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re: Matthew Boling begins track season with record long jump. Great athlete! Wins 200m also.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 10:49 am to meansonny
Posted on 1/16/22 at 10:49 am to meansonny
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He chose UGA because our staff's success developing long jumpers.
What about sprinters? Not a T&F guru, but what school is best known currently for developing sprinters?
Posted on 1/16/22 at 10:54 am to SmackoverHawg
I dont know the answer.
Arkansas and LSU have a pretty good resume' with sprinters. Florida/Georgia are probably in the mix if not a hair below. But all i know about track is what smarter people tell me.
Arkansas and LSU have a pretty good resume' with sprinters. Florida/Georgia are probably in the mix if not a hair below. But all i know about track is what smarter people tell me.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 11:37 am to canyon critter
NVM I misread Canyon critter's post. My bad.
This post was edited on 1/16/22 at 11:40 am
Posted on 1/16/22 at 11:41 am to ThaiTiger24
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Is this what schools talk about when their basketball team is shite?
Is basketball what schools talk about when their football team is crap?
Posted on 1/16/22 at 11:53 am to Bryantboyz
Yes, Matt should be dominating this season. Is Laird still in school?
Posted on 1/16/22 at 12:59 pm to Bryantboyz
I wish we could've thought him to run WR routes and catch.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 1:04 pm to ThaiTiger24
Take your troll elsewhere
Posted on 1/16/22 at 1:28 pm to Leto II
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Me too! 21st track season starting
Leto II - What school are you at?
Posted on 1/16/22 at 1:40 pm to Gunga Din
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How the hell does one determine who the "Thousandth best banker is?" Meanwhile, the stopwatch doesn't lie.
Ha! Good question.
My point with athletes is that investing in your talent (with the purpose of making a living off of it) is pretty much all or nothing.
For example, let’s say you have two seniors at Central High School. One wants to be an NFL football player and the other wants to be the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Both kids are very talented.
Well, let’s say the football player just wasn’t quite good enough for the NFL. He was the starting RB for a P5 team but just shy of NFL talent. He might be the 100th best RB in the world and that talent is basically useless. Maybe the CFL or something but opportunities are extremely limited.
But if the kid aiming for the CEO position at JPMC doesn’t make it there are a million places he could still apply his skill. There are countless banking jobs paying great salaries all across the country. He’ll fall in somewhere and do quite well.
Regarding the Boiling kid, if he’s not an Olympic star then running a 10.10 100 m. is basically useless after college. The best thing going for him is the novelty of a white kid who looks like the boy next door having borderline world class speed. If he were a black kid named Tyrone no one would pay him any attention.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 2:34 pm to kywildcatfanone
Can he dunk? Their BB team needs him.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 3:10 pm to Bryantboyz
Posted on 1/16/22 at 3:56 pm to cootrags
I'll talk TnF all season...love it. Rohan Browning just had Australia's fastest Olympic 100m with a 10.01.
He will be sub 10 seconds soon and he's also only only 23 yrs old.
He will be sub 10 seconds soon and he's also only only 23 yrs old.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 4:00 pm to Globetrotter747
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If he were a black kid named Tyrone no one would pay him any attention
Disagree
SEC
It just means more.
Torrin Lawrence got publicity for UGAs track program. You do great things, people (fans) get pulled into the program and have an opportunity to see greatness.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 6:33 pm to Globetrotter747
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Regarding the Boiling kid, if he’s not an Olympic star then running a 10.10 100 m. is basically useless after college. The best thing going for him is the novelty of a white kid who looks like the boy next door having borderline world class speed. If he were a black kid named Tyrone no one would pay him any attention.
Sure
And If Valeriy Borzov wasn't a white man, then Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson wouldn't have had to concoct a story about having an outdated heat schedule, thus purposely disqualifying themselves, and sparing them the indignity of following Smith and Clark's little gesture four years earlier in Mexico City by standing beneath a white man as they draped the gold medal around his neck proclaiming him the "Fastest Man in the World".
Always happy to converse with a gentleman who understands race and it's practical implications in sports.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 7:24 pm to meansonny
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Disagree
SEC It just means more.
Torrin Lawrence got publicity for UGAs track program. You do great things, people (fans) get pulled into the program and have an opportunity to see greatness.
I’ve never heard of Lawrence, but I have heard of Boiling. And I can contend that I would have never heard of Boiling if he were not white.
This is America. Fame doesn’t always come down to talent.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 7:30 pm to Globetrotter747
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I’ve never heard of Lawrence
Sounds to me like a you problem.
You probably hear things every day.
You maybe choose to remember "white" and "black".
Those are things that your soul will have to come to terms reconciling.
Posted on 1/16/22 at 7:47 pm to Globetrotter747
You may have still heard of him. He's the first high school kid to run a sub 10 100 meters.
Posted on 1/17/22 at 8:45 am to meansonny
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Sounds to me like a you problem. You probably hear things every day. You maybe choose to remember "white" and "black". Those are things that your soul will have to come to terms reconciling.
People don’t really give a shite about college track. The only track athletes who achieve real fame with everyday sports fans are the Olympic champions and world record holders, primarily in sprinting events. The Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt, Michael Johnson types. It’s questionable if even the Leroy Burrell and Maurice Green types were household names in their prime and they were damn good.
Boiling is famous because it’s unusual for a white kid to have his speed. The media would not have brought him to my attention if he were black like the vast majority of world class sprinters.
He’s a fantastic athlete. I’m not taking anything away from him. But his race plays into his fame.
Posted on 1/17/22 at 9:05 am to TownHallBall
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You may have still heard of him. He's the first high school kid to run a sub 10 100 meters.
No he is not. He is the 2nd, but the first guy was black so you just killed your argument.
Posted on 1/17/22 at 9:13 am to Globetrotter747
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Boiling is famous because it’s unusual for a white kid to have his speed. The media would not have brought him to my attention if he were black like the vast majority of world class sprinters.
He’s a fantastic athlete. I’m not taking anything away from him. But his race plays into his fame.
This is true and it is not the worst thing in the world anyway. People like to see anomalies like this as it makes an interesting story. It is ridiculous that people are always trying to tag these types of situations as if they all have to be nefarious.
I am white and I think it makes it interesting that he is white but I will be rooting for Joseph Fahnbulleh, who is black, to kick his arse.
Rather than black or white, it is the red & black or orange & blue that determine our favorites.
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