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    Parents Official visit offered on first call

    Ya, nothing too unusual to take a couple of days to sort out official visit dates.
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    NCAA Happy June 15th Eve!

    That was from Jada Oliver’s insta
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    NCAA Happy June 15th Eve!

    Good luck to all those that are getting ready to start this crazy, frustrating, fun, tearful, goal reaching, anxiety inducing process. I hope everyone gets the calls they want and maybe a few surprises (in a good way) that they weren't expecting. Remember if you don't get a call/text tomorrow...
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    Women Opinions on floor music?

    Its only 57 sec? The intro is kinda rough, just sounds like the needle plopped in the middle of track. I prefer a bit of a smoother opening. Otherwise, no concern about vocals. The transition about middle works but perhaps could get tweaked a little more for smoothness?
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    Who gets designated will be interesting, but I suspect its gong to be locked away somewhere only for coaches to see.
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    Women US Citizen Training in Europe and applying for D1 school scholarship

    Cant say that I do, but this may actually be where some of those recruiting services might really be helpful. Otherwise, its about getting in front of coaches, email, email, email, videos and competition results.
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    Its just a matter of the school classifying and reporting the student as designated. The wording in the settlement says it has to be a "Good faith" designation, which essentially is not enforcable unless a school decides to designate the whole team lol.
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    Well looks like the settlement got approved. Athletes are grandfathered in so roster limits are not really in play until these athletes graduate.
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    Women Identifying and Progressing Talent

    A couple of things. First, so you understand where my perspective is coming from, my daughter's (our) background. She is a L10 DP gymnast who trains in a large established gym. She did go through the TOPs program. She trains in the "elite" group that has a combination of elite and DP...
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    I think you are correct, its pretty much a certainty (since the judge clearly stated she wanted to see that) that some form of grandfathering will occur. I still feel pretty confident that the settlement will still go into effect in July. But it is starting to bump into the danger zone...
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    Parents Change of scenery

    I guess I would ask, what do you think you should be getting from the current gym/coaching (and I don't mean that to sound sassy)? 12 is often a crossroads point in many gymnastics journies. Definitely see a lot of girls in this age range that leave the sport. Are you, or more specifically...
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    Women Opinions on Cal Berkeley Coach Switch with Clemson

    Im very concerned for Cal's long term prospects.
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    NCAA Thoughts on player compensation, roster limits, House settlement, etc.

    Here's some background information "Differences in budget mean differences in reality in NCAA gymnastics". Bottom line, decoupling big-time sports from the non-revenue sports would be net-negative for these sports.
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    NCAA Thoughts on player compensation, roster limits, House settlement, etc.

    And if you leave that decision up to a college that has now decoupled its "professional" program and is no longer obligated to support the non-revenue sports, do you think its possible they wont? I am sure some will, but many wont, and those programs would be cut and less opportunities. I...
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    NCAA Thoughts on player compensation, roster limits, House settlement, etc.

    And when was the last time you saw Brown football play on prime-time national television on Saturday night? Yes, the Ivies are unique as well as the lower divisions. They don't have the sport palaces, the armies of support staff, etc. This is all about the major conferences. The genie is out...
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