at brunch today we were with neighbor who is local HS FB coach. good guy - 60 yrs old who could have moved on to coach in college - turned down an offer several years ago to be an asst coach at Illinois directional. he has stuck it out in our very small HS for years, and has a very nice farm. enjoys life out here.
We were talking about some of the kids who go to the college camps (none are prospects). he said that at one of the BIG school camps they timed the players in several ways. He said the the RBs, TEs and WRs ran 40's and then ran 40 carrying a ball. some of the players had major fall off with ball in their hand. everyone is slower a bit, but some are much slower. He said that they also had some do 40s in practice equipment = helmet, shoulder pads and shorts - with and without a ball. one of our better players is a very fast (around 4.6 40) kid but is around 150#. coach said that they were timing him at 4.7 as a base, but with equipment and ball became 5.3. kind of interesting even though he won our local district 100M in 11.3, he rarely runs away from tacklers.
We were talking about some of the kids who go to the college camps (none are prospects). he said that at one of the BIG school camps they timed the players in several ways. He said the the RBs, TEs and WRs ran 40's and then ran 40 carrying a ball. some of the players had major fall off with ball in their hand. everyone is slower a bit, but some are much slower. He said that they also had some do 40s in practice equipment = helmet, shoulder pads and shorts - with and without a ball. one of our better players is a very fast (around 4.6 40) kid but is around 150#. coach said that they were timing him at 4.7 as a base, but with equipment and ball became 5.3. kind of interesting even though he won our local district 100M in 11.3, he rarely runs away from tacklers.
