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People need to understand that there's more to being an OC than play calling. If the offense sucks, the OC doesn't get a pass because of so called lack of execution. If coaches are such a minor factor, then wtf do they exist? Seems like a lot of wasted $$.
 
People need to understand that there's more to being an OC than play calling. If the offense sucks, the OC doesn't get a pass because of so called lack of execution. If coaches are such a minor factor, then wtf do they exist? Seems like a lot of wasted $$.
Exactly.
 
It's time to call our punting game as it is: It's bad. The punter is from my hometown so I'm rooting for him, but 30 yards a punt is not getting it done, If he's the best we got we better start looking to convert some soccer players.
 
It's time to call our punting game as it is: It's bad. The punter is from my hometown so I'm rooting for him, but 30 yards a punt is not getting it done, If he's the best we got we better start looking to convert some soccer players.
I'd rather see Stanley quick kick on 3rd and long than watch a run into the line.
 
I'm still not getting off this damn site tonite until someone tells me if our punter is missing part of his kicking foot!!!
Funny....but sad actually. I'm sure our punter is a fine young man and is trying his best, but he clearly isn't a college punter much less a D1 kicker. Every Friday night at least one of the punters on the field is performing better than Rastetter. We literally are losing 20 yards of field position on each exchange of punts with our opponents. Not a mystery our average starting field position is inside our 20.
 
Funny....but sad actually. I'm sure our punter is a fine young man and is trying his best, but he clearly isn't a college punter much less a D1 kicker. Every Friday night at least one of the punters on the field is performing better than Rastetter. We literally are losing 20 yards of field position on each exchange of punts with our opponents. Not a mystery our average starting field position is inside our 20.
If the OC was decent, we wouldn't have as many opportunities to complain about the punting. That being said, who actually believes he's the best punter we have on the team? I could go there right now and punt a ball 30 yards. It's just ridiculous.
 
Funny....but sad actually. I'm sure our punter is a fine young man and is trying his best, but he clearly isn't a college punter much less a D1 kicker. Every Friday night at least one of the punters on the field is performing better than Rastetter. We literally are losing 20 yards of field position on each exchange of punts with our opponents. Not a mystery our average starting field position is inside our 20.

This isn't correct. Rastetter averages 39.7 per punt, our opponents average 36.3. He also has a net punt of 38.8 to our opponents 33.9. So we actually gain 5 yards per punt traded off. You aren't going to ever turn the field position punting out of your own end zone unless the returner screws up and lets a punt roll, or he tries to return it and gets a block in the back.
 
If the OC was decent, we wouldn't have as many opportunities to complain about the punting. That being said, who actually believes he's the best punter we have on the team? I could go there right now and punt a ball 30 yards. It's just ridiculous.

So you want to replace a punter that averages 39 per kick by burning a redshirt for a guy that will likely average 39 a kick too? Iowa punters average 38-41 yards per kick over the Ferentz years. Jason Baker and Ryan Donahue (as a senior) did better than that. They both made it to the NFL. Everyone else is in that same range.
 
So you want to replace a punter that averages 39 per kick by burning a redshirt for a guy that will likely average 39 a kick too? Iowa punters average 38-41 yards per kick over the Ferentz years. Jason Baker and Ryan Donahue (as a senior) did better than that. They both made it to the NFL. Everyone else is in that same range.
You're comparing Rastetter with Baker? Take a step back and think about that for a moment.
 
This isn't correct. Rastetter averages 39.7 per punt, our opponents average 36.3. He also has a net punt of 38.8 to our opponents 33.9. So we actually gain 5 yards per punt traded off. You aren't going to ever turn the field position punting out of your own end zone unless the returner screws up and lets a punt roll, or he tries to return it and gets a block in the back.
If we are a couple yards better than the other punter, who cares and what does it matter when we punt 3x more than the opposition.
 
If the OC was decent, we wouldn't have as many opportunities to complain about the punting. That being said, who actually believes he's the best punter we have on the team? I could go there right now and punt a ball 30 yards. It's just ridiculous.

Kirk would rather have below average than try an unknown. It's more comfortable that way.
 
You're comparing Rastetter with Baker? Take a step back and think about that for a moment.

No, just the opposite actually. Seems folks that have an unrealistic expectation of averaging 45 yards per punt are the ones that are comparing him to guys of that caliber. That isn't going to happen for a walk on. The two guys KF has had that could do that both made it to the NFL and neither redshirted because they knew they'd contribute immediately (technically Austin Wheatley was the "starting" punter to open 1997 but Baker punted as well and did all the punting after a couple games). But everyone else that didn't make it there, some on scholarship and many not, have been virtually the same production as what we have now, 39-41 yards per punt, a couple at 38. You have to go back to Nick Gallery's last two years to find someone that averaged 45 per punt at Iowa, and that's only because Brion Hurley did the pooch punting.
 
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