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re: Let's go ahead and discuss the FG kicker(s)
Posted on 8/10/17 at 9:35 am to tider04
Posted on 8/10/17 at 9:35 am to tider04
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Less than 70% isn't great for a big time college kicker but it sounds like we'd take that this year.
He had a pretty bad sophomore season (63%) that pulled down the career number. His junior (72%) and senior (75%) numbers aren't going to win any Lou Groza awards but they're solid mid-pack. I posted all Bama's kickers since Bryant a while back and even with the bad soph year, Griff's career numbers were 6th best out of 17 Bama kickers with at least 10 attempts. His career percentage is even better than Van Tiffin's.
The kick-6 and bad season to follow simply branded him for life in the minds of many Bama fans. I'd obviously LOVE to have had Daniel Carlson instead, but over the last couple of seasons Griff was more than serviceable.
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:37 am to JustGetItRight
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The kick-6 and bad season to follow simply branded him for life in the minds of many Bama fans. I'd obviously LOVE to have had Daniel Carlson instead, but over the last couple of seasons Griff was more than serviceable.
Griff wasn't terrible by any stretch. It's just that he wasn't awesome either. When's the last time we had an All-American kicker? Why can't we sign one? Why don't we just go after whoever AU recruits every year? It just doesn't make any sense that the clear #1 football program in American can't sign one elite kicker in a decade. That's just freakin' nuts. This is Saban's one great failure so far as a coach.
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