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usmc-sooner

9/24/2006, 06:37 PM

AD
Bassey
Demond Parker
Charles Thompson
Patrick Collins
Anthony Stafford
Greg Pruitt
WR in the 80's I think his name was Ted Long

we've had a lot of speed but who gets your vote as the fastest?

I left of Blanton because he never really played football

oumartin

9/24/2006, 06:38 PM

where am i on that list you prejudice little turd!

stoops the eternal pimp

9/24/2006, 06:41 PM

i just read perkins hold the team record (dont know how far that goes back) when he ran a 4.31

usmc-sooner

9/24/2006, 06:42 PM

where am i on that list you prejudice little turd!

I'm sorry Kelly,

you were the fastest white boy, Mr. Phelps. :D

sooneron

9/24/2006, 06:47 PM

Patrick Collins
I think I heard that D Shep may have busted one in the 4.28 range, tho.

stoops the eternal pimp

9/24/2006, 06:50 PM

Charles was rated the 6th best prospect at runningback in college football before his legal troubles

The Maestro

9/24/2006, 06:57 PM

Jerry Parks was the fastest...and this is not even close!

Dude caught Barry Sanders when starting five yards behind in 1988.

Also was quick on the draw...when shooting Zarak Peters.

badger

9/24/2006, 07:03 PM

Q looks fast--- he runs outta nowhere!

okienole3

9/24/2006, 07:29 PM

Buster Rhymes

DrZaius

9/24/2006, 07:29 PM

How did holliway not make the list....He sure looked fast.

Maybe ne was the opposite of the Brad Smith types that don't look fast but no one seems to ever catch them. Their strides are decieving.

the_ouskull

9/24/2006, 07:31 PM

Jamelle wasn't really fast, like straight-line speed, but he was REALLY agile and hella strong too... You had to get a really good angle on him to bring him down, and that makes everybody look pretty fast...

the_ouskull

OU James

9/24/2006, 07:34 PM

Justin Fuente.

DrZaius

9/24/2006, 07:35 PM

I have a season pass signed by him....he was a pretty cool guy

Holliway that is

critical_phil

9/24/2006, 07:44 PM

holieway was/is a ******. and, as ******s go, not a very fast ******.

do some of you people even watch football?

King Crimson

9/24/2006, 07:48 PM

i'm gonna agree with sooneron. patrick collins had some major jets.

StoopTroup

9/24/2006, 07:50 PM

Q was the fastest at being able to run 20 yards while only 2 inches from the grOUnd.

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/east/nfl/16/slideshow/774/images/1.jpg

walkoffsooner

9/24/2006, 08:10 PM

Brandon jones

ClintonSooner

9/24/2006, 08:13 PM

jason white

DrZaius

9/24/2006, 08:42 PM

Moe Dampeer

Rogue

9/24/2006, 08:49 PM

From my subjective POV, I'd say Demond Parker. Yes, seriously.

PrideAlum

9/24/2006, 09:12 PM

Greg Pruitt. He lost a match race to Bullet Bob Hayes by only a half a step. At that time Hayes had just lost his title of Worlds fastest man when another Olympian broke his 100 meter run time.

proudsoonergal

9/24/2006, 09:16 PM

Fastest Sooner at what? :D

MikeInNorman

9/24/2006, 09:20 PM

It's Pruitt. He was Big 8 Indoor 50 meter champion more than once. Collins could also have legitimately run track.

The Maestro

9/24/2006, 09:40 PM

Quit arguing. Jerry Parks. Next thread.

Big Red Ron

9/24/2006, 09:49 PM

From my subjective POV, I'd say Demond Parker. Yes, seriously.I'd put money on him in ANY race. Dude was a freak!

TXBOOMER

9/24/2006, 10:14 PM

Chuck Norris could out run them all backwards!

sooner-n-ga

9/24/2006, 10:31 PM

as long as the law was chasing him !!!!!!!!!

AlbqSooner

9/24/2006, 10:35 PM

I guess you guys are too young to fully appreciate Anthony Stafford. He was an state high school champion in the 60 and ran a sub 4.3 while at OU.

sooneron

9/24/2006, 10:41 PM

Stafford! I forgot about him. He was hella quick. Although, Collins outran the state of Neb on a play where he ran left and turned around in the backfield and burned EVERYONE on the right. I also saw him do this in HS.

CatfishSooner

9/24/2006, 11:10 PM

Stoops....hands down.

mikeb

9/24/2006, 11:30 PM

shep was fast, stafford was faster, but Parker I would say was the fastest.

JiuJitsuSooner

9/24/2006, 11:46 PM

patrick collins looked the fastest on film, seriously....whatever that means

JiuJitsuSooner

9/24/2006, 11:58 PM

One person could answer this, his name is Barry Switzer

KingDavid

9/25/2006, 12:02 AM

Q was the fastest at being able to run 20 yards while only 2 inches from the grOUnd.

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/east/nfl/16/slideshow/774/images/1.jpg

And not only that, but he could get low, too.

KingDavid

9/25/2006, 12:04 AM

Charles was rated the 6th best prospect at runningback in college football before his legal troubles

You can see his blazing speed from the helicopter in some quite rare early footage of COPS. Just watching him navigate those chain link fences, you could tell he had a lot of skillz.

dolemitesooner

9/25/2006, 12:06 AM

I heard wes sims was one slow beoncye

crimson&cream

9/25/2006, 12:45 AM

Patrick Collins
I think I heard that D Shep may have busted one in the 4.28 range, tho.
I once heard or read Lee Hover ran a 4.2** thereabouts, how many of u remember him. Not many I'm guessing

crimson&cream

9/25/2006, 12:47 AM

Quit arguing. Jerry Parks. Next thread.
Wrong Big MO by a couple of inches in the 40.:texan:

Readyfor8

9/25/2006, 12:53 AM

I heard wes sims was one slow beoncye

Wes Sims was slow, but he was an Offensive Lineman.

SoonerGOP

9/25/2006, 01:23 AM

People -

It's simple.

Rhett Bomar on his way out of town after he figured out just how many people he ****ed off by being a complete and utter idiot.

Never seen a player THAT quick!

SoonersEnFuego

9/25/2006, 08:32 AM

Mark Bradley

stoopified

9/25/2006, 08:43 AM

Danny and Mark Bradley,fastest father-son duo.

TexasLidig8r

9/25/2006, 09:13 AM

Definitely Teddy Lehman for you guys.. I read on here that he could run clockwise around the perimeter of a hurricane, counteract the airflow and stop the hurricane in its tracks.

Soonermagik

9/25/2006, 09:19 AM

Either Bradley or Chijokie Onyeneenenengenchecha!!!!!!!!!!!!

44BluesExplosion

9/25/2006, 09:47 AM

According to Mr. Switzer, the fastest sooner ever was Eric Mitchell followed very closely by the pre-knee injury Spencer Tillman.

CU Sooner

9/25/2006, 10:40 AM

Eric Mitchell ran sub 4.3's and I remember hearing he once ran a 4.18, but that was probably just hype.

RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!

9/25/2006, 11:36 AM

Greg Pruitt. He lost a match race to Bullet Bob Hayes by only a half a step. At that time Hayes had just lost his title of Worlds fastest man when another Olympian broke his 100 meter run time.Pruitt LOOKED the fastest to me as a spectator. He looked a lot like the wideout Ted Ginn Jr. that now plays for tOSU. He freezes people with his speed.

VMG

9/25/2006, 04:14 PM

I once heard or read Lee Hover ran a 4.2** thereabouts, how many of u remember him. Not many I'm guessing

Lee was supposed to have been in the 4.2** range when 4.5 was eye-watering and 4.4 superhuman.

Schoonerbeer

9/25/2006, 04:24 PM

Everett Marshall in the 1960's was pretty fast.

astro5169

9/25/2006, 04:47 PM

Teddy Lehman.

He shows up to camp as a walk on. He had a ride to a naia school but wanted to play at OU. He told the coaches he woul run a 4.3. They disagreed saying there was no way a 240lbs white boy is going to run a 4.3. He told them if he didnt he would leave without even trying out.

4 years later he gets drafted in the NFL 3rd round. He holds most of the records on offense and defense at Ft Gibson. He even has a stretch of 4 lane highway named after him.

I even have a signed golf ball from him. Its priceless as far as I am concerned.:)

boomersoonerdude

9/25/2006, 07:41 PM

I would put Q right below AD.... I feel sorry for the guy... didn't really have a good NFL career

stoops the eternal pimp

9/26/2006, 12:22 AM

I ate some el chico's in muskogee a few weeks ago and a waitress timed me at 4.08 to the bathroom

KingDavid

9/26/2006, 01:27 AM

I know he didn't finish. But dayum the dude could fly: michael hawkins.

Did he make the packer's squad, btw?

Pigface1

9/26/2006, 09:05 AM

Switzer was at Wild Wings last night and I asked him this very question before he went on the air.

He said Spencer Tillman was a 4.5 guy before his injury, "but don't get me wrong, that's still really fast." He threw out about 7 or 8 names, but he said Eric Mitchell, Elvis Peacock, and maybe Charles Thompson. One guy ran a 4.84 100 yard dash, but I don't remember who it was. . Peacock maybe. There were three or four that ran 4.2 40s.

stoopified

9/26/2006, 11:12 AM

C'mon pigface a 4.84 hundred yard dash?I don't think so.Dupree was supposed to sub 4.4, once outran a Missou db who was supposed to be sub 4.3

MiccoMacey

9/26/2006, 11:17 AM

I thought Buster Rhymes held the record for a 40 at a sub 4.3.

XingTheRubicon

9/26/2006, 11:35 AM

99.99% of the stories that involves a football player running under a 4.4 is utter bull ****.

phead903

9/26/2006, 11:56 AM

It seems I remember Joe Wylie actually being faster than Greg Pruitt when OU installed the wishbone in 1970. Joe and Roy Bell were the halfbacks and Leon Crosswhite was the fullbacke when they plyaed Texas in the wishbone for the first time. I don't think Greg was moved from WR to halfback until 1971.

and we all remember Joe Wylie closing on Johnny Rogers and getting clipped in November of 1971!:mad:

MiccoMacey

9/26/2006, 12:09 PM

99.99% of the stories that involves a football player running under a 4.4 is utter bull ****.

So there IS a chance that Buster Rhymes ran a sub 4.3...:D

Pigface1

9/26/2006, 12:10 PM

C'mon pigface a 4.84 hundred yard dash?I don't think so.Dupree was supposed to sub 4.4, once outran a Missou db who was supposed to be sub 4.3

What do you mean you don't think so? 100 yard, not meter. Google "State Record", "100 Yard Dash" and you'll see there are some 9.7s in there even.

I asked him about Tillman and Pruitt and some of the others, but he seemed to come back to Peacock and Mitchell. I just don't remember who he said ran that 100 time, but it wasn't either one of them and it wasn't a name I really recognized. I was born in 74, so it very well could have been before my time.

Dupree, who's arguably my favorite ever, didn't even come up in the conversation.

soonerkaufmanII

9/26/2006, 02:40 PM

What about Reggie Smith? He looks like the fastest guy on the field when he has the ball, or if he's chasing someone else who has it.

VMG

9/26/2006, 06:58 PM

TXBOOMER

9/26/2006, 07:31 PM

Definitely Teddy Lehman for you guys.. I read on here that he could run clockwise around the perimeter of a hurricane, counteract the airflow and stop the hurricane in its tracks.

Wrong...You are getting Teddy confused with SIFU Chuck Norris.

Readyfor8

9/26/2006, 07:37 PM

Teddy Lehman could also beat the Horns every time he played them.

101sooner

9/26/2006, 08:21 PM

Andre Johnson.

stoops the eternal pimp

9/26/2006, 08:42 PM

Scott Kempenich

Al Gore

9/26/2006, 09:13 PM

Andre Johnson.That was going to be one of my guesses......I remember him catching a Nebraska runningback that had a huge head start.....

HateTheWhorns

9/26/2006, 11:36 PM

Going with a technicality here........but my money is on DaBryan Blanton. After that......I would have to go with someone like Pruitt, Stafford, or Bradley.

Sooner24

9/27/2006, 12:44 AM

MiccoMacey

9/27/2006, 07:32 AM

Going with a technicality here........but my money is on DaBryan Blanton...

I think the original poster disqualified him already.

There has got to be a way to find this out.

Pigface1

9/27/2006, 09:54 AM

What about Reggie Smith? He looks like the fastest guy on the field when he has the ball, or if he's chasing someone else who has it.

AD has the fastest 40 time on the team, and the only sub 4.4 guy on the team right now. Reggie does look faster than hell, though.

Pigface1

9/27/2006, 09:54 AM

MiccoMacey

9/27/2006, 10:22 AM

The faster Sooner of all time was James Lee from Fort Worth, TX.

He flunked out or quit school or something back in the early 80's but the guy could fly. He used to be fifteen yards ahead of everyone when they ran wind sprints. If you don't believe me ask Barry Switzer.

James was every bit of 6'4 and 250 (if memory serves me), although he looked waaaay bigger in person. He originally signed but had eligibility issues and went to NEO. That's where I met him. Unfortunately.

Me and another wrestler (who happens to be black) were walking down the sidewalk outside his dorm when James was walking about. Simpkins, always the jokester, started laughing a little and I didn't understand why, until James was two steps away from us.

Then Simpkins put on this big scowl and shoved me as hard as a 118 pounder could shove me, and said as loud as he could "What do you mean, calling me a ni**er?".

James stopped for a second and looked at me with these two angry, steel-like eyes, and it was at that moment I knew I'd never have bowel trouble ever again in my life. I now knew how the "fight or flight" instinct worked.

I've been in house fires, I've been to Iraq...and I was never more scared than I was when I thought he may actually eat me.

Fortunately, Simpkins started laughing, and James kinda' smirked it off as two friends razzing each other. But it was extremely difficult to walk back to my dorm with legs that seemed to weigh 200 pounds.

BTW, I beat the ever-lovin' sh*t out of Simpkins when we got back to his room.

swardboy

9/27/2006, 10:24 AM

In 1977 I remember a small receiver named Lee Hover (5'7") who was lightening. I oftened wondered why we didn't throw more rainbows for him to run under.....oh yeah, we were a wishbone team!

Sooner24

9/27/2006, 12:57 PM

I asked him Monday night. He said Mitchell, Peacock, and maybe Charles Tompson.

If he said Charles Tompson then you didn't ask a sober Barry. :rolleyes:

TexasLidig8r

9/27/2006, 01:35 PM

Couple of years ago, I had a date with a woman who graduated OU in 1987. Met for drinks and was back at her place in less than 2 hours.

Now THAT is smokin' fast.

MiccoMacey

9/27/2006, 01:40 PM

Couple of years ago, I had a date with a woman who graduated OU in 1987. Met for drinks and was back at her place in less than 2 hours.

Now THAT is smokin' fast.

The "getting there" part, or afterwards? :D

Pigface1

9/27/2006, 01:53 PM

If he said Charles Tompson then you didn't ask a sober Barry. :rolleyes:

He was dead sober. Like I said, the first name out of his mouth was Eric Mitchell and then Elvis Peacock. He named about 7 or 8 people including Charles Thompson. But I'm sure you'd know better than he would. :rolleyes:

starrca23

9/27/2006, 02:08 PM

If we continue this discussion much further we must decided whether we are talking about track (40 times) speed or football speed (wearing pads in games when it matters). I am young 28 so I probably don't qualify as an official judge, but D. Parker was the fastest (on the field) to me. He once scored a touchdown for the Packers and started fanning his feet like he had run so fast they had actually caught on fire. It was hilarious.

Sooner24

9/29/2006, 11:48 PM

He was dead sober. Like I said, the first name out of his mouth was Eric Mitchell and then Elvis Peacock. He named about 7 or 8 people including Charles Thompson. But I'm sure you'd know better than he would. :rolleyes:

You are right I probably would. :D

birddog

9/30/2006, 12:03 AM

What do you mean you don't think so? 100 yard, not meter. Google "State Record", "100 Yard Dash" and you'll see there are some 9.7s in there even.

I asked him about Tillman and Pruitt and some of the others, but he seemed to come back to Peacock and Mitchell. I just don't remember who he said ran that 100 time, but it wasn't either one of them and it wasn't a name I really recognized. I was born in 74, so it very well could have been before my time.

Dupree, who's arguably my favorite ever, didn't even come up in the conversation.
i still don't understand how you can run a 4.4 100.:confused:

Since71ASooner4Life

9/30/2006, 07:20 AM

Charles was rated the 6th best prospect at runningback in college football before his legal troubles

I wonder what Jail or half-way house Charles is hanging out at these days

Sooner24

9/30/2006, 07:27 AM

I wonder what Jail or half-way house Charles is hanging out at these days

http://bureau.espeakers.com/fule/viewspeaker4439

nwmsu_bearcat

8/17/2008, 05:06 PM

Big Moe Dampeer is huge... He signed on with the NWMSU bearcats. They are a DII powerhouse, not quite that DI level. They have had luck getting players into the NFL though. Moe came and has been told this is his last chance.. Either he does it or he is gone. His eligibility is only a sophomore.. I'll post some pics of him now.. He's over 400 pounds now though and REALLY out of shape. So far though he has been loosing weight at the NWMSU camp. Hear the trainers really have him on lock down.

I really wanted to start a new topic about big moe, but apparently I don't have the permissions to post the info. If someone would that would be nice then I could post pics of big moe.

swardboy

8/17/2008, 05:48 PM

LEE HOVER...wide receiver 1974-1977.....#9....Morgan City, LA

Leroy Lizard

8/17/2008, 08:04 PM

Stafford was considered slightly faster than Patrick Collins. I don't know of any Sooner faster than Stafford, who punched a 4.27 according to Sooners Illustrated. (Actually, those 40-yard dash times are not very accurate. His times were probably closer to 4.4, which is super fast.)

Billy Sims had some jets too.

BudSooner

8/17/2008, 09:20 PM

Parker, or Perkins.

Breadburner

8/17/2008, 09:22 PM

Mike Gaddis....

insuranceman_22

8/18/2008, 01:15 AM

The faster Sooner from the line of scrimmage last year was Loadholt, hope they've reined him in a little.
(Sorry, I couldn't help it)

Leroy Lizard

8/18/2008, 02:34 AM

In a sense, Loadholt was a Sooner in the true meaning of the term.

pweitkem

8/18/2008, 08:15 AM

Phil Loadholt has a pretty quick first step... he can get off the ball seconds before his fellow offensive linemen can even get out of their stances.

sooneron

8/18/2008, 08:27 AM

i still don't understand how you can run a 4.4 100.:confused:

Easy, he said 100 yards, not 100 meters!!:rolleyes:

:confused:

Partial Qualifier

8/18/2008, 08:47 AM

^^ yeah Ron, someone's a little mixed up.

This is subjective and kindof depends: are we talking straight 40 time? 40 time with pads & helmet? Real-time game action?

I will say this: if the race is run in a fairly straight line, and the contestants must be in full pads and carrying a football, It'd be hard to go against Anthony Stafford.

Pigface1

8/18/2008, 10:24 AM

It was a typo, nobody's saying anyone ran a 4 second 100 yard dash. :rolleyes: Switzer mentioned some 100 yard times for some of the track guys he had, and some 40 times for others. And like I said, the first two names he mentioned were Elvis Peacock and Eric Mitchell.

Partial Qualifier

8/18/2008, 01:23 PM

It's just too hard to believe that someone ran a 100 yard dash in the 4-second range.

;)

BudsBoy

8/18/2008, 01:51 PM

Kenny King hands down. Just as the King.

OUFan22

8/18/2008, 02:38 PM

Yes, James Lee was very fast. In addition to Eric Mitchell, Anthony Stafford and others already mentioned, I think people are forgetting about Damon Stell.

Pigface1

8/20/2008, 12:10 PM

I can't remember the last sub 4.3 player. D'Mond Parker maybe?

EstablishedSooner1967

8/20/2008, 12:21 PM

Anthony Phillips... ran a 4.forever