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[bigdaddyg]

I'm not overly concerned about Rubino. He's a true freshman and has plenty of time to get his skillset honed in. Zach Matics was the same way, yes we lost a few games via a missed field goal but 1. he made up for it last year by only missing one the entire season (and securing us a bowl win) and 2. you could go back to the proverbial position of "if the rest of the team did their job, it wouldn't be left up to the kicker to win or lose the game."

We've got a bye week, plenty of time to rest up the troops, and get Rubino in front of the goal posts and get some more practice in before going off to take on a struggling UL Lafayette team and following that up with Idaho. Big picture is to get our ducks in a row between now and the GASO and Troy games because those are going to be the ones that we're really going to need everyone firing on all cylinders.

Hadn't looked at the schedule. Really sets up pretty good. Cox gets time to recover fully. Next 2 are breathers.

Not sure there are any breathers. Everyone thought GSU was going to be a pushover. This team hasn't demonstrated it can put together a complete game yet. Perhaps it's the ULL game when that happens but I'm not ready to assume anything at this point.

Didn't take pushovers. I'll stick with breathers. We will be rested and will pound the crap out of both of them

[bigdaddyg]

I'm not overly concerned about Rubino. He's a true freshman and has plenty of time to get his skillset honed in. Zach Matics was the same way, yes we lost a few games via a missed field goal but 1. he made up for it last year by only missing one the entire season (and securing us a bowl win) and 2. you could go back to the proverbial position of "if the rest of the team did their job, it wouldn't be left up to the kicker to win or lose the game."

We've got a bye week, plenty of time to rest up the troops, and get Rubino in front of the goal posts and get some more practice in before going off to take on a struggling UL Lafayette team and following that up with Idaho. Big picture is to get our ducks in a row between now and the GASO and Troy games because those are going to be the ones that we're really going to need everyone firing on all cylinders.

Hadn't looked at the schedule. Really sets up pretty good. Cox gets time to recover fully. Next 2 are breathers.

Not sure there are any breathers. Everyone thought GSU was going to be a pushover. This team hasn't demonstrated it can put together a complete game yet. Perhaps it's the ULL game when that happens but I'm not ready to assume anything at this point.

Didn't take pushovers. I'll stick with breathers. We will be rested and will pound the crap out of both of them

Didn't say pushovers. Oh and since I have zero impact I'll have some faith we put it together and pound both teams.

[The Rock]

I'm not overly concerned about Rubino. He's a true freshman and has plenty of time to get his skillset honed in. Zach Matics was the same way, yes we lost a few games via a missed field goal but 1. he made up for it last year by only missing one the entire season (and securing us a bowl win) and 2. you could go back to the proverbial position of "if the rest of the team did their job, it wouldn't be left up to the kicker to win or lose the game."

We've got a bye week, plenty of time to rest up the troops, and get Rubino in front of the goal posts and get some more practice in before going off to take on a struggling UL Lafayette team and following that up with Idaho. Big picture is to get our ducks in a row between now and the GASO and Troy games because those are going to be the ones that we're really going to need everyone firing on all cylinders.

Just as a point of order, rubino is a red shirt freshman, not a true freshman.
Matics went most of the season only missing 1, but missed a 50 yarder late in the season, and of course missed 2 earlier in the Camelia bowl before kicking the game winner

[The Rock]

Not sure why we say a game shouldn't be left up to the kicker. That is part of the game. Yes, ideally we score all tds,but for one reason or another, a field goal is often needed to win or send the game to Ot. Maybe we get the ball back with 30 seconds and no timeouts. You can't depend on the offense getting into the endzone, but getting to the 35-40 yard line is much more do-able. The reason there are kickers and field goals is to allow points to be put on the board. You need a kicker capable of that at all times.
The kicking game is just as important part of the game as receivers