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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Yes and no.
Now, granted, I haven't been in high school since 1984. But I knew a few guys that were 4.7 or faster that had absolutely no passion for any sport, whether it was football, baseball, basketball or track (myself included).
But that said, most of the guys that did run 4.7 or faster played football at the junior college level and many went on to Division I, Division I-AA, Division II and NAIA programs.
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4.7 is a really fast time, and people lose sight of this because of the magical 4.5 number. To speak further to this point, there have been a number of studies in recent years discussing how many 40 times are fictitious at best in order to market athletes better.