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Colorado's field goal woes

Buffnik said:
From the little I understand, it's about getting your steps, plant foot and contact point correct then committing that to habit. From there, the angle and distance become almost irrelevant - they just do their routine after getting setup properly pre-snap. This week has got to be on the mental, I think. If there's confidence in that routine, the mental will be there. I have no idea how many reps that takes or at what point over-kicking screws up that routine habit. All I know is that Graham needs to get to the point where he's got his thing that he does on repeat and has enough confidence in it that he's got blinders & earmuffs on to everything else that's going on.
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They remind me of golfers. They start thinking, it's usually bad news. I'd hope one of the guys we have can just go out and get it done because that's what is expected from you.
 
buffspokerams said:
Last year Florida was having injuries and kicker issues with the backups. They had a open tryout, and they had a dental student who earned the position. IT WAS UGLY! I'll stick to who's on the roster.
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It worked for Texas Tech in 2008, they had a walk on kicker become their three-year starter after he won a kicking contest..
 
This doesn't completely solve the PK issues, but I honestly believe that CU needs to start calling plays on downs 1-3 like they are going to go for it on 4th down. 3rd and 7 doesn't automatically have to be a passing down. Run the ball, get into 4th and 2 and you have your entire playbook for 4th down. Make it known to our defense that the offense is going to be aggressive and they are going to stop the opponent regardless of what happens. I doubt the coaches will do it, but kicking woes aside, the numbers absolutely support going for it on 4th down far more often than almost all coaches do.
 
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TSchekler said:
This doesn't completely solve the PK issues, but I honestly believe that CU needs to start calling plays on downs 1-3 like they are going to go for it on 4th down. 3rd and 7 doesn't automatically have to be a passing down. Run the ball, get into 4th and 2 and you have your entire playbook for 4th down. Make it known to our defense that the offense is going to be aggressive and they are going to stop the opponent regardless of what happens. I doubt the coaches will do it, but kicking woes aside, the numbers absolutely support going for it on 4th down far more often than almost all coaches do.
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Ok I'll play, does that include situations where we should just punt? Specifics.
 
BuffLuKe said:
Ok I'll play, does that include situations where we should just punt? Specifics.
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Situational football. I wouldn't advocate going for it on 4th and 9 from our own 30 yardline with 4 minutes to go and a 4 point lead. But 4th and 2 from the 50 with the same time left... Yes. Especially with our below average punting that might net us only 20-30 yards in field position if we don't get it. It all hinges on play calling, though. If we get into 4th and short, are we going to line up in a double TE formation with 3 RBs stacked, like we saw against Stanford inside the 5? If so, then you might as well just punt or kick. The teams that choose to be this aggressive (ie Oregon of years past), run up tempo and just call the play like they would any other, from their base type formations. You get tripped up when you call a time out, allow the other team to sub in heavy personnel and then load up on OL and TE because "all we need is 1 yard". Nevermind the fact that Lindsay was averaging 10 yards a carry with our zone read stuff out of Shotgun.
 
Swish said:
I think there is a fair number of programs out there that would be in trouble if their starting kicker went down for the season and their best option to back him up was a freshman. It puts us in a tough spot, but I think the team has to battle through it and do the best we have with what we've got.

I do have a question about this - can the team hire a kicking specialist to come in for some short term training? I know they run camps for high school kids all over the place but I don't know if something like this would be allowed or not.
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Probably not; but I'd expect a team could send tape of our kickers kicking plus a coach or two to a kicking specialist and let the specialist train our coaches to correct our kickers issues. Can't imagine it being illegal to get the coaches extra training.
 
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TSchekler said:
Situational football. I wouldn't advocate going for it on 4th and 9 from our own 30 yardline with 4 minutes to go and a 4 point lead. But 4th and 2 from the 50 with the same time left... Yes. Especially with our below average punting that might net us only 20-30 yards in field position if we don't get it. It all hinges on play calling, though. If we get into 4th and short, are we going to line up in a double TE formation with 3 RBs stacked, like we saw against Stanford inside the 5? If so, then you might as well just punt or kick. The teams that choose to be this aggressive (ie Oregon of years past), run up tempo and just call the play like they would any other, from their base type formations. You get tripped up when you call a time out, allow the other team to sub in heavy personnel and then load up on OL and TE because "all we need is 1 yard". Nevermind the fact that Lindsay was averaging 10 yards a carry with our zone read stuff out of Shotgun.
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Appreciate the response, I don't disagree. Umm my only thing was don't go stupid with it.
 
FlatironsBuff said:
Probably not; but I'd expect a team could send rape of our kickers kicking plus a coach or two to a kicking specialist and let the specialist train our coaches to correct our kickers issues. Can't imagine it being illegal to get the coaches extra training.
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Hey now, did you mean to post this in the **** bailer thread or are you making a sHnida comment about something?
 
I think the "open tryout" kicker was a successful move twice in the P5 in the last decade. Boston College in the mid-2000s and Texas Tech (Matt Williams?) a couple years later. The reason I don't think it happened more times than that? The broadcast team pimps THE HELL OUT OF that storyline every game for the rest of that kicker's career on television. Plenty of kicking woes over the years though. I'll trust the staff has a kicking consultant like Matt Thompson in the area who can work with the squad and find some consistency during the bye week.
 
Nick Porter is a kicker on the roster, obviously a walk on but I mean there are definitely some bodies there.
 
Jesus Christ, all I care about is put it through the uprights. I don't give a **** if it's peewee herman.
 
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