Discussion in 'Alligator Alley (other sports)' started by ETGator1, Jan 30, 2022.

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    ETGator1

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    1. Michigan is good, but not as good as UF.

    2. Denver was overrated. On top of that, they lost their best gymnast for the year, Linzie Brown, to an Achilles injury.

    3. Oklahoma is good, but not as good as UF. Without the typical home scoring for the sooners, OU would have been another 1.000 lower than their 198.200 final score. I can't stand the home cooking that goes on at OU. The padded individual scores add up over the course of the meet. At one point, 3 OU gymnasts in a row had career highs plus a 5-year senior scored a 10 on the beam when she has never scored that high. In Gainesville, it would have been a 9.500. It was not a 10, not like UF's 10s anyway.

    I'm looking forward to watching #2 Utah at UCLA next Friday night at 10 PM ET on ESPN.

    If Jenny Rowland can start to roll out her top 6 gymnasts on each event, I think UF's chances at a special season are very good after seeing #'s 1, 3, and 5 today.
     
  3. Jan 31, 2022 #3
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    Michigan has a smaller roster and has averaged 4-5 AA's per meet. 1 injury will cost them any hope of repeating. Like Denver, who lost their top gymnast for the season and are now out of contention.
    I totally agree with the Sooners being overscored. I think some of it has to do with the Bart Conner Gymnasts Academy run by Conner and his wife Nadia Comaneci in Norman, OK. So many gymnasts and judges have ties there, maybe not directly but somewhere in their past they have an emotional connection. This, of course is conjecture. And I'm looking at it through my Gator Nation vision. The gymnast that scored a 10- I said to myself "that was a 9.925 maybe a 9.95. But since it's in Oklahoma, she will get a 10." And I was right. I stopped watching at the start of the final rotation because I knew the judges would give Oklahoma enough high scores to hit 198.000. But on the positive side, the Sooners, despite their incredible run in the last decade, have to put that "curtain" up on 1 side of the gym to block all the empty seats behind it. Despite "hiding" 1/4 of capacity, they still manage to have more empty seats than occupied ones.:p:p
     
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    My dislike for the scoring came with the OU gymnasts not being able to do splits to 180 or more. The commentators on the SECN are always putting up photos of UF's gymnasts meeting or exceeding that on the beam and floor. In OU's case, most of the gymnasts didn't do 180 or did 180 on one and not the other. I know it's picky, but the judges pick on Gators with deductions when they don't meet that standard.

    The OU gymnast who scored the 10 on the beam didn't do a 180 or more on either of her splits. How is that not a deduction?

    I'm also looking at scoring through the lens of how Alyssa Baumann was screwed by the judges last Friday. Her beam and floor would have been 10s if she were an OU gymnast performing in Norman.

    The good news is that these judges won't be able to do this in regionals and nationals. The sooners will have to live with the proper scoring just like everyone else.