🏈 Who is Leigh Tiffin's Backup?

[bamatommy]

A backup PK left the team to go elsewhere. Who else kicks PAT's and FG's besides Tiffin?

 

[joeman546]

As far as I know, he has no backup. Its him, and him alone. A walkon will probably come aboard before the season starts methinks.

 

[TerryP]

We already have one walk-on who worked with the practice squad last year, Colin Gallagher.

 

[shiloh]

This seriously stinks. As many games that are won with the last second field goal...

 

[reger60]

All of this brings up a very interesting topic. I have always wondered why the kicking positions seem to be so under-recruited.

On the surface, punters and kickers may not seem all that critical, but it doesn't take very long into a season when you realize whether or not your kicking and punting games are going to be blessings or burdens.

 

[alagator]

Talk going around in some usually pretty well informed circles that Tiffin suffered a pretty severe injury to his kicking leg in that little dust-up he had a few weeks back.

From the sound of some of the conversation, this might affect his performance this year.

So this question might not be as innocent as it first appears.

 

[UAgrad93]

I'm sure we will have a few invited walk-ons to join our committment from the Lone Star State. I think that is the reason the kid got an offer was that CNS knew we are in need.

 

[Tider27]

Seems like a possible realistic problem. There are plenty of capable walk-on's that can be invited by next fall however. If there is a position on the field that actually doesn't require learning of the playbook, it would be the kicker.

 

[psychojoe]

All of this brings up a very interesting topic. I have always wondered why the kicking positions seem to be so under-recruited.

On the surface, punters and kickers may not seem all that critical, but it doesn't take very long into a season when you realize whether or not your kicking and punting games are going to be blessings or burdens.

I know that Coach Stallings had the view that he could get a punter or pk from among walk ons, invited or otherwise, who would be almost as good as what he could get by offering a scholarship. This was especially the case when he was dealing with reduced scholarship numbers.