[NU Sports] End of season thoughts (fwd)

[Michael Vance]

Unfortunately, that's exactly what Walker did with Huffman.  The kid was 
money in high school.  Without him, Schaumburg doesn't win the state title 
his senior year, no question.  Yet he never performed up to expectations in 
college.  And that's the one aspect of the game that doesn't change much 
from one level to the next.  Whether you're in HS, college, or pro, you've 
got the same step-off, the same cadence, you're kicking from the same 
distance, and the ball's the same size.  The only difference is the size 
and speed of the guys trying to block it, but that's the line's 
problem.  So what happens to some kickers?  It has to be either mental or 
it's that they get a little screwed up when they fully grow up from boys to 
men and their bodies don't act the same way.  I don't know what else it 
could be.

-Michael

At 1/10/2005 07:22 PM, Mark S. Ament wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
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