🏈 Bama Track

[TheChief]

Terry, or anyone else in the know, are any of the track guys doing football or have any interest in football? If you saw the 4x100 yesterday, it's easy to see that the men's track team has some guys with serious wheels. It seems like both sports could be sharing some athletes.

The national meet was really good, and the SEC was well represented. I would imagine Texas A and M will work on relay exchanges for the next 365 days. Handoffs cost them an outright title.

 

[TerryP]

I don't know of any (on the track roster now) off the top of my head Chief.

The only person that I can think of is Marlon Humphrey and he's a recruit. I believe the option to participate in both sports is something he'll be weighing but I don't know that definitely.

The men's championship seemed more like an SEC championship considering the top three teams were all SEC—UF taking the title.

 

[TheChief]

Texas made some noise, but you're right. The SEC is TOUGH. Remember Arkansas won indoor.

Terry, Batson is the one I was thinking about. He was Juco though. He's stout and he ran 10.06 earlier in the year (think Demps 10.02 junior year at UF). The guy can really scoot and he's smooth.

Humphrey, I think, has run about 13.5 for the 110 highs and 35 mid for the 300, which is unbelievably fast. There was a trackster at McCallie a few years ago in the 36 range and he made the trials and I think the games (Britain). Of course, the US is deeper, but geesh. That is fast. If Humphrey runs for Bama, you're starting to see a group that could compete at the highest level, especially indoor because Bama's distance is sub-par.

 

[TerryP]

Texas made some noise, but you're right. The SEC is TOUGH. Remember Arkansas won indoor.

Terry, Batson is the one I was thinking about. He was Juco though. He's stout and he ran 10.06 earlier in the year (think Demps 10.02 junior year at UF). The guy can really scoot and he's smooth.

Humphrey, I think, has run about 13.5 for the 110 highs and 35 mid for the 300, which is unbelievably fast. There was a trackster at McCallie a few years ago in the 36 range and he made the trials and I think the games (Britain). Of course, the US is deeper, but geesh. That is fast. If Humphrey runs for Bama, you're starting to see a group that could compete at the highest level, especially indoor because Bama's distance is sub-par.

I don't know anything about Baston's football experience other than he didn't make the top 100 out of Cali when he came out of high school.

With Marlon, I'm confident schools like Florida and LSU will be pushing "you'll be able to compete in track."

I don't know about UA. Check your PM's.