Josh Sweat is Big and Fast

By: Joe Lanza
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on July 8, 2014, 1:13 PM | 35 comments

That is 6-5, 240 moving lightning fast.

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avtfan's picture avtfan
ZIMA SUCKS
| 12 years 22 hours #

Probably will run faster in Maroon and Orange

Bleeding burnt orange and chicago maroon

HokiesFTW123's picture HokiesFTW123 | 12 years 21 hours # ^

correct

In Sam Rogers we trust.

french60wasp's picture french60wasp
| 12 years 20 hours # ^

Hokies are known for posting fast 40 times in Blacksburg

Five star get after it 100 percent Juice Key-Playing. MAN

RocketHokie13's picture RocketHokie13
🚀🛡️
| 12 years 20 hours # ^

Must be that thin air up in the mountains...

There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.

HokieBlitz's picture HokieBlitz | 12 years 21 hours #

Bud Foster can make him faster.

Allen Ox

wisec4g's picture wisec4g | 12 years 21 hours #

His speed progressions:
ludicrous speed

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HokiEE's picture HokiEE | 12 years 21 hours # ^

MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEET!!!

#ENFUENTE #BALLSOFSTEEL #Livefor32

RocketHokie13's picture RocketHokie13
🚀🛡️
| 12 years 21 hours # ^

There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.

vtfly's picture vtfly | 12 years 21 hours #

Doesn't look like he even broke a Sweat.

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

vhokie's picture vhokie | 12 years 21 hours #

ee

VHokie

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 12 years 20 hours #

I read times like that and think, "so what, I ran a 4.42 in high school." Then I remember I did that at at 6-0 145 and that these kids are moving a lot more mass than I ever did. dang

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HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 12 years 4 hours # ^

I couldn't go 40 in 4.42 unless you dropped me out of an airplane.

Oh, no, wait, I'm a horse. I could totally beat all of you in a race.

VTGuitarMan's picture VTGuitarMan
🎸OG LEG KING 🎸
| 12 years 3 hours # ^

Except that you're on a treadmill, so you may be going extremely fast, but your total displacement is zero.

"Exit light..."

AMB4VT's picture AMB4VT | 12 years 2 hours # ^

And this little horse looks so sad!

@AMB4VT

vhokie's picture vhokie | 12 years 2 hours # ^

ee

VHokie

AMB4VT's picture AMB4VT | 12 years 2 hours # ^

Those horse masks are kinda freaky...

@AMB4VT

Hokie_x3_Hi's picture Hokie_x3_Hi | 12 years 2 hours # ^

I don't know, I think they're pretty amusing
coke horse

baseball horse

Beer horse

Sandy Horse

Dancing Horse

avtfan's picture avtfan
ZIMA SUCKS
| 11 years 12 months # ^

These are pretty dumb and awesome at the same time, can't believe I just bought one now.

Bleeding burnt orange and chicago maroon

coach mcguirk's picture coach mcguirk | 11 years 12 months # ^

I am feeling an overwhelming desire to have one. Can't explain it. Just...need...to wear... a horse head mask...
close encounters

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InEnemyTerritory's picture InEnemyTerritory
PIE!
| 11 years 12 months # ^

I ran the 40 in 4.42 hours

Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.

The Fighting Gobbler's picture The Fighting Gobbler
| 12 years 20 hours #

We should take all of these times from The Opening with a grain of salt. David Wilson, one of the fastest VT players in recent history, ran a 4.40 at the NFL Combine. They just clocked some LB at 4.39.

Obviously Sweat is a beast and a must-land type of talent, but I wouldn't put a lot of weight on the actual number. I'd use it more as a metric to measure him against other players' times at this particular testing.

@Fightin_Gobbler

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HokieJoe3's picture HokieJoe3
| 12 years 19 hours # ^

These are electronically timed and on grass. These would be pretty accurate I'd imagine, a lot more accurate than VT track hand time forty times

HokiesFTW123's picture HokiesFTW123 | 12 years 20 hours #

I think it will come down to VT and UGA for Sweat.

In Sam Rogers we trust.

vtandy's picture vtandy | 12 years 19 hours #

I think I'm going to cry regardless of where he ends up. For different reasons, obviously.

vtfly's picture vtfly | 12 years 19 hours # ^

Just please don't go back to the James Van Der Beek avatar. I wanted to punch the computer every time I saw it.

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

vtandy's picture vtandy | 12 years 19 hours # ^

Haha! I forgot about that. You have an awesome memory. A turkey leg for you.

That was a dark time, indeed, but I am optimistic it will be happiness this year.

vtfly's picture vtfly | 12 years 14 hours # ^

I only remember because it was my Newman

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

Bragghokie's picture Bragghokie
| 12 years 2 hours #

Is Sweat waiting to commit on signing day? Or does he have any timeline? I also read over on tsl that someone tried to put a crimson hat on him there and he pushed it away. Would be awesome to land him.

If you don't want to recruit clowns, don't run a clown show.

"I want to punch people from UVA right in the neck." - Colin Cowherd

pbowman69's picture pbowman69 | 12 years 2 hours # ^

He will be enrolling early

UVA: Jefferson's biggest mistake

@pbowman6

vtfly's picture vtfly | 12 years 21 min #

Ohio State and Texas A&M have tried to recruit him the hardest.

I saw this on ESPN (http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/notebook/_/page/Op...) about Sweat and I was a bit shocked. I'd like to think that this is ESPN's bias, but I hope we are trying to recruit him the hardest.

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

HokieBlitz's picture HokieBlitz | 12 years 5 min # ^

When he names his top 5 in order , I hope its Tech and then 4 others lagging behind.

Allen Ox

HokieFish's picture HokieFish | 11 years 12 months # ^

About a half of a page behind

HokieJoe3's picture HokieJoe3
| 11 years 12 months # ^

If VT lands Sweat its a huge narrative changer for VT and the state of recruiting. Of course VT still has a glaring need for an OT in this class but landing Sweat captures national attention from other recruits. If McClease chooses VT on his bday like expected I'll start feeling better about landing Sweat. VT NEEDS to establish a pipeline with Oscar Smith.

GMC_VT's picture GMC_VT | 11 years 12 months # ^

If only Andrew Brown chose us....

But I still like our standing with Oscar Smith!