There was some serious home cooking going on in Arky last night. The worst was probably the vault rotation where not one Hog gymnast had a vault with a 10 start value and all had hoppy landings, 3 of the gator gymnasts had 10 start value vaults, same hoppy landings yet ended up with the exact same scores as the hogs. Arkansas went through their rotations clean but very basic gymnastics with very few bonuses in their routines. Odd to see Trinity struggle for two straight meets. Next week is a breather at home with Mizzou coming.
Agreed, and I'm not generally one to complain about the judges. I couldn't help but wonder, given Arky's proximity to Oklahoma, if we had some judges that also judge Oklahoma meets, and brought some of the Oklahoma home-cooking to Fayetteville with them.
Edit to Add: I just checked, and one of the two Vault judges last night, Jeana Ely, has been the vault judge at both of Oklahoma's home meets this year.
I'm usually good at scoring to within a tenth of the judges, a task that is admittedly more difficult given the way bonus points now work. In last night's meet, the first two rotations is where I had the most discrepancies on both sides of the equation. I also saw a lot of discrepancies on floor.
Arky's girls did do a better job of sticking their landings, and keeping their legs together on dismounts and tumbling passes. They are obviously well-coached and could be a force in the near future. Florida did not have a very clean meet. But in the end I had Florida almost 6 tenths ahead of Arkansas, not the 1 3/4 tenths that the judges ended up with,
