Christian McCaffrey's grandfather was a former world record holder at 100m and the 1960 Olympic silver medallist

Kind of ironic that Sime was color blind.

Interesting information regarding his pedigree. I imagine that if McCaffrey has a career like Darren Sproles it would be worth it to invest the 8th pick...

Thee dude was bred for success.

Dude is renaissance man. Athletics, academics, music.

So he's not a lunch pail guy who's deceptively athletic?

question: when college football players go out to draft, does this effectively mean they are dropping out of college?

Add 0.85 at world class level is an accepted conversion. Because the start phase coupled with reaction time is so high a % of the total time an algorithm is not very accurate. Plus hand timers have a human error in starting and stopping adding to the difficulty of conversion often placed at 0.24 sec

0.85 has been used for years-- that is about the time of the 10 meter(9.942m) meter split for the 90-100m segment of a 100m

Dave Sime has actual hand timed 9.3y and 10.1 m PRs for the 100y/100m

wejo wrote:

I can't believe I didn't know this but the grandfather of Christian McCaffrey, the Stanford running back, just drafted 8th overall by the Carolina Panthers, was the 1960 Olympic silver medallist at 100m, David Sime. Sime also held a bunch of world records and the world record at 100m.

What's not to believe? You've demonstrated a fairly middling knowledge base within the sport.

Well, clearly all this anti-white bias didn't hinder him too much. He was just taken with the eighth pick in the draft by a team that went to the Super Bowl year before last. Seems life's working out pretty well for little white lightning there.

Sime never held the world record for 100m. According to Wikipedia, he held the records for 100y, 220y and 220 low hurdles.

Those were the sprint days of Bobby Morrow, Dave Sime and '60 OG champ Deutschland's Armin Hary.

"That's why Ed and I got together, to breed fast white guys" - Lisa McCaffrey in an inverview 20 years ago.

exthrower wrote:

Sports/athletics is 90% genetic....All these people talking about foot strikes and other nonsense should realize that the most important factor is picking the right parents.

MurderDubs wrote:

Well, clearly all this anti-white bias didn't hinder him too much. He was just taken with the eighth pick in the draft by a team that went to the Super Bowl year before last. Seems life's working out pretty well for little white lightning there.

I thought of that last night and laughed when I saw this last night:

It hurts your team to have racial stereotypes as you don't draft the best players.

wejkrgnweivwner wrote:

So he's not a lunch pail guy who's deceptively athletic?

He's also not gritty with deceptive speed. I wonder if he is hard working and articulate?

a comparison of hand and Automatic times from the 1960 OGs

Hand Times were the official times

Rank â–´-Athlete-Age-Team/NOC-Time(Hand)-Time(Auto)-Lane

1 Armin Hary 23 Germany GER 10.2 10.32 6 OR

2 Dave Sime 24 United States USA 10.2 10.35 1 =OR

3 Peter Radford 20 Great Britain GBR 10.3 10.42 5

4 Enrique Figuerola 22 Cuba CUB 10.3 10.44 4

5 Frank Budd 21 United States USA 10.3 10.46 2

6 Ray Norton 22 United States USA 10.4 10.50 3

wejo wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1960_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_100_metres

first and second place finishers are not in the above photo

For those who don't know, Dave Sime's last name is pronounced Sim (like Tim). Sime became my opthalmologist in Miami. Before that his daughter Lisa, Christian's mother, attended the prep school where I taught/coached. She made SI's Faces in the Crowd after scoring 8 goals in a soccer game.

In the late '60s I was running in the Gold Coast AAU at Dade South CC and between races noticed a tall white guy winning his race against the very good, local sprinters. The stride was so familiar. It was, of course, Sime. I think he was just testing his fitness.

He was a great sprinter, of course, but was drafted bybthe NFL and was an excellent baseball player. Duke U. named him their most outstanding athlete of the 20th century.

I sense you have a lot of pride in this young white man

wineturtle wrote:

a comparison of hand and Automatic times from the 1960 OGs

Hand Times were the official times

Rank â–´-Athlete-Age-Team/NOC-Time(Hand)-Time(Auto)-Lane

1 Armin Hary 23 Germany GER 10.2 10.32 6 OR

2 Dave Sime 24 United States USA 10.2 10.35 1 =OR

3 Peter Radford 20 Great Britain GBR 10.3 10.42 5

4 Enrique Figuerola 22 Cuba CUB 10.3 10.44 4

5 Frank Budd 21 United States USA 10.3 10.46 2

6 Ray Norton 22 United States USA 10.4 10.50 3

BIG difference... they were running on a crappy dirt track.