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Feb 9, 2016
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Lance71
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I know we are getting way off topic here. But look at the Japanese population
after WWII. They pretty much destroyed all their physically dominant gene population.
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An honest question here. There is so much talk about necessity of getting Poly
cowhide
2/9/16 4:17pm
Yes....the answer is yes.
Liu-Kang-Coug
2/9/16 4:18pm
Yes they are.
Carnac el Magnifico
2/9/16 4:18pm
No, but there are more of them that have a football lineman's body type
StantonMac
2/9/16 4:19pm
If us includes you and me
Sea Chicken
2/9/16 4:20pm
I mean just white recruits
cowhide
2/9/16 4:24pm
Here's a fun exercise - go look at the top rated Utah recruits and LDS recruits
YIsForBrigham
2/9/16 4:20pm
Potential to be bigger (much bigger), faster and stronger. They are more
Duke Silver
2/9/16 4:20pm
Yes. And Kenyans are more likely to beat us in a marathon.
Reasonable1
2/9/16 4:26pm
I once heard a statistic that a Samoan man is 40 times more likely to play
mwcoug
2/9/16 4:27pm
That PBS poly football vid said 25 times more likely
mohonrimo
2/10/16 12:37am
Yes they are.
eddog
2/9/16 4:34pm
They have a long history war. They mostly weeded out the small un-athletic parts
Lance71
2/9/16 4:43pm
Haha yes!
davidnairn
2/9/16 6:29pm
I know we are getting way off topic here. But look at the Japanese population
Lance71
2/9/16 6:32pm
..and Viking pillaging killed off all the Tongan-sized Scandanivians while the
nc-puma
2/9/16 6:56pm
There have been numerous evolutionary experiments that demonstrate physically
BYUflynn
2/10/16 8:44am
Would be interesting to study the cultural influences that determine whether
nc-puma
2/10/16 11:20am
sexual selection!
ChinoCoug
2/10/16 12:26pm
The strongest kind.
BYUflynn
2/10/16 12:53pm
I thought the Vikings were adamantly opposed to diluting their blood with
BYUflynn
2/10/16 12:57pm
Yup. Polynesian muscularity is more of a product of selection for cold, maritime
ChinoCoug
2/10/16 12:27pm
The ones that are, are. Those are the only ones we need to get.
Walter Bellhaven
2/9/16 4:55pm
Without question.
Backcountry
2/9/16 6:14pm
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kookahs
2/9/16 6:26pm
True, but historically, the best linebackers have not been poly
Bob Vance
2/9/16 7:40pm
Lately they have.
ChinoCoug
2/10/16 8:16am
There have been some great ones, but Unga is the only dominant middle linebacker
Bob Vance
2/10/16 8:36am
I was thinking more like Manti Te'o and Mique Juarez.
ChinoCoug
2/10/16 8:38am
Polys are great
shakarocks
2/9/16 6:50pm
Don't bet against coconut blood
Jomo
2/9/16 7:12pm
Depends on the position, I think. There are some positions where each
Bob Vance
2/9/16 7:39pm
I saw a 60 minutes on Poly players once. I forget the data but the numbers went something like this. Tonga
HarlemCoug
2/9/16 8:04pm
That's pretty incredible. 35 from Tonga? Or 35 of Tongan descent?
YIsForBrigham
2/9/16 8:05pm
fair question - can't remember - but per wiki there are 100k living in Tonga and 60k of Tongan descent living in the
HarlemCoug
2/9/16 8:14pm
Yeah pretty incredible
YIsForBrigham
2/9/16 8:20pm
NEITHER. There has never been that many Tongans in the league at one time.
provodude84606
2/10/16 12:29pm
WRONG!
provodude84606
2/10/16 12:25pm
For some positions, definitely not all.
southernfriedcougar
2/9/16 8:22pm
Warrior culture + small islands = big/athletic/competitive survive
TongaCougar
2/9/16 11:23pm
We had a missionary in our ward introduce himself by saying "I'm from the Kingdom of Tonga" - it was pretty sweet.
HarlemCoug
2/9/16 11:40pm
Well, they make up a large percentage of the highly-rated LDS recruit pool.
Mojave
2/10/16 1:19am
An Honest Answer Here:
stevebyu8
2/10/16 8:13am
I thought the King of Tonga was Methodist.
ChinoCoug
2/10/16 8:17am
You may be right. It was a recent king and there have been changes. The
stevebyu8
2/10/16 9:42am
Is cowhide actually Keaton Torre?
LumberCoug
2/10/16 9:21am
That's a likely out-of-line, no? Keaton took it with class.
ChinoCoug
2/10/16 12:28pm
No. I was just curious about all this recruiting emphasis on Poly players. I
cowhide
2/11/16 7:53am
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