Can Baxa punt?

[canecat]

LOL at people giving up on a freshman punter. Man glad yall ain't making the coaching decisions . I do think you obviously need a 2nd punter just in case of injury and also to allow for competition but Feagles is our punter most likely for 4 years.

 

[De Pinga]

LOL at people giving up on a freshman punter. Man glad yall ain't making the coaching decisions . I do think you obviously need a 2nd punter just in case of injury and also to allow for competition but Feagles is our punter most likely for 4 years.

Giving up on a Freshman punter, while asking if the incoming Freshman kicker can also handle punting duties. CIS is full of f ucking idiots.

 

[MidnightCane]

**** I just hope he is ready to kick fg as true freshman.. is he enrolling early? Kicking in high school n college is a big difference, got to get accustomed asap

Dude could barely punt a ball 30 yards down the field. Baxa better be ready for kickoff duties.

With that being said, it was his freshmen year and man...I can't imagine it have going any worse. One more year of strength added to his leg and maybe some more work on technique with papa Feagles then maybe he gets better.

It cannot get any worse. Right? Right???? Please tell me it cannot get any worse.

I can tell you from my current experience with a Kicker (my son is a K/P) When your high your HIGH and when your low your LOWWWWWWW. Talking about the mental aspect. My son has been to the same camps as BAXA and I can tell you that he was predominantly recruited because he can boom it out the end zone in KOs. His FGs to me are average in accuracy as most others. IMO If UM wasn't so cotdam expensive I would tell my son to walk on and he could easily compete or surpass Feagles, Spicer or Baxa.

Does your son have any offers?

He has always been a soccer player and late in the Football game and in the camp circuit. So he is not well known yet. He's got a few offers, nothing like UM though. Specialist Recruiting is VERY strange and VERY political.

 

[ScharfCane]

O'Donnell's freshman year: 37.9 yard per punt (47.1 as a senior)
Bosher's freshman year: 40.2 yard per punt (44.0 as a senior)
Vogel's sophomore year (first year starting) 42.8 yard per punt (43.8 as a senior)

Feagles this year: 38.1 yard per punt

I'll think he'll be okay.

 

[CGCANE]

Feagles punted pretty well early in the season... especially the FSU 1st half. It's not like he can't boom them. Is it coaching? Our special teams suck overall.

Yes it is definitely coaching that forces Feagles to kick the ball off the side of his foot. We are instructing him to do that for spin and fun.

Ok.. so when a WR has drops... it's the coaching that instructed him to bat the ball down? When a WR runs a bad route...he was instructed to do that? You are a moron. There is technique that needs to be taught (coached).

 

[jnf2257]

Feagles punted pretty well early in the season... especially the FSU 1st half. It's not like he can't boom them. Is it coaching? Our special teams suck overall.

Yes it is definitely coaching that forces Feagles to kick the ball off the side of his foot. We are instructing him to do that for spin and fun.

Ok.. so when a WR has drops... it's the coaching that instructed him to bat the ball down? When a WR runs a bad route...he was instructed to do that? You are a moron. There is technique that needs to be taught (coached).

The moronic thing to do is watch Feagles boom punts and then see ones hit the side of his foot and go 20 yards and blame it on coaching.

Hartley sucks when it comes to punt return design, but he can't go out there and kick the **** ball for Feagles.

 

[Stylie]

Feagles for the Ray Guy Award.

 

[MidnightCane]

Feagles punted pretty well early in the season... especially the FSU 1st half. It's not like he can't boom them. Is it coaching? Our special teams suck overall.

Yes it is definitely coaching that forces Feagles to kick the ball off the side of his foot. We are instructing him to do that for spin and fun.

Ok.. so when a WR has drops... it's the coaching that instructed him to bat the ball down? When a WR runs a bad route...he was instructed to do that? You are a moron. There is technique that needs to be taught (coached).

The moronic thing to do is watch Feagles boom punts and then see ones hit the side of his foot and go 20 yards and blame it on coaching.

Hartley sucks when it comes to punt return design, but he can't go out there and kick the **** ball for Feagles.

I agree with this completely. Those shanks are all on the kid. Its mental, either lack of focus or succumbing to the pressure of the situation as a freshman. Hartley put all his chips in on Feagles and Baxa. We can only hope they improve.

 

[DTP]

Ideally, you'd like to set up your specialist recruitment so that you don't have to rely on freshmen to punt or kick. Unfortunately, like many other positions on the roster, the previous staff left a huge void behind the starter and the current staff has had to scramble to replace the punter after year one and kicker after year two. Hopefully they won't continue to wait until a player is a senior before they start recruiting a replacement.

Wasn’t Feagles recruited by Richt?

Yes. The problem lies in that they had to start a freshman punter this season because there was no other option. Had Golden signed a punter somewhere along the way, they might not have had to rely on a true freshman to do all their punting.

 

[DTP]

Also, I think Feagles was told to concentrate more on hangtime and less on distance. They have zero trust in the punt coverage unit so they'd rather a 35 yard punt with no return than a 45 yard punt that gives the returner an opportunity. He's had some pretty bad shanks this year but I don't think it's anything that can't be corrected. Badgley struggled as a freshman kicker and Bosher was pretty horrible as a freshman punter too.

 

[soddyCane]

O'Donnell's freshman year: 37.9 yard per punt (47.1 as a senior)
Bosher's freshman year: 40.2 yard per punt (44.0 as a senior)
Vogel's sophomore year (first year starting) 42.8 yard per punt (43.8 as a senior)

Feagles this year: 38.1 yard per punt

I'll think he'll be okay.

Bosher was that dude. Punts, field goals, kickoffs, and he would get his nose in there on tackles if they made it that far.

 

[Canemang]

**** I just hope he is ready to kick fg as true freshman.. is he enrolling early? Kicking in high school n college is a big difference, got to get accustomed asap

Dude could barely punt a ball 30 yards down the field. Baxa better be ready for kickoff duties.

With that being said, it was his freshmen year and man...I can't imagine it have going any worse. One more year of strength added to his leg and maybe some more work on technique with papa Feagles then maybe he gets better.

It cannot get any worse. Right? Right???? Please tell me it cannot get any worse.

I can tell you from my current experience with a Kicker (my son is a K/P) When your high your HIGH and when your low your LOWWWWWWW. Talking about the mental aspect. My son has been to the same camps as BAXA and I can tell you that he was predominantly recruited because he can boom it out the end zone in KOs. His FGs to me are average in accuracy as most others. IMO If UM wasn't so cotdam expensive I would tell my son to walk on and he could easily compete or surpass Feagles, Spicer or Baxa.

Does your son have any offers?

He has always been a soccer player and late in the Football game and in the camp circuit. So he is not well known yet. He's got a few offers, nothing like UM though. Specialist Recruiting is VERY strange and VERY political.

Good luck, hope he gets an opportunity

 

[hcanes100]

LOL at people giving up on a freshman punter. Man glad yall ain't making the coaching decisions . I do think you obviously need a 2nd punter just in case of injury and also to allow for competition but Feagles is our punter most likely for 4 years.

Giving up on a Freshman punter, while asking if the incoming Freshman kicker can also handle punting duties. CIS is full of f ucking idiots.

Most of Feagles issues were not standard punts, his issues were mostly with directional and short punting situations. He did shank a few, but most of his horrible punts came on when called to make situational punts.

I agree, he is a freshman, and attempting to say he can't work on it is a bit pre-mature. He has the leg for it, just now has to refine his craft. I'm with you on this one, to call it a failure at this point is a bit pre-mature.

 

[BloodEunsOrangeAndGreen]

Our “freshman” punter has had training from his all pro dad since he was born. Feagles problem isn’t technique, it’s his lack of distance trying to turn field position and his frequency of shanks which is usually due to nerves and is at an extremely high rate at inopritune times. Some of these things are unfixable and i think we should move on as well. It is ridiculous we have to bring up a punter on a top 25 team, i can walk in my back yard and punt the ball 40 yards consistently and my only previous training is playing high school soccer. Once agin if you hear the name of the punter that is not good and we hear this kids name for messing up every week almost.

 

[SFbayCane]

Feagles will be fine next season. He was a true freshman.



That said, be prepared for this Baxa kid to struggle mightily next year. Its really tough for true freshman kickers to adjust to the college level. Toughest transition of any position from HS to college.

 

[skyman]

LOL at people giving up on a freshman punter. Man glad yall ain't making the coaching decisions . I do think you obviously need a 2nd punter just in case of injury and also to allow for competition but Feagles is our punter most likely for 4 years.

Giving up on a Freshman punter, while asking if the incoming Freshman kicker can also handle punting duties. CIS is full of f ucking idiots.

Most of Feagles issues were not standard punts, his issues were mostly with directional and short punting situations. He did shank a few, but most of his horrible punts came on when called to make situational punts.

I agree, he is a freshman, and attempting to say he can't work on it is a bit pre-mature. He has the leg for it, just now has to refine his craft. I'm with you on this one, to call it a failure at this point is a bit pre-mature.

I dont think so, maybe early in season but he had many opportunities in Pitt and Clemson where our offense didnt move the ball and our defense needed a good punt to flip the field and play defense and he put them in bad field position. NOBODY would be complaining if he shanked it at 50 trying to pin them deep or kicked it in endzone.

It becomes glaring when you our on your own 25 and he kicks the ball and it barely reaches the 50. This happened multiple times, and you can look at play by play on espn if you dont believe it. Dude didnt get benched in clemson game because he missed some situational punts

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

A shank is one thing, but when the coach shifts coverage and asks his freshman punter to do a rugby style drop punt away from the rush, and that punt goes poorly, I blame that on the ST coach.

 

[CGCANE]

A shank is one thing, but when the coach shifts coverage and asks his freshman punter to do a rugby style drop punt away from the rush, and that punt goes poorly, I blame that on the DT coach.

Bring back Don Soldinger!!!