Count me among those who never bought Bo's 4.1 forty time for a nanosecond the instant I heard it. There have been too many guys who were a half a second faster than Bo in the 100 meters but magically slower than him at the 40 yard mark? I could get behind Bo getting out quick and slowing down towards the end of the 100 meter dash (everyone does) but the notion that at his size he would have the explosive start to get out of the blocks faster than guys like Tyreke Hill, Deion Sanders, Darrell Green and on and on and on.. Nope.. not buying it. Especially if you are then going to try and sell me on the fact that these smaller guys, with their shorter strides were going to accelerate past him later in the race. Sprinting don't work that way. Bo was great.. no doubt about that.. Bo was fast.. also no doubt.. Was Bo as fast as has been claimed? Probably not.. I am old enough to remember reading about his skipping the combine back then. I also lived in Orlando and followed all things SEC football back then. And that 4.1 was not announced after any combine.. It was a legend that began to make the rounds over the summer of his final season at Auburn. The announcers even mentioned it during the game when Auburn played Florida. Florida won by the way using a goal line stand where they stopped Bo and the Auburn offense from scoring late in the game to seal the victory. All of these guys who are talking about it decades later are suffering from old age memory loss.
Jackie Robinson was the NCAA long jump champion, still holds the longest run from scrimmage 99 yards in UCLA football, he was a stud basketballer also.
TONS of footballer/tracksters guys who could be pro in both sports. Jim Brown still considered to be the greatest lacrosse player ever.
Bo was an incredible high school athlete a two time Alabama decathlon champion without having to run the 1500, wow! Yep, he could do it all (except 1500)
But, when it comes to just speed none of his times or accomplishments hint at a sub 4.20 40. He was a 9.5 100 yard guy, a 10.39 100m guy, he never did anything in the sprints at Auburn never won anything in the NCAA 60 or 100m, he kept failing to make the finals. He was a big guy who was too big to run as fast as he did just like Walker but like Walker he wasn't on par with the JUST sprinters with no football aspirations and no 225 pounds of bulk to haul. Walker a 10.23 guy, a lot of these NCAAers sub 10.10.
There are a few stories out there about that 4.1 stuff by Bo, none of them agree it actually happened, just type,,,,,Bo's 4.1 bogus. All of us who know track/speed simply aren't buying it.
Can see a 4.28ish a possibility, but a 4.33 more like it. A 4.1 anything is bogus.
What a 4.12 looks like, and this is the worlds fastest human Christian Coleman the current World Champion, he runs a 9.76 100m, not a 10.39.