Last April he ran 9.98 (10.05 basic?) and 19.92 into a headwind (19.8x basic).
Whether or not he should move to the 400m, or 800m, or ultramarathons, etc., his massive decline in performance is puzzling and bears scrutiny without attempts to derail about what other events he should run.
Yes, he slowed down by the end of last season, but the fact that he's now running nearly a half-second slower over 200m OUTDOORS than he did indoors just a couple of months ago is crazy (20.12 indoors to 20.56 basic outdoors). The fact that he's gotten slower in every 100m he's run this season is totally nuts; here's the performances in chronological order:
10.24 (0.2) = 10.25
10.20 (3.0) = 10.34
10.26 (3.3) = 10.42
10.36 (1.2) = 10.42
Maybe CSG doesn't care about SEC, and has him peaking for regionals/nationals. But he'll need to drop 0.4ish seconds from where he is now to get back to where he was last April, and 0.3ish to get back to where he was at this time last year. Perhaps Coach is holding the cards realllllly close to her chest.
It's a weird situation. Now, Deno/Brutal will ignore everything substantive here and start talking about Dave Sime and Marcin Urbas and Grady "Chickenhawk" Chinook, and then other fonts will begin hypothesizing his 800m splits.