Michigan Weight Room Board
There is a rivals article (which is behind a paywall) that talks about the progress of the team so far.
It mentions that Brandon Herron runs a 4.40 40 on the big board in the weight room.
Does anyone have a picture of this said board? I would like to compare it to the amazingly accurate forty times that Florida had on their wall. IIRC someone on their team posted a sub 4.2 time.
August 19th, 2009 at 7:55 PM ^
Here's the Florida board I think you were talking about, and a link to a bigger version of the picture, I didn't want to make anyone's browser go crazy. I use Stylish on Firefox so I never remember what it looks like to the normal user anymore.
http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_ncaaf_experts__11/ept_sports_nca…
August 19th, 2009 at 8:36 PM ^
I'm calling bullshit on all of those 40 times. Unless Percy Harvin slowed down A LOT between then and the NFL combine...
August 19th, 2009 at 11:28 PM ^
by Usain Bolt to keep them out of the 100 meter field.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:29 PM ^
a few days ago someone posted an article written in a runner's journal that showed 40 times for world class sprinters and one could extrapolate that pretty much none of these college kids is running beneath a 4.4. except for denard. he finishes before he starts.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:53 AM ^
I hope that's not what she said.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:10 AM ^
Don't forget about Terrelle Pryor. He's Buckeye fast.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:17 PM ^
Are they sure they are 40-yard dashes instead of 29-yard dashes because those times are a little too fast to be tru.
August 19th, 2009 at 7:58 PM ^
wow Harvin was third? Those times are ridiculous, 10 guys at or under 4.40? Must be a psychological advantage to make you think your faster than you really are.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:46 PM ^
It must be a board to make your guys feel better about themselves. There is NO way that they have FOUR GUYS that run a SUB-4.3 40 time. That is just ridiculous. Now, obviously they have some fast guys, but that is seriously pushing it.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:56 PM ^
Could also be that there awesome Florida education. Not college, but secondary and primary schools.
I have cousins down there that spent all three (what the hell?) years of high school in a trailer. Yes, in a trailer. In a state where hurricanes occasionally swing through for a look.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:55 PM ^
I did fifth grade in Gainesville, and my elementary school was comprised almost entirely of trailers. What buildings they had that were, you know, brick were huge shells subdivided into classrooms by accordion walls hung from the ceiling. That year was an eye-opening experience after Ann Arbor public schools.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:18 PM ^
I had trailers at my high school, and I went to high school in Orange County. Granted it was only for the years that they were building the new buildings. I didn't think anything of it, but it is kind of strange to have classes in trailers. We called them portables, I think it made the teachers feel better to call them that.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:56 PM ^
Plenty of schools in Michigan use portables. Sometimes enrollment exceeds classroom space. Pioneer High had them for years, until they finally built Skyline.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:24 PM ^
It must be that SEC speed...
(Sarcasm)
August 19th, 2009 at 7:58 PM ^
I posted one last year on VB, but hell if I could find it now. No word on an updated one.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:00 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/brandon-herron
Still hard to believe.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:15 AM ^
site, not cite.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:32 AM ^
I meant cite, but I meant to write "cites... information from Scout". Also responding to someones typo by telling them to correct it is like cutting off someone's hand and then demanding a shake.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:01 PM ^
after the whole "Morgan Trent runs a 4.1 40" and it turned out to be his shuttle time. Someone posted a picture to show that.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:27 PM ^
On that one, the 40 times were absent. Herron only shows up as being tied with Austin Panter for 3rd in Cleans.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:56 PM ^
The michigan weight room records are....
verticle jump-Carlos brown at 38.5
bench max-brandon graham at 485
220 lb rep- mike martin repped it 28 times
40 yd dash- carlos brown 4.4
i dont remember the rest..if i do, i will edit
August 19th, 2009 at 11:05 PM ^
theres a video on mgoblue.com saying that will johnson got 2 reps at 545, is this board for only current players then?
August 19th, 2009 at 11:08 PM ^
Also Johnson repped 225 something like 48 or 49 times at pro day. Terrence Taylor was over 40.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:36 PM ^
wtf? that's insanely strong. i think it'd take me two years of training to bench 225 once.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:36 AM ^
Johnson's performance at the NFL combine broke the record (that I believe was held by Jake Long).
Mike GittleSON!
August 20th, 2009 at 11:45 AM ^
will johnson wasnt invited to the combine, he did it at Michigan's pro day. And no, the combine record is not held by Jake Long, it is held by Mike Kudla I believe, a linebacker from tOSU, with 45 reps, I remember watching the combine a few years ago and them saying he set the record. Jake only had 37 at the actual combine. I am slightly confused because when you look it up online it says some guy name Justin Ernest got 51 reps. Maybe that was his pro day? Idk.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:01 PM ^
Not sure, but if I was wrong it's definitely the last time that I get information from
this jackass.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:40 PM ^
Well, here's the link showing jake only did 37 at the actual combine: http://sportswrap.berecruited.com/2008/02/24/michigans-jake-long-benche…
The 42 that Brian quoted might have been referring to Jake's pro day, I'm not sure, but even it was, he still isn't the record holder as evidenced by this link, Mike Kulda is(the 225 rep part is near the bottom, control F if you need too): http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-combinenotes022606&prov=yhoo&t…
Then they're is the Justin Ernest guy I referred earlier to, who according to this link had 51, although idk about this one, I've never heard of this before where as I had heard about Kulda: http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=55768&draftyear…
August 20th, 2009 at 12:18 AM ^
yea it was current...and johnson was a tank
August 19th, 2009 at 11:06 PM ^
This can't include last year's players.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:45 PM ^
All of these posts dealing with speed are fun to read, but track speed and football speed are different animals. I would prefer a 4.5 40 guy with great reflexes and the ability to always be in the right place, over a 4.4 guy without the football knowledge anyday.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:27 PM ^
Looking at the Florida board I didn't see Jeff Demps name, I thought he was the fastest player on their team.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:31 PM ^
the 40s were timed while Demps was running track. He can't fully participate the spring practice because of track obligation. Demps is one of the top sprinter in the country so that's good enough for me.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:01 PM ^
If he was 4.25 or so. He is olympic sprinter level fast. Hell, he's so fast he was once able to watch d-rob cross the finish line.
In all seriousness though, wasn't denard able to cut into that chunk of fastest hundred times demps put up in florida? He ran a 10.3 or so, and demps had like 5 times between almost 10 flat and 10.4?
August 20th, 2009 at 12:19 AM ^
I'd be interested to see what Kelvin Grady ran. As one of the fastest players in college basketball, it would give me a good prospective on how fast bball players are to football players.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:41 AM ^
football and basketball are two different kinds of fast
August 20th, 2009 at 1:25 AM ^
And running a 40 yard dash is neither. I'm just wondering how basketball players would fare in a track meet compared to football players. Obviously football players on the whole are faster sprinters, but I'm curious to see who a player like Manny Harris matches up with. Could he beat an OL in a sprint? A LB? A RB?
August 20th, 2009 at 9:56 AM ^
I don't know why football players would automatically be faster than basketball players.
If you take a 7-footer, then obviously he's going to be pretty damn slow. But I don't see why a 6'3" or 6'4" basketball player would be that much slower than a 6'3" or 6'4" wide receiver. And I don't really see why a 5'10" basketball player would automatically be that much slower than a 5'10" running back.
I'd guess that Manny Harris is quite a bit faster than an offensive lineman. He's probably not as fast as most running backs, but a linebacker would probably be a good comparison.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:29 AM ^
are belong to us
August 20th, 2009 at 1:32 AM ^
In basketball speed is more like quickness.