re: All three of our women's sports teams seem to have 800 lb gorillas in their way.

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What I have learned over the last few years of watching LSU come up just short of winning a national title in gymnastics is that “Oklahoma performs pretty good routines flawlessly while LSU performs phenomenal routines pretty good.” And the judges reward the less challenging routines that are performed excellently over the very challenging routines that are performed with a few faults.

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That's the biggest difference between elite/Olympic gymnastics and collegiate gymnastics. College gymnastics rewards perfection while elite and olympic rewards more challenging routines, hence the different scoring methods. Oklahoma has taken advantage of this by perfecting more simple routines where there are very little opportunities for deductions. I'm also no gymnastics expert so if someone knows better why Oklahoma routinely scores so high, pls share