Thanks for that astute analysis! Helen On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 9:23 AM Sandy Alonso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Got a long post here to let you know what you missed. :-) > > The meet was on a lower level Fox Sports channel. Like Fox Sports College > Central or something like that. While you missed some good gymnastics, > you definitely saved your ears from their terrible commentators. One lady > was an ex-Olympian and ex-Sooner gymnast so when she stuck strictly to what > elements a gymnast was doing, she was fine. But they talked excessively > over the floor routines (making it hard to hear the music) and giggled a > lot. Honestly, at times they sounded like a pair of preteens talking > amongst themselves. > > Florida's vault is still not up to what one would expect yet. While > nobody sat a landing or anything, they just can't stick them. Lots of > oversteps. Bars was quite good, not as amazing as the all 9.9+s at the > previous meet vs Kentucky, which apparently they needed because OU met that > bars score for the event (49.725). Maybe there was a little home-cooking > there, but not a lot. > > OU was ahead by about .500 but opened the door by falling off the beam > twice, forcing them to count a bad score. Or rather one gymnast fell and > the other gymnast "fell" because the second gymnast in question didn't > touch the ground, she just landed straddling the beam. So instead of > scoring say a 9.2 like the woman who fell before her, she scored a 9.500. > The "gymternet" was apparently aflame over this score - the general > consensus was that it was an ACTUAL fall and should have received the > larger deduction. You'll note if that had been scored as a 9.2 exactly, > then the meet would have resulted in a tie. > > Floor was actually quite good for the Gators in spite of Alicia Boren > being underscored (all I saw was a slight step-back in one landing), > resulting in a 9.90. Sidney Johnson-Scharpf landed out of bounds on one > pass, but they didn't have to count her 9.65 score. Things were pretty > tight going into the final event. > > Gators had a good, if not their best, beam. Alicia Boren, who normally > could be counted on for at least a 9.9, slipped off the beam, resulting in > a 9.2-ish score. However, what was happening on floor scoring for OU was > maddening. In spite of some routines that were meh at best and replete > with not-crisp landings and other deductions, everyone but the one person > who went out of bounds and scored a 9.95 or more. Some routines deserved > it, but all five out of six gymnasts? A 49.825 for a team that was > averaging 49.319 on this event up until this evening? I call shenanigans. > And you know: it wasn't just me: the entire "gymternet" was apparently > aghast at the overscoring. > > Of course, what REALLY matters in Gymnastics is not your W-L record during > the season, it's your scoring average. And big scores on the road are > weighted more than big scores at home Throwing a 198+ is a big score and > to do it on an away meet is absolutely something to be excited about. > These ladies start sticking those vaults at the end of the season, and good > things are going to happen. > > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 12:34 PM Oliver Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, as you probably know, we lost to #1 ranked OK last night. 198.325 >> to 198.025. >> OK had a program best on the floor exercise. >> I feel we would have won in our own O-Dome. >> I couldn’t find it on tv anywhere in Tennessee. 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