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Team Captain [489]
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Anybdy gave any thought to our kicking this year?
Aug 22, 2012, 8:19 PM
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Are we going to do as good as we did last year or is it going to be like we used too? I for one hope we set a new standard last year and are able to keep it up!
GO TIGERS!!!
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Considering Catman was only a sophomore
Aug 22, 2012, 8:38 PM
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I would only expect him to get better.
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Spencer B***
Aug 22, 2012, 8:47 PM
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Spencer Benton appears to be reaching his potential
Aug 22, 2012, 8:49 PM
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Finally and the freshman backing him is supposed to be really good!
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Orange Blooded [4988]
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From Dabos comments sounds like Spencer's the guy from 50+***
Aug 22, 2012, 8:53 PM
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Orange Blooded [2557]
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I know the young man is 6'6" and surely 220+ so
Aug 22, 2012, 10:40 PM
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I imagine the freshman has a leg on him. He's certainly big enough to kick the crap out of a ball...let's just hope he can kick it straight.
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the key to distance is foot speed***
Aug 22, 2012, 10:46 PM
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Orange Blooded [2557]
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Well, I know golf so in my terms club head speed, but
Aug 22, 2012, 11:16 PM
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thanks for clarifying me on something I honestly knew nothing about. I just figured he was tall, therefore he would create a longer arc in his kicking motion which would in turn give him the extra length needed to create speed. Seemed logical enough to me that being tall would allow one to kick it further....plus he could, "put his weight into it". Obviously I don't claim to know anything about the kicking aspect of football.
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Orange Blooded [4988]
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The key to distance is leg strength.
Aug 22, 2012, 11:37 PM
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Kickers like Janikowski and Bironas don't have quick legs, they have thick, bulky legs and they absolutely bomb kicks. In fact as more and more NFL teams are consistently hitting 50+ yard FGs it seems that the sheer size of kickers is growing every year.
I found an article from a few years ago talking about this. I would certainly agree that leg speed helps your distance and if you don't want to get stronger you can help distance with leg speed, but if you really want to build distance, ideally you want you leg to become a tree trunk! Here's an excerpt of the article asking why balls are being kicked further, I tend to agree with it:
"Perhaps kickers and punters are more athletic -- bigger and stronger. The scrawny European import/former soccer player kicker, once in vogue, now is a thing of the past."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=3112032
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Orange Blooded [2557]
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Thanks for the info bud. TU***
Aug 22, 2012, 11:47 PM
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Orange Blooded [2557]
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That's fine, but I still don't want him kicking it out of
Aug 23, 2012, 6:50 PM
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bounds and giving the opponent great field position.
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Will Merritt spoke
Aug 24, 2012, 12:34 AM
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to the Lexington County CU club (last night) and said the kicking game is solid. Catman hit one 60 yards and it went about 70. With the new rules on kickoffs, hopefully we kick all of them out of the end zone.
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MVP [533]
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Re: Anybdy gave any thought to our kicking this year?
Aug 22, 2012, 10:36 PM
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Its gonna be just fine. This is the most comfortable I have been with our kicking game in a while.
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Athletic Dir [875]
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I expect it to be at least as good as last year
Aug 22, 2012, 10:56 PM
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but you never know with kicking. Catman could have one bad game and lose it for the season, but i dont think he will
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Here's a thought.........
Aug 22, 2012, 11:26 PM
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Can someone PLEASE kick it deep on Kickoffs!!!!
Pretty please!!!!!
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Re: Here's a thought.........
Aug 23, 2012, 12:02 AM
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It should go 5 yards deeper this year - so we'll get closer. Now if they would just move the KO up to the 50 yard line...
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special teams are the least of my concerns, kicking or punt-
Aug 23, 2012, 3:52 AM
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ing. catman,benton and lakip can more than handle fieldgoals and kick-offs. benton and pinion will do fine punting.zimmerman was imo, the best we have had punting since hatcher, and pinion has the potential to do the same,from everything i have seen/read about him.
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My thoughts....lots of kickoffs...lots and lots of kickoffs.***
Aug 23, 2012, 9:34 AM
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Well, Catman worked out again with Morten Anderson this
Aug 23, 2012, 9:52 AM
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summer and Benton appears to be hitting 50+ yard attempts with ease....I think we're in better shape than last year. Still think Pinion needs to improve his leg speed if he wants to start at punter. Other than that, we're fine and have Lakip coming on strong for next year.
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Pinion
Aug 23, 2012, 9:53 AM
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Last year, Pinion had 17 punts inside the 20 and 37 of 50 KO's were TB's.
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Re: Anybdy gave any thought to our kicking this year?
Aug 23, 2012, 9:55 AM
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we will be better in every kicking category and last year was pretty good.
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I hope we KICK everyone's rear on our schedule.
Aug 23, 2012, 12:31 PM
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