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 <bar...@realtracs.com> 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. It was on locally in > Gainesville. > > Oliver Barry CRS, GRI > Real Estate Broker > PARKS Real Estate Services > 305 B Indian Lake Blvd > Suite 220 > Hendersonville TN 37075 > Office: 615-826-4040 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > bar...@realtracs.com > > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve > Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gatortalk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gatortalk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
