3 Future Wolverines Finish with Top 30 SPARQ
OSU commit JK Dobbins finished with the high score with 146.76. It's pretty, pretty good.
Three Wolverines finished in the top 30.
AJ Dillon finished 9th with a score of 135.39
O'maury Samuals finished 21st with a score of 126.54
BSJ finished 25th with a score of 123.72
Other notable finished include former commit Jeremiah Hollowell who finished 8th, Cass Tech micro-CB Donovan Johnson who finished 10th, long shot LBs Baron Browning and Willie Gay who finished 14 and 18 respectively.
Here's a link to the top 30 scores that someone can embed below because I can't figure it out on mobile
https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/573/664/4664573.jpeg
Someone asked this on a previous thread: Do we know how well previous high-SPARQ guys have done in actual game situations?
Is SPARQ a compelling barometer of someone's ability to take over a game?
I would have loved to see a SPARQ score for Charles back in the day . . .
There are a few transcendent talents every year that can change a team, a season, or a program.
Ndamukong Suh is another example.
The Lions drafted WR Earl McCulloch out of USC in 1968.
As a member of the USC Track & Field team, McCulloch was the NCAA 110 Yard High Hurdle champion in 1967 and 1968, the NCAA 55 yard indoor high hurdle champion in 1968, and was the lead leg sprinter of the USC NCAA 4 X 110 yard sprint relay team in 1967 and 1968. The USC Trojan sprint relay team (McCulloch, Fred Kuller, Simpson, and Lennox Miller – in order) set a 4 X 110 yard sprint relay world record (38.6 sec.) in the 1967 NCAA Track & Field Championships in Provo, Utah on June 17, 1967. In the era of metric-distance sprint world records, this world record still stands today and is likely not to be broken.
And yes, that would be O.J. Simpson running the third leg of that 4x110.
McCulloch started out with a bang with the Lions, getting NFL Rookie of the Year honors in '68, but unfortunately he eventually acquired the sarcastic nickname Earl "Stone Fingers" McCulloch because of his propensity for dropping catchable passes. He was out of the league after the '74 season.
These kids are football players taking a test to gauge athleticism. Nehemiah was an athlete trying to learn how to play football.
Big difference...
This is not the best information to directly answer your question, but since no one else has chimed in I will add it. SPARQ is not exactly like the NFL combine, but it's similar. SPARQ stands for Speed, Power, Agiiity, Reaction Time, and Quickness...its basically testing athletic ability. It does not test how good that athlete is at playing football.
I'm not sure if there's information out there correlating SPARQ results to success playing college football. But, there is data comparing the NFL combine tests to NFL playing success and the correlation is not great. This also showed up for the teams I have worked with as a college strength coach. It's rare the best athletes are the best football players. What makes a good football player, is motor control. As Dr. Stuart McGill said
The best athletes rarely outperform their peers in pre-season testing like bench pressing, squatting, jumping, and sprinting. Their distinguishing qualities are motor control. The ability to exert strength quickly, deactivate muscle quickly, and optimally project forces throughout body linkage is characteristic of this skill.
Cool.
Excellent post. Thanks.
No you shut up infinity plus 1, no take backs, and no erasies, stamped it.
You must know my kids.
However, you missed "Infinity Squared" and then "Infinity to the Infinity power" and then "Infinity to the Infinity power, squared" and then . . . .
I couldn't find the 2011 results but if you look at 2012 you'll see the top scores are familiar names from this years nfl draft. Derrick Henry and Jalen Ramsey put up multiple top scores. Ezekiel Elliot, OJ Howard, and Keanu Neal (Falcons) are also featured.
http://espn.go.com/high-school/football/events/nike-sparq-combines/2012/results
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My SPARQ score was 32.47. I would not fare well in game situations. Hope that helps.
Don't you get that just for signing your name?
on how fast you write it.
In highschool two of our all-state football wrestlers got 6 on their ACT scores in subsequent years. (What you get for siginging your name.) We had a good athlete in my grade who got an 11. He told the coach his score proudly and said "I'm twice as smart as Eric and Doug."
a monkey literally scored a 13 on the ACT a few years ago. SOOooooooo thats really bad
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That's a surprise. Clearly the pro-style or dual threat designation shouldn't pigeonhole QBs.
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Read here yesterday that he has a tweeky hammy and sat it out.
What is the max score you can get?
Denard.
The highest score is 1.0 Denards, as in "I'm dissapointed in my most recent SPARQ results, I only got .85 Denards."
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ESPN had a video linked on the front page that showed a few tug-o-war battles between commits of lsu/bama, michigan/osu, etc. Unfortunately osu got the best of our guys, but it was a battle! I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty of those in the near future...battles, not tug-o-wars.
I'm really getting tired of Ohio State.
I think Samuels did a lot better last year, IIRC - at or close to the top, if my memory isn't crap.
Maybe he was having a bad day.
Maybe that's what I was thinking of, the regional
Which he supposedly did on a tender hamstring, too... again, IIRC
Dang, Dillon is a pretty dang athletic dude for 6'1" 232. Really excited about the talent coming in!!
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All I care about really is how many and how hard guys like Dillon and O'maury Samuels can run guys over and break arm tackles. Do they have an event like that? That's the one that matters.