Kicker Commits

[OC Mustang]

Hear that Kellis Goodman, kicker for Carrolton Creekview, has committed to SMU. Scholarship player.

29-33 pats, 2 blocked, field goal long is 44 and 50 yards...check out leader-board on Dallas Morning News for stats.

Next.

[OC Mustang]

Hey Stal, my source is as good or better than yours....

[Pony_Fan]

it's amazing what recruiting dorks ya'll are..haha...

who can find out what first

[BringBackThePonies03]

We need a kicker, if anyone has any stats on Goodman please leave a message.

[ALEX LIFESON]

Congratulations Coach Joe Sawyer! I work with a couple of guy's that have seen him play a number of times, they said most of his kicks are unreturnable!

[abezontar]

let's hope it isn't because they are out of bounds.

[PonyPride]

The first stat is that Goodman's name is Kellis Cunningham. Played kicker and wingback at Carrollton Creekview HS. He has outragous strength in his leg -- try 85 percent touchbacks on his kickoffs. His kicking statistics are very pedestrian -- 2-for-6 on field goals (the two were 47 and 50 yards). Those numbers are skewed by the fact that Creekview was such an efficient offense that they rarely needed field goals, and his misses came after drives on which he was running pass patterns and blocking downfield. He has done numerous kicking camps, winning the kickoff portion of the all-state kicking camp (that's not the official name) in College Station and finishing third overall (placekicks, kickoffs and punts) in a field of about 160 participants.

[PonyPride]

let's hope it isn't because they are out of bounds.

Not the case, I don't think. I've never seen him play, but I've talked to some folks who have, and his leg strength has been described as "ridiculous," "otherworldly" and "inhuman."

[OC Mustang]

Pony_Fan wrote:

it's amazing what recruiting dorks ya'll are..haha...
who can find out what first

Guilty as charged... But the reason I playfully (hence, the ) ribbed Stallion was because I don't have a subscription to Rivals. I picked up the news from scuttlebutt. And it is a recruiting forum. Uh, what did you expect to see here, news on the Bush Library?

[Corso]

The first stat is that Goodman's name is Kellis Cunningham. Played kicker and wingback at Carrollton Creekview HS. He has outragous strength in his leg -- try 85 percent touchbacks on his kickoffs. His kicking statistics are very pedestrian -- 2-for-6 on field goals (the two were 47 and 50 yards). Those numbers are skewed by the fact that Creekview was such an efficient offense that they rarely needed field goals, and his misses came after drives on which he was running pass patterns and blocking downfield. He has done numerous kicking camps, winning the kickoff portion of the all-state kicking camp (that's not the official name) in College Station and finishing third overall (placekicks, kickoffs and punts) in a field of about 160 participants.

That can't be right. 85 percent touchbacks? In high school? That's like Babe Ruth, if you consider McMurtray a singles slap hitter.

[me@smu]

Seriously, it sounds like this kid has some pop in the leg. Lets hope the coachs can straighten him out though because 2 of 6 just isn't going to cut it.

Welcome to the Hilltop Kellis!

[Corso]

Kicking a field goal is hard enough (right, Colts fans?) I can't begin to imagine how hard it is after running fly patterns .... your legs are tired (plant leg might be more significant than the kicking leg then), you're breathing hard, etc. Since I can't kick, anyway, I would assume that stuff makes it harder. I've done something which I guess might be sort of similar. Try lifting weights for an hour and a half, and then go shoot three pointers. It feels like your arms aren't even your own, and you MIGHT make one in 1,000. If all that running and blocking has a similar effect on the legs, there's no way he can hope to kick straight or far. The fact that he hit the long ones suggests to me that he can do it -- I'll be interested to see the results when he's not running first.

[JasonB]

As someone who has played soccer and done some kicking, I can tell you that when your legs are tired, you lose your accuracy more than your strength. So, if he was running patterns and stuff, that would explain the 2-6.

Also, Wolcott can probably accurately hit short stuff, but has no leg what-so-ever from what I have seen.

So, Wolcott is older, been around the team, more mature, he does PATs and short field goals. Then, at least for next year, this guy handles kickoffs and longer field goals.

That is probably an adequate combonation, and helps us to fill a major need going into next year. Not sure what we are doing at punter, though.

[abezontar]

Wasn't Wolcott a punter in HS also?

[Pony Fan]

Wasn't Wolcott a punter in HS also?

Don't think so.