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re: '16 Bama and '95 Nebraska. Who ya got?
Posted on 11/27/16 at 1:38 pm to MrCarton
Posted on 11/27/16 at 1:38 pm to MrCarton
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It's a different and better era of cfb. Players are bigger faster stronger.
By how much? Nebraska, Miami, FSU, were not that much off from today's. The last time this was brought up someone posted 2001 Miami couldn't hang with today's college athlete. So I posted this little tidbit of info.
So I looked at combine results and compared 1999 to 2016 averages. Here's what I found:
40 times(of those who participated)
1999 - 4.82
2016 - 4.80
40 times(of top 100)
1999 - 4.50
2016 - 4.51
bench reps(of those who participated)
1999 - 20.5
2016 - 19.4
bench reps(of the top 100)
1999 - 25.64
2016 - 24.95
Now tell me again how much stronger and faster are today's college athletes compared to 17 years ago?
This post was edited on 11/27/16 at 1:43 pm
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Posted on 11/27/16 at 2:04 pm to Cdawg
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Now tell me again how much stronger and faster are today's college athletes compared to 17 years ago?
todays players are bigger, faster, and stronger. Posting arbitrary metricS from Combine Events Doesnt Prove Your Point.
A simple google search will reveal detailed studies about the size amd athletic performance of CFB players since 1942. You will notice that players are now... Bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before. To say otherwise is to believe that somehow despite 70 years of efforts to get bigger faster stronger, football players have stagnated for almost a qtr century.
This post was edited on 11/27/16 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 11/27/16 at 2:25 pm to Cdawg
Difference is that these are 315 - 325 lb. linemen putting up the same 40 times and strength numbers.
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