You saw who we had the last two years. It was imperative we grab another leg or two.
True, and it’s hard to judge the angle of those kicks to see if they’d be blocked.
Switch places with the kicker. Are you going to come to GT and pay your own way with out-of-state tuition? So the staff figures the kid stands a good shot at being really good. So they roll the dice and offer a scholly to lock him up.
Exactly. Why fans don’t understand the importance of a kicker is mind blowing. Bama almost lost a Natty because of a kicker against UGA no less. Having a legit kicker is more important than several other positions. Butker won many games for GT and we have been dreadful ever sense. Field position is all about kickers. We put our defense in holes when we can’t simply kick it into the end zone. We have gobs of players on scholarship at wide receiver and DB, many of whom will rarely see the field, yet a position that is on the field throughout the game and puts points on the board shouldn’t be on a scholly? Heck, I wouldn’t whine about having 2-3 kickers on scholly instead of yet another DB who will enter the portal when his boys convince him he’s the next Deion.
Exactly. Imagine a world where our opponents always start their drives on the 25 instead of the 40+.
Why don’t you ask the same question for the 15 DB’s and 10 WR’s who have schollies? The only person who can authorize a scholarship is the head coach. So “I trust the coaching staff” is the only answer because not one of us can see what is going on in the head coaches head. And the reason that 1% of kickers get scholarships (if that is true) and has become the “norm”is because generally football coaches are meat heads who don’t fully understand where wins come from. If you look at GT’s football history, at least the last 50 years, the years we had special seasons were all tied to kickers. Without Scott Sisson the only argument GT fans can win wouldn’t exist (1980). We had great kickers during the O’Leary run. And of course Butker. As I mentioned earlier I’d offer 2-3 kickers a scholarship and then send the ones who cant hack it to the portal. No different than what Collins has done with other positions. But then we get into the whole “you shouldn’t rescind scholarships” argument from the purists who love mediocrity.
