[NU Sports] kicking blues

[Roy Lamberton]

I'm not sure we have a "kicking" problem this year, or down the road.

We have a very good group of kickers in Evanston, one in particular should
emerge next year as a star.

There's a punter or two visiting over the next few weeks who should challenge at
that position.

Outside of the men's soccer team, I'm not sure we have undiscovered "soccer"
talent wandering the campus. I'm pretty sure the soccer coaches check out the
Saturday pickup games. 

I can remember when teams gave a kicker a scholarship out of HS almost every
year. Then they found out that because of the change from tee to grass, lost of
guys couldn't do the job. You'd waste one of your 85 on guys who never panned
out.

My son's team in Greensboro found a kicking coach who ran camps, etc. He was an
older man, who I think was semi-retired. They went from never kicking the ball
right to the 35 yard pooch kick to the end cover guy, and hitting 40+ FGs.

He instilled more than just kicking the ball into the kickers. They came out at
halftime and kicked FG's from the 20, back to the 50, always into the wind.

I'm sorry to say that I never got to see him practice his guys, but most kickers
go off by themselves and practice except for the actual kick team practices.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Brad Wilson
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 12:21 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] kicking blues
> 
> 
> >From the Associated Press story of Boston College's
> win Thursday night:
> 
> "Steve Aponavicius walked onto the field for the first
> football game of his life on Thursday night and helped
> Boston College walk off with a 22-3 victory over No.
> 22 Virginia Tech.
> The left-footed soccer convert was perfect on two
> field goals and two extra points."
> 
> This kid HAD NEVER PLAYED FOOTBALL before he came to
> college, and, lo, he can kick! 
> 
> As NU continues to dork extra points, pass up scoring
> tries because the FG kicker can't get it done, etc., I
> shake my head and wonder why we can't even find a
> walk-on to kick like this kid. Sigh.
> 
> Brad Wilson 
> 
> 
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> 
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