cowboyjoe wrote:If Ellis really had 76 touchbacks in high school then what happened this year? Was he kicking balloons in high school? He didn't have one touchback with us.
Not sure how much of an effect it has, but a couple people mentioned in another thread about the height of the kicking tee being changed this year. I'm sure his confidence (even on kickoffs) was virtually non-existent after the first couple games as well, which almost certainly had an effect.
Do they kickoff from the 35 in high school? I haven't been to a high school game in 10 years.
Let's not forget that Sean had a hip flexor injury as well...gotta be tough for a kicker. At the preseason scrimmage he was kicking them into the endzone at least 50% of the time, so I'm sure the injury didn't help any.
BGDrew wrote:The Ellis clan's silence is deafening....
Yeah no doubt... I also thought it was odd that his dad stopped playing the AZZ college pick'em after one week...
Also I think the hip flexor definitely kept him from showing his true potential this season. I don't know if its an excuse for not having one touchback, but it certianly had to excuse him from kicking the ball with any kind of velocity for awhile!
4th & 13 on PU 32yd line.. 56,000 fans up on their feet screaming, i held my breath the entire play trying to make as little noise as possible.. wouldnt u know Sharon would make the biggest touchdown catch in the history of BG Football, FALCON UP!
His dad (Mark) has been around....I pm'd him about this but haven't heard back from him.
Sean has the leg to kick in D1 football. When he was healthy, he had some length on his kick offs. I think special teams became a symbol of the lack of focus on details and waning intensity that plauged this team form the outset.
I hope this isn't true. I know he and the special teams had a very tough year, but I was really looking forward to him growing and improving here over the next three years. But if it is true, if we go out and get a JC kid, we better get someone who can for sure come in here and get the job done with kickoffs, field goals and extra points. We don't need a project kicker, or does this but not that, we need someone who can step in and kick from the start. Many schools have kickers who are walk-ons. If we're offering a kid, we shouldn't have a problem landing that kind of kicker.
bgfalcon03 wrote:I heard Sean left too.. also heard that Kevin Mahoney quit.
Mahoney didn't quit, he is a personal friend of mine. He had a staff infection in his knee. He was VERY upset at the idea that he couldn't make it back in time for the Miami game, he kept reassuring me that he would be. He'll be back.
I really need to stay out of the football forum for about 3 months. It's nothing but bad news in here anymore.
I REALLY hope Ellis is still on the team but something tells me he won't be back. If he isn't, I wish him the best wherever he goes! I think his potential is big.
I told some guys at work today I was never so sad yet so happy to see a football season end.
Michael W.
BGSU-12 TIME MAC CHAMPION
FALCON FOOTBALL ROCKS!
This is starting to feel like Christmas, only early and really, really sh*tty.
From the halls of ivy...
It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. ~Ronald Reagan
It's the Journey... wrote:Since when did the trasnferitis the men's basketball team has become contageous?????
When Gregg Brandon lost his football team in the same fashion that Dakich lost his basketball team 4 years ago.
Once you lose a team you never regain it. For whatever reason his team has lost faith in him, and they no longer want to play for him. That's not good.
