Matthew Boling's 44.7 split isn't as impressive as it seems

At the pub so can't read this whole thread debating how good his time is. Here's a question. Have you seen his starts? They are absolutely terrible. What does that mean in terms of his current 100/200 times right now if he had good starts out of the blocks.... same speed.

If you ever went to an AAU track meet, you'd know why African Americans dominate the sprints. They are by far the vast majority of participants from an early age. They dominate in football and basketball for the same reason (less so in football). Go by youth football practice or games in the South in the Spring and Fall. You'll see mass participation and serious coaching from age 5. Dominicans dominate in baseball. Why? Mass, serious participation from an early age. There are kids dropping out of school after sixth grade to play baseball all the time, one of them, five years later, is now the best prospect in baseball.

Where is Boling? No NB or Adidas or Brooks?

He ran the Great Southwest meet the week before NBON. Won the 100m.

He's entered in the 100 200m and long jump at USATF juniors.

First off, racist much? A lot of our elite black sprinters (Norman, Coleman, etc) actually come from well-off families.

There are plenty of fast honkies. They just don’t go out for track very often. Or they are told by coaches, “All you crackers run middle distance.”

Not sure where you live bro, but plenty of white guys still sprint and play football. Richard Sherman ran 14.13 in 110 HH back in high school. He finished top 5 in CIF. He’s not a blazer but def fast and athletic enough to be an All Pro corner. Jason Sehorn was the last elite white corner NFL corner and that was nearly 20 years ago.

What a lot of people who never played football fail to understand is it’s much more than pure speed and jumping. Most of the top combine performers haven’t become stars. If it was just about speed, NFL scouts would simply go to the NCAA and USATF Champs to recruit.

Boling is an incredible talent and his skin color brings even more attention. It will be interesting to see if he can run under 9.9 to make a US team.

Underfoot wrote:

There are plenty of fast honkies. They just don’t go out for track very often. Or they are told by coaches, “All you crackers run middle distance.”

That same stereotype would be applied to African-Americans yet you still see them dominating the distance scene (Edward Cheserek, Sharif Karie, Michael Granville, etc)

The only reason you are trying to tear him down is because he is white

Both are ignorant wrote:

Whatley wrote:

Bottom line is yes we do see OBVIOUS differences when dealing with race and sports.

Both you and Thrower are ignorant in regard to one race is superior and another race is inferior. You two offer no science to back up your personal feelings. You both offer slight anecdotal evidence. Whatley: You offer a select few examples, then you state blacks are superior. Thrower offered her/his select few examples, then he/she stated whites are superior.

LOL....only a few examples? Have you watched any NFL, NBA or Olympic sprint? There is not "slight" evidence. For people to not understand that the culmination of select breeding for 300 years of West African genetics didnt create a race of people that are genetically different is ignorant.

Good for them, I am compeltely jealous. I am a slow white guy that needs to run the marathon.