From last night’s Bulldog Hotline, as faithfully transcribed by Jim from Duluth (who does yeoman’s work with this every week of the season), comes this quote from Richt about the kicking game:
… CMR – directional kick .. we were trying to kick to a spot. Richt said every team in the country is trying to kick to a spot. If you kick down the middle you’re asking for trouble. If we had a guy who could blast it out of the end zone, we’d do it…
Now, wait a minute. I’ve listened to Kevin Butler on the radio after several games and he claims to be a regular at practices where he’s seen Walsh kick the ball deep into the end zone repeatedly. And Walsh’s first kickoff of the season resulted in a touchback. So what’s the story here – can he kick it deep or not?
By the way, near the end, catch the criticism Richt has of how the Big XII chose to send Oklahoma to the conference championship game. Anybody think he feels the same way about how Georgia got to the SECCG in 2003?
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UPDATE: Michael Elkon explores the dark side of using head-to-head games as tiebreakers. Although I doubt he’s going to get much sympathy around these parts with the example he uses.
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