There hasn't been a fast white SEC sprinter in a long long time. We'd have to go back to hurdler/sprinter Richmond Flowers at Tenn, and he was a footballer (a movie) back in the 70's, played with the Giants in the NFL.
There hasn't been a fast white SEC sprinter in a long long time. We'd have to go back to hurdler/sprinter Richmond Flowers at Tenn, and he was a footballer (a movie) back in the 70's, played with the Giants in the NFL.
Why waste talent in football??
You don't understand how football works. You're not going to walk-on in college having never played football, and expect to have a shot at the NFL...unless maybe you're an elite kicker who came from a soccer background...
But seriously, those guys who make it to the pros usually started playing before high school....[/quote]
You are underestimating what talent does for a person. Ziggy Ansah is the perfect example. Elite athlete that had never put pads on. Grew up in Ghana and knew nothing about American football. But he is athletically gifted. He tried out for a walk on spot in college on a whim. They let him on the team just because he was so obviously an athletic freak.
He only started a handful of NCAA games. He was picked #5 in the 2013 draft overall. He's had a decent(although injury prone) NFL career and is filthy rich. You can't teach talent.
what's his 40 time? wrote:
9.98 sprinter blows bast 6'4" high jumper... shocking
26'3" long jumper blows by 6'4" high jumper.
Whatley wrote:
Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye never played football until he arrived at Azusa Pacific.
I'm thinking TE Antonio Gates never played HS football, he was a basketball player.
I don't think Skeets Nehemiah had played any football before he jumped to the NFL, either.
Looked like a bunch of slow linemen on the 1st 3 legs
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
DC Wonk wrote:
Boling blows past GA football player in 4x100:
https://twitter.com/GeorgiaFootball/status/1163593991725690881?s=20So what? He's a track athlete and the other guy is a football player. The football player, if drafted will be financially better than Boling in the long run.
He blew by a 15 second 100m football coach
Can we please focus on the real big thing here? This was a dope AF video. Kirby Smart just gifted the Track and Field community with free advertising. That video already has like 5,000 comments on it. This is nothing but awesome.
COMEONSON wrote:
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
So what? He's a track athlete and the other guy is a football player. The football player, if drafted will be financially better than Boling in the long run.
He blew by a 15 second 100m football coach
Incorrect. Boling was on the coaches' team. Looks like he replaced Smart himself on the anchor. The coaches were not the one's with a 15 meter lead after 300m lol.
It was a fun video. Good promotional stunt for T & F.
But for those of you saying Boling should play football, it ain't that easy. Lots of elite sprinters have tried to play in the NFL. Some had success, many did not. Being fast helps, but it's not everything. American Football is a fairly complex sport.
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/49ers/us-sprinter-gatlin-recalls-his-nfl-tryouts-its-so-toughbartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Mo Munnie wrote:
Personally, I think he'll be playing football after he grows a little more. Mo money in the NFL for a fast WR than as a track also ran.
You don't understand how football works. You're not going to walk-on in college having never played football, and expect to have a shot at the NFL...unless maybe you're an elite kicker who came from a soccer background...
But seriously, those guys who make it to the pros usually started playing before high school....
redmeansdead wrote:
It was a fun video. Good promotional stunt for T & F.
But for those of you saying Boling should play football, it ain't that easy. Lots of elite sprinters have tried to play in the NFL. Some had success, many did not. Being fast helps, but it's not everything. American Football is a fairly complex sport.
"The Bullet" Bob Hayes won a Super bowl and a gold medal (2, actually).
...He also ran an 8.4 split in the 4x100 final leg of the Tokyo 64 Olys to pass 5 teams in front of him, still the fastest 100 meter ever recorded. Oh, on cynder track with old school spikes.
When he was active in track he held world records at:
60m, 5.9
70m 6.9 (still the record)
100y 9.1
100m 9.9
220y, 20.6
....Then he went on to win Super Bowl with Cowboys. He changed football.
The teams in the NFL had to develop a new defence using "zone" coverage to cover him.
hhhjk wrote:
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/49ers/us-sprinter-gatlin-recalls-his-nfl-tryouts-its-so-toughbartholomew_maxwell wrote:
You don't understand how football works. You're not going to walk-on in college having never played football, and expect to have a shot at the NFL...unless maybe you're an elite kicker who came from a soccer background...
But seriously, those guys who make it to the pros usually started playing before high school....
Gatlin's comments about explosiveness are interesting . How many times do you see a football player break open a play with their explosiveness and go for a big again only to get run down before they get to the end zone? Different types of speed are required in track vs football.
Boling himself stated that the coaches wanted him for football until they figured out he couldnt catch the ball
Here's the story for the Red and Black, the GA school paper. Boling beat one of the fastest players on the team:
So Right wrote:
Top football programs, especially those in the south - Florida, Georgia, LSU, are loaded with great sprinters so yes, Boling blowing by a GA "football player" is meaningful.
1) Do we know he even was racing a player on the football team? They said it was coaches vs players so he may have been racing a coach.
2) Has he ever tried football? If I was that fast I'd love to be a kick returner although I guess those are a dying breed in the nfl.
Rojo - You had a half hour to read follow the link in the post above yours to see that Boling ran on the coaches team, subbing in on the last leg for head coach Kirby Smart. SMH.
If you read the article, you'll see that it was a safety he raced and he was taking Coach Smart's leg for the coaches.
I'll tell you what, though, the Georgia Football team did track a huge favor by staging this race together with eyes in the sky, because this is exactly the kind of thing that track would have to get done to be able to expand its appeal bigly. Unfortunately, track doesn't really have those eyes on it most of the time (Boling's own videos were doing that). It mostly depends either on the Olympics shining a light on it, a superlative talent like Bolt in the Olympics, or some famous person or dominant sport giving it that attention as here.
Wow, how impressive is Boling in terms of "it" factor.
His video on UGA Twitter has 1M views.
The next closest video that I can find on UGA Twitter is 32k views!!!!!!!
Damn, talk about VIRAL!
The average NFL career is 3 years and the average median career earnings is 3 million. But the reality is most earn less than that after agents etc. Not to mention your body is destroyed once your career is over. I’d say he’s taking a better route than most of Georgia’s roster. Only 7 2019 players are currently viewed as NFL draft prospects and only 11 Georgia alum are playing in the NFL.