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Kicking game

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cheypoke

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Remember the days when Wyoming always had excellent kickers? What has happened? Our kick offs are the worst I have ever seen in college football. Add in the missed field goal and McCoy's really inconsistant punting and we have a real problem here.
 
Aaron said:
Its just sad that Watts liked the dope more than football
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Is that the problem? Didn't know. I jsut dont understand why other teams (Nebraska, Weber, or pretty much everyone I see on TV around the county) puts their kickoffs to the endzone. Hell, our kick to start the seond half came down at the 20! Another kick would have rolled out of bounds at the 30 if the Husker hadn't stupidly fell on it.
 
I'm still on the Sullivan bandwagon. He's a true freshman, and they struggle. He'll be a solid kicker for us, but true freshman get really worked up, especially in big games. He'll be fine.
 
McCoy had a decent game and every kicker is going to miss now and then. Once again, I can't figure out the short kick offs. Is it some sort of design in hopes for turnovers? Sullivan is a true freshman so give him a break, but how long until we see Williams? Williams was clearly the better kicker in pre-season. Sullivan's miss meant nothing towards the outcome of the game, but what if the Utah State, UNLV, NM, etc games come down to a mid-range FG, who takes it?
 
cheypoke said:
Aaron said:
Another kick would have rolled out of bounds at the 30 if the Husker hadn't stupidly fell on it.
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Actually, that was a great play. The Poke coverage was too close to the ball to take a chance on the bounce of the ball. Had it bounced in play it is a free ball.
 
cowboyz said:
McCoy had a decent game and every kicker is going to miss now and then. Once again, I can't figure out the short kick offs. Is it some sort of design in hopes for turnovers? Sullivan is a true freshman so give him a break, but how long until we see Williams? Williams was clearly the better kicker in pre-season. Sullivan's miss meant nothing towards the outcome of the game, but what if the Utah State, UNLV, NM, etc games come down to a mid-range FG, who takes it?
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Yeah, McCoy is fine (net on his punts, which is what really matters, was over 43 last night which is solid) and the least of our problems.

The kicking game is inexcusable. There is no reason that a FBS team playing at 7200 ft. cannot find someone to kick-off with decent results or that can make a FG over 30 yards (we haven't made one yet this season and we are 1/3 of the way through).

That is simply poor roster management on the part of the coaching staff.
 
Are you guys all really that blind? It's pretty obvious to me that Coach C had our young kicker kicking short last night to keep it away from Nebraska's returner. You can certainly argue whether that was a good call or not on the Coach's part, but it doesn't mean the kid can't kick it to the end zone when asked. He did a good job against Texas State of kicking it deep. I'll agree that the missed FG's are a problem, but the idea that he can't kick it out of the end zone seems ridiculous to me...
 
HellBass said:
Are you guys all really that blind? It's pretty obvious to me that Coach C had our young kicker kicking short last night to keep it away from Nebraska's returner. You can certainly argue whether that was a good call or not on the Coach's part, but it doesn't mean the kid can't kick it to the end zone when asked. He did a good job against Texas State of kicking it deep. I'll agree that the missed FG's are a problem, but the idea that he can't kick it out of the end zone seems ridiculous to me...
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Thats bs. You neutralized a good return guy by putting the kick into the enzone.
 
HellBass said:
Are you guys all really that blind? It's pretty obvious to me that Coach C had our young kicker kicking short last night to keep it away from Nebraska's returner. You can certainly argue whether that was a good call or not on the Coach's part, but it doesn't mean the kid can't kick it to the end zone when asked. He did a good job against Texas State of kicking it deep. I'll agree that the missed FG's are a problem, but the idea that he can't kick it out of the end zone seems ridiculous to me...
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Well, if that's the case, I hope DC asks him to kick the ball out of the endzone in future games. No return, no injuries, no problem. Kicking it short guarantees your opponent decent field position and if they happen to get it and run with it, they pretty much end up with great field position. If he can do it, let Sullivan pound it out of the end zone!
 
I agree...I'm against the short kick off idea. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong and the kid can't kick it out of the end zone and the reason DC is having him short kick is because he can't.
 
It looked to me at least one of the short kicks was on purpose, hoping to get a turnover. I thought it was genius when it worked against SDSU 2 yrs ago in our comeback win. I thought they were trying something like that. Finally the returner moved up and then we kicked it past him into the endzone.

But, yes I would like us to just boot it into the endzone each time.

I would rather have an accurate kicker that didn't miss FGs rather than long kickoffs...that is if I could only have one.
 
HellBass isn't wrong. Sullivan can kick it long, but even if it goes to the endzone, it can still be returned. Kicking it short was on the coach's instruction. They were trying like hell to neutralize Nebraska's returner on both kick and punt.. which is why we saw a lot of rugby punts last night, helps cool the return game.
 
Fullback41 said:
It looked to me at least one of the short kicks was on purpose, hoping to get a turnover. I thought it was genius when it worked against SDSU 2 yrs ago in our comeback win. I thought they were trying something like that. Finally the returner moved up and then we kicked it past him into the endzone.

But, yes I would like us to just boot it into the endzone each time.

I would rather have an accurate kicker that didn't miss FGs rather than long kickoffs...that is if I could only have one.
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I believed the short kick produced a turnover in the bowling green game too!
 
We need a kick off specialist who can put it in the end zone period. We have kickoffs that are being fielded @ the 20 instead of the end zone.
 
Wyo2dal said:
We need a kick off specialist who can put it in the end zone period. We have kickoffs that are being fielded @ the 20 instead of the end zone.
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We need Nebraska's kicker. He put it through the endzone every time.
 
OK WYO fans ... get a clue. Of course DC tells the kicker where to place the kick ... if they screw it up there is hell to pay. If they get it right and the other team returns it, there is hell to pay.

If he would let the kicker do their f***ing job - they would always kick it into the end zone.

He over kicks every kicker/punter on that team - because he doesn't realize that they should only kick only so much per day or else they strain their hip flexor, or pull a groin muscle, or worse yet get a torn labrum, or a hip impingement. That is what he did to the kicker, he isn't use to kicking 400 kicks in 1 day - all because DC doesn't like where it is going, or they miss 1, or the wind is blowing his hat. If they had a special teams coach he would KNOW that BUT DC thinks he knows it all. At some point he will smell the coffee and realize what he is doing but at the expense of how many kickers???? :brick:

So, maybe sometime this season he will let the kicker & punter do their job !!!!
 
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