The best, worst and our dream NIL deals for gymnast and a Regional Debate Club, where we battle furiously over who will make it to NCAA Championships.
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MINI COMMISSION: NIL Deals
- This mini-comission is brought to you by Club Gymnerd member Jonathan who would “LOVE to hear you debate the best/worst/most ridiculous NIL deals and/or entrepreneurial endeavors of NCAA gymnasts. You can also go on a side tangent about dream partnerships from pre-NIL days”
- Our favorites
- Jordan Chiles on the face of Lucky Charms? Yes please
- Who wouldn’t want a Leanne Wong seltzer water?
- Frederick Richard quashed the “ashy skin” allegations with this CeraVe partnership
- How do we get more gymnasts to do testicle soap collaborations?
- The most controversial deals?
- Livvy Dunne and Kayla DiCello doing an AI homework tool deal that didn’t go great…
- MLM deals with schools and gymnasts
- Our dream NIL deals
- A TV deal for a viral floor routine, featuring the original, Llomincia Hall
- Akash Modi finally getting the Taco Bell sponsorship he deserved
- Suni Lee securing the ultimate pickle sponsorship
GYMTERNET NEWS
- We have a Flying Banana Jesus half vault! You have to see Madita Mayr’s front layout half from the DTB Cup
- LA2028 watch: Gymnastics bids for Crypto.com Arena to host
- Give me that money news: USA Gymnastics and Comcast renewed their contract through to 2028
- Check out the Podium Club, USAG’s giving society dedicated to support the growth of gymnastics nationwide
- The Gymnastics Rebalancing Act: Check out the recording from MIT’s Sports Analytics Conference; you might see a familiar face!
- The Gymnastics for All Colloquium will now receive patronage from UNESCO
NCAA
- Welcome to elimination season! What is the format for regionals? How do individuals qualify to nationals?
- Who is going to each regional? Who do we predict will qualify to nationals? Who are our dark horses?
- Penn State Regional
- Debate club: do we think Michigan State should advance to nationals with LSU over Kentucky or Arkansas?
- Can Michigan upset Arkansas to make the regional final?
- Who will make it past the play-in round? Maryland and its pride integrity? Or West Virginia with its stick plunger hat
- Utah Regional
- Debate club: is the Utah Regional going to be the most boring regional of the four?
- Do we think Denver was pretending to be bad on beam this whole season to lull everyone into a false sense of security heading into regionals?
- The stakes of the preliminary knockout round between BYU and Utah State
- Alabama Regional
- Do we think the Alabama regional judges are going to cook up some home scores for the home team?
- Are North Carolina, NC State, and Iowa really 197+ teams? Or is that just a figment of our imagination from some crazy scores?
- Why you have to watch round one between Clemson and Rutgers
- Washington Regional
- Debate: do we have a formatting flaw for all the seeded teams in this regional to be from the south/middle south?
- What are Georgia and Auburn’s chances to make it out of semifinals and upset Oklahoma and Missouri?
- The legacy team vs underdog battle between Illinois and UC Davis
- Penn State Regional
Feedback
- We predict how NCAA gymnastics might change in a 5 up 5 count and an open-ended code
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Thanks for all the research and preparing you did for this episode. Great regional preview!
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