This statement alone makes me think you are absolutely full of shite.

If you can run a 49 in high school, colleges will want you.

Not every track program is at an LSU's level, so that statement alone is pointless. Are you implying that if you are not good enough to run at LSU that you are not good enough to run in college?

Secondly, I know for a fact that LSU has taken many 49" guys over the years and even developed some of them into All Americans.

I personally had a kid who ran a season best 49 his senior year who is now running track at a D1 College.

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Posted by NOLALGD

Member since May 2014

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Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:17 am to bigpetedatiga

Yep, if you run a legit 49s open 400 you would get a ton of college offers. I have a little experience with this, a well known college/national team track coach told me this once, he would look at two different 18 year old quarter milers.

Runner A: 47 flat track phenom who has been running national age level times since elementary school and has great coaching

or

Runner B: The 49-50 second guy who played 2 other sports in high school and never ran club track or worked out year round for track.

He said its literally 50/50 who will turn out to be the better runner at 22, sometimes the phenom guys and girls plateau really young.

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Posted by Strophie

Member since Apr 2014

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Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:01 pm to bigpetedatiga

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If you can run a 49 in high school, colleges will want you.

Small colleges may want you. More successful D1 schools may want you to either walk on or have a small (SMALL) scholarship. But running a 49 will not fill your mailbox with D1 scholarship offers. Let alone full scholarships. That doesn't diminish the time at all, to be clear. But 49 is fairly elite in high school, but rather pedestrian at the D1 college leve.

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