PLAYOFFS/ZAK KENNEDY

[YSUFANSINCE1990]

  I am hearing YSU has already determined home playoff game a week from Saturday will be 5 PM, and they are confident it will be St Francis.  If true, that is great news, they are likely the weakest team that will make the field.

 Also heard that our kicker Zak Kennedy may have a sports hernia, if true, he is done for the year.  Our backup kickers have been awful.

[go guins]

"Our backup kickers have been awful."

Unfortunately that has been very true.  You go along thinking special teams is a YSU advantage and boom, now it is a liability.  That coach from SIU kicked every punt completely away from Townsend.  We got generally good field position, but they didn't want him to have a chance of great field position.

Too bad for ZaK if that works out to be true. 

[IAA Fan]

Man big loss on Zak. We should prep Connor for <35 FG's and let the other two battle it out for long distance and kick-offs. Although I am not so sure about Connor's accuracy with a shoe vs. not.

[ytownchief22]

Special teams is definitely in trouble if he's out for long. Especially with the offense having trouble getting into the end zone.

[FOOTBALLFEVER]

I have actually lost sleep over this. We just need to treat it as the next man up. We brought Needham in last year to be our kick off specialist and then Zak beat him out. He needs to kick it in the endzone and hit a long field goal if needed..I'm not sure who would be better on the short field goals Connor or Nate

[HappyPenguin]

Time to have a talk with any and all soccer players on campus to see if they can hit a 25 yard field goal.

Just kidding of course I doubt that anyone can join the team at this stage, but I can't see our current kid having one shred of confidence left. That's a big part of a kickers game.

We all had defense and special teams as huge advantages for us. Not anymore.

[ytownchief22]

Needham was the kickoff specialist early in the season until he got hurt for a couple games so Kennedy took it back over. McFadden can't even sniff the field, whats the point of having him on the team ? Big, big loss.

[Penguin Ice]

Zak was kicking at practice yesterday. I doubt he will handle the kickoffs but will be kicking FG's

[GOpenZ]

Go to hear he is recovering.

Z

[IAA Fan]

Connor is a quality guy and kicker. Accurate is short distances all camp. Again he uses a shoe now and I am sure it has increased his distance, not sure on accuracy. Having Paul's son on this team does a lot more than most think Chief ...let's not go there.