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WR Ted Ginn, Jr. (Official Thread)

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If you were to take Ted Ginn's best time in a national track and fiels event, which is a toss up between his 2004 4X100 split time at the Penn relays or his 4X100 split time form the Addidas Outdoor Nationals of the same year, his time was 10.28 seconds. Now if you were to convert the metric scale to US feet that equates to he covers, at full speed .02773 feet per second. Now if you take into account since 1992 the best sprinters in the world on average spend 30% of their time in the first 30 meters, Ted Ginn could possibly run 40 yards from a stand still in no less than 4.32386 seconds timed electronically(please give or take, if you like, .009786 seconds for any rounding errors I may have encountered during my meter to foot calculations. So if you want to say how much faster he is now compared to then because of the staff at tOSU that is fine, just consider Justin Gatlin in the most recent World Champioships where he swept the 100 and 200 meter sprints, against the best in the world and doing the same calculations he barely breaks 4 seconds and his 100 time is .76 seconds faster in the 100 the Ginn. Now for those of you thatthink people cant't run 40 yds in under 4 seconds, you probably are close to being wrong. I just don't think they are playing football.
 
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=cnnGalleryRanking>No. 11</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Ted Ginn
WR, JR, Ohio State

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tmporter said:
If you were to take Ted Ginn's best time in a national track and fiels event, which is a toss up between his 2004 4X100 split time at the Penn relays or his 4X100 split time form the Addidas Outdoor Nationals of the same year, his time was 10.28 seconds. Now if you were to convert the metric scale to US feet that equates to he covers, at full speed .02773 feet per second. Now if you take into account since 1992 the best sprinters in the world on average spend 30% of their time in the first 30 meters, Ted Ginn could possibly run 40 yards from a stand still in no less than 4.32386 seconds timed electronically(please give or take, if you like, .009786 seconds for any rounding errors I may have encountered during my meter to foot calculations. So if you want to say how much faster he is now compared to then because of the staff at tOSU that is fine, just consider Justin Gatlin in the most recent World Champioships where he swept the 100 and 200 meter sprints, against the best in the world and doing the same calculations he barely breaks 4 seconds and his 100 time is .76 seconds faster in the 100 the Ginn. Now for those of you thatthink people cant't run 40 yds in under 4 seconds, you probably are close to being wrong. I just don't think they are playing football.
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We've had this conversation before, so I'll just say it quickly...you can't really use calculations from 100 times because the athlete is at "top speed" for a longer time than in the 40 yard dash, where they are increasing speed for a larger percentage than in the 100, which skews the conversion. If you think about it, the 100 time has the 40 time in it plus 60 yards of "top speed" added into it, so a simple conversion from 100 time to 40 time doesn't work.
 
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thackattack said:
I know you're joking, but that would be adding Hundredths. Adding 2-3 tenths to 4.19 would be 4.39-4.49, which basically means Tedd Ginn is about as quick as most of your highly-rated high school WR recruits each year. And analysts wonder why we don't buy the 40-time mystique...
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Those 4.39-4.49 times of high school WRs are also hand-timed, which equate to 4.59-4.69 or 4.69-4.79. Either way, Ginn is .2 to .3 faster than other top-end WRs.
 
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thackattack said:
Exactly. That was my subtle stab at the unofficial system of hand-timing 40 speed.
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I tried my own "witty" implication of the same sort, but I guess my point got lost in my not-as-witty-as-I-thought reply and my poor math skillz. :biggrin:

So I'll give my own expert assessment...TGII is smokin:evil: fast...I'm serious.
 
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tmporter said:
If you were to take Ted Ginn's best time in a national track and fiels event, which is a toss up between his 2004 4X100 split time at the Penn relays or his 4X100 split time form the Addidas Outdoor Nationals of the same year, his time was 10.28 seconds. Now if you were to convert the metric scale to US feet that equates to he covers, at full speed .02773 feet per second. Now if you take into account since 1992 the best sprinters in the world on average spend 30% of their time in the first 30 meters, Ted Ginn could possibly run 40 yards from a stand still in no less than 4.32386 seconds timed electronically(please give or take, if you like, .009786 seconds for any rounding errors I may have encountered during my meter to foot calculations. So if you want to say how much faster he is now compared to then because of the staff at tOSU that is fine, just consider Justin Gatlin in the most recent World Champioships where he swept the 100 and 200 meter sprints, against the best in the world and doing the same calculations he barely breaks 4 seconds and his 100 time is .76 seconds faster in the 100 the Ginn. Now for those of you thatthink people cant't run 40 yds in under 4 seconds, you probably are close to being wrong. I just don't think they are playing football.
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in track you start on a starter, in the 40 you start on your own. reaction time needs to be factored in.

either way the kid is closer to an aviator than a pedestrian...
 
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Padraig said:
I might be a little crazy, but yes, I'm sure a kid who was considered a potential olympian coming out of high school runs a bit faster than the 4.4 - 4.5 40. Sorry if I confused anyone.
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I think you confused yourself. I was commenting on how if you think he runs a 4.4 you're crazy in that he's much faster than that. I'm the one who posted he runs a 4.19 remember. You made it sound like I thought he was slower than that.
 
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