(09-30-2017 11:30 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote: (09-30-2017 10:25 PM)Billy_Bearcat Wrote: (09-30-2017 10:17 PM)Bcatbog Wrote: Moore is one issue - but a bigger one is special teams. Last year we saw stupid again and again running out to the 15. Tonight the idiocy returned - capped off with a fumble.
Moore had no chance to bring us back when special teams were in a Bearcat destruction mode.
I give Fickle credit - Geddes was not on KR in the 2nd half. Perhaps a boulder cracked his thick skull to recognize Geddes was not working.
And while I am at it - once we went off tackle in the 2nd half there was some running room . Brilliance after there was nothing open up the middle.
And then - did Gantz commit some mortal sin of Bearcat football? I cannot believe Gantz is not a better place kicker than what we saw tonight.
Special teams killed us tonight.
Gantz is hurt. Wasn't dressed for the game. Our resident kicking guru thinks he's going take a long time to recover if ever.
I didn't see this posted anywhere. Didn't a few weeks ago Luke say they had an open competition between the two that week and that Gantz lost? It's not really a competition if one party can't compete.
I posted in the game thread, so it probably got lost in the shuffle very quickly. Gantz is an open footed kicker, basically using his upper leg muscles complex to open his leg and hit the ball with his first tarpal and insole, rather than the more traditional first tarpal at the laces. The nature of his kicking motion is probably what caused the groin and hip flexor injury last year due to the unnecessary strain that muscle complex is under in his pendulum. If I had to guess, his AT/PT has told him this and he's been completely reworking the way he kicks the ball, and doing that after 10 years kicking it a different way is damn near impossible to do.
As for Pasley, that kids a lost cause. His entire lower half breaks down in a two step approach, so I'm guessing he was a three stepper in high school and no one on the staff who picked him up realized it until after he got on campus (since we had GAs managing the ST recruitment and all...).
Ryan Jones is a KO specialist, and I can already tell, since every ball trails inside his hips, that if you shorten his approach to a field goal kicking one that he would become a hook specialist. KO and FG kicking motion and location of both ball and foot impact is so different that it's extremely hard for some people to manage the difference...and I'm guessing he would be one of them.
As for Cole Smith, I've got no idea. He looked good at the camps I coached at or was present at with my players, but if he's not getting a chance, I'm guessing he was a block guy still transitioning to kicking off ground.
Parents out there, if your son or daughter is a kicker and has some talent, move them off a block ASAP.