🏈 Fournette 21.78 @200m

[planomateo]

damn fast...
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>HOT THREAD: Leonard Fournette (<a href="https://twitter.com/_fournette">@_fournette</a>) drops an impressive 21.78 in the 200-meter dash. Oh, and he’s 225+ .. <a href="http://t.co/UIpLG1ouiN">http://t.co/UIpLG1ouiN</a></p>&mdash; LSU Tigers (@Geaux247) <a href="https://twitter.com/Geaux247/statuses/449211137775894528">March 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[TheChief]

Not bad, also not going to get any points at NCAA's. 200 meters isn't a very good reflection of football speed. The 100 is better. 60 indoor better still. Hurdles seems to be a nice measuring stick. For what it's worth, most sprinters are big dudes. 225 plus, as the Tweet says, is not all that big. So, color me unimpressed (as far as football certainly). Also, 200 meter times in this range in high school are pretty good. That time might win a state championship depending on which state. He is a high school student.

 

[TheChief]

Plano, if he pops off a sub 10.5 in the 100, he'll have my full attention.

 

[TheChief]

If it's FAT.

 

[TheChief]

Sorry to keep adding posts, but I keep thinking of things. I'd like to see how many Bama players could walk out on the track, right now, and run that time. It would be many more than you might think, even without track training. I've seen distance guys in college (albeit really good distance guys with nice speed) go 23 low, and they couldn't come out of the blocks if their lives depended on it.

 

[planomateo]

I'm not a T/F guy. I did a quick search on US Olympics time trials and he is ~second away from qualifying...so I assumed he was pretty quick.

Nonetheless, wished he was in Crimson.

 

[TheChief]

Look up the NCAA final last year. He would NOT be within a second of the field.

 

[TheChief]

A second is about ten meters or 11 yards. That's pretty far behind.

 

[TerryP]

I'm not a T/F guy. I did a quick search on US Olympics time trials and he is ~second away from qualifying...so I assumed he was pretty quick.

Nonetheless, wished he was in Crimson.

LSU fans are happy he's in the fold, no doubt. It may not be fast for track measures, but it's some speed he's bring to the field: behind four returning offensive linemen!

I wonder how that rotation will end up in the fall. McGee and Hilliard are getting the reps this spring.

Look at the differences right now:

McGee—5'9", 215lbs.
Hilliard—6', 233lbs
Fournette—6'1", 226lbs

 

[BamaFan334]

You may be unimpressed from a track standpoint, but he's not a track star, he's a football player. I'm willing to put $100 that he'd drop anyone on LSU's track team if it came to it. When you're compared to Adrian Peterson, that's saying you're big and fast. Track stars may be 225, but they're soft and can't handle the contact (for the most part, and yes, I do know there are some that cross over). I wish we could have gotten him somehow, because that is blazing for a guy that is a football player and someone with his skill set, because he can hold that speed cutting and breaking tackles, not just running in a straight line.

sorry for ranting, but I guess I just took some comments as being unimpressed and kind of dogging an 18 year old kid and comparing him to the fastest kids in the country that train all year long in a track format, and nothing else. Give me Fournette any day as an all around badass.

 

[TerryP]

You may be unimpressed from a track standpoint, but he's not a track star, he's a football player. I'm willing to put $100 that he'd drop anyone on LSU's track team if it came to it. When you're compared to Adrian Peterson, that's saying you're big and fast. Track stars may be 225, but they're soft and can't handle the contact (for the most part, and yes, I do know there are some that cross over). I wish we could have gotten him somehow, because that is blazing for a guy that is a football player and someone with his skill set, because he can hold that speed cutting and breaking tackles, not just running in a straight line.

sorry for ranting, but I guess I just took some comments as being unimpressed and kind of dogging an 18 year old kid and comparing him to the fastest kids in the country that train all year long in a track format, and nothing else. Give me Fournette any day as an all around badass.

Anyone else immediately think of Jeremy Hill when they read that sentence? He certainly "dropped" that guy in the parking lot. :icon_twisted:

 

[planomateo]

Speaking of dropping someone, I'd pay to see Jeremy Hill fight LeGarrette Blount :bluebiggrin:

 

[TheChief]

You may be unimpressed from a track standpoint, but he's not a track star, he's a football player. I'm willing to put $100 that he'd drop anyone on LSU's track team if it came to it. When you're compared to Adrian Peterson, that's saying you're big and fast. Track stars may be 225, but they're soft and can't handle the contact (for the most part, and yes, I do know there are some that cross over). I wish we could have gotten him somehow, because that is blazing for a guy that is a football player and someone with his skill set, because he can hold that speed cutting and breaking tackles, not just running in a straight line.

sorry for ranting, but I guess I just took some comments as being unimpressed and kind of dogging an 18 year old kid and comparing him to the fastest kids in the country that train all year long in a track format, and nothing else. Give me Fournette any day as an all around badass.

I was specifically asked what I thought about a track time. Not about football. Get over it.

 

[TheChief]

Furthermore, you're telling me you don't dog 18 and 19 year olds about football all year long. Give me a break.

 

[BamaFan334]

Please prove where I have. I will knock a guy like Jeremy Hill when he's out there committing acts of violence and ones like Isaiah Crowell for felony gun possession, but you will never hear me dog a guy about his play. Maybe an off day, but never dig into a guy. So get over yourself and the fact you're the one "not impressed" with a guy that everyone else seems to be in awe over. You're comparing him to guys that only run track and have trained for years in multiple-million dollar facilities with top level coaches, when he's simply a kid that hasn't even graduated high school yet and has none of the same training in a Louisiana high school as a top college track star. Yeah, I'd say that's comparable, and unimpressive.

 

[bamaraider]

Fight fight fight fight....

 

[BamaFan334]

Speaking of dropping someone, I'd pay to see Jeremy Hill fight LeGarrette Blount :bluebiggrin:

Would either of them know what to do with the other Actually facing them? Or do they both have to look in the opposite direction to get it started?

 

[planomateo]

Would either of them know what to do with the other Actually facing them? Or do they both have to look in the opposite direction to get it started?

Ha! Blount dropped that guy, made me laugh hard when I was watching it live. Sure he went over the line, bet that dude isn't running his mouth anymore though. Blount put an end to that.

 

[TheChief]

The question was about track. I answered about track. Go sniff the guy's jock all you want. No one said anything about football.

 

[TheChief]

Marlon Humphrey ran 21.60 as a junior in high school.