We don't have a kicker, we have a bunch of guys trying out to be the kicker. Nothing much good is likely to come of this...recruiting a scholarship kicker is now imperative.
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So what's wrong with our kicker?
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Even if Pickering returns fully healthy? Hard to have two scholarship kickers. What they need to do is have a solid Alex Henery-esque walk-on sitting behind their scholarship kicker.
Now find a scholarship punter in addition to Pickering ... maybe ... but again isn't this where the walk-on program is supposed to help you?
Well they did this year and that guy got hurt too.
Pickering is only a sophomore and at this point he is closing in on using a redshirt. That could be leaving us a scholarship kicker for another 3 seasons already on the roster.
This year might be that 1 in a thousand years where everything that could go wrong did ... but if you are referring to Jorgensen he doesn't even come close to the AH benchmark ... wasn't listed on the roster last year. He's not someone I'd list high on the reliability scale. Last year we had Frahm and McCashland on the roster as undergraduates, did they leave/not return.
In the past and in many cases our punter was also an emergency PK and vice-versa ... but Armstrong looks so unprepared for the PK role this year that I believe its negatively affected his punting this year.
Maybe not in that realm, but having a decent walkon as your backup kicker in almost any other year is sufficient.
Have we ever had another season that we’ve gone through 5 kickers?
Seems unlikely to repeat in future...
Seems unlikely to repeat in future...
OK - but does Jorgenson qualify as a decent walk-on kicker?
True freshman - reasonably accomplished high school kicker but 7-11 high school FG performance with a long of 44 yards doesn't exactly excite me. Why wasn't a couple of the other walk-on kickers from the prior year still on the roster? To me - we walked into 2019 super reliant on Pickering without any real solid legitimate backup plan.
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True seems unlikely to repeat but our scholarship kid went down - all of the sudden we were counting on a true freshman kicker who's never kicked in a collegiate environment who then goes down - and then it became a fire drill.
It feels like there was no foresight or backup plan thought through until the late injuries occurred.
For a kicker from Nebraska, I would say he was a decent walk-on.
True freshman ... never kicked in college?
I'd say decent in that Jorgensen is a better option than what we are currently seeing. I just don't think coaches normally have to worry about what their options are for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th string placekickers.
I probably don't disagree but then again we don't know.
One of my coaching mentors taught me to always have a backup plan. And then have a backup to that plan.
Wouldn't we love to have Cole Frahm redshirt freshman last year now kicking for SDSU? Currently a backup there?
Wouldn't we love to have Noah McCashland a true freshman form last year who hit a 50 yard FG in the Shrine Game?
How would we know until they actually kick, I guess when you are looking at a back up kicker, it will not be a scholarship kicker so we have to go on what he did in high school and assume that he would be a viable back up and hope we would never have to use him.
And you know those two would do a better job? Again, we don't know how they would do. To over react to one injury outbreak is probably not the right solution. Especially for those calling for another scholarship kicker to be waiting 3 years to maybe see the field.
