re: Kayshon Boutte just posted the 2nd fastest 200m time in the country (21.35)

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And nobody said this dude isn’t super fast—he could run the fastest 40 in the history of the world. I have no idea. But running a fast 200 is not proof of it. .

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If you don't run a damn good 40 time you aren't going to run a world class 200 one (psst, 40 is part of a 200 sprint). I think you have the description in your profile of you get what you paid for. Thank goodness this a free forum or otherwise, you owe the rest of us posters money back!

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You are simply wrong about this. Sure a good 200 runner has to have good top end speed, but he DOES NOT have to have good acceleration - at least not “good” compared to top end sprinters. The 200 is the longest real sprint, and it allows time for top end speed to overcome great starts.

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WHAT????

I really think you troll this stuff. Just about every analysis you have (lately about Stingley is 100% wrong). Is that for fun?

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to run 21.0 in the 200 indoor and not have ELITE acceleration. You accelerate to top end and then float. The amount of force his foot is hitting the ground with to go 21 means he absolutely has elite acceleration. And with the tight turns you in some ways are deaccelerating to accelerating again.

I can’t believe someone would even try to argue this???

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Actually, the 400 in the longest real sprint but continue

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For those that can run it fast enough. Lol. It can be all anaerobic for some very fast people but generally not for most. If we are defining this in terms of aerobic anaerobic.

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There is a big difference between 200m speed and accelerating past a bunch of fools in the first 5-10 yards, which is much more important in elite football.

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Now, here we have an expert. "Speed" to post an impressive time in a race - to him - does not mean "speed" to run down a football field.

Suffice to say, on his way toward getting the second fastest 200 meter time this year, Boutte would have been pretty dang fast for the first 40 yards, too. If the analogy was that Boutte ran the second fastest mile this year, the OP would have a point.

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Of course not. But there are lots of good 200 runners who only have good 40 times. The point is that they are handing out five stars. A guy like Boutte, who does not have great height or super long arms, would need to have a great 40 time, and THAT is NOT implied by a good (not great) 200 time.

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"A good", not "great" 200m time.

Just keep digging yourself deeper. He just went 21.2 in early season. That time puts him as one of the BEST in the country, and furthermore would nearly put him in the TOP ten of ALL TIME at LSU.... a school notorious for producing the WORLD'S top sprinters year after year.

But that's just a good 200m time, not a great one right????

dont know but he ran 6,9 in 60 last week which is blazing

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He's gonna be a good one
People melting over that other WR recruit flipping to Maryland were a bunch of chicken littles

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Facts!!!! I been saying all along he was our best wr recruit. Not gonna surprise me to see him surpass Rakim in the rankings and get his fifth star

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