re: Could you coach a HS football team?

I could go .500 against Pickering, Crescent City, Ringgold, Bolton, Tensas, Plain Dealing, Collegiate of BR, Southwood, Madison Parish, and Comeaux

But question… who am I coaching? Let’s assume I can’t have any kids currently on a HS roster.

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The level of ball and roster you have changes a lot.

Am I coaching Single A and have some stud dual threat QB? Then yeah, I can probably even break .500 by a good margin. Am I in a super competitive Texas league where I'm facing a bunch of future D1 guys every week? Probably not.

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Only right answer.

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Could you coach a HS football team?

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Any who is not legally prohibited from being in the company of minors could. So I could.

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Could you finish .500?

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Not so sure here but if I could have my son helping me, I would think yes depending on the district I'm in.

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Most kickers are soccer players primarily. You tend to get guys who are playing select soccer year round who can’t make the games or the coaches won’t accept a guy coming in part time just to kick.

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I don't care if we have to fly in Garo Yepremian or Toni Fritsch for the games every week. I would get tired of losing by 1 point every Friday because my kicker kept kicking the ball into the center's arse on PAT attempts.

My point was to find someone within the team who is a good athlete who could be trained to kick a football 20 yards. Chad Ochocinquo was a hell of a good kicker and was used as an emergency kicker a couple times.

LSU's Doug Moreau was the tight end and became kicker. I have been friends with Doug for a while through some business dealings and I once asked him how he ended up becoming kicker.

He said that early in fall camp one year (Doug played in the 60's), Coach Mac just asked if anyone wanted to be the kicker. Doug said he and a couple other guys volunteered to try it and Doug won the job. He said he had never kicked before that day. A couple of coaches gave him a few pointers, and he figured out the rest and had a decent career as kicker/tight end.

Give me 3 good athletes I could win 5 games

Since I only played one year of pee wee I doubt it. Baseball on the other hand…

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Ton more kids kick than ever before. Definitely a growing industry.

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I agree...but I still see some of the inner-city schools in BR that do not have a kicker at all.

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Definitely one of the harder positions to get a scholarship out of high school thought

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It's because HS kickers generally kick off the tee and not ground. At camps is where kickers get recruited.

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Yup. The modern crop of kids were taught never to use a block…so we’ll see how that goes. There can be as many as 500 kickers at a national camp. Both major ranking services offer smaller, invitation only ones as well. Definitely not an easy endeavor.

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at 3 of my games there were P5 coaches at those games specifically looking at kickers one hit a 50 yarder from the ground with room to spare.

no but in playoffs we are all over the state(playoff officials never come from the area of either team)