Steve, you may be on to something here. I have forgotten much of the geometry that I used to know, but the distance from the kickoff tee to the five yard line sideline would likely be 5-10 yards if the kick were made strait to the endzone. Could someone who remembers their geometry do the actual calculation?
Perhaps we should be kicking it strait and maybe out of the endzone. Pinning a team at the 15 sometimes might not be as good as pinning them to the 20 ever time. Jerry From: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve McKibben Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:29 PM To: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com Subject: [gatortalk] Re: VS. Bama I agree that the rain soaked heavy footballs were likely hard to get great distance from. It's ironic - after the Kentucky game, on the post game locker room show Meyer gushed on and on about the kick coverage team - calling them the best he's ever been around. Since that game they've been poor. I noticed that during the South Carolina game Will Hill, who's probably made the majority of our tackles on kickoffs this year, was not on that unit. He was this past weekend, so that can't be blamed for the poor coverage. I think it was a combination of the wet fields and the fact that some blatant holding and illegal block penalties committed by the semis went uncalled (there was however a flag on every decent return we had). Meyer loves to pin the KO returner in a corner and stop them short of the twenty, or even the ten if we can. He's a field position maniac. But I hope that the facts that 'bama is not a quick strike team, the seeming slump by our KO coverage team, a very good Tide return man in Arinas, and a dry ball convinces him to tell Sturgis to put the kickoffs into the stands behind the goalposts! Make them try and go the full 80, I don't think we can get away with giving them a short field all day the way we did against 1/2assu. --- On Mon, 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think alot of the special teams fiasco from this past weekend was due to the weather conditions. Since, UM himself is the special teams guru at Florida... I have a feeling that they will have something special planned for the game this weekend since the weather wont be a factor. Woody </table --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
