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Hitting kicks into the goal posts.....

CyCloned

CyCloned

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ISU slammed another kick into the uprights again last night.:confused: Over the years the Cyclones have been great at hitting the crossbars and their kicks not bouncing through. At the same time, I can not recall a single time that an opponent has hit the cross bar when the ball didn't bounce through.

Maybe ISU should sanction the NCAA for a rule change: 5 point for hitting the crossbar, after all, if you did it on purpose it would be impressive.
 
Yeah, hitting the post is difficult. We should get some bonus points for doing it. However, do we have to "call our shot" (like a swish in H-O-R-S-E)?

It is a good thing that the Oklahoma State kick went so high that it didn't hit the upright.
 
CyCloned said:
ISU slammed another kick into the uprights again last night.:confused: Over the years the Cyclones have been great at hitting the crossbars and their kicks not bouncing through. At the same time, I can not recall a single time that an opponent has hit the cross bar when the ball didn't bounce through.

Maybe ISU should sanction the NCAA for a rule change: 5 point for hitting the crossbar, after all, if you did it on purpose it would be impressive.
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Might be easier to just recruit a kicker thats worth a ****.
 
One former ISU kicker used to warm up by kicking the ball from the goal line into the upright. He would then move back 5 yards at a time each time hitting the upright. He would say if you can't hit the upright from 10,15 or 20, then how are you going to make a fg from 50. I think that was Shudak.
 
If the offense was giving gim medium range kicks I bet theyd go in instead of off the uprights. All the missed kicks have been long distance this year.
 
All these damn kickers and their missed chip shots! The offense is doing their part, the kickers need to do theirs!
 
Actually, it should be like that "Between the sheets" game that I lost so much money playing at ISU. If the same card comes up as one of the "sheet" cards, you pay double, right? In football, they should make you lose three points if you hit the crossbar or the uprights.
 
Cybyassociation said:
All these damn kickers and their missed chip shots! The offense is doing their part, the kickers need to do theirs!
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:skeptical: They were 45+ yard field goals. Those aren't chip shots unless we recently recruited the Sea Bass's son.
 
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Nation-wide, only about 30% of kicks are made from 45+ yards (ball snapped from the 35 yard line) and the percentage quickly decreases as you move farther out. The 50% point happens around 37 yards (ball snapped from the 27 yard line). The data I have only shows the yardline where the ball was snapped, so you have to manually add the 10 yards of the end zone, and if you want to also add the ~7 yards where the tee goes you could do that too.

Bottom line is these are NOT chip-shot field goals that everyone else's kickers are making, and the majority of kickers with significantly higher percentages are kicking from much closer to the uprights.
 
ruxCYtable said:
I actually thought Cole struck them pretty well. He probably just has to get some nerves out still.
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This. They looked good for distance and height just pulled left. Didn't look like it hooked or anything. Looked like me with driver, "Nice hit Russ but I think that is out of play on the left".
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I thought on the first it looked like the defender sort of forced it left when rushing in. Maybe he caught that out of the corner of his eye.

Ease up on him a little. He didn't miss the kicks against Missouri way back when. He had the distance and will get better.
 
I thought the one that hit the goal post was a pretty good kick. Wasn't it a 49 yarder? Those aren't really gimmes for anyone. More disturbed by how far left the first kick was. There seemed to be some wind going on too, I think Arcero was doing kickoffs and they went much deeper one way than the other.
 
besserheimerphat said:
Nation-wide, only about 30% of kicks are made from 45+ yards (ball snapped from the 35 yard line) and the percentage quickly decreases as you move farther out. The 50% point happens around 37 yards (ball snapped from the 27 yard line). The data I have only shows the yardline where the ball was snapped, so you have to manually add the 10 yards of the end zone, and if you want to also add the ~7 yards where the tee goes you could do that too.

Bottom line is these are NOT chip-shot field goals that everyone else's kickers are making, and the majority of kickers with significantly higher percentages are kicking from much closer to the uprights.
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I appreciate the research, but an attempt that starts from the 35 yard line is generally a 52 yard field goal. The distance is measured from where the ball is held when the kicker makes the attempt. (35 + 10 + 7 = 52)

So your data says 30% from 52 yards and 50% from 44 yards.
 
Neither kick was a gimme, but we have NEVER had a kicker that I didn't have to cover my eyes when they ran on the field.
 
besserheimerphat said:
Nation-wide, only about 30% of kicks are made from 45+ yards (ball snapped from the 35 yard line) and the percentage quickly decreases as you move farther out. The 50% point happens around 37 yards (ball snapped from the 27 yard line). The data I have only shows the yardline where the ball was snapped, so you have to manually add the 10 yards of the end zone, and if you want to also add the ~7 yards where the tee goes you could do that too.

Bottom line is these are NOT chip-shot field goals that everyone else's kickers are making, and the majority of kickers with significantly higher percentages are kicking from much closer to the uprights.
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I would have thought that 37 yarders would be made far more than 50% of the time. Although, if you're using ball snapped from the 27 yard line they aren't really 37 yarders, they are 44 yarders which you pointed out.
 
The two misses were pretty long kicks, so I am not getting on the kicker specifically, just the fact that ISU has managed to hit the crossbar so many times, and as far as I can remember not one has bounce in for ISU and everyone for an opponent has bounced through. More of a crazy Cyclone thing than anything else.

I will admit I was pretty happy that CPR went on 4th from the 31 or whatever it was instead of kicking again. CN still got an other chance to kick in the game, which is good. Did not need it last night, but some game he may need to kick a game winner.
 
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