rlewis08

Thanks for you comments. They are appreciated. I hope LSU looks at him harder but I don't they have plans to sign any kickers this year. We will have to see.

It is true about kicking off the ground. Although, to get the scholarship offer they are more concerned with the kickoff ability. This is distance and hang time. You can work with kickers about getting the ball up but you can't teach them to kick a ball over 70 yards. You either have the gift of distance or you don't. There are kickers lined up that are capapble of kicking in D1 as far as FG's go but not all can kickoff big.
I will add that Josh Lewis kicks off the ground well. He played soccer most of his life and he is real comfortable off the ground. He has kicked FG of 55 yards off the ground in practice with very good trajectory.

I am here to tell you that Josh Lewis is the real deal. he kicked a 55 yard FG against Loranger the scrimmage before the Jamboree. In the Jamboree he kicked a 48 yard FG that cleared by almost 15 yards. he then kicked a 26 and 57 yard FG against E Ascension last Thursday night. he had 5 KO that the average distance was 68 yards( that would be the 2 yard line in College ). I am sending links below that you can go to and see some of that Video.
Les Miles has seen him kick and spoken with he and I after the first LSU kicking camp this last summer. Since then Josh has really blossomed and will play somewhere he is wanted.
The reason many kickers do well in HS and not college is because they use soft/old footballs in HS but when they get to college they have to play with a QB ball and they are usually mucher newer and stiffer. Difficult to kick these if you are used to a softer ball. Also, many HS kicker use a 2 inch tee for KO but you must use a 1 inch in college. Josh is using the newr balls now and he practices with them. He also uses a 1 inch tee and he practices from the 30 yard line. By next year I expect he will be consistently in the endzone for college. The current KO from the last game were around 3.9 hangtime. The optimum hangtime in college is the 4.0 area. very few get there. Watch the videos and you will see. he was at Northwestern today on a visist watching them play Grambling. they are very interested as are a few others thet have called his head coach and will be down to visit him this week in school.

Ronnie Lewis
Class of 84-87


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Reporter who noticed Josh right before season. Midway down through the article.


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You can view the 57 yard FG



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under this link, choose Jamboree IV section. 49 yard FG that clears by a long ways.

Josh also kicked a 55 yard FG in a scrimmage before the season against Loranger.