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yeti92

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GTFLETCH said:
WHAT???? CPJ & staff let the kid go.... That is on them. But to say he is not a quality Kicker is crazy....Lets compare

Harrison Butker Freshman year:
XPA: 54 XPM: 53 for 98.1%
FGA:14 FGM:10 for 71%

Corey Munson Freshman year:
XPA: 40 XPM: 39 for 97.5%
FGA:28 FGM:17 for 60.7%

Lets look at his career Stats....

Harrsion Butker Career Stats at Tech
XPA: 210 XPM:208 for 99%
FGA: 60 FGM: 43 for 71%

Cory Munson wanted to be at Tech, the old staff did not want him even as a PWO.... It is what it is... But he looks more like Harrison Butker then the guys currently on the team and that is not Geoff Collins or Cory Munson's fault....
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I know you love to post the hottest takes, but you need to learn to read better first. Munson is not an all-american quality kicker (based on his first season stats), which is what I said. He's ok. Butker, Wells, and King all made a significantly higher percentage of their field goals their freshman seasons. Munson is 8-17 for his career on kicks of 30 yards or more, while Brenton King is 6-13, almost the exact same percentage, yet its pretty well understood the King has not been a great kicker. Take out Munson's two chipshots from 0-19yards and he's kicking at 57%, which is a helluva lot closer to King's career average of 53% than it is to Butker's. Wells still has a 90% rate on field goals for his career.
 
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Kickoff performance is pretty much pure leg strength ... and GT's kickers this year struggled tremendously in that area. King averaged 57.83 yards per kickoff, Wells was a truly wretched 54.00 yards per kickoff.

"Good" kickers average 60+ yards per kickoff, and the top 20 or so are 62+ ( https://www.footballdb.com/college-football/stats/stats.html?yr=2019&conf=&mode=O&sort=koavg ). Butker, for example, was 62.89 his freshman season and then over 63 every year after that. Butker is a truly elite level kicker, but we haven't even come close to that level of performance since then.

It's a real problem that neither of our kickers are even close to the baseline we should be expecting at that position.
 

Eli

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yeti92 said:
To be fair, the old staff DID have a kicker in Wesley Wells, a kicker who was perfect for his career under them. That's great for Corey to get to kick the game winner from 52 yards, but he only made 60% of his FGA on the year and missed a PAT too. Let's not build this kid into an all-american based on 1 kick and act like CPJ is an idiot for not taking him.
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Dude I would be happy if we had a kicker who was 60% . Brenton king is under 50 %
 
Buzzbomb

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I recall posting Munson’s Hudl and Twitter feeds in the Recruiting Forum on Swarm. Seems he had tremendous distance in HS, even on kick-offs. I didn’t follow his season this year, until I witnessed that clutch 52 yarder on the tube. Someone know his average on KO’s this year?
 
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Buzzbomb said:
I recall posting Munson’s Hudl and Twitter feeds in the Recruiting Forum on Swarm. Seems he had tremendous distance in HS, even on kick-offs. I didn’t follow his season this year, until I witnessed that clutch 52 yarder on the tube. Someone know his average on KO’s this year?
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Not sure...but in the article it states Munson kicked 3 of 4 KO in endzone for touchbacks.... something we could have had since Georgia Tech was his dream school.

Link
https://www.bgdailynews.com/sports/...cle_1df2b46b-ed85-59c4-a595-41f85a987d4a.html
 

TheSilasSonRising

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Watching the bowl games, I have been somewhat surprised how many teams actually do not get their KOs into the end zone.

It would be great to actually do that a majority of the time, but missing PATs & average FGs is vital.
 
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We’re on kicking off 3-4 times a game on average and that’s including the kickoff either to start the game or after the half. What are we averaging a FG a game plus 2 XPs? We need to be worrying about getting the offense on the other side of the field. You don’t need anyone to kickoff or kick FGs if they’re just going to wear a flat spot on the pine during the season.
 
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