OT: Bowling Green kicker earns scholarship by nailing a 53 yarder in practice

Submitted by MIMark on
BGSU kicker Jake Suder was apparently drilling everything in practice yesterday and the head coach Mike Jinks noticed. Suder is, or was, a walk on. Jinks challenged his kicker to hit a 53 yard kick with a full scholarship on the line, and he drilled it. Good job, young man!
This kind of story makes college sports so special. You see the camaraderie of a building team and it has to do not with hitting a game winner but securing funding for a student's education and an investment in his career. Great feel good story, worth a read.
http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/story/_/id/20370965/bowling-green-kick…

LSAClassOf2000

August 18th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^

Well, if it does, I suppose it is a good thing that you could probably impose the "Defeated With Dignity" headline on pretty much any picture to tell how they might see a loss, even one to BGSU, a team that even a severely hamstrung and downtrodden Spartan squad should theoretically be able to kick around.....but perhaps not now....we shall see, I suppose.

uncle leo

August 18th, 2017 at 8:47 AM ^

This was completely staged. Or he had some attempts prior that were not filmed. 

I would think if a coach actually did this, and said "Make or no scholarship," that's pretty shitty.

Awesome for the young man to get the scholarship, but there was definitely some hollywooding to this.

Fieldy'sNuts

August 18th, 2017 at 8:55 AM ^

You're overthinking it. Its sounds from the article like, yes, the kid had already earned his scholarship in the coach's eyes based on his body of work, but he had a hot foot in practice that day so the coach decided to have some fun with it. The reaction from the teammates seems genuine and not staged. Also, lol at the player who jumped and tried to block the kick (dick...lol).

uncle leo

August 18th, 2017 at 9:00 AM ^

A couple of times. It is not even remotely hinted that he's already earned the scholarship.

"The Bowling Green kicker was having such a strong day at practice recently, according to Yahoo! Sports, that coach Mike Jinks put him on the spot -- on the spur of the moment -- and challenged him to make a 53-yard field goal with a full scholarship on the line."

uncle leo

August 18th, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^

Sorry.

If he already knows that he's earned a scholarship, what's the point of all this? Wouldn't you feel kinda weird if you had it and then the coach said, "Hey, by the way, go kick this 52 yarder on film, one shot, or you can't play here on a full ride"?

I appreciate the fact he probably earned the scholarship through hard practice and good work with his team, so those bonds were already formed. 

Again, very happy for the young man. He's getting to do something I never did. But you won't sell me that this isn't staged, because it is.

uncle leo

August 18th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^

Risky way to handle this.

Could you imagine how horribly deflated he would be if that curled just a bit more to the left? After all that build up, people cheering, etc... Yeah, being told AFTER that, "Don't worry, you still got it" would be helpful, but the immediate impact of that miss would be a freaking gut punch. 

Michifornia

August 18th, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^

The decision to offer scholarship was already made.  But as a former kicker, that added pressure sure makes a difference.  Gotta feel good for the kid!