Nate Freese Named To 2011 Lou Groza Award Watch List
by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 8:00 PM EDT
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Boston College's Nate Freese was named to this year's 2011 Lou Groza Award watch list, recognized as one of the 30 best college placekickers in the nation. PDF here.
Freese connected on 22-of-25 field goal attempts during his freshman season, tied with Florida State's Dustin Hopkins for the conference lead in field goals made. Freese also made 24-of-25 PATs.
Due to the an extremely offensively challenged Eagles squad, no kicker was more important to his team than Freese was last season. Freese's 90 points accounted for 37.5 percent of the Eagles total points in 2010, the highest percentage in the nation.
Freese joins fellow conference representatives Casey Barth (North Carolina), Dustin Hopkins (Florida State) and Will Synderwine (Duke) on this year's watch list. Only the Big 12 placed more kickers on the preseason watch list than the ACC.
The 20 semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award will be announced on Friday, October 28 and the field will be paired down to three finalists on November 21. The Award is named for NFL Hall of Fame kicker Lou "The Toe" Groza, who played 21 seasons with the Cleveland Browns.
So use your #Freese4Groza Twitter hashtag liberally between now and October 28.
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It appears that Freese is a great kicker. Everyone knows how important kickers are. However, there is great reluctance across the board to offer scholarships to kickers. Christian Suntrup is the incoming qb candidate from St. Louis Chaminade. In March of 2010, i visited the BC campus to drum up interest in Chaminade’s kicker, Mason Hutson, who is excellent. I talked to the a.d. at Chaminade as well. There was no interest even though he was first team all-state. He ended up at Washburn University in Kansas. He is definitely a candidate right now for the NFL. I saw him kick in the quarterfinals against the eventual state champions’ Webster Groves. From talking to coaches, it appears to be a common problem. There is just no interest in kickers. You can see just how important Freese and Quigley are to the BC program. In the time of Frank Leahy, look it up, kickers were the “cat’s meow”.
Can you clarify
there is great reluctance across the board to offer scholarships to kickers.
I feel like BC has generally given scholarships to their kickers.
Can they please, please, please try to use him on longer range field goals? Freese only attempted 3 FG’s beyond 40 yards last year. I know part of this is on Spaz, but if we want to have the best kicker in the country a little range couldn’t hurt right?
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JBQ:
The problem is when you tell coaches you found a great “kicker” from “St. Louis” that deserves a “scholarship” it sounds like an NCAA violation waiting to happen.
by DCash on Jul 8, 2011 5:05 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
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