Which non track athletes could break 8,000?

wallace spearmon was a 7.40 guy in the long jump and wasnt bad at hurdles and even the throws for hardly ever doing them he also jumped 1.95 in high jump! i think he could have had a shotif he started his freshman year in college

wait sorry you said other sports

Track guys are interesting too, since they'd be easier to persuade to give it a go. The appeal to guys in other sports would be if you could actually get them to do it. Sort of like a Celebrity Decathlon. They do Celebrity Madden video game tourneys where guys from the NBA/NFL enter. We could do one for the decathlon. They have have Clay, Trey and Ash as coaches. Each of them has 2 weeks to train their squad.

mark bradley was an nfl player and college football player, he was an excellent athlete in high school in track jumping 7.60 in long jump at one point 2.18 in high jump running 10.70 100 a decent hurdler as well, he chose college football though and later NFL

Anyone remember Bernie Williams, from the Yankees? I used to think he'd make a great decathlete. He had that thing similar to Hershel Walker where he looking like he was jogging if you saw him in isolation, but if you widened the shot to include others you realized he was moving across the earth at a very fast speed. He was tall and light when he was younger. He was a power hitter, so very strong rotational strength. He was a switch hitter, some years hit over .350 and was a guitar player, so he had that ability to store away athletic moves for when needed.

Perhaps most importantly, Bernie was often, and this was very frustrating to Yankee fans, he was often caught day dreaming in center field. They guy wasn't motivated to play baseball. He would've probably been happier in the decathlon. Do your technical, physical thing, then laugh and joke with your friends for 30 minutes, then repeat.

In his prime, I think Michael Jordan would be a possiblity. According to him, he cleared 6'5" in high jump and 23' in long jump in high school while "fooling around". He played a lot of baseball and golf, so he probably has some decnt rotational strength. Also, he's 6'6" and has long levers and a pretty high release point. He's probably a decent natural sprinter. Obviously he'd need training, but he definitely has a pretty impressive foundation to start from