Florida 49.8 Floor, Really?

Haleigh hurt her foot again in floor, if not LSU would have been closer.

It like the judges knew ahead of time who was going to win the meet.

In gymnastics, seems that way quite often

I actually watched the 2nd half of this meet. LSU had some mistakes on floor that could have given them a lead going into the final rotation. As one stated, an injury was part of that, although it wasn’t the sole reason they outperformed us. Their floor performances were near flawless across the board. Hated to see them lose, but Florida dominated on floor last night so hats off to them!

I am not questioning whether Florida won the meet. They may have prevailed even with lower floor scores. The discrepancy last night, though is seldom seen between two high level programs like these. Florida had a 10.0 and two 9.975 floor scores so one judge handed out three 10.0 scores. All six scores were 9.9 or better. Meanwhile LSU had three scores below 9.9, including their two super stars. I understand if Haleigh had an injury which threw off her routine. Why was Kiya so far off her norm?

It is impossible to remove the subjectivity from scoring in gymnastics. No doubt the judges are influenced by a roaring home crowd when a gymnast has an outstanding performance. I would also agree that if the Auburn meet was in Auburn and last night in Baton Rouge LSU might still be 1-1. I have developed a better understanding of gymnastic scoring over the last 10 years, but admit I don't always see some of the nuances which some of the more knowledgable on this board readily observe. However, despite all of their star power after three rotations an injury riddled LSU team was dead even. Then all of a sudden it became a runaway. I will accept the opinion of those with more insight, but it just seems to be a greater divide than it should be.

I still believe come post season LSU will be firing on all cylinders if healthy and Florida will do their usual disappearing act. They definitely ain't getting a 49.8 floor score.

That was the first thing I noticed. On an away meet, your score really is the only thing that matters though, and LSU improved their score from last week. That's the takeaway.

49.8 has to be a record.

G-5 Billy will pay for this.