Why on earth would this coach put Matthew Boling in the 60? He would have won the 200 or 400. There is no 100 indoor meets. He got 2nd and still ran a good race but he is not a 60m guy. The guy who won the 60 (Taylor Banks) is only a 10.3 100m guy. Matthew Boling gets stronger at the end. I guess it was just for the experience, not sure however they could have gotten 20 points just from the 200 and 400 but the coach chose not to put him in those races.
Perhaps, a crazy idea, the coach wants to have his charge develop a quicker, more powerful start to go with that late race strength? It's early in the season - why would scoring points matter?
Fact check Taylor Banks is a 10.26 guy.
dpittsjr wrote:
I guess it was just for the experience, not sure however they could have gotten 20 points just from the 200 and 400 but the coach chose not to put him in those races.
I'm getting trolled, right? No one actually thinks this.
Taylor Banks actually was the top returning sprinter in the 100m in the country ,with running a 10.26 his junior year in high school.He injured his ankle playing football and basically couldn’t do anything with a high ankle sprain and bruised bone.Then he turned around strained his hamstring which made him sit out till March.With 3 months of training still managed to run 10.3 with all the setbacks and injuries.His final race he was beating Boling and was separating in the 100m at the great southwest classic until his hamstring pulled.But Of course somebody that doesn’t know shitt about track and field wouldn’t know that.He is healthy this year, and you will learn the name pretty soon and put some respect on it. He is breaking sub 10 this year
He will be the number 1 freshman in the country
Run 6.5
Even though he ran a slow time in his season opener, one thing to keep in mind is that He long jumped 24 feet and 7 inches in the same meet, which is way off his personal best of 26 feet and a couple inches (even with legal wind speed behind his back). This indicates he's still out of shape.
Next, we don't have the footage of the race or his reaction time. If his reaction time was 0.05 seconds slower than it normally is and/ or he had a bad first step, then he has a lot to improve.
Too many unanswered questions from just the time without the footage.
Ain’t no unanswered questions he just got beat twice in one day by the same person.
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