🏈 This is, well, fast. Tony Brown's debut in the 60 comes in at 6.89

[TerryP]

I can't give you the exact number when it translates to yards but I can say that is a 4.4 or less 40.
[MENTION=15045]TheChief[/MENTION] :chat_biggrin_BFGL: (there's your tag!)

 

[TheChief]

66 yards, so it's a bit greater than 4.4, in fact a good bit. Don't make me go into FAT but if this were timed on first movement and hand, it would be a good deal LESS than 4.4 I can assure you.

Demps ran 6.56 or 6.57 last year at NCAA's for the win. 6.89 is damn fast!

Whoever said he is hurt, well, he's not now.

 

[JoshB]

^^ He had a shoulder injury.

 

[TheChief]

Looks like seven guys faster than him on the day. One Alabama sprinter ran 6.79 and won the section. Can't wait to see him in the hurdles. He's got better wheels than I thought by looking at his hurdle times. He'll learn to go over the barriers at Bama.

 

[TheChief]

It's not much then Bird or he wouldn't be competing.

 

[TheChief]

You use upper body big time in a sprint race. I doubt he's hurt very bad.

 

[BamaFan334]

I'm guessing he was allowed to come in and directly compete due to early enrollment? When did the season start?

 

[TheChief]

I think last weekend. Indoor is really short and ends in March, I believe. Outdoor starts in earnest in late March or April. Most of the time athletes train through indoor, or don't compete at all. You can tell Brown is training because he's running the sixty and not the hurdles. The best way to improve hurdles is by getting faster, not by going over the hurdles more efficiently. Most everyone is proficient in hurdling and improvement in that area takes off less time than improving raw speed.

 

[TerryP]

I'm guessing he was allowed to come in and directly compete due to early enrollment? When did the season start?

He missed the first event of the Indoor year which was the 18th of this month if I recall correctly.

There are two seasons, Indoor and Outdoor. The Outdoor season starts in March right around the time the football team will start spring camp.

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...I see Chief beat me to it.

 

[TerryP]

[MENTION=15045]TheChief[/MENTION] the NCAA's are the third weekend of March if I recall correctly; 15th or so?

 

[TheChief]

Without looking, I think so [MENTION=12209]TerryP[/MENTION]. SEC's the weekend before? Qualifiers (top 16 nationally) on time and distance go to nationals.

 

[TerryP]

<tbody>
[TD="class: tournament-heading, colspan: 4, align: center"]Indoor Track & Field[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]01/18/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Auburn Invitational[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Birmingham, Ala.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]01/24/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Rod McCravy Memorial[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Lexington, Ky.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]01/25/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Rod McCravy Memorial[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Lexington, Ky.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]01/31/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Indiana Relays[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Bloomington, Ind.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]02/01/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Indiana Relays[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Bloomington, Ind.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]02/14/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Tyson Invitational[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Fayetteville, Ark.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]02/15/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Tyson Invitational[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Fayetteville, Ark.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]02/27/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]SEC Indoor Championships [/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]College Station, Texas[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]02/28/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]SEC Indoor Championships [/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]College Station, Texas[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]03/01/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]SEC Indoor Championships [/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]College Station, Texas[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]03/14/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]NCAA Indoor Championships[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Albuquerque, N.M.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

[TD="class: row-text"]03/15/14[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]NCAA Indoor Championships[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]Albuquerque, N.M.[/TD]
[TD="class: row-text"]All Day[/TD]

</tbody>

 

[TheChief]

At nationals you've got two heats generally and the top eight score points, 10, 8, 6,5,4,3,2,1. Most points wins a national title. Qualify a bunch, score a few times, you win. Qualify a few, score with a bunch of wins or places or shows, and you win. Kind of fun to watch with most of the teams aiming at outdoors, but a national title is a national title. Sprints, jumps, and throws have a more likelihood (in my opinion) to win indoor (of course, it's been done with primarily distance before).

 

[Rolltide24]

[MENTION=15045]TheChief[/MENTION] A good buddy of mine was on the Bama track team back in the late 80's, the same years Dion Sanders was at FSU. He's got some crazy stories about Prime Time from some meets where both schools were competing. Makes you wonder what he could have done if he'd focused on track more seriously. Guy really was a freak of nature.

 

[TheChief]

Sometime on the other forum I'll tell you some stories about football players from "back in the day". Bo Jackson ran track...

 

[TheChief]

FYI, I think we got a bit lucky that Marvin Bracy quit FSU to run professionally. He won the New Balance Indoor GP meet today with a 6.53. He would have been a sophomore for the Noles this season. That time by the way would have been enough to win NCAA Nationals last season.

 

[psychojoe]

Would Grant Hill help the track and field team? He was quite skilled at shot and discus in high school.