Did this routine end her Elite career?

[Doug1233]

I actually loved this floor music too.

 

[crdubb17]

Is that the one where she threw a double layout out of nowhere and it went horribly?

I think it was the repeated elbow surgeries that did her in, unfortunately.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

I love Morgan so much, and I am glad we at least got 2 great years out of her, but it's just devastating the way her body (and the pandemic) would not let her career pan out in elite and NCAA in the way she deserved.

 

[dweiss324]

If you had forced me to put a $1 million dollar bet on "name one person that will have a super successful NCAA career" between Riley, Morgan, and Ragan Smith, I would be out several million dollars because I would have doubled down and been super adamantly stubborn about it.

 

[Orange]

I probably would have made some money on that bet just because I have more faith in Oklahoma’s training staff than Florida’s. Even with that I’m still surprised Ragan’s ankles made it through five years with her doing floor almost the entire time.

Riley’s a beautiful gymnast, but she’s never beating the inconsistency allegations. She’s also never managed to find a bars dismount that works for her.

Morgan’s the one that baffles me. Her elbows were cooked, but I swear Florida had her doing bars exhibitions last year. Why? Given the fact that she couldn’t get through a watered down college beam set, I’m guessing Morgan was just mentally and physically done.

 

[Doug1233]

I wonder if she had never thrown that DLO. And had stuck to the Double Tuck.

She would certainly not have finished 4th. She would have at least been on the podium, ahead of Grace. Her weird and uncharacteristic falls at Camp would have been easier to ignore. She would have made the 2019 world team. She wouldn’t have lost all her confidence and momentum.

She was a gamer. She had a great hit record at Worlds. Maybe she could have won an individual medal.

The pandemic came at an awful time for her.

I do always wonder “what could have been?” with Morgan - if she hadn’t thrown that pass.

 

[hi_bieja]

Given the field, flubbing floor was excusable, and arguably absorbable. Bombing bars was not, especially when the campaign slogan leading up to Worlds became, if she is not going for AA, she is needed for bars. Her Nationals average on bars gets her top 2 UB and top 4 AA even with the floor miss. A 12 on UB isn't doing anything even if we add a point back to floor.

Maybe the floor miss led to the bars miss, but at that point, you can just say what if Wong didn't err on floor and vault, McCallum on bars, etc.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda.