re: Who was LSU's last "freak" (athlete)?

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Or Jared Mitchell

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nah, he's not "freakish" enough

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what organized team sports or otherwise have you played?

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baseball, football, and basketball

i also played tennis and raquetball as a kid

i played basketball for like 2 years and was asked to play on our bball team by the coach. and this is a 5A school

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call me crazy, but someone with 148,000 posts on a messageboard, doesn't strike me as "mr. athletic"

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well i didn't play college athletics, and i did start posting here while in college, so...

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like 225 lbs is this "magical" number or something...

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it's just the current standard of the big leagues

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baseball, football, and basketball

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for what teams?

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i also played tennis and raquetball as a kid

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I bet you were the best at those too.

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i played basketball for like 2 years and was asked to play on our bball team by the coach. and this is a 5A school

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so why didn't you?

the interwebs took up too much time?

oh ok



cute thread btw

Ro Swan's career was ended due to a FOOT/ANKLE injury.......He was they only true freshman in the SEC to ever be selected pre-season 1st team All-SEC without ever even practicing.

In HS the guy had a 215+ tackle senior year up in Shreveport.

good lord...

who was this again?

Roovelroe Swan. Signed in 1989. 6'3" 215 lbs.

Can't recall 40 times but the guys was scary ripped up. Just had crazy instincts for a player. Extremely nice guy as well.

I played with him at LSU. While he wasn't a guy who would jar your teeth loose taking on a block, his pursuit and angles were creepy.

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That's absolutely false,

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so when your'e around your friends and you see DMac blow by our defense, if you say, "man that kid's athletic" you mean "man DMac is a good player"

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seriously?

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so when your'e around your friends and you see DMac blow by our defense, if you say, "man that kid's athletic" you mean "man DMac is a good player"

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You just asked this question, and I just answered it. Again, I will answer, "no." What I mean is that he has the ability to excel in a sport (in this case, football, though I expect DMac could excel in some others as well).

Why do you keep asking questions about people using athletic to mean "good player" when NO ONE has ever suggested that at all?

I would spell it out clearly for you (again) but you already understand it. You are pretending to be stupid to continue the argument and draw out the thread length. If you did not already know that you were deliberately bullshitting, you would have provided an example of someone using the term "athleticism" to mean what you are claiming it means. And you haven't, because you know it's complete bullshite.

I was a kid when Billy Cannon was a Tiger but I remember a quote that described him as "either the strongest sprinter or the fastest shot putter" they had ever seen.

I would name mid-1930's LSU football player and track star Jack Torrance who held the shot put world record for almost fourteen years as LSU's original FREAK athlete. He set the world record (16.80 meters) in 1934, only three days after the previous record had been set. He raised it twice more that year.

Torrance was one of the five athletes that made up LSU's 1933 NCAA Championship Track & Field team, coached by Bernie Moore He also won the shot put again in 1934 with that first world record. Torrance was on the 1936 U.S. Olympic Team that went to Berlin but he never equaled his personal best and didn't medal but his world record wasn't broken until 1948.




Shot Put World Record Progression ( at Wikipedia.com)

16.48 m John Lyman (USA) 21 April 1934 Palo Alto, U.S.[1]

16.80 m Jack Torrance (USA) 24 April 1934 Des Moines, U.S.[1]

16.89 m Jack Torrance (USA) 30 June 1934 Milwaukee, U.S.[1]

17.40 m Jack Torrance (USA) 5 August 1934 Oslo, Norway[1]

17.68 m Charlie Fonville (USA) 17 April 1948 Lawrence, U.S.[1]