Who wins a footrace...Crouch or Martinez?

Who do you think wins a 50 yard sprint? Crouch or Martinez?

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Mavric said:
husker07 said:
I think I'd take Crouch but it'd be close. Gotta remember Crouch ran 10.4 in high school as well as 4.4 at the combine. Crouch would be a god running the modern day spread. Was just watching the Wisconsin game from last year and saw a play where Taylor had a crease between two guys in the open field and got caught. My first thought was that Crouch would've split it and took it to the house. Martinez is electric but Crouch was something else.
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Eh ... Crouch may have been clocked at 10.4 hand-held at a meet but his senior year he ran 10.82 in the prelims then 10.96 in the finals at state (electronically timed). Still pretty fast but a long ways from 10.4. He ran 4.47 at the combine. I'd bet Martinez will beat that next year.
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It'll be close. I'd honestly be pretty surprised if he ran sub 4.4. Interesting tidbit, Jammal Lord ran 4.45 at Nebraska's pro day. Pro day times are usually faster, especially for Nebraska guys, but Jammal was pretty dang fast. Talk about easy speed, he looked like he was jogging half the time.

 
husker07 said:
Mavric said:
husker07 said:
I think I'd take Crouch but it'd be close. Gotta remember Crouch ran 10.4 in high school as well as 4.4 at the combine. Crouch would be a god running the modern day spread. Was just watching the Wisconsin game from last year and saw a play where Taylor had a crease between two guys in the open field and got caught. My first thought was that Crouch would've split it and took it to the house. Martinez is electric but Crouch was something else.
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Eh ... Crouch may have been clocked at 10.4 hand-held at a meet but his senior year he ran 10.82 in the prelims then 10.96 in the finals at state (electronically timed). Still pretty fast but a long ways from 10.4. He ran 4.47 at the combine. I'd bet Martinez will beat that next year.
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It'll be close. I'd honestly be pretty surprised if he ran sub 4.4. Interesting tidbit, Jammal Lord ran 4.45 at Nebraska's pro day. Pro day times are usually faster, especially for Nebraska guys, but Jammal was pretty dang fast. Talk about easy speed, he looked like he was jogging half the time.
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That dude was a smooth runner. Underappreciated. It's unfortunate that half his highlights are from the season when we were wearing those hideous uniforms in a pathetic season.

 
beanman said:
husker07 said:
Mavric said:
husker07 said:
I think I'd take Crouch but it'd be close. Gotta remember Crouch ran 10.4 in high school as well as 4.4 at the combine. Crouch would be a god running the modern day spread. Was just watching the Wisconsin game from last year and saw a play where Taylor had a crease between two guys in the open field and got caught. My first thought was that Crouch would've split it and took it to the house. Martinez is electric but Crouch was something else.
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Eh ... Crouch may have been clocked at 10.4 hand-held at a meet but his senior year he ran 10.82 in the prelims then 10.96 in the finals at state (electronically timed). Still pretty fast but a long ways from 10.4. He ran 4.47 at the combine. I'd bet Martinez will beat that next year.
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It'll be close. I'd honestly be pretty surprised if he ran sub 4.4. Interesting tidbit, Jammal Lord ran 4.45 at Nebraska's pro day. Pro day times are usually faster, especially for Nebraska guys, but Jammal was pretty dang fast. Talk about easy speed, he looked like he was jogging half the time.
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That dude was a smooth runner. Underappreciated. It's unfortunate that half his highlights are from the season when we were wearing those hideous uniforms in a pathetic season.
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True that. Everyone always wonders what Crouch could've done with some of those 90's teams, what could Jammal have done had he even played with those Crouch teams? Like others have said, he probably would've been a better safety than quarterback, but the guy carried the offense during his 2 years, even more so than Crouch.

 
Trick question. Answer is wifi. He would also win any weight lifting competitions against any husker in history. You know what the crazy thing is? It would all be on natural talent, speed, and size. He's just that good of a freak athlete. He's never even ran a 40 before let alone been inside a weight room.

 
Tyler Wullenwaber

Seriously though, between Crouch and Martinez, I dunno. My gut tells me Crouch. Not be much though

 
prior to his first injury in his freshman year, I'd say Martinez wins in a fairly close straight-ahead race. But... Martinez has never been the same since that injury --- still fast, no doubt --- but not the electrifying fast he was prior to that injury. Martinez now (or at least at any time the past two years) would not beat Crouch in a straight-up straight-line race... though it would be close. Crouch was always better laterally than Martinez and had better vision.

 
robsker said:
prior to his first injury in his freshman year, I'd say Martinez wins in a fairly close straight-ahead race. But... Martinez has never been the same since that injury --- still fast, no doubt --- but not the electrifying fast he was prior to that injury. Martinez now (or at least at any time the past two years) would not beat Crouch in a straight-up straight-line race... though it would be close. Crouch was always better laterally than Martinez and had better vision.
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I agree with this. He was scary fast before he got hurt. Don't get me wrong he still outruns every one, If he had better lateral movements he would win the heisman. I think he would beat Crouch in a race.

 
beanman said:
I'm pretty sure it's also not true. I tallied up fumble stats to compare the two and Martinez was way worse. If I still had the data, I'd post it, but I lost it when my hard drive crashed 2 months ago. The only way to get Crouch's fumble numbers was to go through the play-by-play for each game back then. It took a couple hours so I'm not going to do it again.

Also, I don't recall Crouch leading the nation for 3 straight years in fumbles for QBs as TMart has. Throw Crouch in a read-option offense and his fumbles are cut in half easy.
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did they not keep individual fumble stats back then? or did you go back and give crouch credit for the bad pitches he'd make that the rb would get credit for the fumble? and if they didnt keep individual fumble stats, your second comment is moot.

 
husker07 said:
beanman said:
husker07 said:
Mavric said:
husker07 said:
I think I'd take Crouch but it'd be close. Gotta remember Crouch ran 10.4 in high school as well as 4.4 at the combine. Crouch would be a god running the modern day spread. Was just watching the Wisconsin game from last year and saw a play where Taylor had a crease between two guys in the open field and got caught. My first thought was that Crouch would've split it and took it to the house. Martinez is electric but Crouch was something else.
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Eh ... Crouch may have been clocked at 10.4 hand-held at a meet but his senior year he ran 10.82 in the prelims then 10.96 in the finals at state (electronically timed). Still pretty fast but a long ways from 10.4. He ran 4.47 at the combine. I'd bet Martinez will beat that next year.
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It'll be close. I'd honestly be pretty surprised if he ran sub 4.4. Interesting tidbit, Jammal Lord ran 4.45 at Nebraska's pro day. Pro day times are usually faster, especially for Nebraska guys, but Jammal was pretty dang fast. Talk about easy speed, he looked like he was jogging half the time.
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That dude was a smooth runner. Underappreciated. It's unfortunate that half his highlights are from the season when we were wearing those hideous uniforms in a pathetic season.
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True that. Everyone always wonders what Crouch could've done with some of those 90's teams, what could Jammal have done had he even played with those Crouch teams? Like others have said, he probably would've been a better safety than quarterback, but the guy carried the offense during his 2 years, even more so than Crouch.
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Lord is one of my all time favorite huskers. Crouch had Dan and Buck behind him and a few NFL players on the O-line. I don't recall any OL or RB from Lord's teams in the NFL. Am I correct on this?

 
NUance said:
Tyler Wullenwaber

Seriously though, between Crouch and Martinez, I dunno. My gut tells me Crouch. Not be much though
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I actually have read many players say they'd take Taylor in a footrace over Wullenwaber, Bell, and Turner.....not saying I agree, I was just throwing that out there because I found it interesting. Also, I'd take Taylor....but it'd be very close.

 
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