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MiamiVice7

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As I sat there and watched Bama's kicker miss his second kick of the night to end regulation and send the game to overtime, I know **** well I wasn't the only thinking it...

This guy has missed 2 FGs already in the national championship game. Yet not one kicker missed one cot **** FG against us ALL F*****G YEAR. I mean, c'mon. What kind of **** is that??

I really am curious if there's any record or stat about this. How many times can that have happened to a team over the course of an entire year?
 
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The Syracuse kicker is still hitting 70 yarders against us in my nightmares.
 
I thought the same thing. Georgia has the opposite luck as us this year with FG. Last game the OU kicker had a 30 yarder blocked. This game Bama has 2 easy misses and Georgia makes a 50+ yarder in OT. It really is quite incredible
 
I don't recall anyone missing against us this season, but someone had to...right? There's no way opposing kickers were 100% against us...RIGHT?!
 
Hate to say it and I'm no pro when it comes to football but perhaps this has to do with our special teams play and lack of a coach?

Different rushes or techniques to learn when putting pressure on the fg kicker?

Surely special teams against the opposing field goal unit has advanced along the decades so that it's more than just running to the line and putting ure hands up/having a speedster on the edge and diving.

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PharmCane305 said:
Hate to say it and I'm no pro when it comes to football but perhaps this has to do with our special teams play and lack of a coach?

Different rushes or techniques to learn when putting pressure on the fg kicker?

Surely special teams against the opposing field goal unit has advanced along the decades so that it's more than just running to the line and putting ure hands up/having a speedster on the edge and diving.

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this explains the lack of blocks. there is no on field explanation for the fact that kickers didn't miss a single kick against us all year. that's just a crazy amount of variance all going against UM this year. I'm sure there is a year in the past or will be a year in the future where miami is on the other end of all this and opposing kickers hit at an absurdly low%
 
PharmCane305 said:
Hate to say it and I'm no pro when it comes to football but perhaps this has to do with our special teams play and lack of a coach?

Different rushes or techniques to learn when putting pressure on the fg kicker?

Surely special teams against the opposing field goal unit has advanced along the decades so that it's more than just running to the line and putting ure hands up/having a speedster on the edge and diving.

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Regardless, what's crazier to me is that not once did a kicker just shank a kick, or slip, or kick it too low, etc. NOT ONCE. That happens all the time in cfb, every weekend, often multiple times in any given game.
 
The dude also missed against Clemson. One for sure. I was thinking at that point we weren't that much different from Bama: QBs that are wildly inconsistent and FG kicker that miss a couple in big moments.
 
It's really incredible.

People like to talk about regression to the mean in the context of some of our lucky endings this season, but I'd counter that we're also way overdue some luck in the form of missed field goals, holding calls, etc.
 
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Honestly, we could have not even fielded a kick block unit and the law of averages says that opponents should have missed at least one of those field goals against us. I'm pretty sure opponent field goal % was 100.
 
MiamiVice7 said:
As I sat there and watched Bama's kicker miss his second kick of the night to end regulation and send the game to overtime, I know **** well I wasn't the only thinking it...

This guy has missed 2 FGs already in the national championship game. Yet not one kicker missed one cot **** FG against us ALL F*****G YEAR. I mean, c'mon. What kind of **** is that??

I really am curious if there's any record or stat about this. How many times can that have happened to a team over the course of an entire year?
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Definitely lowers our chances of winning. I think the Pitt kicker was like 50% on the year and never hit over a 40 yarder but but a 50 yarder down the middle against us.
 
Collectively we played some mediocre kicking teams too:

FG Percentage:

Wisconsin - 88.89%
FSU - 85.71%
Duke - 80.95%
Toledo - 77.78%
Notre Dame - 77.78%
Syracuse - 73.08%
Virginia - 72.73%
Virginia Tech - 72.73%
(Miami - 71.43%)
Pitt - 68.75%
Georgia Tech - 66.67%
North Carolina - 61.54%
Clemson - 58.82%
 
MiamiVice7 said:
PharmCane305 said:
Hate to say it and I'm no pro when it comes to football but perhaps this has to do with our special teams play and lack of a coach?

Different rushes or techniques to learn when putting pressure on the fg kicker?

Surely special teams against the opposing field goal unit has advanced along the decades so that it's more than just running to the line and putting ure hands up/having a speedster on the edge and diving.

Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Regardless, what's crazier to me is that not once did a kicker just shank a kick, or slip, or kick it too low, etc. NOT ONCE. That happens all the time in cfb, every weekend, often multiple times in any given game.
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Wasn't it the Syracuse kicker who DID slip, yet still hit, what was it, a 48-yarder??
 
for those still wondering in this thread, yes, it is true. opposing kickers were 100% against us this year
 
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21-21 SMFH, I bet that hasn't happened more than a handful of times in CFB. It was at the point I didn't even wish for a miss because I new it was useless.
 
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