Studious readers will recall that we have adopted Syracuse Orange kick-off kicker #47 Brendan Carney as our NCAA player of the season. Well, last night was the first game of the season and while Syracuse lost 20-10 to Wake Forest - and who the hell could like a football team named after trees - it was a strong game for our man:
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| CARNEY,Brendan |
I am not sure yet...yet...what a TB or OB is (out of bounds?) as I am still looking for the rouge stats from the game. But averaging 62.7 yards is huge...I think.
The big news for Kingstonians is that Watertown's Real Rock 100.7 FM is running SU sports this winter. Maybe they have for years. Coverage for next week's home game against Iowa (ptuuie!) starts at 1:30 pm next Saturday. The rest of the week you have be assured that the rock is, in fact, quite real.
Comments
Temujin - September 3, 2006 3:23 PM
My first thought was "Touch Back" for TB. If his average kick was nearly 63 yards, that must mean he had at least one kick go further than that. Let's say he boots the ball 68 yards from his own 40 yard line, the kick returner is catching the ball in his endzone and saying to himself "forget this nonsense, I ain't going nowhere!".
Normally a touchback is not as advantageous as a kick that lands just short of the endzone, as ideally your men will tackle the returner before he gets out to the 20 yard line. Nonetheless, this kid obviously has some kick to him.
gr - September 3, 2006 9:18 PM
OB=out of bounds I think
62 some yards is good stuff
T-B0 - September 4, 2006 5:28 AM
TB is indeed touchback and OB out of bounds. No rouges in NCAA (or NFL) football, one reason I like the Canadian rules better (as well as 13 men and legal man in motion and 110-yard field and.....)
It was nice to meet you guys and your families at the Great New York State Fair today, I mean yesterday. Hopefully further adventures await. I want to try to get to a Queen's football game this season, schedule allowing. CIS is more what college football is meant to be. Or, as the equipment man at McGill once told me (as I scored a helmet for my collection), "American college football is based on the old Roman philosophy 'If they get sick of the Christians and the lions, just throw in more lions.'"
True dat.
Alan - September 4, 2006 9:24 AM
It is a little known fact that my grannie, the other one who claimed to have seen Nazis parachute over the village, also was a McGill through her mother and related to the founder of McGill whose meeting with a US university (Princeton) caused the forming of the rules that CFL/NFL spring from. But she saw Nazis falling from the sky, too. But she called the end of a cereal bowl the sparkle dust which made getting less than the brothers for breakfast a good thing rather than a bad thing.
T-Bo - September 4, 2006 2:38 PM
That's a useful fact to know, winning bets-wise. Most people think the first game was between Harvard and Princeton but oh, no, no, no! It was McGill and, I believe, Harvard, in the spring (I think) of 1874. There was a big story about it in their program a few years back.
I love McGill's stadium. Until it was renovated for the Alouettes, there was a small tree growing through the concrete on the side opposite the benches. I miss that tree. The football team was naughty to its newbies and the season was suspended early last fall, but they're back in '06.
cm - September 4, 2006 8:12 PM
I went to every home game my first year at McGill. I knew nothing about football (still don't), but tickets were cheap and it was a fun way to spend an afternoon. And, ok, the quarterback who lived in my dorm was hot.
gr - September 4, 2006 8:31 PM
cm, you are one smart cookie. What do you think of this young kicker? I doubt he has any trouble getting dates.