Bob Magaw
Footballguy
Is there a glitch in the matrix, you keep looping the second paragraph, we got it.
Back to splitting hairs? He wasn't a national champion in the 100 m. He was one of the top long jumpers as a prep. Even if he was a state champ in the 100 m. (and I don't think he was), the fallacy of that line of thinking is there are 50 states but a lot fewer Olympic berths. Not to mention, a sprinter's prime might be for close to a decade. That means for any given Summer Olympics after a four year interval (and it is obviously more complicated, former prep state champs could drop off and non-state champs could be late bloomers and surpass them in college, etc.), it isn't just a matter of being one of the top 6-8 fastest out of the 50 states... but every state champ in the past DECADE. So instead of making it through a top 50 gauntlet, it becomes a top 500 gauntlet (some sprinters may win more than one year, but that is a technicality that doesn't really put a dent in the enormity of the challenge), and the already long odds have become an order of magnitude worse.
Billionaires may have a similar resume of having become a millionaire before they were 30? But it is a lot different to flip that around and assume most 30 year old millionaires will become billionairs.
IMO, the profile of an Olympic-CALIBER sprinter is someone who probably flashed world class speed by college, if not sooner. Like Jeff Demps or Trindon Holliday. Hunter ran track in college, but as far as I know, 10.5 was his best. So maybe he could have improved on that somewhat, but that is just too far away to realistically think he could have shaved a half second off his time and become an Olympian. I think his best event was the long jump (also a 7'0" high jumper), and he was great, AS A PREP. He was not an elite college sprinter, let alone Olympic level. He is a gifted athlete, and may be one of the best at his position in the NFL. Why not leave it at that, rather than make him Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens rolled into one.
Now if you want to talk legit Olympic caliber athlete, RGIII was on that path as a hurdler. IMO, he really was that good, if he had dedicated himself to track.
Back to splitting hairs? He wasn't a national champion in the 100 m. He was one of the top long jumpers as a prep. Even if he was a state champ in the 100 m. (and I don't think he was), the fallacy of that line of thinking is there are 50 states but a lot fewer Olympic berths. Not to mention, a sprinter's prime might be for close to a decade. That means for any given Summer Olympics after a four year interval (and it is obviously more complicated, former prep state champs could drop off and non-state champs could be late bloomers and surpass them in college, etc.), it isn't just a matter of being one of the top 6-8 fastest out of the 50 states... but every state champ in the past DECADE. So instead of making it through a top 50 gauntlet, it becomes a top 500 gauntlet (some sprinters may win more than one year, but that is a technicality that doesn't really put a dent in the enormity of the challenge), and the already long odds have become an order of magnitude worse.
Billionaires may have a similar resume of having become a millionaire before they were 30? But it is a lot different to flip that around and assume most 30 year old millionaires will become billionairs.
IMO, the profile of an Olympic-CALIBER sprinter is someone who probably flashed world class speed by college, if not sooner. Like Jeff Demps or Trindon Holliday. Hunter ran track in college, but as far as I know, 10.5 was his best. So maybe he could have improved on that somewhat, but that is just too far away to realistically think he could have shaved a half second off his time and become an Olympian. I think his best event was the long jump (also a 7'0" high jumper), and he was great, AS A PREP. He was not an elite college sprinter, let alone Olympic level. He is a gifted athlete, and may be one of the best at his position in the NFL. Why not leave it at that, rather than make him Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens rolled into one.
Now if you want to talk legit Olympic caliber athlete, RGIII was on that path as a hurdler. IMO, he really was that good, if he had dedicated himself to track.
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) about what constitutes a "thin" resume, Brewtown cutting and pasting the same irrelevant Wiki paragraph 10 times to "refute" opposition to his false statement or Brewtown thinking that monkeys follow eachother off a cliff (that misconception is assigned to lemmings, which are rodents).
