There's a huge difference between 9.77 and 10.23...still, 10.23 for a football player is sick as shit. Now, does that track speed translate to game speed?
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Are you aware that the world record in the 100 meters is 9.76?
I was aware that the World Record is still 9.77 as pointed out.
I am also aware that the six fastest make the olympic team, and the six fastest in the US last year were.
Gaitlin 9.88
Scott 9.94
Crawford 9.99
Green 10.01
Jelks 10.02
Dix 10.06
It only takes a 10.06 in the Olympic trials final to make the olympic team in the 4 x 100 relay, and maybe not even that. (stats courtesy USATF)
If you watched Jamaal's 10.23 then you know he pulled up the last 5 meters and could have easily matched his 10.18 from earlier this year. With two years experience, and a healthy hammy, I think he could run fast enough to make the Olympic team.
True, with the difference being that Texas fans don't claim Charles is an Olympic level athlete.
If he does a 10.05 then we might, since that may be good enough to make the relay.
Well in a little over a month Charles has developed into an Olympic level sprinter.
His 100m PR before this season was 10.69 (FAT) as a HS Junior. I never expected to see this level of improvement from him, even less so over the course of a single season. His 6.65 60m made me think that he would get to the low 10.3s, but not in the high 10.1s. With his progression it is difficult to predict where he might peak.
Local station here, had Chip Brown on radio and Chip said he talked with Chizik a bit over the past few days, and went over some film with him.
just a few tidbits of what Gene said:
---should be best defense in years at texas. will finally have the LBs he wants, with the speed he wants
---teams 2nd year under him. he put in a lot of stuff during Spring
---raved about the LBs. said its the best group hes ever coached.
---he has a man crush on Mi. Griffin.
---said scheme wise, he of course modeled after Kiffin and philosphy wise he talked a lot with jimmy johnson, said thats where he began to use speed over size, in his LBs.
---this is the part i really liked. said last year, Texas had Vince and he made up for a lot of the teams shortcomings in every area cause he could do anything at any moment. said this year, the Defense needs to be this teams Vince Young.
---also, Chip Brown pointed out, that this guy hasnt lost a game since November 11, 2003 vs. Georgia.
You posted the 10.18 100 m time on april 8th, then proceeded to suggest it was only tOSU fans that would suggest their speedster was at olympic levels. Since that time, Charles has not run a 10.05, which was your stated cutoff for charles making an olympic relay team.
Chizik is a bad ass DC, and this year's defense will be quick as lightning. he was basically stating that replacing Aaron Harris with one of the quick youngin's was going to greatly improve the defense, I can't say that I disagree with that. I really liked Aaron Harris as a player and a leader, but our other LBs made him look slow towards the end of the year.A friend of mine just emailed this to me, thought it might provoke actual football talk.
also, FYI chip brown is the Longhorn beat writer for the dallas morning news
Good article, I see we're going up against some top-notch Tejas speed on defense. I trying to get a tickets to the North Texas game.:( guess i was wrong