Does Bolt have any college eligiblity left?

Submitted by goody on

Usain Bolt is 6' 5" and just ran 9.69 100m

Imagine this guy as an outside reciever. If a college is not calling him(probably because of the endorsment) , then someone from the NFL should atleast throw him a phone call and see if he would be interested.

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hat

August 17th, 2008 at 1:14 AM ^

I hate to say it, but I've got to suspect he's using something.  He just destroyed a field that included seven of the other fastest men in the world.  He started celebrating with 20 meters to go and still ran the fastest time in history.  I like track and field and I want to believe he's clean, but that just looked inhuman.  

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ts

August 17th, 2008 at 1:43 AM ^

Maybe Barwis has it all wrong:

"He was so relaxed that he said he prepared for his record-setting performance by sleeping in, not eating breakfast, watching TV, eating chicken nuggets for lunch, napping, eating some more chicken nuggets for dinner, and resting. He devoured some snack cakes during the postrace news conference and said he might also go to Burger King."

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=3538723

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Jivas

August 17th, 2008 at 1:53 AM ^

I'm old enough to remember watching Carl Lewis in the '84 Olympics (okay, so I was 9 years old at the time), and I love watching track and field, and this guy is on another planet.  The only performance from '84 on that comes close to what Bolt did in these Olympics was Michael Johnson's 19.32 (is that hundredths decimal correct?) in the 200 meters in 1996.

I watched his quarterfinal race, and he slowed up the last 40 meters or so and still broke 10 seconds.  His burst from the ~35 meter mark to the ~70 meter mark is unreal.

My entire life, the 100-meter world record has been chipped away at, two or three-hundredths of a second at a time.  Bolt beat the field by two-TENTHS of a second, and slowed down to do that...the possibilities are unimaginable.

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David F

August 17th, 2008 at 12:16 PM ^

Did anyone see his first preliminary race? He practically jogged to a 9.92.

And if Bolt can get out of the blocks a little quicker, and finally decides to run a full 100m.... man. We're talking in the 9.5 range.

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yvgeni

August 17th, 2008 at 12:17 PM ^

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that Usain Bolt's 100m last night was the most dominating performance I have ever seen by any athlete in any sport.  He's on another planet. 

 

Also, I'd be incredibly shocked if that kid was juicing.

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tricks574

August 17th, 2008 at 12:21 PM ^

He is 6'5" and all, the problem is it takes him 30 yards to accelerate to full speed and would take another 10-20 to get a sizeable cushion because all d-backs would be playing him soft if all they have to worry about is him going deep. He is a very, very fast man, but very football is about so much more than raw, straight line speed.

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Jim Harbaugh S…

August 17th, 2008 at 8:25 PM ^

may be the fastest man on the planet - but I've heard from insiders he has Ricky Dudley hands, and he wasn't celebrating with the other Jamaican runner so he is not a team player.

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dex

August 20th, 2008 at 8:13 AM ^

You don't think he might have a tough time getting that speed up when a DB knocks his skinny ass in the dirt as soon as the ball is snapped? I understand he is fast, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to fight off a defender at the beginning of the 100m.

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mjv

August 20th, 2008 at 9:54 AM ^

I'd assume that he would be fast, but so was Breaston.  He wasn't able to make many over the shoulder catches once he had two steps on a cornerback.  Raw speed =/= great receiver.

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