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TUSCALOOSA -- Has a pass by Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett really been clocked at 115 mph?
That's a fact you will find in a story in today's edition of The Birmingham News.
Some readers understandably are skeptical. The fact came from a story about Mallett by Tom Murphy, one of two Arkansas beat reporters for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.(Murphy is a former Alabama beat reporter for the Mobile Press-Register.)
That story attributes the 115 mph fact to Arkansas tight end D.J. Williams. (But it doesn't make the fact true.)
"Ryan Mallett has the strongest arm in college football," said All-SEC tight end D.J. Williams. "I've caught some balls that I had to take my gloves off because he ripped all the sticky stuff off of them." Williams said the Razorbacks have timed Mallett's throws at 115 mph with a Juggs gun.
A reader has sent me a link to an actual experiment done regarding the speed of a football compared to the speed of a baseball.
According to this reader, there is a factor of 1.68 when calculating how fast a baseball would travel in comparison to a football. This means that Mallett's 115 mph football pass is equivalent to throwing a baseball 193.2 mph.
Read More Here...
TUSCALOOSA -- Has a pass by Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett really been clocked at 115 mph?
That's a fact you will find in a story in today's edition of The Birmingham News.
Some readers understandably are skeptical. The fact came from a story about Mallett by Tom Murphy, one of two Arkansas beat reporters for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.(Murphy is a former Alabama beat reporter for the Mobile Press-Register.)
That story attributes the 115 mph fact to Arkansas tight end D.J. Williams. (But it doesn't make the fact true.)
"Ryan Mallett has the strongest arm in college football," said All-SEC tight end D.J. Williams. "I've caught some balls that I had to take my gloves off because he ripped all the sticky stuff off of them." Williams said the Razorbacks have timed Mallett's throws at 115 mph with a Juggs gun.
A reader has sent me a link to an actual experiment done regarding the speed of a football compared to the speed of a baseball.
According to this reader, there is a factor of 1.68 when calculating how fast a baseball would travel in comparison to a football. This means that Mallett's 115 mph football pass is equivalent to throwing a baseball 193.2 mph.