JIM LEAVITT, FAST AS THE WIND
USF head coach Jim Leavitt’s 40 time: 5.72 seconds, making him faster than both ourselves and Clay Travis. This is not footage of Jim Leavitt running the 40, though if you’d like to view it as a metaphor about what he as a the sturdy 52 year old did to men half his age who couldn’t run that fast, you go right ahead and do that.
He is truly all that is man, and according to him, we should really figure out what we want to do with our lives:
“If there are any students that can’t be that, they really need to decide what they want to do in life,” Leavitt said. “That’s not hard to beat, five whatever it was.”
We know what we can do with our blazing 6.09, Coach. We can blog. Oh, yes we can. We can blog…like…the wind….WHOOOOSH. If you wonder what that sound is, it’s the pitter-splash of our tears hitting the ground as we weep into a bowl of beer and ice cream soup.
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alanon says:
is she dead??????
April 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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Coop says:
At the risk of piling on, he can probably easily do a full set (12) at 225, too.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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cyclonestate says:
you cant really run a 6.09….
Ive been timed between 5.0-5.3 and I was considered “SLOWER’N POND WATER! YOULL NEVER PLAY LINEBACKER ON THIS DEFENSE AGAIN YOU PANSY!”
the harsh, harsh words still hurt to this day.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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JIMatUA says:
I never got to run the 40. My coach said “Why the hell do you want to do that? I don’t care how fast my benchwarmers are.” Looking back it wasn’t the words that were harsh so much as it was those damn short shorts he always wore. Magnum PI had nothing on him. They haunt me to this day.
April 10th, 2009 at 6:10 am
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CincySooner says:
beer and ice cream soup
garnished with a quarter pound of shredded cheddar I assume?
April 10th, 2009 at 7:28 am
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TJ says:
So may great Leavitt quotes in the video. For some reason the part that kills me is the conversation with some of the students at the end.
“Where you from? What high school? Did you play? And you’re not out here now? What’s wrong with you?”
“I’m doing engineering.”
“That’s ok: do both.”
April 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am
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ohiodawg says:
CincySooner – that’s starting to sound like a nice variation on the 3-way.
April 10th, 2009 at 8:41 am
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Orson Swindle says:
We now want a do-over.
April 10th, 2009 at 9:07 am
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Clay Travis says:
You’ve defamed me. I demand redress.
I would totally toast Jim Leavitt and his awkwardly spelled last name. Note how he shifted, cat-like, from the laser to the hand-timed forty. Laser adds up to .2 to forty times. He ran a handheld 5.72.
Cheater.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:58 am
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JD says:
Well I would hope any twentysomething in reasonable shape could beat the time of a 52-year-old man who admitted he wasn’t running at top speed. (He says the adrenaline takes over on game day and he’s much faster then.)
I mean he couldn’t come out and run a 4.9 and smoke everyone. Unless you want a whole bunch of suicidal USF students.
April 10th, 2009 at 11:13 am