Opinion: Judging was supposed to get better this season. It hasn't and that's a real problem
Before the start of the 2024 NCAA women’s gymnastics season, there was reason for hope. There was reason to believe that judges — the arbiters of scoring in gymnastics — were going to become more critical in their evaluations of routines this year, tempering some of the rampant scoring inflation that has occurred in the sport in recent years. To believe that there needed to be a crackdown on scores, there needs to be an understanding that scoring in college gymnastics has gotten out of hand.