Georgia has screwed up Matt Boling's mechanics

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Get back to me when you can regularly beat guys “faster than you”.

If you can’t, then you are in Boling’s class.

You said you would have beaten him on Friday.

He ran 10.19

How many times have you run faster than that?

Busted.

Give it up man.

I didn’t say I would have beaten him Friday. I have never gone under 10.2. I was speaking in a general sense, if I’m one of his competitors who has a slower seed time than him, who consistently runs slower than him in the season, but in the same general time zone.

Tell me you understand this and that you just wanted to pick a fight.

All sprinters know guys like Boling. There is always “that guy” you know you will beat when the chips are down, even though he is faster than you.

With CSG the new head Bolling thread is now 100% mute.

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He will be just fine with his new coach next year. Save this post. Wait until CGS works with him this fall.

Who is CGS? This guy has ability, so he needs a real top-level coach. Sounds like maybe good news, too bad about this year.

It would be fun to see him just run free at trials, he would probably go faster than at NCAA’s.

Boling in the OTC 200m, not the 100m

[quote]Sprintgeezer wrote:

Give it up man.

I didn’t say I would have beaten him Friday. I have never gone under 10.2. I was speaking in a general sense, if I’m one of his competitors who has a slower seed time than him, who consistently runs slower than him in the season, but in the same general time zone.

Here is what you said. "I would beat him, even as a slower sprinter.

YOU claimed you would beat him, even taking into account you are slower than he is

Sounds pretty specific and definitive to me. Not "general time zone".

Perhaps you should give it up and just admit you made a nonsensical statement.

It was the proverbial I, unk.

Well, he has no business in the trials 100. I think the cutoff is something like 10.05, which is why I was wondering if Laird is now in.

What is the proverbial I?

Never heard that one before.

I generally don't chime in on negative attacks against coaches becasue a particular athlete is not or has not preformed well. There are many factors that contribute to an athlete's outcome in competition and a lot of things a coach can't control. In Matt's case, anyone with a decent amount of sprinting or sprint coaching experience can see his upper body mechanics is counter productive. His form at times looks worst than it did in high school. He is is definitely trying hard, but it is translated into straining more. The good news is, he has an improved start and is little bigger and probably stronger. I am not saying he needs to changes schools or necessarily coach either; Georgia should hire someone like Dave Pfaff or Dennis Mitchell for example to work specifically with Matt as a sprint consultant.

Things that a coach can’t control? A coach doesn’t control ANYTHING about the race.

A coach’s job is to enable the athlete to exercise his or her control to the fullest, and to educate and train those things that would be the optimum outcome of perfect athlete self-control. This is what athletes mean when they say their coach put together a race mode that they worked on together, and that the athlete executed, to whatever degree they did.

Apart from that, a coach should control meals, accommodations, scheduling, etc.

But it is up to the coach to enable the athlete to execute, that is, to exercise self-control.

Boling had little to none. He’s not insane, so that was a coaching failure. The whole plan was mot properly conceived, that much was evident. Total failure. His only actual improvements came from natural physical maturation.

If I were the coach, I would step aside and offer my sympathies that it didn’t work out, and even apologize of in my heart of hearts I knew that I had been in over my head, or that my skill set would prove a bad match.

Agreed. The coach would have to be a complete imbecile to make someone's form WORSE. It's almost impossible, she must have been actively instructing him to do things that are

biomechanically wrong.

I agree that the coach owes him an apology. The coach should be bumped into the high school coaching ranks to learn how to not suck as a coach.

Georgia hired a good new coach, but it's going to be hard to reverse 2 years of trash training and garbage form.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Boling had little to none. He’s not insane, so that was a coaching failure. The whole plan was mot properly conceived, that much was evident. Total failure. His only actual improvements came from natural physical maturation.

If I were the coach, I would step aside and offer my sympathies that it didn’t work out, and even apologize of in my heart of hearts I knew that I had been in over my head, or that my skill set would prove a bad match.

He's only a sophomore, and didn't even have a freshman year. No reason for him to be insane already give it time.

I don't think it's going to take that long for a great coach like CSG to make a turnaround for that sprints group/Bolling.

IMO, a major part of the technical improvement potential will be down to just implementing an excellent training program and one which truly emphasizes speed and power development and not one overly focused on general endurance and excessively high volumes of special endurance work. CSG will definitely get it right.

Why do you keep saying Boling is overhyped?

How many sprinters as a freshman have ever done what he did this year in the indoors?

How many seniors has done what he did when he was in high school?

He kicked butt in the Pan-An games as well.

He is getting attention cause he has kicked butt up till this outdoor season.

You say it isn't cause he is white, fine, then what is your beef with him?

In this meet alone, Boling beat your new prized freshmen in the 100.

I agree Boling looked either tired or off this outdoor season compared to the others, but it is his first outdoor major meet! If he sucks next year, then you can start the, he doesn't deserve the hype cause he is white crap imo.

Right now Williams, Maswanganyi and Fahnbulleh all look better after this meet. But before this meet, Boling deserved the hype imo.

I want Boling to transfer to UH and get real world class coaching, but he probably won't. He went to a very high class private catholic school in Houston and probably is loyal to a fault, we shall see.

Boling is a great athlete he deserves to be hyped up, but athletes just as talented don't get the same level of recognition as him.

Wtf r u talking about? Do you even read posts?

Boling was totally overhyped even after his crap semi’s, which was when I made those comments. He was still getting way too much positive attention. Afaik I was the only one who gave him negative attention, although I did not blame him personally.

How about Maswanganyi? Put up a huge result pre-meet, and had great semi’s. Same with Fahnbulleh in the 2. The two of them together didn’t get the positive attention that Boling got, and it was because Boling was unusual because he’s white.

Now THOSE guys had some coaching, especially Maswanganyi. Fahnbulleh needs a start coach. I hereby offer my services for a clinic when he visits here after the season😁

wow, people raise the bar so high.

boling performed very well, sure he is disappointed a bit.

what he and everyone was hoping for was 10.0 and 20.0

come on, he was only a meter ish away in both events.

he's not far away from the goal.

has he plateaued?

is he like a lousy competitor?

i'd say he needs to relax just a bit, and that is about all that is needed to get that extra meter now.

Did you just read what I just wrote.

How many of those guys ran the fastest 100 in high school history. You won't answer i know.

How many of those guys won the indoor 200 in the 5th all time fastest times beating all those guys you want to be hyped.

He deserved the hype and didn't do well this meet. He deserved the hype cause he earned it in every competition up till this meet, and even then, he has shown to be a special talent.

Did he live up to this hype, NO he didn't, but he still deserved it going into this meet.