LOL! That's always bugged me, too, Cee, but I couldn't bring myself to correct them. ;-)
Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Gatortalk@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:11 PM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: VS. Bama > > It's STRAIGHT, people! > > Argh! > > Cee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Belloit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Gatortalk@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:07 PM > Subject: [gatortalk] Re: VS. Bama > > >> >> Sean, >> >> I came up with the same numbers today. The best I could figure would be >> that the kick would be somewhere between 1-8 yards into the endzone. I >> thought about something else, however. Does our kicker hit the ball as >> hard >> if he is trying to place it exactly in the corner? If he could kick >> strait >> on, could he kick it harder and thus deeper into the endzone? >> >> Jerry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Sean >> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:20 AM >> To: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [gatortalk] Re: VS. Bama >> >> >> I dusted off the bong resin enough to do these calculations: >> >> - Kickoff from the 30 yard line (new rule last year), angled to the >> corner >> of the goal line and sideline (the ultimate pin back) would travel 74.9 >> yards... so that same kick straight on would go about 5 yards deep in the >> endzone. >> >> - Kickoff from the 30 angled to the 5 yard line and the sideline (more >> typical) would travel 70.26 yards, so that same kick straight on would >> fall just inside the goal line. >> >> Both of these are of course negating all the ugly realities of fluid >> dynamics with the effects of wind, etc., but should suffice for the sake >> of discussion : ) >> >> -Sean >> Go Gators!!! Beat Bama!!! >> >> >>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
