Your Boy Matty B (Boling) Busted A 6.60 Over The Weekend

It is a good college time and a PR is always a good thing. 6.6 can win some conferences and most years will get you into an NCAA Champ final. The 6.5s are the elite college times and 6.4s are the elite pro times.

TrackCoach wrote:

It is a good college time and a PR is always a good thing. 6.6 can win some conferences and most years will get you into an NCAA Champ final. The 6.5s are the elite college times and 6.4s are the elite pro times.

Thanks! These are basically the same numbers for the elite to super elite at the regional level in high school for 55 meters. At least this is true in my region.

pikacho wrote:

I'd wait to see what Boling can do the rest of the indoor season before making assumptions. He hasn't shown a huge jump since High School. Not sure if Georgia was the right choice for him.

I think he in fact did get a huge jump in only ten days ago.

runnerboy70 wrote:

Breed him to Jenna Prandini and sell the offspring for big bucks to adoptee's who want fast kids...

She’s too old. Steiner would be logical lol.

Boling has freakish genetics...I would like to see his parents.

Boling should work with Taylor. And find his strength. Boling is also good at the long jump. Taylor was also a good sprinter before moving solely to the jump competition. I could see Boling benefitting from the tutelage of Taylor in both sports.

Boling will never make an Olympic team.

I think you are right, a lot of his thing is .....fast white guy. But he's really not all that fast. TONS....of 27 foot long jumpers.

No problem seeing...

9.95

19.95

27-8

44.6ish

And for one athlete that is outstanding but nothing there has him among the top guys, the very elite. I am talking for his career there, not just Georgia. I doubt he wins an NCAA title outdoors,

The brothers seem to resent fast white boys....lol

runnerboy70 wrote:

The brothers seem to resent fast white boys....lol

It's Lets Run, 99% of the people here resent everything.

runnerboy70 wrote:

The brothers seem to resent the chair sniffers of the fast white boys....lol

Fixed

runnerboy70 wrote:

The brothers seem to resent fast white boys....lol

I don't see that at all, but when we see a fast white boy it's in the 200m not the 100m. The last white Americans to make our Olympic team in a sprint were Larry Questad 1968 and Mark Lutz 1976, both in the 200m. Look at where LeMaitre ended up, 200m. Look at Gemili, 200m.

Lets Run Snobs Have No Self Awareness.. wrote:

It's Lets Run, 99% of the people here resent everything.

he he he

Caryl is a winner and phenomenal Coach. I'm not surprised that she left USC and I would argue money wasnt driving factor. Georgia is a top 5 athletic department with plenty of resources to afford both her and her athletes. I also want to point out that its much easier to build a stronger overall program in a town like Athens, as opposed to USC. Track coaches dont get paid like other sports, especially not assistants, so Athens offers her the ability to assemble a stronger coaching staff. And if youre in Caryl's position, or a member of her staff or athlete then track is your life so the city you practice and live in is less important than the facilities, assuming that weather isnt a big determinant. Petros was unsuccessful in pushing for an indoor track complex but I would assume a new complex design should be in the works with the revenue generated from the football National Championship this year. That being said, I think the NCAA is running out of time and the SEC will secede in the next few decades to create its own division, pay athletes, etc.

Does Boling have late, long sustained speed in the 100?

I can see de Grasse going 6.60/sub10 because even with his slow start (which impacts the 60 a lot) his Tokyo races had top speed ending and sustaining much further out than his competition. Don't know if Boling is that type of runner.

Seems really silly to assume a 20 year old with imperfect form won't improve.

I think it's fair to say Boling's speed endurance is pretty good. He's the defending NCAA Indoor 200m champion and he's run 20.06 outdoors, he didn't finish his outdoor season real well last year, but I suspect the Georgia track program was probably in disarray by then. To be honest, I don't think Boling's start is very good either, it might be better now, I haven't watched his latest 60 race, he really is a pretty similar athlete to De Grasse.

DinoZ wrote:

I think you are right, a lot of his thing is .....fast white guy. But he's really not all that fast. TONS....of 27 foot long jumpers.

No problem seeing...

9.95

19.95

27-8

44.6ish

And for one athlete that is outstanding but nothing there has him among the top guys, the very elite. I am talking for his career there, not just Georgia. I doubt he wins an NCAA title outdoors,

It only took a 27' long jump to make the US Olympic team last summer, if Boling can jump over 27 feet consistently he could make a US Olympic team or two. Heck Greg Rutherford's pr in the long jump is only 27' 11" and he's an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. With the speed he has already, Boling really should be able to jump over 28', he just gets no height off of the board. Carl Lewis was already jumping over 28' in the long jump before he ever broke 10 seconds in the 100, but he had excellent takeoff height. Only 22 men have jumped further than 28' ever, the majority were before the year 2000. A 28' long jumper could have a pretty good career in this day and age, of course there's more money in the sprints.

All you have to do is make it an indoor football/track and field facility and it's a done deal. That's how CU in Boulder got it's 300m indoor track facility.