Good Article on the Speed vs Power Myth

[JonDMiller]

Speed of college football in the South has made a move North - Israel Gutierrez - MiamiHerald.com

 

[iahawk20]

Great article and I am somewhat shocked it was written from a southern reporter.

 

[HawkeyeShane]

The idiots posting in the comments of that story don't have a clue...haha

 

[HawkIreign]

Whats that artical prove. The SEC and teams from the south are faster and Iowa still won that game with better coaching, physicality and limited mistakes. Iowa has made a living beating faster southern teams in bowl game, it didn't just begin on Tuesday night.

 

[ShadasRevenge]

In case anyone still gets the Register (I do!), this same article was in the Wednesday paper.

 

[bcl20]

I still argue that, outside of a select few (Florida, Texas, USC, the usual power teams) speed is relatively the same. Some teams just run an offense that is designed to open up space, thus creating the illusion of being faster then some. The Big Ten just looks slower because they realized that putting a bunch of big, strong dudes in the way slows down fast guys.

 

[BSpringsteen]

The idea that a fast person in Florida is faster than a fast person in Wisconsin because that person is from Florida is insulting to all principles of reasoning.

It is a different scheme that they recruit. They recruit speed at every position and they play the game using speed as their primary weapon.

Is a 4.4 faster in the south than in the north? What a crock. We have big offensive lines because that suits the style of football that we want to run, not because we can't find fast 300 lb 18 year olds.

 

[RLeahey14]

Since the NC game is quite boring I decided to do a little research on speed. I found the top 10 U.S. sprinters courtesy of About.com and their hometown and created a list. The list is very diverse with only one coming from Florida. There was one from the Big Ten area - Pennsylvania. What I have concluded is that the fastest people come from the biggest states because they have more people.


more people = chance at faster people


Marshevet Hooker - Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Allyson Felix - Los Angeles, California
Jeremy Wariner - Arlington, Texas
Tyson Gay - Lexington, Kentucky
Walter Dix - Coral Springs, Florida
Lauryn Williams - Rochester, Pennsylvania
Muna Lee - Little Rock, Ark.
Torri Edwards - Pomona, California
Shawn Crawford - Van Wyck, South Carolina
Wallace Spearmon - Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

[ShadasRevenge]

I still argue that, outside of a select few (Florida, Texas, USC, the usual power teams) speed is relatively the same. Some teams just run an offense that is designed to open up space, thus creating the illusion of being faster then some. The Big Ten just looks slower because they realized that putting a bunch of big, strong dudes in the way slows down fast guys.

Big 10 teams and coaching staffs realize that if they can control the line of scrimmage that they'll neutralize any numerical advantage the opponent might have, and make it a more straight up game.

OSU did it to Oregon, Wisconsin did it to Miami, NW (sort of) did it to Auburn, and Iowa did it to GT, even though GT's offense isn't designed to exploit superior numbers.

 

[bcl20]

The idea that a fast person in Florida is faster than a fast person in Wisconsin because that person is from Florida is insulting to all principles of reasoning.

It is a different scheme that they recruit. They recruit speed at every position and they play the game using speed as their primary weapon.

Is a 4.4 faster in the south than in the north? What a crock. We have big offensive lines because that suits the style of football that we want to run, not because we can't find fast 300 lb 18 year olds.

That's not the basis of the argument that Florida players are faster then Wisconsin players (at least for the most part). The idea is that Florida recruits better athletes from all over and that better athletes are inherently faster.

 

[PJHawk]

Since the NC game is quite boring I decided to do a little research on speed. I found the top 10 U.S. sprinters courtesy of About.com and their hometown and created a list. The list is very diverse with only one coming from Florida.

70% of those sprinters come from Southern states so you could conclude there is more speed down south.

 

[spudhawk]

Miami did revolutionize the 4-3 defense and the "speed kills" mythology but I think it is mis- understood today. They converted D-ends into D-tackles, Lbs into D-ends, Safeties into Lbs, etc. Hmmm who does that sound like?

 

[DeanMarshall]

Since the NC game is quite boring I decided to do a little research on speed. I found the top 10 U.S. sprinters courtesy of About.com and their hometown and created a list. The list is very diverse with only one coming from Florida. There was one from the Big Ten area - Pennsylvania. What I have concluded is that the fastest people come from the biggest states because they have more people.


more people = chance at faster people


Marshevet Hooker - Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Allyson Felix - Los Angeles, California
Jeremy Wariner - Arlington, Texas
Tyson Gay - Lexington, Kentucky
Walter Dix - Coral Springs, Florida
Lauryn Williams - Rochester, Pennsylvania
Muna Lee - Little Rock, Ark.
Torri Edwards - Pomona, California
Shawn Crawford - Van Wyck, South Carolina
Wallace Spearmon - Fayetteville, Arkansas

Exactly.........I believe that is also simply Law of Large numbers, at work, here. Pretty good article from the Miami Herald. Thanks for sharing it