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The golf analogy is not bad when considering timing, leg extension and point of contact, etc. We all know -- the crazies that is -- what happens when you strike the ball too early on the down swing or too late. Everything is timed out for maximum contact for whatever club, at just the right...

I was never a kicker -- well, kicked off, once, and was banished -- but the mechanics of kicking either way seem so fine-tuned in terms of leg swing, extension and contact I wouldn't think a guy could work on more than one style anyway. Besides, when you have a punter who can flip the field...

Clemson, I believe, is using a guy they picked up from a campus-wide student tryout.

But as wreckrod said, the ball is in the same place every time...

One thing nobody seems to be talking about in the NC semi-final game for some reason is that Clemson is still without its outstanding kicker and if the game comes down to field goals, it could spell the difference.

A good point well made.

The guy following Saban won't need a shrink. He will be a masochist, pure and simple. Mike Dubose, who had Swinney on his staff there before a wholesale shakeup, learned that and last I saw was coaching his old HS team in Opp, Alabama. Of course, there is always one guy ...

Wish I had said that. And will.

Daggone, that is pretty sly.

You just described the Alabama coaching staff atmosphere. I don't know about Mays, in the sense of contributions at Georgia. I was struck that he kept everybody waiting on his signing until the 20th, when Clemson swooped down into OSU territory and picked off that consensus best OT in the...

whichever wins is playing for NC runner-up, anyway. I am torn, mostly because the Oklahoma QB is a real, first class, prime time jerk. But either Alabama or Clemson will have him for lunch. Oklahoma is just always there, weak schedule and all, for no real reason. Kind of like ND. But I guess...

whichever wins is playing for NC runner-up, anyway. I am torn, mostly because the Oklahoma QB is a real, first class, prime time jerk. But either Alabama or Clemson will have him for lunch. Oklahoma is just always there, weak schedule and all, for no real reason. Kind of like ND. But I guess...

That's really surprising. And impressive.

Are you talking about Swinney? I just want to be sure, because nothing is further from the truth. He has his dream job, built from scratch, an appreciative and supportive administration, all the way to the school president, great boosters club, a national recruiting footprint, and a fan base...

I really struggle to figure out why professional coaches, men who evaluate every day for a living, don't know what so many of us on a message board are so certain of. Then having figured that out, we decide the coaches are bad. I think that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And very few of us on...

He doesn't have to worry about getting a starting lineup ...

If Woody gets hired he is going to be very grateful that most of his work has been done for him.

I hope father and son do well in new locations. Not so good against us, and despite that jerk coaching NC State -- he makes Alibi Ike look like an amateur -- but generally, good luck. As a poster noted, the son was in a very difficult situation had he stayed, and he left with some style. Hope he...

It didn't seem to be a good year for FG kickers in general. For instance, Clemson was so desperate they held campus tryouts, and got a pretty good kicker. Who then got hurt and they were back to square one with a 3-deep guy trying them. I guess it could make a difference against Alabama, but I'm...

Well, there is that. But also the reluctance to give up on the idea of six points and so the going for it on fourth down and such.