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Butch Reynolds (400M Olympian, former OSU coach)

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I Must admit that i never knew that Butch Reynolds graduated from Ohio State. I knew of his achievments from the Olympics, but i was impressed
with reading this article from the Beacon. I guess it just goes to show you that Jim Tressel never stops thinking in way to improve this football program.

I really had a strong sense that Ohio State would make a serious run for the National Championship this year with Butch Reynolds addition,but maybe it will take awhile for his program to kick in full gear. Hopefully around the Michigan game if we can run the table after Penn State. The way they destroyed Minnesota gives methe impression we are going to need an exception game plan to have any sucess saturday night.
 
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kippy1040 said:
I Must admit that i never knew that Butch Reynolds graduated from Ohio State. I knew of his achievments from the Olympics, but i was impressed
with reading this article from the Beacon. I guess it just goes to show you that Jim Tressel never stops thinking in way to improve this football program.

I really had a strong sense that Ohio State would make a serious run for the National Championship this year with Butch Reynolds addition,but maybe it will take awhile for his program to kick in full gear. Hopefully around the Michigan game if we can run the table after Penn State. The way they destroyed Minnesota gives methe impression we are going to need an exception game plan to have any sucess saturday night.
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You're forgetting that Minnesota sucks at football.
 
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butch reynolds was at my osu football camp back in july, he timed me in the 20 yard shuttle and 40 yard dash, he fucked me up although during one of my shuttle attempts when he blew a fucking whistle halfway through my attempt, i don't remember his reason for doing it all that much but i remember him saying "i was trying to encourage you to go faster" or something along those lines
 
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tedginn05 said:
butch reynolds was at my osu football camp back in july, he timed me in the 20 yard shuttle and 40 yard dash, he fucked me up although during one of my shuttle attempts when he blew a fucking whistle halfway through my attempt, i don't remember his reason for doing it all that much but i remember him saying "i was trying to encourage you to go faster" or something along those lines
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He probably wanted you to run them separately, instead of doing them all at once. :biggrin:
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
So what's your 40? 3.9?
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no it was 5.62, but that was on a bad leg, you see they give you 2 attempts each at the shuttle and 40 and i was doing my shuttle first and during my first attempt he blew the whistle, but he let me start over and i ran a 4.73, although i pulled a muscle in my right leg during the second attempt and thats why my 40 time was bad because had to do the after the shuttle
 
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CPD

Reynolds knows how to think fast


Saturday, November 04, 2006

Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist

Champaign, Ill.- The speed coach went where no one had ever gone before him. Even now, only one man has ventured further onto the speculative fringes of athletic possibility in his event.
"[A] 43.29 is a place you do not want to go," said Butch Reynolds, who ran that time for the 400 meters in Zurich, Switzerland, 18 years ago. "They had to pick me up off the track after that."
He is an assistant coach for Ohio State football now. His pupils on the nation's top-ranked team know he is unlikely to accept anything less from them than effort to the point of prostration.
Before the Illinois game today, Reynolds mulled what has been an enduring question around the Buckeyes this season: Ginn or Gonzo? Smooth acceleration or sharp cuts? Raw promise or polished production?
It is a nice problem, choosing between Ted Ginn Jr. and Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio State's junior wide receivers. Ginn played quarterback and defensive back more than wideout at Cleveland's Glenville High. Gonzalez was in St. Ignatius' system when the Wildcats' passing overwhelmed the state.
Reynolds' first task was to build up strength, particularly with Ginn. "When Ted put on more muscle [10 pounds, up to 180 now], he got faster," Reynolds said. "In terms of linear speed, Ted is faster than Gonzo."
In terms of quickness, it probably is Gonzalez. He moves the sticks. He can go long. He has more-developed football instincts. His against-the-grain run after a catch over the middle against Iowa might have been the best play this year by an OSU offensive player not named Troy Smith.
Ginn, by contrast, tried to cut a quick screen all the way back across the field against Minnesota. By the static nature of a screen pass and then Ginn's reversal of field, linemen had to make blocks in so many unaccustomed places that the holding penalty that resulted was nearly inevitable.
One of the great things about their rivalry is what has not happened.
"There is no jealousy between them," Reynolds said. This is unusual among wide receivers.
Ginn's best track events were the 400 meters and the 110-meter high hurdles, not the 100.
"Ted could have won an Olympic gold medal in the 4x4 relay," Reynolds said. "As a hurdler, he has great hips. His hips are loose and that makes him explosive."
Ginn has come close to matching Reynolds in maximum speed, although this is misleading. Reynolds hit 28 mph on a treadmill, but the device makes the legs more efficient, because they do not have to do as much work to go backward as they would unaided.
For top-end speed, it beats Michael Johnson, who clocked 27 mph on a running track and broke Reynolds' 400 world record in 1999 with a 43.18.
"Eleven-hundredths of a second," Reynolds said of the margin by which Johnson nipped his best mark. "You can't even put your thumb on and off a stopwatch that fast."
Johnson had enough left to leap for joy when he saw his time in Seville, Spain.
As he asks his speed students to overcome the human tendency not to give their all, Reynolds wonders how that was possible.
Just wonders, that's all.
To reach Bill Livingston:
[email protected], 216-999-4672
Previous columns online:
cleveland.com/columns
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Racin' Reynolds back at his alma mater

http://www.nbcsports.com/cfb/734148/detail.html
 
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