2002 NCAA 4x100 Relay Final

LSU teammates Walter Davis, Robert Parham, Pete Coley and Bennie Brazell win the 4x100 on their way to the team title

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[vintagesoul21]

interesting that the video's focus is on passing. I am def. an LSU fan but you can clearly see that the passes were not that great.

The first pass, he had to reach and almost missed, and the last pass in slow mo, you can see bennie reaching around for it, not to mention coley stepping out of the lane more than two times...if judges were allowed to review video in the ncaa, lsu would would have been disqualified for that, and the time wouldn't matter anyway.

[Trackmaster14]

DQ?

[MerkabaStar]

@Clemsonshawty I was just thinking that too!

[Clemsonshawty]

LSU should have bee disqualified because at 1:52-1:59, the LSU runner was ALL in the next lane.... that should have been a disqualification!

[IceUlquiorra]

wow the handoffs wernt even that good. its just coz lsu had multi talented athletetes...

[dal4018]

Jazz could you find footage of the 2001 NCAA 4X1 MEN'S FINAL TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO WAS THE ANCHOR FOR FLORIDA A&M THAT YEAR JUST CURIOUS THAT'S ALL THANKS.

[jbrumundsmith]

@jazzcyclist You still don't get it. Handing off late is not the end-all, be-all. If LSU had handed off earlier in this race, like say, WHEN THE GUYS FIRST PUT THEIR HANDS BACK, they would have run a faster time. Are you willing to admit that just because a handoff is late does not necessarily make it a good handoff? There are many other aspects that you are choosing to ignore. The fact that you bolded thta late baton passes ALWAYS produce the faster times proves your idiocy. Good Lord.

[jazzcyclist]

@jbrumundsmith Here's what you posted earlier: "Therefore, handing off EARLY is the best way to execute that handoff." Also I never said "putting your hand back for FIVE STEPS is a great way to catch a handoff". You deny you own words while misquoting my words. What I'm saying is that handoffs can be botched no matter where they take place, but with all things being equal and the passes smoothely executed, LATE BATON PASSES ALWAYS PRODUCE FASTER TIMES THAN EARLY BATON PASSES AT THE ELITE LEVEL.

[jbrumundsmith]

@jazzcyclist What really is the point of me arguing with a person who believe that AT THE COST OF ALL ELSE, a late-zone handoff is ALWAYS best, who also believes that putting your hand back for FIVE STEPS is a great way to catch a handoff? I never once said that early-zone handoffs are best. Most good handoffs occur from the middle-to-end of the zone. What I'm trying to get you to understand is that JUST BECAUSE a handoff is made at the end of the zone DOES NOT necessarily make it a good one.

[jazzcyclist]

@jbrumundsmith You simply don't know what you're talking about. I know for a FACT what those coaches preach. Do you know the difference between specualtion and fact? It would be moronoc for the runners to wait until the very end of the zone to provide a target. The incoming runner needs a stationary target to focus on. Anyway, even middle-of-zone exchanges are faster than start-of-zone exhanges, which what you've been advocating. Again I ask, who told you that start-of-zone passes were faster?

[jbrumundsmith]

@jazzcyclist Simple, LSU's original pass was a tad better because they had better extension, not due to position in the zone. And where do Pat Henry, Mike Holloway and Dennis Shaver say anything like, "At all costs, hand off late in the exchange zone!" or "Regardless of whatever else happens, a late pass is ALWAYS best!" They never say this. In fact, Pat Henry (LSU's then-coach) clearly wanted his athletes handing off in the MIDDLE of the zone! That's when his athletes had their hands back.