One thing that drove me crazy this weekend was the fact that we don’t have a kicking game. I mean, going out and getting Ryan Burkhart seemed nice. He seemed to have a strong leg and all that, but clearly the guy isn’t accurate. Carl Joy-yeah has been incredibly inconsistent during the season, and these extra point woes are ridiculous.
CW needs to recruit a kicker. A REAL, top of the line, top of his game, solid long distance and accurate kicker. It should be easy. You tell the recruit this:
- You’ll start
- We’ll be in the NC race every year (and we will)
- I (meaning CW) know pro scouts and can get you a look
- And if you dont make it in the pros, because very few kickers do, you’ll get a good degree and be rich someday anyway
- And, yeah, if you do well you might get a kiss from Jenny McCarthy like Jim Sanson did (but you may not want it because 1)Â She’s getting up there in age and 2) it jinxed the hell out of Sanson who then sucked for the rest of his career)
Okay, maybe not the last two. But the lack of a kicking game is affecting our playcalling, and that shouldn’t happen. It should be automatic, especially at a high profile program like ours.
So somebody find us a kicker, give him a freaking scholarship, and lets go back to ignoring that part of the game like we all want to.
Someone somewhere will make The Tribe (All of whom are BIG ND Fans) happy again with a new kicking game.
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