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I don't know how she competes individually if this has been looming over her head for so long. You just don't come into the Olympics after a long period of self doubt and grow out of the "yips" in 36 hours time. Especially after withdrawing yourself in your first competition.

If she's able to put an alternate in her place, I'd have more respect for her for bowing out completely and letting someone else have a shot.

It's one thing to sacrifice your 4 years of hard work and Olympic dream if you're mentally not there, but why risk sabotaging 3 to 4 other girl's dreams who have probably worked harder than you to get there.

I thought Simone looked dangerously out of it on that vault attempt. Trying to continue could have basically turned into a form of self-harm. I think it was pretty brave of her to not try to push through when all eyes were on her.

We've taken away these athlete's support systems by trying to hold these Games during a pandemic, and we're seeing the direct results of that.

I can see both points. But I choose to believe in a sport where confidence in yourself is key that when your mental balance is off that the withdrawal might have been the best move. She was known specifically for her self control and awareness of her positions in space. Both were horribly off on that vault.

If they determined that in their current state that their team would perform better if one of their teammates played instead of them then no, it's not quitting on the team.

The engineer in me wants consistency. There are 65 P5 teams, so I'd love to see four 16-team conferences plus ND. Then the conference championships could be the first round of a 12-team playoff - nice and neat. But I'm sure something much more messy will happen instead...

Because athletic departments are recognizing the revenue off non-football ventures. SEC baseball is big. Basketball is a major revenue driver. Why separate that from the football money pot, or potentially decrease the value of other sports? These networks/streaming services will need inventory as well. Going to have to keep it all under one umbrella.

She didn't quite on the team. If she had sprained her ankle and could not continue would you say she quite? Mental health is no different than any other health or injury. Just how we treat people who come forward is the difference.

This is a tough one to know what she was dealing with but from the outside it feels a bit off but it's becoming something we are seeing more in sports now so maybe this will be more common? Alot of the folks with the experience or atleast who get the stuff going on are saying this is because she was being told to hold back which feels odd and maybe she didn't feel confident enough to do her routines maybe? Either way if she does the individual stuff or not will tell us alot about how this will be seen. Imagine the NFL telling Brady to hold back or lebron to ease up it doesn't make much sense to me but every sport is different I guess.

I might be in the minority, but to me that was an epic choke by Biles. Yes, mental health is important, but I don't know how you make it through the 1st event, have a bad vault, then decide you're out.

If you're the best in the world and supposed to be the greatest ever, I don't see how you can just straight up quit on your team.

The difference between VT and the ACC is that VT has done a ton of work improving the athletic department. There is now a juice bar for players. They have increased the support staff. They hired VA guys in Tapp, Price, Smith and Tyler that know VA and can recruit VA, and its starting to pay off with the 4* OL and RB. Yes you can argue how does a juice bar help and is that the right way to spend money. But there is a huge difference in the entire football staff from 5 years ago. Maybe they aren't the right people, maybe they weren't the right people and have left. But they are making moves.

What has the ACC done for football since 2003? What about for basketball? We are talking about the SEC of basketball here. Since the BE folded no conference can hold a candle to the ACC. Yet we don't hear that like we do the SEC football.

Failing to fix an issue is soooooo much better than not realizing there is an issue. I think its wildly different in terms of ineptness.

Unless you just don't know you are doing poorly. It's very possible that you can be inept AND think you are successful.

I am so sorry for that :( I wouldn't be able to do it. You're a better man than I. And for some really dumb reason, I'm signed up to go to the Pitt game this year. Glad there will be alcohol sales.