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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
Good HS athletes are going to be in the high 4s. Most of the rest are going to be around 5.
4.7 and marginally lower and you have any size and skill? You're a college athlete.
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See, I don't quite buy that.
I said it the last time we had this debate, high 4s isn't that tough if you're a light kid that's been playing sports your whole life. I was never great, but I did nothing but play baseball and football up until I was about 17, when genetics finally kicked my ass (as did breaking balls). I didn't do exhaustive training but I was fairly quick. I was just in decent shape and didn't have much weight to haul around at 160 some lbs.
The difference between the high 4s that go to play in college and the high 4s that don't are that the high 4s that play in college are 6 feet tall and weight 180-190 lbs.
It's not hard to find strong kids in HS (we had a kid that played DT the year behind me that broke the state record for the squat; ****er snapped a squat bar in the gym once). It's not hard to find fast kids in HS. But it
is hard to find kids that are fast with the core strength they need to play at the next level.
Like I said, in a HS that had 100+ kids on my
freshman team, along with sophomore, JV and Varsity teams, I don't know why its hard to believe that some of us played with some very very athletic guys.