Alabama Gymnastics

we are not going to win but we are competing against ourselves to get our scores up higher then the low 196 vs AU.

Email Bryne that.

He needs to be it

Alabama actually has just gotten the 3rd highest score any team has gotten in the country this season.

Alabama has about 3 or 4 elite level talents who can hit E skills and score 9.9-10.0 on any event. OU has about 7 or 8 of them.

But Alabama has always been like that. Even the Bama national championship teams had a few elite level/national team gymnasts and then a bunch really good level 10s who worked hard and could hit timely big scores.

UGA always had more gymnasts with elite level talent than Bama, but Bama always stayed right there with them.

There were maybe a few years you could look and say Bama clearly had the talent advantage in numbers.

Hopefully this will be the trademark Sarah Patterson slow-build, and by the time post season is here, they've incorporated all of their difficult skills and peaking.

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One issue with gymnastics, it's not like there are 300 other NCAA schools with gymnastics programs to pick and choose an upcoming coach. Probably a fairly small talent pool to choose from.

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Here's the thing about college gymnastics. By the time they get to college they are hitting the biggest skills they'll ever hit.
They aren't going to learn how to do new skills in college. The coaches aren't going to teach them how to do a new skill.
They learn that at the club level.

You either recruit the talent that can already hit them or they can't.

What they learn in college is how to be clean and develop how to hit their skills cleanly on a consistent basis.
College gymnastics is about not giving away tenths...that's pretty much it.

Dana still recruits very well. But Alabama has had to count more falls the last few years than I remember. She has shaken a few things up to fix that.

This, however, is a defining year.

They scored the third highest score of every team in NCAA gymnastics last night - 1&2 were Oklahoma last night and last week.

Last nights score was also the highest season home opener night score in Alabama history.

Cool your jets with the ignorant fire Dana threads.

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Still frustrating though.

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Definite agree. Heck, the half decade or so of Softball gradually declining was annoying too, sometimes you just hit slumps. 2019 was a semifinal year and an SEC crown, and 2020 is tabbed to possibly win it all. Glad no one called for Murph's head during the worst of it. (at least no one that mattered)

they definitely pass the eye test.

I'm trying to figure out who that is. She was an individual national champion?
But I'd agree. Elite level gymnastics is about difficulty, NCAA is about perfection.

Sarah was the best at that. She could get the best out of each gymnast, no matter their skill level. If you can't do an E level skill, then you will hit the D level skill perfectly every time.

FYI Alabama moved up to #5 in the rankings.