Fastest`s player`s in East TN

[southernball14]

lester bailey - elizabethton

[Volhammer]

So far two people saw Scooter run a 4:29, JPatts5 & 2good4u. Or is that one person ? ummm..

IWAS THERE AS WELL WHEN SCOOTER HOUSTON RAN 4.29 40, JUST BEFORE HIS JUNIOR YEAR. COACH ERIC HUTCHINS OF MCMINN CO. ( THEN JEFFERSON CO.) TIMED HIM.

[powerp]

Jermey Allison is the fastest from South Pittsburg. He runs a 4.3-40

[ie3]

The Claridy boys from Chuckey-Doak, just transferred from Florida this year. Don't know 40 times, but watched them on the field. They both are close to Mark Byrd's game speed.

[andykellysfan]

I think two fast player in East TN are Scooter Houston (Jefferson County) and Brad Hankins (Rhea COunty)

[pftiger53]

pigeon forge has 2 fast recievers in Jojo Ryan (4.5 40 time) and Zack Schrandt (4.4 40 time).

[krp]

Any question pertaining to anything in east Tn football has a bunch of people just waiting to say Mark Byrd. We heard the same thing last year about a thousand times before the Boyd game. But we never saw no great accomplishments on the playing field.

 

Grow Up.

Mark Byrd is a fine player who has led his team deep into the playoffs the past three years; and for what it's worth, he ran a legitimate 4.4 at Phil Fulmer's football camp last summer... and that's certainly verifiable.

But the bigger question is: why do folks like you always look to put players down. You seem elated that Byrd didn't have an All-Pro game at Boyd. Didn't Boyd actually win the title game? Is it so thrilling for you to see someone lose that you have to visit the board where incidentally the simple question of "speed" is asked, and lambaste an athlete (and fine gentleman) when the topic has nothing at all to do with how great or horrible someone did in a playoff game?

For the past three seasons I've watched in misery as Byrd and company distroyed and demoralized the team that my son plays on. We're (Unaka) not so good. Cloudland is very good. But for goodness sake, give credit where credit's due. Bottom line: Mark Byrd is very, very fast. So there.

I have in no way put Mark Byrd down. He is a fine athlete and a exceptional football player. I'm talking about the ones that jump on and make the posts everytime. I don't remember Mark making any of them. Mark is very fast but Jeremy Allison of SP is just as fast if not faster and that's a fact.

[Ryano44]

I would say the fastest player would have to be Coalfield's Chase Brown...

[KGP3428]

I ran a 4.16 40 yesterday...in cowboy boots. Man, I am sooo fast.

 

People, people, people, all these blazin' 40 times you guys are apitting out are completely bogus. You have to understand that about 99.999% of 40 times (especially in high school) are HAND TIMED. This method of timing, while still used in some HS track meets, is extremely inaccurate and inconsistent, especially when timing a run of only 40 yards where athletes are crossing the finish line at top speed (and their coaches are timing them). At the very, very least, one should add .24 sec on to a hand time of 200 meters or less. The only kind of 40 time that I'm going to believe would be one in which a fully automatic timing (electronic) system is used.

[jwinston]

Thank you KGP. I get so tired of hearing he runs a 4.2 or 4.3. All I can say is B.S. There are some people that are that fast, but not every tailback in TN. Like everybody says. So in closeing if you didn't see the clock with your own eyes shut your mouth.

[TankTalk]

I liken 40 times in high school to that 6'8", 320-pound lineman that is really 6'2", 265. Things get embelished a bit to make players sound a little bigger...a little faster. Been going on forever, and will continue.

[burlyjr]

Lester Bailey from Elizabethton would be one of the fastest players in east Tennessee. I'm not sure on the exact 40 time.