lucky to have bronze wrote:
"I've seen this said on lrc before - perhaps by you, perhaps by others.
Anyway, care to elaborate? I don't have a strong opinion of Spearmon one way or the other but I find it odd to accuse a guy who's been world class for ten years of being lazy."
-you certainly didn't hear it from me. likely someone else just noticed and pointed out the obvious. being around Fayetteville for as long as I have, you see things. you hear things. the kid has the pedigree and body style/form to be SIGNIFICANTLY better than he has been. he's far past the point now, however. his best days are squandered behind him. he was world class, despite being a sluggard- that should tell you something. his ceiling was unlimited at one time.
I have talked with the Arkansas guys back in the day as well as a coach or two. From what I heard, Spearmon wouldn't even show up to practice most of the time. He could run 20.0 without training (significantly). That's supposedly the type of talent he was. Could have been WC/OC gold medalist but never cared much I guess. He also liked to blow all his money on expensive BS like a suped up hummer and then park it in front of the indoor track facility right in everyone's way. Tyson Gay on the other hand worked his ass off and lived comfortably knowing his track days wouldn't last forever.
Don't count all this as fact (except the hummer bit which is definitely true), but it is what I gathered from speaking with several different people who would know.