Yes...no guarantee that Pickering will be back at this point, and if he is, will he return to good form...will he avoid re-injury? We will probably never have another Henery-esque type placekicker walk on. Placekicking is crucial...it provides points, lots of them. As we are seeing, it would be unwise to continue down this road any further.
Too important to risk relying on a kicker that is out for a year.
Cannot afford 2 scholarships at PK.
Not normally, but this isn't a normal situation..so, "Yes."
Wrong. Obviously, as witnessed this season...we can't count on walk-on kickers.
Actually, we did immediately following Henery in Brett Maher who now kicks for the Dallas Cowboys. That being said, I am for having at least one scholarship place kicker on the roster. I don't see how we justify having a backup on scholarship unless the starter is a senior and the backup is a freshman playing in four games max.
I'm sure the coaching staff is doing everything possible to correct this situation. It really is an unusual set of circumstances and the Huskers got caught with lack of depth in the place kicking category....who knew.....
Totally disagree. We already have to many scholly players that very rarely see the field so I would rather have a 2nd scholly Kicker who rarely sees the field but can be called upon in situations like we have this year.
We had them, but we could not keep them... Doesn't that tell you something?
Like what we had when Kunalik was the kickoff guy and a different kicker ( cant remember who right off the bat) handled fg and pats. I don't think it was a waste of a scholly. Maybe get guy to walkon and basically have tryout then put on scholly if it works out. Kunalik was an awesome weapon on kickoffs
