[Panther Thunder]

SCHS#70,
My last post wasn't aimed directly at you. I'm sorry if you took it as such. It was more of a blanket statement because of the names posters keep throwing out.

Landser, Amer.,
I get what you're saying. A 40-yard dash doesn't take into account hands (the dropsies), field vision, shedding ability, juking/elusiveness, health (is he injury prone?), stamina.

Plus, having a 4.5 or 4.6 or even 4.7 40 doesn't mean you're slow. There are plenty of good QBs, RBs, WRs that couldn't hit 4.4. Many of them went on to great careers or are currently having good careers. Many of them have outrun their fair share of defenders.

At the same time, people don't realize how special a 4.4 40-yard dash in football-track, 95-mile accurate fastball in baseball, 66-mile plus fastball in softball, 100-mile serve in tennis, 50-percent 3-point accuracy in basketball are on the high school level.

You don't see people on the baseball board saying their high school's pitcher routinely gets clocked at 95 mph. But EVERY year in football, people will say they've seen this kid or that kid run a 4.4 when the fact remains if these Kentucky 4.4 kids had size, the speed and had backed it up (film, stats, national/regional camps, combines), then scouts would be drooling all over them. And that's not happening.

Bloom