NFL Draft Anybody here ever actually run the 40? - Page 15

Direckshun · 03-02-2011, 09:15 PM

Curious to see if we have any other athletes out here.

I don't have a stopwatch. Maybe I should see if one of my friends does and get some jackass to time me.

What's your 40 time?

Hootie · 03-03-2011, 02:05 PM

Dane I grew up in the shawnee mission school district and went there through middle school...I attended many games for west and east...maybe a handful of those guys were running 4.5's...the champaign school districts weren't as big that's for sure...but I played with many college athletes...hell I could have gone to kaskaskia cc as a preferred walk on in baseball but didn't...this is the same argument I have with the guy I referenced early who put up mike alstott high school numbers...he thinks he ran a 4.5 too...while me and my other roommate mock him about it because its just not true.

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beach tribe · 03-03-2011, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon

So you think your high school coach is clocking you at 45 yards not 35? Lololol...use a little common sense dane. Again...its the same thing as being listed as 6'5" in bball when you're really 6'2"...or 250 lbs when you're 220

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Only if your coach is a reerun. I played 4 years of HS, and attended a football camp, and never saw any coaches who didn't try their best to record accurate times. What would be the point? They are taking records to assess players. What would be the benefit of running 40s if they weren't going to try and record accurate times.
Player height, and weight listings are skewed sometimes, but how in the world does that have any ties to performance records.
They don't list a players forty times for the fans, or opposing coaches.
That would be like a coaches marking down a player as maxing out in bench at 300 when he only lifted 250. Not to mention there are two different coaches clocking players at the same time. What, do they decide before a player runs that they are going to shave .2 seconds off a players times before he even runs?

Hootie · 03-03-2011, 02:07 PM

All I'm saying is...high school coaches promote their players as they are supposed to...a 4.4 is usually more like a 4.6...etc etc etc and thinking differently is god damn naive...4.5 speed is as rare as a 90 mph fastball...I was a damn good baseball player for years and years and years...and I faced 90 mph heat a handful of times, tops...and I played year round.

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seclark · 03-03-2011, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Over-Head

About 4-5 hours EVERY day, I have quads like a ****ing body builder, and as per my wife "one damn nice ass"

i used them for 3 days helping my carpenter/friend do the ceilings of our new house. finally, i had to quit. my asshole dropped down to ankle level. damn!
respect.
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Over-Head · 03-03-2011, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by seclark

damn dude...you ever use stilts for your ceiling work? bet that's comfortable.
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Also great for x-mass decorating

Over-Head · 03-03-2011, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by seclark

i used them for 3 days helping my carpenter/friend do the ceilings of our new house. finally, i had to quit. my asshole dropped down to ankle level. damn!
respect.
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Roids hanging like grapes...YEP
You do get used to it after a few years, like any repetative movement job occupation.

beach tribe · 03-03-2011, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon

Dane I grew up in the shawnee mission school district and went there through middle school...I attended many games for west and east...maybe a handful of those guys were running 4.5's...the champaign school districts weren't as big that's for sure...but I played with many college athletes...hell I could have gone to kaskaskia cc as a preferred walk on in baseball but didn't...this is the same argument I have with the guy I referenced early who put up mike alstott high school numbers...he thinks he ran a 4.5 too...while me and my other roommate mock him about it because its just not true.

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Alstott ran a 4.66 at the combine. It's not out of the realm of reality that he could have run a high 4.5 in HS before he added another 25 lbs of muscle.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-03-2011, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon

Dane I grew up in the shawnee mission school district and went there through middle school...I attended many games for west and east...maybe a handful of those guys were running 4.5's...the champaign school districts weren't as big that's for sure...but I played with many college athletes...hell I could have gone to kaskaskia cc as a preferred walk on in baseball but didn't...this is the same argument I have with the guy I referenced early who put up mike alstott high school numbers...he thinks he ran a 4.5 too...while me and my other roommate mock him about it because its just not true.

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The point is, Hootie, is that if everyone was being timed by their coaches at 4.5, it was accurate for the day. We didn't have the sophistication that exists today, but that doesn't make those times inaccurate.

My senior year in high school, we had two guys run a 4.5. One went on to be a starting safety at Coffeyville and the other quit mid-season and never played football again.

Fast forward 30 years and running 4.5 in high school is so common it's ridiculous. Look at Jadevon Clowney for instance. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE I ever met or played against in the early 80's looked like that, including Rodney Peete.

seclark · 03-03-2011, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Over-Head

Roids hanging like grapes...YEP

same color as grapes too...whoa.
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Hootie · 03-03-2011, 02:11 PM

Yes it is...he ran a 4.8..tops and our coaches fed his ego by timing him at 4.5...plain and simple...and a 4.8 is damn fast for a bull like him

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beach tribe · 03-03-2011, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon

4.5 speed is as rare as a 90 mph fastball...I was a damn good baseball player for years and years and years...and I faced 90 mph heat a handful of times, tops...and I played year round.

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This is so incorrect, it's not even funny.

We had at least 20 players at the football camp that I attended that ran LEGIT laser timed 40s. in the 4.5 range.

**DaneMcCloud** · 03-03-2011, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon

Yes it is...he ran a 4.8..tops and our coaches fed his ego by timing him at 4.5...plain and simple...and a 4.8 is damn fast for a bull like him

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Sounds to me like shit coaches. Did he play in college?

beach tribe · 03-03-2011, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Fast forward 30 years and running 4.5 in high school is so common it's ridiculous. Look at Jadevon Clowney for instance. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE I ever met or played against in the early 80's looked like that, including Rodney Peete.

This. It Legitimately happens every day.

Hootie · 03-03-2011, 02:14 PM

He got a full ride to a juco to play baseball...his pop time was incredible...back injuries derailed his baseball career but darin fletcher told him he had big league potential if he kept working

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beach tribe · 03-03-2011, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Sounds to me like shit coaches. Did he play in college?

Yep. Sounds to me like Hootie's coaches were just full of shit, and he thinks that is the norm.

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Direckshun __ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Springpatch Casino cash: $4443447	Anybody here ever actually run the 40? Curious to see if we have any other athletes out here. I don't have a stopwatch. Maybe I should see if one of my friends does and get some jackass to time me. What's your 40 time?
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03-03-2011, 02:05 PM	#211
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	Dane I grew up in the shawnee mission school district and went there through middle school...I attended many games for west and east...maybe a handful of those guys were running 4.5's...the champaign school districts weren't as big that's for sure...but I played with many college athletes...hell I could have gone to kaskaskia cc as a preferred walk on in baseball but didn't...this is the same argument I have with the guy I referenced early who put up mike alstott high school numbers...he thinks he ran a 4.5 too...while me and my other roommate mock him about it because its just not true. Sent from my Ally using Tapatalk
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03-03-2011, 02:07 PM	#213
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	All I'm saying is...high school coaches promote their players as they are supposed to...a 4.4 is usually more like a 4.6...etc etc etc and thinking differently is god damn naive...4.5 speed is as rare as a 90 mph fastball...I was a damn good baseball player for years and years and years...and I faced 90 mph heat a handful of times, tops...and I played year round. Sent from my Ally using Tapatalk
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03-03-2011, 02:11 PM	#220
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	Yes it is...he ran a 4.8..tops and our coaches fed his ego by timing him at 4.5...plain and simple...and a 4.8 is damn fast for a bull like him Sent from my Ally using Tapatalk
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03-03-2011, 02:14 PM	#224
Hootie Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas Casino cash: $10004900	He got a full ride to a juco to play baseball...his pop time was incredible...back injuries derailed his baseball career but darin fletcher told him he had big league potential if he kept working Sent from my Ally using Tapatalk
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