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<< Boy oh boy... >>
(Monday, January 08, 2001) [ Pooh's Platform: Archives ]

Boy oh boy, what a perfect chance for the NCAA to correct an ill-advised change before it propagates.

I just returned from the Super Six Challenge (or whatever its official name is) by the way, what a super, super meet and am totally confused at how the NCAA can implement a change like going to only a single vault. Wait just a minute, I admit that I probably thought that going to a single vault was going to be a good thing, but I am just a "web geek" who doesn't know anything. Even if I thought going to a single vault was the thing to do, after watching this meet I am 100% convinced that this was not the change to make. Let me count the reasons why:

  1. The team that is vaulting in a quad-meet finishes "about a year" before the other teams.
  2. It puts way, way too much importance on the vault in determining the winner of a meet. We as fans used to want our team to run out 10.0 vaults, knowing that the difficulty of the vaults was worth the gamble since we got two chances; not any more. I would much rather teams throw some vaults they can make since they have only one chance to land the high-risk vaults.
  3. It could increase the chance of injury since a gymnast just has to "hang-on" to finish a vault since it is the only chance they get.

My idea is for the NCAA to be proactive and change the rule back while there is still time. I have admitted that I was wrong in desiring this change, any others willing to admit it without having a suit filed?



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