Wanted: Kicker!

[zipinnc]

Did anyone see Braylon Edwards (NFL) get a penalty on a field goal? Do we have our best people on the field for FG/extra point attempts? I'm 500 miles away and have a Zips Zone subscription, but don't get to see every game. If we've got 2nd or 3rd teamers on the kick unit, you can put the blame whereever you like.

[dreal1scout]

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.

Only when it's THE winning point MISSED, it is That Bad! Actually!

[Zip Watcher]

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.

What YOU don't know is that only Igor is on scholarship currently. Put the endzome lawn gnome back in the closet .. it's feeding you bad things to post.

[LZIp]

Did anyone see Braylon Edwards (NFL) get a penalty on a field goal? Do we have our best people on the field for FG/extra point attempts? I'm 500 miles away and have a Zips Zone subscription, but don't get to see every game. If we've got 2nd or 3rd teamers on the kick unit, you can put the blame whereever you like.

I wasnt at this game last saturday, but i did notice against syracuse our starting RB was on special teams. I believe he was rushing on punt return

[GP1]

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.

If I remember correctly, Igor is a senior. You guys shouldn't have to sit at your seats scared to death a senior kicker might miss an extra point or a FG less than 40 yards. Hell, I'd say that about a Junior kicker. I'd say that about a freshman kicker on extra points. If a freshman kicker can't make an extra point, he shouldn't have a scholarship.

ZipsWin! is right. The more things change, the more they stay the same. We have seen too much non-performance on the part of our Zips over the years. Sure, in the fourth quarter the pressure is on. Some players respond to pressure, others don't. Most of the time we have not. It really needs to change if we are ever going to have a winning program. We were winning Saturday 31-17 around the end of the third quarter or at the break between quarters 3 and 4. There was absolutely no excuse for letting them back in the game, let alone losing it.

I know we can do better than this. It needs to get done. The players need to start playing better. They know what to do, now they need to go out there and do what they already know how to do. I don't believe the players and coaches spend two hours a day at practice looking at each other and not practicing, or that 0% of what the coaches are doing is meaningless. I'm sure the coaches are teaching the players. Maybe they aren't the best at it, but something is getting done. They all go to the same coaching clinics so the information is about the same as what they are teaching at other schools. Surely what they are doing should be enough to beat a I-AA team when you already have a 31-17 lead. They should have never needed a kick at the end of regulation to win the game.

I still can't believe we lost to GW.

[ZachTheZip]

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.

What YOU don't know is that only Igor is on scholarship currently. Put the endzome lawn gnome back in the closet .. it's feeding you bad things to post.

Branko Rogovic isn't a walk-on. Marchese signed an LOI, so I assume he must be on scholarship as well.

[RootforRoo44]

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.

What YOU don't know is that only Igor is on scholarship currently. Put the endzome lawn gnome back in the closet .. it's feeding you bad things to post.

Branko Rogovic isn't a walk-on. Marchese signed an LOI, so I assume he must be on scholarship as well.

Go back to your endzome Zach!

[Zip Watcher]

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.

What YOU don't know is that only Igor is on scholarship currently. Put the endzome lawn gnome back in the closet .. it's feeding you bad things to post.

Branko Rogovic isn't a walk-on. Marchese signed an LOI, so I assume he must be on scholarship as well.

You making assumptions doesn't make them facts.

Go Zips!