Michael Smith is editor of the Talkin’ 10’s – Inside LSU Gymnastics blog.
It’s the best blog covering any of the NCAA teams, I reckon.
An insider, Michael is the LSU Gymnastics announcer in the Maravich Center for last 13 years, and play-by-play announcer for LSU Gymnastics on LSUSports.net.
His blog has more detailed analysis than most. For example:
National Rankings
LSU was the biggest mover in the country this week (see the blog from earlier this week for an exact explanation how this came to be). The Tigers jumped four spots in the national point standing to check in at 6th. Here’s how it stacks up in the point standings after 8 weeks of competition along with how many spots each team has moved up or down in the rankings since last week.
1 Georgia 197.015 +1
2 Utah 196.885 -1
3 Stanford 196.590 +1
4 UCLA 196.340 -1
5 Auburn 196.260 0
6 LSU 196.250 +4
7 Florida 196.220 -1
8 Oregon State 196.215 +1
9 Arkansas 196.210 -2
10 Oklahoma 196.105 +1
11 Alabama 196.010 -3
12 Nebraska 195.465 0
The tone is more personal than most other NCAA team sites that seem to cut-and-paste the same old text every weekend.
For example:
… Up until 11:00 p.m. last Friday night, the LSU Tigers held the highest gymnastics team score in Nation at 197.400. Ten times the Tigers set new or matched existing career highs on various events during the meet– a rare event in collegiate gymnastics. Then, approximately 2,000 miles to the west, Utah put on a clinic of its own – scoring 197.525 in a sold-out home arena. So goes the weekly battle among the nation’s elite programs. …
And it links to videos like this:
Click PLAY or watch an interview with Head Coach D-D Breaux on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf
Check it out for yourself – Talkin’ 10’s – Inside LSU Gymnastics – Meet Nine: Arkansas
Gymnastics Coaching.com 