Here's the clip of the Seastrunk TD run I'm referencing from the Baylor/Kansas State game:The Link After he takes the ball and makes his initial cuts he goes into the straight run at the 30 yd line at 1:06(game clock) and crosses the goal line when it hits approx. :59(game clock) making it a 70 yd straight run in ~7 seconds. I used a stopwatch and timed it 3 times at 6.8 seconds from 30 yd line to goal line. That's 10.2 yd/sec. For comparison, a 40 yd dash in 4.5 sec is 8.8 yd/sec. Somebody check my math but I think he was running the equivalent of a 3.9 40yd dash. Am I crazy wrong or way off base with my figures? Seems too fast to me.
70 yards in 7 secs in pads is fast, very fast. So figuring it that way it's 10 yards a second which would be equivalent to running a 4.0 40 yard dash. The catch here is he has a running start when he hits the 30 yard line so you can't call it a true 40 yard dash time. He was flying though.
You have to account that he was already accelerating when you started your stop watch, and not from a dead start. If you started your stopwatch timing Deion Sanders at the mid point of his acceleration im pretty sure he would probably get near the mid 3s extrapolating for a 40 yrd dash. Lache was flying, but lets not get carried away.
Great points about him already being running. Thanks for pointing that out since I hadn't calculated it. So I recalculated from the moment he touches the ball to crossing the goal line is 84 yards in 9.6 seconds or 8.75yd/sec and that's with the zig-zag cuts at the beginning of the run. A 4.5 sec. 40yd dash is 8.8yd/sec so that's about how fast he was running on average.
