This really is an amazing stat.
Blankenship is 1 of 2 since taking over before the Ole Miss game on Sept. 24, but the Bulldogs are still looking for the their first field goal of 30 or more yards this season. [Emphasis added.]
There are only five other D-1 programs in the same boat. Wowzer.
Get The Picture 
Now tell me again, who is our kicking coach?
I know we have a new special teams coach. Which is a good thing, right?
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Yep, it’s all the student assistant kicking coach’s fault. Fire Butthead!!
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Ok… slow your roll. Point is and I’ll quote Jim Donnan: Special teams are 1/3 of your game”. We don’t spent the resources on finding good kickers. Richt hit lightning in a bottle with walk on a and such but don’t try and make a living doing it today.
Just sayin’
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/7335060/kickers-often-booted-side-comes-recruiting
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Why were we labeled “Field Goal U” for many years?
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We’re we? If we were… Now we’re not.
Bennett was the last money kicker.
FIELD GOALS MADE – SEASON
31 – Billy Bennett, 2003 (SEC & NCAA Record)
26 – Billy Bennett, 2002
23 – Brandon Coutu, 2005
23 – Kevin Butler, 1984
21 – Blair Walsh, 2011
20 – Blair Walsh, 2010
20 – Blair Walsh, 2009
19 – Kevin Butler, 1981 (tied NCAA record for freshmen)
19 – John Kasay, 1989
19 – John Kasay, 1990
19 – Kanon Parkman, 1993
18 – Kevin Butler, 1983
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Soooo….we’ll just have to score touchdowns. Having to kick a field goal is failure anyway, amirite?
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That just means a whole lot of go for it.
Kevin Kelley would be proud.
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I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that those glasses make him look like Renee Zellweger’s kid in “Jerry Maguire.”
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Blankenship is a nerdy, scruffy, accident-prone, socially awkward UGA kicker whose kicks are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a opposing football-playing bully embarrasses him, Blankenship decides to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, suave, charming, hipster and field goal fanatic, Buddy Love.
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Did the coaches over-coach him?? He was long and accurate in high school!
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Ha! “…and hilarity ensues.”
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That sonuvagun is going to win a game for us.
And there will be a disney movie about it.
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There’s a mule in some Eastern European country that can kick it a mile. I saw it on YouTube.
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Distance hasn’t been a problem; accuracy has: can the mule put it between the goalposts?
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Ed Asner is working on it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts6ZrUitpSI
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What’s the mule SAT or ACT? Does he qualify for acceptance at UGA?
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mule’s
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the original post works if you say it in a Russian accent.
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Anyone else wish we had let Brice Ramsey punt and used Marshall Longs scholly on a placekicker?
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No!!!!
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Lack of long FG attempts is just Kirby not wanted to get tarred with the “Pastor Pooch Kick” or similar nom de guerre as his predecessor.
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Placekickers???? We don’t need no stinkin’ placekickers…
Overheard Kirby Smart comment when asked about scholarships for placekickers.
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I’m appalled. We used to make our living with 45 yd avgs for punts and just a little below for FG avg.(Don’t go all technical on me in your corrections). I expect much more in distance for both FG and punts that we are not now getting. My memory goes back to the punter being able to get the yardage and OB wherever the kicker wanted. We had few bad punts and Tenn ran through two generations for 50 yd avg kickers.
This is beginning to look like Trump times in UGA kickers; whereas, Trump has gone through the bottom of the barrel and the GOP keeps setting the level lower as he keeps going through more barrel bottoms.
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Richt wouldn’t let this happen, he didn’t make UGA 3 pt U with this kind of crap. Just kidding ya’ll.
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What do you figure the chances are we will get to see Rodrigo try a game winning field goal Saturday?
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