Wanted: Kicker!

[Wally B]

Wow! That's all i can say. While it wasn't our only problem by far, i seriously i thick we've seen the last of Igor.

Honestly, is there anyone else? Can't get worse......

Soccer team?

Riffle team?

Zippy?

[tbozeglav]

Wow! That's all i can say. While it wasn't our only problem by far, i seriously i thick we've seen the last of Igor.

Honestly, is there anyone else? Can't get worse......

Soccer team?

Riffle team?

Zippy?

the dude they found for that halftime contest thing for the Syracuse game last week looked better...

[UAZip0510]

Wow! That's all i can say. While it wasn't our only problem by far, i seriously i thick we've seen the last of Igor.

Honestly, is there anyone else? Can't get worse......

Soccer team?

Riffle team?

Zippy?

Career Numbers:

XPA: 77

XPM: 73

FGA: 50

FGM: 34

Ouch.

[RootforRoo44]

Wow! That's all i can say. While it wasn't our only problem by far, i seriously i thick we've seen the last of Igor.

Honestly, is there anyone else? Can't get worse......

Soccer team?

Riffle team?

Zippy?

Career Numbers:

XPA: 77

XPM: 73

FGA: 50

FGM: 34

Ouch.

that's not too bad actually.

[UAZip0510]

Wow! That's all i can say. While it wasn't our only problem by far, i seriously i thick we've seen the last of Igor.

Honestly, is there anyone else? Can't get worse......

Soccer team?

Riffle team?

Zippy?

Career Numbers:

XPA: 77

XPM: 73

FGA: 50

FGM: 34

Ouch.

that's not too bad actually.

34 for 50 is pretty bad to me, especially since only 1 was 50+ yards.

[RootforRoo44]

So you're saying you want Bronko kicking instead? The guy that cant even keep kickoffs in bounds?

[Wally B]

2 of those were a short yardage fg and an extra pt

[ksu sucks]

So you're saying you want Bronko kicking instead? The guy that cant even keep kickoffs in bounds?

No, he's saying he wants a new kicker. Did you miss that when you clicked the Topic label that read "Wanted: New kicker"?

[ZachTheZip]

We have a 3rd kicker on the roster: TJ Marchese.

How many losses can be laid directly at Igor's feet? Cincinnati, Buffalo, Gardner-Webb are the three that stand out to me the most, but many more are out there.

[UAZip0510]

I refuse to believe that there isn't a better option out there somewhere

[RootforRoo44]

So you're saying you want Bronko kicking instead? The guy that cant even keep kickoffs in bounds?

No, he's saying he wants a new kicker. Did you miss that when you clicked the Topic label that read "Wanted: New kicker"?

I wasnt talking to the topic starter. And how the heck do you suppose we get a new kicker? All im saying is it's not as easy as you think, especially when your line is letting 1/2 of the defense right through untouched.

[ksu sucks]

And how the heck do you suppose we get a new kicker? All im saying is it's not as easy as you think, especially when your line is letting 1/2 of the defense right through untouched.

So I guess that means were in a little bit of trouble this season, doesn't it, Root5Roo?

[Dave in Green]

Can those who actually saw the blocked PAT comment on whether it was the center, the holder, the offensive line, the kicker, or some combination who was at fault for allowing the block?

[GJGood]

Being unable to see the game and the PAT in OT, was it Igor's fault that it was blocked? Usually, in fact almost always, blocked PATs and short field goals are the fault of the O-line or the long snapper.

[ZachTheZip]

Can those who actually saw the blocked PAT comment on whether it was the center, the holder, the offensive line, the kicker, or some combination who was at fault for allowing the block?

It had a really low angle of trajectory.

[RootforRoo44]

Can those who actually saw the blocked PAT comment on whether it was the center, the holder, the offensive line, the kicker, or some combination who was at fault for allowing the block?

It had a really low angle of trajectory.

And two of their d linemen were 3 yards into the backfield.

[Zipsrifle]

Can those who actually saw the blocked PAT comment on whether it was the center, the holder, the offensive line, the kicker, or some combination who was at fault for allowing the block?

It had a really low angle of trajectory.

And two of their d linemen were 3 yards into the backfield.

Yea, they had great penetration.

[cornbread]

twitter hashtag

#ZipsNeedAKicker

[Dave in Green]

Low kick + great defensive penetration = blocked kick.

Low kicks can be necessary for long kicks or kicking into a stiff wind. There's no reason to kick PATs low. If I'm a kicker and I don't trust my offensive line to keep the defenders at bay, I'm going to do my best to get way under the ball. It should be teachable if the kicker has any ability at all to learn and improve his technique. The coaching staff needs to take some responsibility on this. Get the guy out there kicking high PATs all day long. This is really basic stuff.

[K92]

Low kick + great defensive penetration = blocked kick.

Low kicks can be necessary for long kicks or kicking into a stiff wind. There's no reason to kick PATs low. If I'm a kicker and I don't trust my offensive line to keep the defenders at bay, I'm going to do my best to get way under the ball. It should be teachable if the kicker has any ability at all to learn and improve his technique. The coaching staff needs to take some responsibility on this. Get the guy out there kicking high PATs all day long. This is really basic stuff.

Among other things.

[GJGood]

...and how about not letting the defense in the backfield within the first 1.5 seconds after the snap.

[Wally B]

Study Proves that "icing" the kicker actually works:

There’s a few seconds left in the game. The kicker lines up for what would be the game winning kick. He lines up his position making sure it’s perfect and is finally set. Fans are on the edge of their seat waiting to either jumpy for joy or throw the remote at the television.

The snapper snaps it back, the holder places the ball down and the kicker blasts the ball sending it on target. Time slows down as the kick hangs in the air. The kick carries and carries and just manages to sneak over the crossbar. It’s good! Everyone starts celebrating until wait … the referee is blowing the play dead.

Redo the kick.

What?

Why?

Well, the opposing coach waited until the final millisecond to signal timeout to the referee in an attempt to “ice” the kicker.

NFL coaches do this often and as a fan it is very frustrating, but is the strategy actually effective? Apparently it is.

A new study by the University of San Diego says that kickers are less likely to make a field goal in a high pressure situation if the opposing team’s coach calls a time out just as they’re about to tee things up. The technique is called “icing.”

Psychology professor Nadav Goldschmied reviewed data from six National Football League seasons (2002-08) and found that kickers who’d been iced scored only 66.4 percent of the time (73 out of 110 kicks). By comparison, kickers who were not iced had an 80.4 percent success rate (131 out of 161).

Oddly, the study also says that “when the kicker’s own team called a time-out” the kicker had a success rate of 83.3 percent (45 out of 54).

The university says “other factors such as experience, game location or game score were not associated with success.”

“The prevailing wisdom is that icing works because of negative thoughts regarding potentially missing the kick that overwhelm the kicker during the extended time period,” Goldschmied told us by email. “However, we found that an added time per se (e.g., if the time-out was requested by own coach) did not yield a deterioration in performance.

“Thus, an alternative proposition that I am advocating is that preparing for the kick is taxing by itself (when the kicker is iced – i.e., time-out is requested by the opposite coach – he prepares for the kick twice, thereby extending the preparation time). Other studies show that, in general, extending the preparation period results in worse performance.”

I would like to see if they factored in the distance of the field goals in this study because that could have a huge effect. Assuming that they did, I’m not really surprised by the result. The thing I did find most interesting though is that when the kicker’s own team called a time out the kicker had a success rate of 83.3 percent (45 out of 54). Maybe more teams will start “icing” their own kickers now.

Maybe a little defense for Igor

[Bull_In_Exile]

Hope you guys don't mind me chiming in, I'm not here to kick you when your down as a Bills fan during the SB years I know what it's like to have Kicker Woes. I also watched the Bulls lose more than a few games over the past two years because of a FG miss.

Coach I had a kicker lined up in the off season and declined to offer him a scholarship, he walked on at another MAC school where he is red shirting this season.

For some reason Coaches don't like to keep two kickers on scholly, UB included, which is a mistake.

When Buffalo has ahd kicking (and punting woes) in the past they have looked at Buff State (DII) and ECC (Local Community college)... Usually you can pull away their kickers with just the offer of a walk-on... Has Akron done this in the past?

[ZachTheZip]

Hope you guys don't mind me chiming in, I'm not here to kick you when your down as a Bills fan during the SB years I know what it's like to have Kicker Woes. I also watched the Bulls lose more than a few games over the past two years because of a FG miss.

Coach I had a kicker lined up in the off season and declined to offer him a scholarship, he walked on at another MAC school where he is red shirting this season.

For some reason Coaches don't like to keep two kickers on scholly, UB included, which is a mistake.

When Buffalo has ahd kicking (and punting woes) in the past they have looked at Buff State (DII) and ECC (Local Community college)... Usually you can pull away their kickers with just the offer of a walk-on... Has Akron done this in the past?

Thanks for chiming in. I didn't know about the kicker being lined up.

But what you don't realize is that Akron has three kickers on scholarship right now. We use one for kickoffs, one for PK/FG duty, and one rides the pine. And what's worse is that absolutely none of them belong on a D-I roster. A waste of scholarships. Goodness knows we could certainly use the three scholies for other positions.

The last time we had a good kicker, it was a walk-on from the soccer team (he had a soccer or academic scholarship, so he could afford to walk-on for football). I don't understand why we don't do that again. There are plenty of incredible athletes sitting on the bench for soccer.

[johnnyzip84]

Wow! That's all i can say. While it wasn't our only problem by far, i seriously i thick we've seen the last of Igor.

Honestly, is there anyone else? Can't get worse......

Soccer team?

Riffle team?

Zippy?

the dude they found for that halftime contest thing for the Syracuse game last week looked better...

Although he was a bit of a "ringer" for the contest (played soccer and PK for the Northwest football team last year), I wouldn't mind seeing him try out. You don't see a lot of left footed placekickers for some reason.