some fan will come along and tell us our eyes are lying to us in 3......2......1.....
I love Belichick, and absolutely love Petrino, I will never ever believe that kickoff practice is warranted in key situations. Some situations call for kicking it through the end zone and not surrendering 30 plus yards because of ego, or desire to stop them inside the 10 with a directional kick in key junctions of the game when you are better served kicking the ball through the end zone.
I guess what I'm saying is that it would be nice to have a kicker on the team that had enough leg and could actually get touchbacks. If that is Petrino's philosophy (love to see a link of him saying it & explaining why) there are still situations where a eliminating any chance of a big return is warranted.
he has, I have heard him say it. I respect it, just not a good practice in all situations in my opinion.
I doubt Petrino wanted to kick the last one to the 5. I would assume in light of the Clemson experience he would have wanted to kick it out of the end zone. I believe we have overlooked a material part of our team need -special teams. Just as we cannot make a field goal of over 35 yards, cannot return a kickoff past the 20, not punt for more than 35 yds, we cannot kickoff the ball beyond the goal line.
if we expect to be a successful team, we need to concentrate our resources onto special teams. With an incredible soccer team we may want to look there for a kicker. what we have now is sub par to 5 high school teams. The Trinity kicker hits 55 yard field goals, so does the central high kicker. Our college kicker is toast at 30 yards.
