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Ivory Tusk

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....they have a freshman WR that can run 4.4 40 with a metal plate in his ankle at only 90% :biggrin:

He actually said this in the paper...then read what he said he can do when he is Healthy! :eek2:
From the Gville paper...

It's looking more and more likely that freshman receiver Nyan Boateng could play a role with the Gators this season.
Meyer said after Tuesday's practice that Boateng is ahead of Florida's other true freshmen wide receivers.
Boateng, a 6-foot-2, 199-pound former two-sport star at Lincoln High in Brooklyn, said after Tuesday's practice he feels he's ready to contribute this season. That would be an impressive feat considering Boateng missed his entire senior year of high school with a broken left ankle.
"We (the freshmen receivers) all came in here and we've got a point to prove because Meyer challenged us," Boateng said. "I think I can definitely come in here this year and help the team."
Boateng still has a metal plate in his left ankle, which he said could be taken out after this season. He said he is about "90 percent" and the injury has slowed his 40-yard dash time to 4.40.
"When I'm 100 percent," he said, "I can run a 4.0 flat." :biggrin:

Gotta love freshman confidence...or stupidity.
 
I don't think I've heard of anyone running a 4.0 40. Providing we have taken care of business up until that point, I think beating Florida could propel us to a great season because they are getting a lot of ink due to talent and Meyer. I would also enjoy seeing us win a big game at home again. I can't remember the last time we actually did that.
 
Alabama has the absolute best secondary in the SEC, if not in the country.

He better not let his mouth write checks his behind can't cash.
 
Yeah that was why I got a kick out of this article...

teamplayer said:
I don't think I've heard of anyone running a 4.0 40. Providing we have taken care of business up until that point, I think beating Florida could propel us to a great season because they are getting a lot of ink due to talent and Meyer. I would also enjoy seeing us win a big game at home again. I can't remember the last time we actually did that.
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Heck these kids don't even run true 4.3 / 4.4 40's....some how these college 4.3 guys get to the combines and run 4.5 / 4.6.

I think even Coach Meyer probably would ask this kid "What were you thinking saying that?".
 
Bo Jackson ran one of the fastest 40 times ever and it was

in his track uniform on a track surface and it was 4.18. This kid can't run a 4.0 40 dash, nobody can! Bo's fastest time was just under a 4.3 (if I remember correctly it was a 4.28 on grass, but he still didn't have his pads on) and he was lighting fast.

There are actually a lot less true 4.4 guys in the world than most people believe as was pointed out by Ivory Tusk!

Finally, I hope his 6'2", 190lb butt comes across the middle with Harper and Peprah waiting on him when we play! He won't do it twice...that I guarantee you! He hasn't been hit in college yet and I think he'll learn to keep his big mouth shut once somebody clocks him!
 
Sometimes I wonder if all that 4.2 40 is all hype and just looks good on paper. Think about a guy running a route wide open then coming back to the huddle to run it over and over again. Will he still have the gas? When they time for the 40 the player is fresh and not tired. Reminds of what a coach told me once that its good to have all of those sprinters but he also wanted a guy that still had gas in the tank in the 4th quarter.

Roll Tide
 
I know this isn't 1992, but....

it's amazing how similar the talk is with FL and Miami that year.... it must be in the water.....

34-13, Baby... that's all that counts
Roll Tide
 
While that is very true Gman, don't forget that every time

Gman4Bama said:
Sometimes I wonder if all that 4.2 40 is all hype and just looks good on paper. Think about a guy running a route wide open then coming back to the huddle to run it over and over again. Will he still have the gas? When they time for the 40 the player is fresh and not tired. Reminds of what a coach told me once that its good to have all of those sprinters but he also wanted a guy that still had gas in the tank in the 4th quarter.

Roll Tide
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the offensive receiver runs a 40 really fast, so does the defensive player! Meaning that both should get tired at the same basic rate, however, normally the "D" guy will be a bit more tired because he's reacting to what the receiver does. If it's just wide open running, the "D" is always playing catch up, which is tougher than just tearing off the line.
 
It must be a graphite plate...gives him a little more "spring in his step."
 
I remember a certain Lamar Thomas

talking smack one year saying our DB's were slow and couldn't keep up. Let him come across the middle and Simeon CAstille hit him once or twice or even Chris Keys. He will not be running much of a 4.nothing after a few DB's tee off on him.
 
Gman4Bama said:
Sometimes I wonder if all that 4.2 40 is all hype and just looks good on paper. Think about a guy running a route wide open then coming back to the huddle to run it over and over again. Will he still have the gas? When they time for the 40 the player is fresh and not tired. Reminds of what a coach told me once that its good to have all of those sprinters but he also wanted a guy that still had gas in the tank in the 4th quarter.

Roll Tide
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That's what made Ray Perkins so great. Coach Bryant said he could go deep all game long without losing a step. Same with John Havlicek of the Celtics, they said he used up 2-3 guys on the opposing team trying to run with him. Red Auerbach said it was like having a larger roster for the Celtics.
 
'98 Gaytors only got us cause the young man we had a wide reciever fell down We would have won that game. 99 Romp in the swamp. If we can't throw We'll run on ya!.
Gaytors are in OUR HOUSE !!!!!
I Got ya Gatorbait right here!
 
The NFL treats 40-yard dash times as sacred. But if those numbers are true, many players are faster than Olympic gold medalists and their clockings should be eyed with a dash of doubt [Link]

But it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.

Timing officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 – both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.

He was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . .

...

And, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.

Four-point-three-eight seconds.

Then again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.

Maybe half the NFL is faster.
 
I saw the Boatang kid play in the U.S. Army All American Bowl.

I was unimpressed.

In my opinion, he probably shouldn't have even played in the game.

I find it hard to believe that he is one of the best wide recievers in the nation.

No way.
 
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