Matthew Boling 45.51!!

Are you kidding. After a virtual year off and in an opener you have the audacity to spew such nonsense. Go gind another person and sport to inject your venom. You are an idiot.

jumper wrote:

What do you Guys predict he will run outdoor this season for the 3 sprints

I'd say 44.44, 19.96 and 9.97

44.5X, 20.15, 10.00

Is he running 200m Friday?

20.40 possible

Starno wrote:

jumper wrote:

What do you Guys predict he will run outdoor this season for the 3 sprints

I'd say 44.44, 19.96 and 9.97

44.5X, 20.15, 10.00

43.95, 19.92, 9.99

1lapper wrote:

Starno wrote:

44.5X, 20.15, 10.00

43.95, 19.92, 9.99

lol what

holterskolter2 wrote:

zxcvzcvxzcvx wrote:

45.51 to open indoors is very good. Bolling isn't all hype. He will be a contender in several events in time, maybe even this year.

Definitely a solid opener. It was a really good lane, though. Basically a three turn race and starting on top of a tiny hill.

Was this your first indoor track meet?

This guy could be a giant Wayde Van Niekerk. Crazy fast from 100-400.

Elite runner but his range is pretty normal.

Coach watching wrote:

Pretty much right on. 44.4, 19.9, 10.0

I could see him getting to around 10.05 "basic" +/- a couple hundreths as a 100 guy by the end of outdoor. So that means he could theoretically max out, with a perfect wind (+2.0), at a wind legal 9.97/9.93 depending on which end of the +/- he gets on. Give him a modest +1.0ish wind and he might still be breaking the 10 barrier, maybe. Get him to altitude and maybe he could theoretically squeeze out another hundredth or two here and there.

If he's gets capable of 10.05 basic the way I suspect he will, then he's going to have access to sub 20 ability over 200 for sure, particularly when he peaks. Though I don't see him blowing the doors off the distance quite yet. But in a PERFECT scenario with good comp., enough on the line (a title bid/Olympic berth/etc.), while healthy and peaked, and really good weather, then maybe he could threaten a 19.90 in that circumstance. More than likely, though, he'll end up in the 20.08/19.98 range.

I'm less certain of where his 400 is going, but certainly a 44.5x would be within his range this year. But some of that depends on what he's really reaching for this year. Does he want to chase the 100 more, RIGHT now? Then maybe he only ends up with a 44 high on the books this year.

Its gin a be interesting to see if he can stay healthy, patient, and focused.

round and round wrote:

dxttfdtdr wrote:

Well, it is a PB (in/out) and it does rank him first in the NCAA right now.

He is also ranked third in the 60m with his 6.64 PB

...so even though these performances are not AMAZING, you can’t say that he is not doing very well...

He should surely improve on his indoor 200m PB (20.66) when he runs it this winter. I can see him running very close to a top 10 NCAA all time (20.30).

He also had absolutely no one to compete against after 50 meters.

Could have gone faster with another fast dude in the race....

Its a 400, you aren't looking for anyone to push you after 150. Its all about focus.

He looked a little sluggish and real strong.

He hasn't hit the speed yet by the looks of it. No float at all.

He could go under 45.00 on the right track.

Warholm has run a half second faster indoor and he’s never beaten that time outdoors nor shown himself to be a threat in the 400m at the top level, so let’s just hold our horses.

Coach of a athletes wrote:

Elite runner but his range is pretty normal.

I said earlier that this was not AMAZING. But then I was thinking. When is the last time that an NCAA runner ran a 6.64/45.51 combo? Ever? Nobody in past 10 years. So it may never have been done. I don’t know. Maybe someone here knows. In addition, the season is obviously far from being over.

So, not a “normal” range for sure.

Perhaps it is AMAZING.

just sayinn wrote:

Warholm has run a half second faster indoor and he’s never beaten that time outdoors nor shown himself to be a threat in the 400m at the top level, so let’s just hold our horses.

Might want to check your sources

Holloway 6.5 and split 43.75.

Kenny Bednarek 10.22 and 44.73.

Michael Norman 9.86 and 43.45.

Just because guys focus on 1 event does not mean that most of the elite guys can't run anything 400 and below.

Coach watching wrote:

Michael Norman 9.86 and 43.45.

This is wrong for a couple of reasons.

1 - Norman never race 9.86 while he was in the NCAA

2 - These are outdoor times after his NCAA career was over.

His best indoor 400m while in College was 44.52. His best indoor 60m is 6.99 to my knowledge. Obviously he can run faster than that and he probably also could have run faster than that in College. But I am not 100% sure that he could have run 6.64 in College. Perhaps, but he never did it.

Nothing incorrect. Just showing that Boling has no better range than most other good sprinters. And who cares about range unless you are a high schooler trying to help your team at the conference meet? If he gets to the elite level, he will gravitate toward 1 or 2 events. Right now, he is good at 60-100-200-400-LJ which is why people were whispering about the multis. Nothing he has done yet indicates that he is ready to make a US team in any event.