TheIowaHawkGuy
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Iowa transfer kicker Alden Haffar hit a 51-yard field goal and four PAT attempts for Minnesota St in a 31-0 win over St Cloud St. UGH!!!
Iowa's best kicker transferred...
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Perhaps there best Qb did as well truth is we will never really know what could have been.
This is all too true and very scary.
The thing of this all is that now, Kirk must plan to go for it on all 4th downs from the opponents 30 YL to the ~10YL. I am not sure of his ability to make this happen.
The good news is, if he can adjust and play for the first down when in + territory then we avoid the sucker's bet that are field goals in college football.
judzeehawk
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I can't remember an Iowa kicker ever missing that bad on so many kicks. A near miss I wouldn't be concerned but omg those were wide wide wide left.
hawkihayes
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For the record he didn't transfer, KF and Coach White didn't invite him back to be a walk-on and basically left him with no options other then a transfer in mid July! I guess karma is a b****h after all!!!
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HawkeyeDenis
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we go through this almost every time breaking in a new kicker. It sucks
It wasn't just that they were wide.. A couple of them looked wobbly and took a strange path as if there were 50mph swirling winds.
hawkihayes
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Actually since 2000 Kicker has been a solid position for Hawks.
Kaeding, Schlicher, Murry/Mossbrucker, then Meyer. Good to great kickers listed have covered a span of 13 years.
We attempt too many field goals as it is. Hopefully this forces KF to use all 4 downs more often when approaching scoring zone. TD win games; not FGs, especially when attempting with bad college kickers who are currently a 50/50 proposition at best to win games.
Once we are within the 30, FGs should relegated to end of half situations, 4th and plus 6, and maybe some 4th and 4's where the ball is perfectly centered and within 35 yards to build confidence.
Once we are within the 30, FGs should relegated to end of half situations, 4th and plus 6, and maybe some 4th and 4's where the ball is perfectly centered and within 35 yards to build confidence.
hawkeyebob62
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You'd be confident "within 35 yards"? 35 FEET, maybe. 35 yards? No confidence. None.
Don't forget he had a DUI shortly before leaving.
OttoWagonhurst
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This. We have had a crazy good run at kicker for a program of our stature. Really going back to the '80s we've always had reliable placekicking, other than Zach "Rudy" Bromert in '97. Although the beginning of '08 when Mossbrucker was a freshman KF did notably change his usual schtick and pass up 2 very makeable FGs at MSU in order to go for it twice on 4th-and-short in the 2nd half. It probably cost us that game (16-13).
WinOneThisCentury
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What do these guys do at practice all day? I'm hoping they are actually kicking field goals in practice, because after Saturday, I'm not sure they are doing that. I'm going to mark this down for the next thread bashing KF.
Kirk Ferentz Coaching Deficiency #276 - Kirk Ferentz doesn't have his field goal kickers kick field goals in practice...because the stress generated when they kick in games makes him feel alive.
Kirk Ferentz Coaching Deficiency #276 - Kirk Ferentz doesn't have his field goal kickers kick field goals in practice...because the stress generated when they kick in games makes him feel alive.
Eda
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KirFer said that both kickers had terrific fall camps. I don't know what happened Saturday; possibly the yips for kickers. But it doesn't sound like this was anticipated after fall camp. After spring practice? Probably, as the kicking was reportedly not good.
As for Murray/Mossbrucker... IIRC, there wasn't much confidence in the kicking in '08.
As for Murray/Mossbrucker... IIRC, there wasn't much confidence in the kicking in '08.
MNHawkeyeFreak
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hawkihayes
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If you're going to level charge on here get you facts straight! He was charged with MIP, disorderly House interference with official acts and took heat for other starters that had more to lose if you know what I mean. Those minor changes pale in comparison to a DUI charge. This happened early in his year with the team he's sat out for 6 games. If you recall KF own son was charged with similar offences. IMO this is regular college behavior and most of us on this sight have been guilty of similar.
Eda
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I'm shocked to hear of such things! Where was the ********? Here!!!??? Nah!
NCHawker
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thanks for laying these names out " Murry/Mossbrucker, then Meyer. " I never paid much attention... for a while I thought we had 1 kicker who's name started with an M for 6 years.
