🏈 Familiar names on the track team

[planomateo]

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...o_pdf/2015-16/release/release_20160128aaa.pdf

Fitzpatrick, Sheffield, Marks...

 

[colbyjacks]

No Tony Brown?

 

[Tidestalker]

I'm surprised Minkah runs track, but that's awesome.

 

[TerryP]

No Tony Brown?

Track team members don't necessarily compete every weekend or every meet. Marlon Humphrey is on the team but doesn't look like he's competing this weekend. Averette and Sheffield aren't listed as competing either.

 

[JoshB]

I dont see Minkah on the roster but Marlon, Brown, Sheffield, Averett, and Marks are all on it.

Official Track & Field, Cross Country Roster - ROLLTIDE.COM - University of Alabama Official Athletic Site

 

[TerryP]

I dont see Minkah on the roster but Marlon, Brown, Sheffield, Averett, and Marks are all on it.

Official Track & Field, Cross Country Roster - ROLLTIDE.COM - University of Alabama Official Athletic Site

You're confirming something we already know ... rolltide.com misses, quite often, on players participation, stats, rosters, ... :shock:

I'll assume this is actually accurate (and I've heard he was planning on running with the track team so it makes sense.)

 

[planomateo]

Just a guess, but Humphrey's foot in a cast is why he's not on the roster for Bloomington.

 

[TheChief]

FWIW: Indoor nationals is in Birmingham this year, I think at Samford. If I can get my wife interested, I'm going.

Minkah ran 10.86 in high school. Seems like that is comparable to what Marlon could probably run but slower than Tony Brown. All these guys surprise me running the 400m. Marlon broke 50 which is pretty dang fast.

Looking at those top 25s, some really impressive performances going on in distance (women). I don't remember this happening much in the past other than here and there. Top 8 get points at nationals.

Looking at Josh McCullen jumping 24' 7" made me think back to Julio Jones. I looked up his long jump in high school and he's listed with a pr of 24' 2", but I swear I thought he jumped 25' 3" when I saw him compete in New Orleans (maybe 2007?).

 

[bama alum]

Just a guess, but Humphrey's foot in a cast is why he's not on the roster for Bloomington.

Good hunch!

 

[planomateo]

If I can get my wife interested

:shock:

 

[TheChief]

:shock:

She doesn't like sports much. Our little boy becomes quite a handful after a while also. The way they do big championship meets now though sort of streamlines the competition down to two days. Literally, championship track meets used to take several days - closer to a week. It's no wonder track struggled to find fans.

 

[JoshB]

I struggle to get my fiance interested in football but she HATES any other sport. Rolls her eyes when Im watching anything other than football but she has started to warm up to wrestling oddly.

 

[TheChief]

I wasn't familiar with Sheffield, so I looked him up. 38 secs for the 300 hurdles and 13.47 for the 110. Stout. Looks like another Marlon.

McCallie in Chattanooga once had a 37 second 300h guy. Unreal. Then, you think, that's only one second better than Sheffield. Which is a lot but not a lot. Anyway, the guy at McCallie made the British Olympic team in the 400 (4x400). That kind of makes you take a step back thinking about Marlon, and Brown, and Sheffield.

And by the way, all three of the Bama guys above have run faster for the 110h than the McCallie athlete that ended up in the Olympics. Way faster. Probably a second faster. Now that really makes you think.

 

[planomateo]

Xavier Marks has some wheels 6.92 60M, advances.

Minkah with a 7.01 60M, did not advance.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...o_pdf/2015-16/box_score/stats_20160130aaa.pdf

 

[TheChief]

@planomateo He's the one we talked about last summer, the late football commit. One of the top sprinters in the country, even though I'm thinking he came in third at his Texas state meet. Texas must have been loaded with sprinters.

 

[TheChief]

Looked him up again. He was second at state in 5A. There was a guy faster in 6A as well, so the third fastest in the state.

He ran 10.39, so he's about a half second faster in the 100 meter than the other guys we've been talking about. Goal line to goal line race, he'd beat all the others by 5 yards.

Another interesting reference, Marks lost state by 5/100s of a second. If you clap your hands together twice, as fast as possible, putting them close together to clap as fast as possible, the time between those claps is 1/10 of a second... twice the amount Marks lost by at state.

I once talked with a guy, at length, that placed fourth in the 110 high hurdles in the Olympics. He missed a medal by less than a tenth of a second and said it probably cost him over a million dollars. Clap your hands together fast. A million dollars. Geesh.

 

[TheChief]

Remember this name: John Teeters. Oklahoma State. Cannot believe the guy doesn't play football.