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07-08-2012, 07:01 AM
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....at USA schools.
Andrew Riley was more of a hurdler yet he can win the NCAA 100m, he's a Jamaican. Makusha was a long jumper yet he can win the NCAA 100 in record time, he's from Africa. What is going on with Ameican sprinting, no it's not football. All these schools had a foreign athlete as their best (alumni) ever sprinter. Dickinson...Derrick Atkins..Bahamas UCLA..Ato Boldon..Trinidad Eastern Michigan..Hasley Crawford...Trinidad Oregon...Harry Jerome..Canada Illinois...Herb McKenley...Jamaica TCU...Kim Collins..St.Kitts NCC..Edwin Roberts..Trinidad UTEP...Oba Thompson..Barbados BYU..Frankie Fredericks...Namibia Azusa Pacific..Davidson Ezinwa..Nigeria Fresno State...Mike Agostini..Trinidad Westmont...Jean Louis Ravelomantsoa...Madagazcar LSU..Richard Thompson..Trinidad Missouri...Chidi Imoh..Nigeria Andrew Riley is the fastest Big10 sprinter in ages, and he isn't even a sprinter. That's how weak the Big10 is when it comes to speed. I 'll give it to Charlie Paddock as the best USC sprinter, but won't ignore Jamaicans Lennox Miller and Don Quarrie. The first great UCLA sprinter was Lloyd LaBeach out of Panama. Both TCU/UTEP loaded with foreign sprinters. The fastest college sprinter this year would be FSU's Kemar Hyman who just ran a 9.95, he's from the Cayman Islands. What if Bolt, Powell, Blake and Carter had ran for some USA schools like all those other Jamaicans had? Too bad Darrel Brown from Trinidad didn't, he needed it. Who remembers Seun Ogunkoya (spell?) from Nigeria? Last edited by Avante : 07-08-2012 at 08:57 AM. 
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07-08-2012, 02:45 PM
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Foreigners come to (get recruited) to come to school here to run and they hopefully take advantage of it and grab a degree at the same time. What's happening to American sprinting? Recently collegiate-wise you weren't happy with Demps, Dix, Mitchell, Mitchell, Salaam, Harry Adams, Isiah Young, etc, etc, etc . . . just because Riley was best on the day and Makusha was amazing it doesn't mean anything.
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07-08-2012, 06:43 PM
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Since this is the USA, schools should have Americans as their stud sprinter, that simply isn't the case as I showed. My point with Riley and Makusha was that they hardly ran the 100m yet could still beat those who do. Makusha the NCAA record holder with two/three 100m sprints, whoa! Other than Dix, nothing special there with that gang you mentioned. The point is that we no longer rule the sprint scene and haven't for awhile now and it bugs me. We don't even rule the NCAA as we are seeing. TCU holds the NCAA 4x1 record, three foreign sprinters on that team. What happened?
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07-08-2012, 08:11 PM
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Our country is failing to develop overall athletes, and is also pushing specialization at an early age way too hard. Those two things go hand in hand
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07-08-2012, 08:21 PM
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07-08-2012, 09:24 PM
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