Matt Boling's performance dropped off from HS to college

He was running near /at peak times in high school. Running fast young doesnt mean you will get faster as you age some develop faster than others. Also if you factor drugs into training in high school you definetley will struggle to improve as the drugs take you to and past your limits. Yes the houston track and field scene is dirty many athletes going to see dr. brown who provides all the necessary drugs ive seen it first hand and he works with all the local houston coaches

You. But....not you. wrote:

The Unkle wrote:

Evidence?

I thi k even if you just check his IAAF it shows he ran a 20.30 with a +2.3 in June/19. I just presumed it was the same meet, personally, and the 20.27 was pre-official.

Maybe.

Or maybe he did run a 20.27 in 2020?

The Unkle wrote:

You. But....not you. wrote:

I thi k even if you just check his IAAF it shows he ran a 20.30 with a +2.3 in June/19. I just presumed it was the same meet, personally, and the 20.27 was pre-official.

Maybe.

Or maybe he did run a 20.27 in 2020?

Nah, buddy. I know people make up a lot of stuff to troll the crap outta the kid, but we dont have to go the OTHER way and make stuff up to pedestal him, either.

A quick look at Bolings results from 2019, and Tyrese Cooper who is referenced in the vid, prove that the 20.27 in the vid is the 20.30 with a +2.3 wind reading in Bolings 2019 race results. It was actually a prelim, which is why he shut it down the way he did. He ran a 20.36 with a +0.7 wind for the win in the final. The 20.27 is just the "result" they flashed on the screen of the broadcast, and then the vid abruptly ends. Usually a time gets adjusted shortly after a run when the truly official result is proved, and it can often differ from the first time posted by +/- a couple hundredths of a second.

In this case, a 20.27 became an official 20.30.

He won the NCAA indoor title. I think he's progressing just fine.

Very realistic to expect to see something around 9.98ish and 19.98 while an NCAA athlete. Right now his focus is on helping Georgia, so he is long jumping running relays, whatever it takes, once that stops after college, I do expect to see him start to elevate into a world class 200m sprinter. Now it's all about him and not Georgia.

Not cool talking drugs, actually sucks!

Matthew Boling - despite a really good year in college this year has gotten a tad slower.

His start in the 100 meters and 200 meters may have improved but his high end speed is less than it was at the end of high school.

He may have gotten too muscular - unclear

His best high end speed was demonstrated in his anchor leg of the 400 meter relay in the Pan Am games at the end of his Senior year in H.S. If he still had the fluidity and turnover of that relay leg, he would have easily took the 4x100 meter relay NCAA for Georgia at the NCAAs. As it was the LSU anchor ran him down and one or two other anchor runners almost caught him.

That would not have happened if he could have reproduced the same speed from the Pan Am anchor leg.

I don't know what the Georgia sprint coaches are doing to him (too many sprints over the year? Too much time in the weight room? not enough emphasis on fluid (and easy) turnover in practice? Unclear.

But, he has slowed just a tad. Doesn't mean he isn't an incredible athlete. He still is. But, he needs the high end speed back to go further in his sport.

gj

I understand your skepticism, I was a skeptic as well but I was hopeful that Boling’s speed would translate to similar success at the college level. He has definitely improved his start, but he remains to lack consistency in his drive phase which has cost him in both indoor and outdoor. MB proved today that he is the real deal, dropping a 19.92 into -.1 m/s headwind. He was finally relaxed, controlled, and maintained his acceleration completely through the drive phase.