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Chris Johnson, Jr. commits to Canes
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Not listed in here is Torrey Mitchell. Signed with us in the late 90s and played fall ball in august. Went back home to Texas before the season started iirc. I had the fortune of watching some of those practices and I watched him easily run stride for stride with Santana (a senior, iirc). Kid ran a 10.1-10.2 in HS and was regarded as the fastest HSer in the country.
Like other former canes, he left this world much too early.
@TheSwagger1
Yes I remember that guy and the tragedy that happened to him. Was disapointed that he did not play like so many other great players that singed with the U and then ended up somewhere else. Shady McCoy and some really QBs that bailed out as well.
Thanks for ur hard work & time put in to look all of this up. Go Canes
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Not taking anything away from CJ and Harrell, they’re obviously blazingly fast. But do you think the prior athletes would have bern faster with the training and gear we have today? I read that the shoe tech has shaved off a couple tenths of a second. Is that true?
Objectively, there is no question about this.
We see faster and faster 40s every year. It's because training methods, nutritional knowledge, equipment is next level compared to where it was 10-20 years ago.
Yea I would say proliferation of info and training.. Even compared to 10-15 years ago with social media, you can in one minute go on youtube and see how the top athlete in respective sport trains in 4k, listen to their trainer/coach explain how and why, try it out and even reach out to them and ask questions.. IMPOSSIBLE years back..
Also the top athletes all play or train together, all know each other, etc. You could have top players in same area never interact 20 years ago. Even in same city not know about each other.. North dade athletes knew nothing about south dade back then, now they train even in middle school on travel teams, and different events.
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Great point on the social media aspect making these connections and the exchange of information much easier. I had not considered that aspect, but it makes a lot of sense.
Whats also scary is the kid that came in second.....
Is a kid i brought to the board and is only a freshman in hs. Hes a kid that we should recruit as well that plays football to.
Kaj Baker. My boy showed out this weekend too as a ninth grader....
Kaj is NITRO's son from MNW if you posters remember Nitro another speed football/track legend from the early 2000s
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off this list we have 1 committ, and 5 kids we offered and recruited.
We trying to get back to it
Yea this being a football board it wont come up much but social media and the ripple affects touch every aspect. Quick example I remember getting back in gym like say 13 years ago, legendary lounge 2009 gym workout thread.. Anyway people start asking me what I am doing and can they come, everytime would go with a girl, she didnt want to touch the weights because she didnt want to get big like a man. In the weights section you might see one girl who probably training for an event, usually they stuck to treadmill or machines..
Fast forward now, you go to gym and these girls have full on programs going on. Squats, RDLS, deadlifts, and I have never seen a workout explode like the hip thrust. You talk to them and its intermittent fasting, keto diet, yada yada. NOBODY was doing that even 10 years ago, but with IG and them seeing fitness models doing resistance training and the results, they are like fish in water in the weights section and I know most nobody is complaining.
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This is absolutely true - I have been going to the same gym in a big city for about 10 years now. It's not a Planet Fitness type gym, but also not a Crossfit or similar type gym, but instead had a large amount of aerobic machines (treadmills, spin bikes, ellipticals, etc), a machine weights section and then a decent free weight section. 10 years ago there was some people using the free weights, but most were at the gym for the aerobics (spin classes were huge) and maybe some weight machines, but little by little people started shifting to free weights.
By the time COVID hit there was a decent amount of guys in the free weight section and you would often have to wait for the squat rack. There was more women using the free weights, but still a pretty small amount. The gym shutdown for COVID and then it was still a bit of time before everyone came back but now (much to my chagrin) not only is the free weight section always crowded, but there is way more women using free weights than there used to be.
The gym has been a little slow to react, but thankfully they have been swapping out some of the aerobic equipment for more squat racks and deadlift platforms which helps with the crowding, but there is no doubt more people - and especially more women - are focused on strength training. Certainly some of this is due to things like Crossfit, but I believe - to your point - that social media has played a huge role this this shift.
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Yea they will be writing and Docs about that covid era and social media in the years to come, good and bad (bad: companies having unlimited ability to create algorithms to hack peoples brains, depression spikes, etc).. I tend to go to different gyms and you see how much more packed they are and the free weights section is always now also. Very interesting times..
Seeing social media "influencers" grow huge followings (250k-1 mil+) and then sell products, knowing even at 2-5% of that purchasing will create a great life. I know a fitness influencer doing that living in penthouse selling workouts/meal plans and another who had pole studio which got shut down during covid and made her pivot, during this time, a popular music artist used her studio and her followers blew up, from there now she has 200k followers and starts selling poles at $200 a pop. After moving a couple thousand units in days, couldnt move out of garage anymore and had to get a warehouse. Do the math. Insane times.
