Hoosier Dad

That is a real shame... IMO a father's job is to prepare his kids for life... not fill their heads with unrealistic expectations.

As the father of a previous LSU kicking camp winner, let me suggest that if your son has not yet been seen and rated by Chris Sailer Kicking (LINK get it done quickly. Chris runs the LSU kicking camp and will help promote kids that he's had in his camps. Best of luck to your son!

Cade Foster was one of the top kickers in the 2010 class and he is under scholarship. Les offered Kyle Christy as a kicker from the 2011 class. LSU did offer a scholarship to a couple other kickers after Christy chose to go to FL as a punter.

Not sure what you watched, but Kyle's always been a 2 step punter. That's one of the reasons LSU and UF liked him so much. That, and his ability to get distance and hang time on punts. But since LSU had Wing lined up as their punter, JoeRob wanted Kyle as a kicker.

Did Wing end up red shirting last season?

Have you given any thought to exactly what "asking anyone (let alone a kicker) to gray shirt" does to the kid and his family? To my knowledge, for the 2011 season, LSU has only 1 kicker and 1 punter under scholarship. Both 2010 team K & P are seniors and graduating. Did highly touted 2010 punter Brad Wing ever make it to campus? Was he gray shirted this past season?

I just saw that James Hairston, 2011 class kicker, commited to LSU. Now you want to tell that kid that he needs to gray shirt? When a kicker commits to a school, he's taking himself off the market. Unlike most other positions, a college will scholarship only one K/P every couple years. If a K/P accepts a scholarship, then is asked to gray shirt he's left with very few options. The chances of de-commiting, and getting another offer is very slim. Most K/P only get 1-2 offers if any! There are exceptions (a huge one in the 2011 class, but even he has yet to accept any offer). But if a K/P is not offered by the end of the month, he has a very slight chance of being anything but a walk-on if he really wants to play next year. And oh, BTW, his parents now have to come up with the funding to pay for school, and all the expense that goes with it! This kind of talk makes me real glad about my son's decision!

Kris is a great kid and a very good punter. He did very well at both the LSU and Florida camps. I am a bit surprised that USC decided to take a punter, kicker and LS in the same class, but that should give them some consistency at Special Teams for the next 4 years. At this time, the question for LSU's 2011 special teams is: Who's the kicker going to be? You got the punter position covered, but who's going to replace Jasper at kicking?

Last May, at the Sailer Camp in Vegas, Dalton was "ranked" #10 for the punting competition (Kyle was #13). He's a JC kid, two years older/bigger/stronger than most of the other kids who were competing. Sailer does not take age into account when ranking ability... In Sailer's book, Dalton is in the 2011 class (but he graduated HS in 2009). So, if he's ranked above kids who will graduate in 2011, there's no real big surprize (at least to me). Please don't get me wrong, I hope the kid does well @ LSU. But I still think LSU needs a kicker in 2011. Coach Miles & Joe Rob looked for Kyle to do both, and he would have if FL had not offered. Again, we wish him well.

According to Chris Sailer Kicking, this guy was offered by and has committed to LSU! He is a JC guy and is ranked very highly as a punter. We wish him success at LSU!

Ok... I expect to be blasted here, but I'll post anyway...

1. LSU was the first camp on his schedule. He impressed the coaches with his field goals (made from 55 out off the ground), kickoffs (65-73 w/ 4 sec hang), and punting (multiple 40-50 yard w/ 4+ hang).
2. FL was next to last on the schedule. He was not even on their radar until they saw him at their camp. He blew away all 4 kids that they had been looking at for the past 3 months.

3. FL was the only other team to make an offer. He had interest from 2 Big 10 schools, but no offers. And Florida was really the only school that could have offered that would have changed his mind.

4. Yesterday morning, he called Coach Robinson and thanked him for the offer to play for LSU. He let Joe Rob know that he had accepted the FL offer and wanted to give LSU as much time as possible find their next kicker and punter.

5. LSU had not stopped recruiting a punter and kicker after offering Kyle. In a SCOUT.com article today, Matt Darr (LINK from the 2010 class, has already visited Baton Rouge.

Kyle made the final decision on his own. He choose 1A over 1B. Both schools have great programs, tradition, and great coaches. We wish LSU well.

OK, blast away...

Brad Wing did not get cleared to play by NCAA. I am happy to say that Coach Joe Robinson was very happy that Kyle Christy was at the kicking camp last Saturday. Kyle dominated the field goal competition and the kick-off competition. The punting competition was canceled due to weather, but Coach said Kyle "put on a clinic" out there today. Tigers made the offer yesterday afternoon! :geauxtigers:

Thanks for the input. He's already got teams from the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, Big East, Ivy, and even PAC 10 interested in him but as you may know, kickers are usually the last to be offeres scholarships.

He would love to play at LSU. We'll see what the coaches think after he kicks in Baton Ruge in early June.