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Was not made aware of that by any stretch of the imagination

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Do you think he chose our order for SEC’s?

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Yes and no. The coaches do get to pick their rotation order for SEC’s but they go in seed order so obviously OU being the number one seed chose to start on vault first which left us to chose second and pick the next best most favorable starting order which is bars first

According to the live scores from the meet, Emily was the only one who exhibitioned on Friday. I heard from the post meet press conference from Jay that she debuted her one and a half for the first time ever and scored a 9.8. I think there’s a chance that in one of the two day meets we may have Ulrich or Blackson vault instead of someone else in the lineup that you listed, but it’s highly unlikely. Outside of that, speaking on Chase not vaulting on senior night, in the pre-meet press conference interview, she stated that her goal for this season was just to be able to flip again, similarly to Alyona last year when she came back for sixth year. I don’t think she was necessarily planning or expecting to compete in her sixth year, but took the opportunity because she still didn’t know what her plans were after college once her fifth year was over and had the opportunity to be at the university for another year whether or not she competed. I think our expectations for a sixth year (should it ever happen again) need to be lowered since it’s incredibly rare for them to make any lineup, especially if it’s a first or second achilles tear with their bodies being as beat up as they are at that point in their career, unless they’ve been a top scorer in the all around throughout their careers (for example if Kiya had come back for a sixth year last year)

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Exactly what does our NQS do for us? We already host a regional, correct? Does the NQS just matter for national ranking? What determines our draw for nationals?

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Regional sites are predetermined years in advance so most years, NQS tells us where we’re traveling to and who we will face at regionals. This year, because we are hosting, no matter where we end up in the top 16, we will be in BR for regionals. SEC championships scores count towards our NQS ranking however we still will more than likely be a number one seed within our regional so it will just be a matter of which other teams we will face at regionals in the bracket in the PMAC. It does generally speaking, but it doesn’t matter as much this year, except at nationals where the number one overall seeded team usually has the harder path to the finals (though now there is so much parity in NCAA Gymnastics that anyone could be eliminated at any point between the first round of regionals and national finals so there really is no easy path to the finals anymore)

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Proud to have a good road score. Not sure Florida can count that high "home score" for NQS. It is their highest overall score.

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Can confirm: they cannot count this score and now only have 1 198+ score counting for their NQS (198.050) whereas we have now 3 we can count, including this 198.325 (which replaces our home 198.325 in NQS counted scores). If we can hit just as well or slightly better next week at home, we will be able to count both of the 198.325’s we’ve had so far this year

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I didn’t really see anything that showed Haley deserving a 9.775. Maybe a short handstand but that was it. Anyone else see something?

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She had bent elbows on her maloney catch, was short on the blind change handstand on the low bar and took multiple steps on the dismount after underrotating it

i understand and respect that Haley has higher scoring potential than Alexis but Jeff has significantly more experience competing in general in college and especially on podium than Haley does. It can really throw off your swing if you’re not used to it

They’re a 2 event team. Vault and Floor are both less than mediocre for them every week, sometimes bars and sometimes beam too. I don’t want to say it’ll be an easy win for us but as long as we are normal, we’ll walk away with the win

Does she have the ability to take one? I thought the NCAA voted to do away with fifth years in non-revenue sports

I wish the judges sat at an angle on every event because the way Oklahoma lands on every dismount with their feet shoulder width apart (not hip width apart) is supposed to be a .1 deduction every single time but they always seem to get away with the mile wide deep squatty potty feet landing