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Can we PLEASE recruit a kicker this coming year. Someone who can consistently hit a field goal inside the 20?

I'll ask Santa for one too. But this has been a weakness for a few years of years. It would be nice to have that fixed.

--MH

You must have forgotten about Sinisia Vrvilo (this player from BGSU the last two college football seasons who handled the kicking duties).

He happened to be 3/3 from 20-29 yard range and 3/5 from 40-49 last year.

The year before he was even better going 5/5 from 20-29 yards, 4/4 from 30-39 yards, and 6/8 from 40-49.

In fact whenever he did attempt a FG within 20 yards (all being PATs) he was 88/90.

I would say he was more than serviceable. How quickly we forget.

michhiker28 wrote:Can we PLEASE recruit a kicker this coming year. Someone who can consistently hit a field goal inside the 20?

I'll ask Santa for one too. But this has been a weakness for a few years of years. It would be nice to have that fixed.

--MH

I've let at least ONE of the "powers that be" know about Carey Spear, a K/P from Mayfield HS.. He kicked 2 - 47yd and a 54 yd. FG in the same game earlier this season...and kickoffs went into the endzone for touchbacks MOST times... of course,in college you can return kicks; in HS...it's an automatic T-Back.

I am willing to cut some slack this year. Remember Phillips is a true freshman. Kicking at Clyde to BG is not a small adjustment. He also got injured this year.

Also remember - Phillips was recruited as both a kicker and a punter. It might just be that he is more valuable to the team as a punter and KOS with his huge leg than as a FG kicker. We'll just see.

Falconfever wrote:You must have forgotten about Sinisia Vrvilo (this player from BGSU the last two college football seasons who handled the kicking duties).

He happened to be 3/3 from 20-29 yard range and 3/5 from 40-49 last year.

The year before he was even better going 5/5 from 20-29 yards, 4/4 from 30-39 yards, and 6/8 from 40-49.

In fact whenever he did attempt a FG within 20 yards (all being PATs) he was 88/90.

I would say he was more than serviceable. How quickly we forget.

How wonderful that sounds. Now lets look at a few more stats shall we....last year we were 9 for 16 in field goals, you seemed to leave out that he was 50% 3 of 6 in the 30-39 yard range, with a long of 44. He also put 4 KO's out of bounds compared to 0 from the opponents.

You are correct that the year before was considerably better, after all we can forgive anyone for missing from beyond 50 yards out, and hitting 75% beyond 40 isn't to shabby at all.

This year we are currently 11 of 19 including 2-4 inside the 20 yard line. Let me just repeat that. 2 of 4 inside the 20 yard line.

So while I didn't mean to dog on your boy, I'll stand by the major premise of my initial post which was, can we please recruit a kicker.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

--MH

Anyone who uses the term "true freshmen" ought to be taken out and flogged. Then of course, those who say "young freshmen" ought to suffer a worse fate. Red shirt freshmen and freshmen are fine. The other uses ought to garner an "F" from the English 101 prof.

manager wrote:Anyone who uses the term "true freshmen" ought to be taken out and flogged. Then of course, those who say "young freshmen" ought to suffer a worse fate. Red shirt freshmen and freshmen are fine. The other uses ought to garner an "F" from the English 101 prof.

Since you say so. Great input. I guess anyone using the term "fifth year senior" gets castrated.

I think that's a given.