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NCAA – Men’s Gymnastics
I’m feeling guilty for not having covered more of the Men’s NCAA gymnastics regular season. This was a great year.
My only excuse is that the MAG College teams produce so little information. Greg Marsden links to more articles, photos and video of his women’s team, Utah, each week, than all the Men’s teams combined.
Stick It Media is frustrated, at times, simply trying to get basic information on men’s regular season meets. Happily, Blythe Lawrence has persisted too on Gymnastics Examiner covering the Men’s 2010 NCAA season. Thanks.
Track those two sites if you want more on the Men.
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You just have to care enough to dig around.
This really isn’t that difficult. Blythe Lawrence basically linked to the schools press releases. CollegeGymFans has a nicely organized page with a feed from all the Men’s teams.
There was plenty of streaming video of meets this season. The problem there was that none of the live stuff was free. That said, Gymnastike put up videos of hundreds of routines throughout the season, and the Big 10 Network televised several meets.
No doubt, the Men’s NCAA could do a better job of promoting itself and making information easier to find. It’s like a patient with some terminal disease who has come to the conclusion that further struggle just isn’t worth it and that the best he can hope for is a painless death.
Your last paragraph rings most true, Ono.
When I spoke to Barry Weiner (Cal) about the slow demise of MAG NCAA gymnastics, he seemed a bit fatalistic.
Yet a program in even more dire circumstances, Cal State Fullerton, is enthusiastically fighting for survival.
Cal State Fullerton can at least dream about turning into the next UGA or Utah. And they don’t have to worry about busting themselves fundraising only to be cut because of Title lX.
Noam Chomsky once said “If you believe there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope” These MAG NCAA coaches need to tape that to their bathroom mirrors so they can look at it everytime they brush their teeth.
Coach Rick, I understand why you don’t cover more Men’s NCAA. This blog is a lot of work, and not spending a lot of time gathering and posting information that only 3 people will even look at is something you can hardly be blamed for.
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