Quinn Nordin visit news

Submitted by wardcrazy01894 on

This isn't the biggest news but the nations #1 kicker currently commited to PSU and likely flipping to Michigan is visiting Baylor this weekend. Was initially going to visit PSU this weekend so that appears to be cancelled which can't be bad news for Michigan. 

You have to think this eliminates PSU and it's gotta be tough for Baylor to catch up. Only other thing is a visit to USC on the 29th where Baxter could maybe make a move, but this seems like a done deal if you ask me.

source: very short 247 article that I don't think will paywall you

http://247sports.com/Bolt/No-1-Kicker-Nordin-will-officially-visit-Baylor--43039133

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DonAZ

January 21st, 2016 at 11:02 PM ^

Ain't nothing wrong with being addicted to recruiting news, or news about kickers ... or kickers for that matter. :-)

For what it's worth, I would love to have a kicker that's a lock to put up 3 anywhere inside 60.

Whether Nordin is that guy, I don't know.  But if I could wave a magic wand and create such a guy, then hell yes I want him.

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bluewave720

January 22nd, 2016 at 6:04 AM ^

I think the mistake is that people think "could this guy hit a big kick with the game on the line?"  That's a big deal, but happens infrequently. What an excellent kicker will do is change probabilities when your team has the ball near field goal range.

3rd and 11 from the opponents 30 means, with an average kicker, you are trying to gain a few yards to make the kick more reasonable.   If you have a an excellent kicker, your possible play selection increases.  More variance = harder to stop.  Of course these decisions are fluid with the game state, and variable per each coach.  But, in an important area of the field where drives can stall, I think that accurate leg gives you a pretty significant intangible advantage. 

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King Douche Ornery

January 22nd, 2016 at 9:10 AM ^

I don't think 76-78 inlcuded anything great other than beating OSU three dtraight. Bowl losswes, and the usual unexplained bed-shitting to Purdue, Minnesota, etc...

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MGoPoe

January 21st, 2016 at 10:58 PM ^

If this recruiting cycle has taught me anything it's don't pop the champagne when someone commits because after you're 2 glasses in and feeling a bit buzzed that's when they decommit. 

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East German Judge

January 21st, 2016 at 11:11 PM ^

AGREE COMPLETELY!  For those of you who have not seen (and heard it), here it is:

 

I get the kids want to have fun and this is a huge day in their lives.  Many do it with the hats on the table, broadcast on ESPN, have family around the table including grade school nieces and nephews, but who does a solo video on a private plane???  What is telling is go to YouTube and read the comments underneath the video.

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roosterbaan

January 22nd, 2016 at 12:09 AM ^

as a penn alum, i can tell you penn and penn state have nothing in common (other than their names), and the students from each school never think about the other (except penn students having to constantly explain that their school is not penn state)

as a michigan alum, i can tell you that msu students can't even burn a couch without thinking about michigan. 

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Trebor

January 22nd, 2016 at 8:30 AM ^

I would guess Texas and A&M, prior to A&M skipping off to the SEC, might be the closest. Texas is a better school for the most part, and they have an out-of-state rival they care more about than A&M.

Pitt and Penn State have a weird dynamic where Penn State, a better school with better athletics, still acts like a little brother towards Pitt despite not having played them in football since 2000.

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Steve in PA

January 22nd, 2016 at 11:12 AM ^

I went UG at PSU. Penn is Ivy League and much smaller. Penn would be considered by the same kids looking at Bucknell, Villanova, and a few others.

 

PSU is really only in the same conversation as Pitt and Temple. Those schools are attended by students who are too qualified and can afford to not go to the state schools like Slippery Rock, Bloomsburg, etc. I think those schools would be like the directional schools in Michigan.

 

 

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