Meant to say "no further from home". But you caught it, thanks.
Penn State just offered a 3* kicker who committed to Rutgers.....
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Meant to say "no further from home". But you caught it, thanks.
Crazy recruiting tactics aside....
I hate to lose player like Gary because he's the type we need if we're going to win the B1G and because NJ has to be PSU turf, not UM turf. It hurts to missue a player like that to Alabama. It hurts double to lose him to UM.
michigan also just pulled an offer on a 4star ot I wonder if they need to make room for 1 more scholarship for kicker
They were the first to offer but things have changed. Barbir said he will talk to his parents and try to set up an official visit with PSU.
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free...
I would imagine that Teddy Bridgewater had at least a couple of Big 10 offers coming out of high school.
He said "top half". I wouldn't be surprised if he had B10 offers.......but not upper tier offers
Dude, you're talking about a kid. Wtf is wrong with you. If Nordin wants to stay close to home then why spend your energy wishing negative things to happen to him. You're a strange hateful little person.
I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, everybody wanted Michael Bush in 2003, but that was 13 years ago.
I checked and Louisville has averaged about the 40th best class over the last 6 years. and their "
updated 4-year recruiting rank" is right at the Big Ten average. So, I'd say that when you consider variation of the talent within recruiting classes, I'd expect that yes, some recruits have been lost to Louisville.
Nope, only Rutgers, and they weren't in yet.
His offer list wasn't great for a 4* recruit. Must have had a grade issue?
Yeah, but we haven't been in that race for a while now... there are lots of D linemen in the deep south that I'd love to get, but we aren't going to pry them out of SEC territory.
Plenty. Just off the top of my head James Quick, Bush, Brohm, etc. Just went to their website- 11 players drafted last year, 28 total in the NFL. I would guess they've done some pretty good damage recruiting and turning out ball players. Impressive
The Big Toe and Davis were 18-21 last year kicking FGs.....
The much much much bigger need was getting a punter, which we got. It's been a long time since we had a punter that didn't look like he was kicking with his wrong foot!
The much much much bigger need was getting a punter, which we got. It's been a long time since we had a punter that didn't look like he was kicking with his wrong foot!
They were actually 18-20. One was a team miss due to a fumbled snap.
The bigger problem was that we couldn't get KOs deep into the end zone. That would have made a difference in games vs. NW & UM where we allowed big kick returns.
Well we were 25-66 for touchbacks this year.....38%. (Ficken was 21-62 = 34% in 2014.) That's probably above ave for the college game. A huge problem was kicking 6 out-of-bounds.
Comparatively, our opponents this year were 11-58 for touchbacks.....19%. But they only kicked 3 out-of-bounds. (The OSU was 32% this year.....MSU was 29%.)
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I could be wrong, but it seemed like the majority of the touchbacks happened during the early part of the year. i.e. when the weather was warm and the kicker could compress the ball more. similar to golf
Nice to hear sir.
What is his accuracy rate during his junior and senior years sir?
Thanks!!
This is perfect this will give you know who the excuse he needs to "officially" decommit.
You are correct that Big Toe was kicking more touchbacks (a lot out of the endzone) early in the season but I agree with Canuckhal that he got hurt and then the fall off came. I posted something similar a few weeks ago.
Also I don't think Big Toe will ever excel at PATs or FGs because he just kicks the ball too low. His touchbacks, particularly when you focus on early season, although they were deep, were not very high. They were more line drive like. Even though he is only a kicker, his conditioning should probably be improved if for no other reason than his own benefit. Maybe that had some impact on an injury ... who knows?
Yes, many times. Their 2016 QB commit, Jawon Pass from Columbus GA, had/has offers from oh-high-ya, and Nebraska, as well as Bama, Clemson, Auburn, Miami,....... Louisville's top 2013 recruit, WR James Quick, had offers from oh-high-ya, Mich, MSU, Bama, Auburn.......
And for a 17 year old that has been following football seriously for 4-6 years PSU is not a "top half Big team". That's why CJF has had to fight every step of the way to turn the ship and get top recruits....
If only BOB had left CJF 2 ro 3 additional capable olinemen CJF and his team could have won 8 or 9 games the last 2 years and had a much easier sell ....... I'm not criticizing BOB. It is what it is.
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I agree, improved punting is a bigger priority based on the kickers that are already on the roster. Big toe can kick off as well, and he'll probably get more consistent in his kickoffs in the second year (not kicking as many out of bounds) and yes Davis did a pretty good job. I usually think of kickers either having it or not having it but remember how Ficken improved from the disastrous start he got off to.
But we need better punting to win games against good teams. You can't give oh-high-ya (or UM, or Wisky, or MSU, or....) a short field when you happen to go 3 and out and expect to overcome that consistently.
