Fogelson, I didn’t make that statement to upset you, but only to elucidate the fact that I’ve become aware of as many tragic misdirections in the NCAA T&F community as I have in the NCAA S&C community.
If you don’t believe me than I’d encourage you to do some investigating as to what the sprint programs look like at some different institutions.
for example, one D-1 program has their sprinters run suicides thinking that this drill will enhance turnover. I almost vomit as I share this with you.
Please don’t make the mistake of including me in an alleged group of individuals whose reality is limited to books and dvds.
I coach for a living.
Don’t forget that there’s a galaxy between running sub 10.0 and running sub 10.5. It doesn’t take demographic statistics to differentiate between those groups.
for example, I worked with a Caucasian LJ/100m runner when I coached at the high school level (he wa 23 at the time) and over the course of 3 months I took him from 10.5 mid to 10.4 mid (all FAT, I can’t remember the exact times) simply by adjusting his programming. I don’t think he had the potential to run sub 10.0, however.
Incidentally, if you’re referring to only this last round of pro day times, I’ve since found out that one of the seven I trained was timed between 4.36 and 4.39 by two different NFL teams; but remember, with all of these hand times, whose to say what anyone is actually running.