Peppers wins 100m at NJ Meet of Champions
Jabrill Peppers apparently won the 100m dash at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions
Video:
http://videos.nj.com/star-ledger/2013/06/jabrill_peppers_wins_100m_dash.html
Can't find the offical time, but he qualified for the meet as the number 2 seed in the 100m in the state with an official listed time of 10.51. He beat the number 1 seed who qualified with a time of 10.43.
Peppers is now the second NJSIAA Meet of Champions 100m dash champion to play football at UM, joining Butch Woolfolk who won the event in 1978 with at time of 9.7 (what?, but seriously, that's what his time is listed at. I'm guessing this was before elegent timing methods came into play, because the next year Carl Lewis won with a time of 10.5. Then every other year, it's reasonable times and the 'offical' state record holder has a time of 10.2 EDIT: as pointed out below, Woolfolk ran when it was the 100 yard dash, not meters)
EDIT: if I may interject my own opinion here, but I think any concerns about his 'straight line speed', as mentioned in that comparison of elite DBs, are being resoundlingly answered this track season.
Must have been a cloudy day, otherwise his shadow would've smoked him again.
But wait...he can't be fast! All the speed is in the SEC and Oregon. Something has to be amiss here
TIL that Butch Woolfolk could teleport.
Here's an updated article with times and whatnot.
He had a 10.8 in the 100, and 21.13 in the 200. The 21.13 was 4th fastest in state history.
Thanks. And hey, Butch Woolfolk won the 200m as well. It'll be interesing to see if he can really break those 100m and 200m records. 10.35 is crazy fast. But he's still only a junior, and he apparently qualified for the meet with a time of 10.51...
Yeah, its kinda crazy to think he's only a junior and should presumably get faster. The guy he beat in the 200m is also a junior, so that should be a hell of a race next year.
Were we still running the 100 yard dash in 1978? Might explain the very fast time.
The NJSIAA records list Woolfolk as sharing the 9.7s 100-yard record. The 100m record is 10.2s set by Dennis Mitchell in 1983.
For those wondering, 100 yards = 91.44 meters.
BOOM!
/metric'd
So about a 10.6 100m then (taking into account several estimations which are probably not true?)
That would assume he goes the last 9ish meters at his average speed for the first 91, which isn't the case at all. The first 30-50 meters is all acceleration, which is maintained through the end. This is why Peppers's 200m is less than double his 100 time.
So Woolfolk certainly ran that last 9 meters faster than .9 seconds, so he was probably in the 10.4 range, which is blazing.
I must have missed it, but where was his straight line speed questioned?
Probably on RCMB and Bucknuts.
It's refering to the Hokepoints Seth did comparing Peppers to the other consensus 5 star CBs and trying to project his position. He referred to Pepper's 100 time as 10.83, and mentioned/insinuated he didn't have the same straight line speed as some of the other guys. I understand that Seth didn't want to just put Pepper's in the same group as a lot of those prospects with elite speed, but when the baseline one is using for Peppers was in the 10.8's and he has on multiple occasions run in the 10.5's this season, and with his more developed frame/size, I think that really starts to put him in that elite category.
Tweet.
21.13 official time for the 200M by Peppers.
— Paramus Catholic(@PCSportsUpdates) June 5, 2013
There have been other fast runners since he left, but he still holds the Michigan outdoor 200 record (1980) at 20.59.
was amazingly fast!
There are just certain players that simply leave bigger-than-life impressions upon you when you first see them; among them (in my mind) are Anthony Carter, Charles Woodson, and Butch Woolfolk. No, Woolfolk's name might not rank up there for most with the greatest of Michigan's all-time greats, but he had such top-end speed that you just held your breath any time he got around the corner and turned the ball upfield vs. opposing defenses. Once he kicked it into top gear, NOBODY had a chance to catch him.
Woolfolk came to Michigan back in a time when there were no recruiting websites or MGoBlogs or anything other than maybe the annual Street & Smiths College Football Magazine to get you excited about incoming players, yet word had gotten on the streets (WHGOTS, for what its worth) about Woolfolk's speed as a freshman. You could hear a different buzz from the Michigan Stadium crowds anytime Butch was handed the ball as a freshman, as if everyone knew this new kid was capable of taking it to the house from anywhere on the field.
To this day, Butch remains one of my all-time favorite Michigan offensive weapons.
He is a genetic freak of nature.
#2 player in the country? They were probably just waiting for him to commit because they relish the challenge.
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Kid's got that swag. When he's not on your favorite team you call it arrogance or showboating. Long time since we had a player who exuded this type of confidence. Woodson was the last Michigan player I remember who just knew deep down inside that he was the best player on the field at all tmes.
Braylon, probably his senior year. But remember, Brayon was not a big time recruit, and didn't come in and light it up as an underclassman. There are players like this once ever few years in college football...Desmond, Deion, Woodson, Reggie Bush, Honey Badger (almost-would have been nice to see his senior year) where you just get a sense they are about to do something amazing. Peppers seems to have that potential.
He was looking for the double crown. He got it.