[NU Sports] End of season thoughts (fwd)

[Mark S. Ament]

There is no question that good kickers are not easy to come by and the fact
that most schools do not put them on scholarships straight out of high
school should give RW a recruiting advantage when he goes out to fill a very
desperate need.  Surely even he recognizes the glaring need of an improved
kicking game for 2005, considering the endless tinkering he did with special
teams last season.  Let's hope he uses a scholarship to recruit a good
kicker  and then continue to recruit one or two walk-on kickers so that
there is competition for such an obvious need.

Mark
Mark S. Ament
prplehaze at insightbb.com
 

The plain and simple fact is that really GOOD kickers are a rather 
rare commodity, and not that many coaches place a high value on recruiting 
them anyhow.  I wonder how many 1-A schools have starting kickers who
were offered scholarships straight out of high school?  I'd be surprised
if it was more than half of them.