Womens Gymnastics?

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northknoxvol

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I have been seeing a lot of womens gymnastic coverage since the SEC network. It is something different and cool to watch? Why does UT not have this?
 
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northknoxvol said:
I have been seeing a lot of womens gymnastic coverage since the SEC network. It is something different and cool to watch? Why does UT not have this?
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At least if those girls are on we aren't looking at Finebaum. Lol
 
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northknoxvol said:
I have been seeing a lot of womens gymnastic coverage since the SEC network. It is something different and cool to watch? Why does UT not have this?
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At the time many SEC powers in gymnastics started their programs, we focused on basketball.

There was some discussion about adding it in the 1990s, but rowing was added instead because rowing has more scholarships (20 for rowing, 12 for gymnastics) and Tennessee's campus is just 25 minutes from Melton Hill Lake, considered by many rowing enthusiasts as the best 2,000 meter course in the country.
 
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AT UGA, for decades, the women's gymnastic program has been a top draw. Not as much as football, of course....

Many SEC gymnastics teams are well-regarded.
 
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cwbytruckers said:
I love gymnastics personally. I wished they would start up a program for the Ladys.
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come up with a few hundred million to build a place for them to practice and complete and I am sure UT will gladly name the space for you, and give you season tickets, but otherwise you are wishing on a lost cause
 
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I wish UT would add gymnastics, both of my daughters are gymnasts and compete at a high level . . . I would hate seeing them go to another SEC school like UGA, Mizzu, Ole Miss, LSU and God forbid UF . . . . Oh well . . . I would attend their meets at the school of their choice, but I will be decked out in UT attire!!!

GBO
 
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My daughter is a former gymnast and we watch the SEC network almost every Friday to watch how amazing these girls are. Gymnast are absolutely phenomenal athletes. Most people don't know what it takes but, I would guess that the average gymnast spend as much or more time actively training that any other sport. Most gymnast at the competitive level, say between the 9-17 age range, spend 4 hours a night, 4-5 nights a week, 52 weeks a year, actively working on skills. I have heard that many Olympic gymnast have to be home schooled and commonly put in 40 hours per week. This is not sitting around talking either. At all levels, it is generally almost non-stop action (only resting when waiting for your next turn). No weight lifting. It's not needed. Lifting and launching your own body weight hundreds of times a night takes care of that.

UT should have a team. They've got as much money or more money than any other school.

BTW, what night of the week is Rowing on?
 
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We don't need gymnastics, sorry. How about we try to get better at all the programs we DO have before adding another? There is nothing after college for gymnasts--nothing professionally, and you can't even do it to stay fit. Basketball has the WNBA; women's pro soccer is growing, albeit slowly; softball is getting very big; tennis has pro potential or you can just play tennis for the rest of your life; rowing, you can at least do it after college and stay fit. Gymnastics? No professional league, nobody is doing it at age 30 or age 28.
 
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armchair said:
We don't need gymnastics, sorry. How about we try to get better at all the programs we DO have before adding another? There is nothing after college for gymnasts--nothing professionally, and you can't even do it to stay fit. Basketball has the WNBA; women's pro soccer is growing, albeit slowly; softball is getting very big; tennis has pro potential or you can just play tennis for the rest of your life; rowing, you can at least do it after college and stay fit. Gymnastics? No professional league, nobody is doing it at age 30 or age 28.
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gymnast make a lot of money teaching the sport, cheerleading, dance teams. they don't just tumble, they lift weights, stretch and other exercises that can be done for life, compared to rowing lol, much more life fitness. However it is a very expensive sport.
 
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armchair said:
We don't need gymnastics, sorry. How about we try to get better at all the programs we DO have before adding another? There is nothing after college for gymnasts--nothing professionally, and you can't even do it to stay fit. Basketball has the WNBA; women's pro soccer is growing, albeit slowly; softball is getting very big; tennis has pro potential or you can just play tennis for the rest of your life; rowing, you can at least do it after college and stay fit. Gymnastics? No professional league, nobody is doing it at age 30 or age 28.
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Respectfully disagree that just because it's not a "pro" sport it shouldn't be offered. And the whole "you can at least do it after college and stay fit" is not really relevant. Should Yoga be a sport?

Probably 99% of the women who get to wear Orange and White are not going pro in whatever sport they represent Tennessee in. But, as the old NCAA commercial said, just about all of them are going pro in something other than sports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltaRIJ0N2o
 
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Chitownvol1129 said:
come up with a few hundred million to build a place for them to practice and complete and I am sure UT will gladly name the space for you, and give you season tickets, but otherwise you are wishing on a lost cause
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TBA is a great place to compete. Most of the other schools use the basketball arenas. As far as practice. I'm sure they could find another place to practice.
 
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armchair said:
We don't need gymnastics, sorry. How about we try to get better at all the programs we DO have before adding another? There is nothing after college for gymnasts--nothing professionally, and you can't even do it to stay fit. Basketball has the WNBA; women's pro soccer is growing, albeit slowly; softball is getting very big; tennis has pro potential or you can just play tennis for the rest of your life; rowing, you can at least do it after college and stay fit. Gymnastics? No professional league, nobody is doing it at age 30 or age 28.
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We don't live in a finite universe.
 
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governmentmule said:
this


I don't understand why we can never see a rowing event streamed

there has bound to be a few students that would do it,for free,thinking they may get hired by ESPN :)
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It is one of those sports which is fun to see live but on TV not so much.
 
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You would be surprised at the amount of support a program like women's gymnastics has. Plenty of alumni and sponsors donate into those programs and the meets tend to draw decent sized crowds. Not as many as basketball or football, but enough to make the program worthwhile.

There are 8 out of 14 schools in the SEC that field a team. So it's not like there's a lack of conference interest.
 
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