either Caleb Hawkins or Noah Grant kicking next week … I can’t take another game with Doyle kicking FG’s and Kemp is apparently no where to be found …

Also, please please keep the blitzing D … amazing how much pressure you get rushing 4 or 5 guys , especially from different directions !!!

(11-06-2021 03:27 PM)DDrum1961 Wrote:  either Caleb Hawkins or Noah Grant kicking next week … I can’t take another game with Doyle kicking FG’s and Kemp is apparently no where to be found …

Also, please please keep the blitzing D … amazing how much pressure you get rushing 4 or 5 guys , especially from different directions !!!

They gave up on the 3 man front and went to the 4-3. Always been my favorite. It’s what we played in high school when a traditional 5 DL was most common.

If we any kicker available they would be out there rather than joe.

(11-07-2021 08:32 AM)Tigerx3 Wrote:  

(11-06-2021 03:27 PM)DDrum1961 Wrote:  either Caleb Hawkins or Noah Grant kicking next week … I can’t take another game with Doyle kicking FG’s and Kemp is apparently no where to be found …

Also, please please keep the blitzing D … amazing how much pressure you get rushing 4 or 5 guys , especially from different directions !!!

They gave up on the 3 man front and went to the 4-3. Always been my favorite. It’s what we played in high school when a traditional 5 DL was most common.

If we any kicker available they would be out there rather than joe.

Hopefully they fix this kicking deal next year.

Recruit one of our futbol players?


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It's on the Spec Team coach and the HC at this point.
The same issues all year long - unresolved.
Open kicker tryouts with the men's soccer team would be better than the same old movie with the same result.
Having to go for it on 4th and long is not a recipe for long-term success - even if it did work against SMU.
And it's not just place-kicking.
Punting into a teammate's back could have killed us yesterday.
Earlier, we had a perfect punt dropped in at the 3, but our cover gunner tried some weird method of downing it and it predictably went into the end zone for a touchback.
And don't get me started on fair catching inside our own 10 - although to be fair, this is not the only ST Coach allowing that bonehead play these days.

(11-07-2021 08:32 AM)Tigerx3 Wrote:  

(11-06-2021 03:27 PM)DDrum1961 Wrote:  either Caleb Hawkins or Noah Grant kicking next week … I can’t take another game with Doyle kicking FG’s and Kemp is apparently no where to be found …

Also, please please keep the blitzing D … amazing how much pressure you get rushing 4 or 5 guys , especially from different directions !!!

They gave up on the 3 man front and went to the 4-3. Always been my favorite. It’s what we played in high school when a traditional 5 DL was most common.

If we any kicker available they would be out there rather than joe.

Sure looked to me like they were still running the 3-4. They just added blitz packages.

we should start this guy:

Ranked the sixth-best kicker in the country by 247Sports and the No. 5 kicker in the 2021 class according to Chris Sailer Kicking
• Connected on 39-of-42 extra point attempts and 12-of-21 field goal attempts with a long of 54 during the 2020 season

(11-07-2021 10:00 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  It's on the Spec Team coach and the HC at this point.
The same issues all year long - unresolved.
Open kicker tryouts with the men's soccer team would be better than the same old movie with the same result.
Having to go for it on 4th and long is not a recipe for long-term success - even if it did work against SMU.
And it's not just place-kicking.
Punting into a teammate's back could have killed us yesterday.
Earlier, we had a perfect punt dropped in at the 3, but our cover gunner tried some weird method of downing it and it predictably went into the end zone for a touchback.
And don't get me started on fair catching inside our own 10 - although to be fair, this is not the only ST Coach allowing that bonehead play these days.

What are you going to offer soccer players to come over to the football team? They all knew there was a football team when they committed to the soccer team….. now if we have a guy on the soccer team that is deep on the bench and tired of running to stay in shape… they may be convinced to step over a few yards to a different field

alabama missed an extra point, that could have cost them the game

mississippi state missed 3 field goals, the last one to tie the game

we arent the only one with problems

maybe kickers need to go back to the old way of kicking the ball straight on

I want to see the fans show up to the games

(11-07-2021 10:28 AM)BinghamptonNed Wrote:  

(11-07-2021 10:00 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  It's on the Spec Team coach and the HC at this point.
The same issues all year long - unresolved.
Open kicker tryouts with the men's soccer team would be better than the same old movie with the same result.
Having to go for it on 4th and long is not a recipe for long-term success - even if it did work against SMU.
And it's not just place-kicking.
Punting into a teammate's back could have killed us yesterday.
Earlier, we had a perfect punt dropped in at the 3, but our cover gunner tried some weird method of downing it and it predictably went into the end zone for a touchback.
And don't get me started on fair catching inside our own 10 - although to be fair, this is not the only ST Coach allowing that bonehead play these days.

What are you going to offer soccer players to come over to the football team? They all knew there was a football team when they committed to the soccer team….. now if we have a guy on the soccer team that is deep on the bench and tired of running to stay in shape… they may could be convinced to step over a few yards to a different field

It's been done at other schools.
Like you said, maybe a bench sitter. Or maybe a player who realizes there might be some money to be made in real football.
Point is, we can't just keep doing the same thing that keeps failing.
Well I guess we can, season is almost over.

(11-07-2021 10:37 AM)Unionman76 Wrote:  alabama missed an extra point, that could have cost them the game

mississippi state missed 3 field goals, the last one to tie the game

we arent the only one with problems

maybe kickers need to go back to the old way of kicking the ball straight on

That was the only XP Bama has missed all year, and they hit 77% of their FGs.
Miss St has been bad at FGs but they have not missed an XP all year.

We are dead last in kicking % in FBS.
We are #125 in Red Zone Offense in FBS.
We are historically bad for a program who recently emphasized and excelled in Spec Teams.

(11-07-2021 11:01 AM)tpaw09 Wrote:  I want to see the fans show up to the games

Probably not gonna happen this year.
I love the guys like Austin, Dykes, Seth, JJ.
But it's been a struggle to watch these games - and I go to them.
I'm afraid they've lost the fans this year.
Gonna have to win them back with a hot start next year.

looks like joe kicks the ball straight

team needs to line the ball up off the hash

We returned a punt with 9 men on the field yesterday. That’s pee wee level stuff

3 kickers on the roster and the punter is our local newspaper and get right back to you !!!