Is Wells out of his effing mind to keep sending Hintze out to punt? Holy !%@%@% I'm losing my mind.

Please note that when I made this OP during the game, Lee had not yet come in to try and out shank Hintze. In other words, this conversation had not yet happened:

Wells: Holy !@#$ we could not suck worse at punting.

Lee: Here, Hintze, hold my beer.

That was complete crap.

That’s 2 tonight, he just totally sucks as a punter.


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That one was Lee I believe...is a 14 yard punt a record??

I know I’m not a regular poster on here, but are these punters really on scholarship. They were bad last week as well.

Get them both off of the team. If you practice all year and continue to pull this (I can't express myself without swearing), you don't deserve a scholarship. Anyone could punt that well with the amount of practice they've had.

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Lee looked like crap last week as well. The fact that Wells didn't fix this during the week is baffling.

The loss is as much on him as anybody else, honestly. Just absolutely a mess mentally. 5 games in a row averaging under 37 yards punting. 3 under 30.


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How can he fix it with those as the only 2 punters on the roster? He can’t hold tryouts this late in the year. I am sure they will be recruiting new ones.


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This is definitely not a “coaching” problem besides the recruiting portion. But the bad punts definitely played into the loss. It is quite crazy that a top 25 team can have 2 punters on the team that can’t average over 40 yards on a punt...

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November 24th, 2018, 11:51 pm

How can he fix it with those as the only 2 punters on the roster? He can’t hold tryouts this late in the year. I am sure they will be recruiting new ones.


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I'll bet you 5 guys on the roster punted in high school. And if not, see who can punt more than 20 yards and put them out there. Or let's actually recruit the @%!$@# position.

Those were terrible punts. They should have been working on that all week. Total head cases.

Coming into the season, the Aggies looked very good at punter. How often do you lose a potential 1st team all-conference punter to a season ending injury before the season starts? I doubt the Aggies even recruited a punter for this season with Aaron Dalton in the fold. It was a freak injury, and one can hardly blame the coaching staff for being stuck with two less-than-stellar punters after losing Dalton.

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November 24th, 2018, 11:54 pm

Jjoey53 wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:51 pm

How can he fix it with those as the only 2 punters on the roster? He can’t hold tryouts this late in the year. I am sure they will be recruiting new ones.


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I'll bet you 5 guys on the roster punted in high school. And if not, see who can punt more than 20 yards and put them out there. Or let's actually recruit the @%!$@# position.

The position was recruited. We had Dalton this year until he got hurt. These are the 2nd and 3rd string punters.

boyblue wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:58 pm

AgMac wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:54 pm

Jjoey53 wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:51 pm

How can he fix it with those as the only 2 punters on the roster? He can’t hold tryouts this late in the year. I am sure they will be recruiting new ones.


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I'll bet you 5 guys on the roster punted in high school. And if not, see who can punt more than 20 yards and put them out there. Or let's actually recruit the @%!$@# position.

The position was recruited. We had Dalton this year until he got hurt. These are the 2nd and 3rd string punters.

Then I cannot overemphasize enough that these 2nd and 3rd stringers were HUGE recruiting misses!!!

Lol.

I thought Hintze had a decent year until these last two weeks and i well his weird blocked punt vs San Jose.

These aren't backup punters, well maybe Lee, but Hintze was a place kicker pressed into punting duty

splintorb wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:31 pm

That one was Lee I believe...is a 14 yard punt a record??

How can you criticize our punters? I’d like to see you do better.

Because you probably could.

I try not to attack kids too much but holy hell. How hard is it to kick the ball? High school teams all have better punters than we do. You have one job


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splintorb wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:31 pm

That one was Lee I believe...is a 14 yard punt a record??

It’s probably not a record. But it was the worst punt the Aggies have had since Lee punted for 14 yards in the third quarter of the Colorado State game on November 17, 2018.

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November 25th, 2018, 12:58 am

splintorb wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 11:31 pm

That one was Lee I believe...is a 14 yard punt a record??

It’s probably not a record. But it was the worst punt tbe Aggies have had since Lee punted for 14 yards in the third quarter of the Colorado State game on November 17, 2018.

beat me to it.

Lee was responsible for the last two punts.

What do we do? It was open season in practice this week. This cost us more than anything else last night. Our inability to flip the field was crucial. Even the PA announcer mocked us on the last one. Certainly someone on the team can kick it more than 25 yards.


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Having Dalton go out hurt for sure. I thought Hintz played okay for the first half of the season. The last half has been a train wreck.

Why not put Eberle in to punt? The kid can hit 50 yard FG’s. I can’t imagine that he would be unable to kick a 40 yard punt. I know they are two different motions but it is still kicking and the alternatives as we saw were ..... lacking.

We don't need to recruit punters. If the best we can get can only kick it 14 yards, we might as well have our QB's punt. I feel pretty confident Love can average 20 yards.

Should we have just pulled a kid out from the HPER?

1. There are plenty of reasons we lost, and punting isn't top 3.
2. No one feels the weight of a bad play than those that make the bad play.
3. You get out there and punt.

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November 25th, 2018, 8:35 am

Should we have just pulled a kid out from the HPER?

1. There are plenty of reasons we lost, and punting isn't top 3.
2. No one feels the weight of a bad play than those that make the bad play.
3. You get out there and punt.

You obviously have no idea idea how dumb you sound when you pull out the "you go out there and do it then" card.

I guarantee I could point the ball 15 yards. So can EVERY high school punter.


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coolag wrote: ↑

November 25th, 2018, 8:46 am

Imakeitrain wrote: ↑

November 25th, 2018, 8:35 am

Should we have just pulled a kid out from the HPER?

1. There are plenty of reasons we lost, and punting isn't top 3.
2. No one feels the weight of a bad play than those that make the bad play.
3. You get out there and punt.

You obviously have no idea idea how dumb you sound when you pull out the "you go out there and do it then" card.

You obviously have no idea how much of an a$$ someone sounds like when they pi$$ on college kids when they're down.

Obviously you cant do better. Yes, there probably are people that can punt better than Hintze that isn't you or me, but they either didn't sign-up, or weren't good enough at the time they were being recruited or trying out as a walk-on.

Tell me what you wanted Wells to do, given our personnel. You want Aaron Dalton, to come out probably barely able to walk on his own power recovering from surgery?

We deal with the punters we have. And it's not even saying "you punt it". Athletes, especially football sacrifice a lot. As fans we haven't done anything to help this team prepare. We weren't spending late nights at the stadium, we didn't have to balance school, football while often times sacrificing relationships and the ability to earn income to support ourselves.

The vast majority of the student body doesn't even show up to games, which unlike many schools students have easy access to. We wouldn't be able to sell out if we gave out the rest of the tickets. It's obviously not the performance of the current team (past teams, yes). As fans we have the EASIEST job- show up when you're somewhat nearby.

And we cant even do that.

So maybe lay-off any of the players, until we can sell out a game.

Imakeitrain wrote: ↑

November 25th, 2018, 9:16 am

coolag wrote: ↑

November 25th, 2018, 8:46 am

Imakeitrain wrote: ↑

November 25th, 2018, 8:35 am

Should we have just pulled a kid out from the HPER?

1. There are plenty of reasons we lost, and punting isn't top 3.
2. No one feels the weight of a bad play than those that make the bad play.
3. You get out there and punt.

You obviously have no idea idea how dumb you sound when you pull out the "you go out there and do it then" card.

You obviously have no idea how much of an a$$ someone sounds like when they pi$$ on college kids when they're down.

Obviously you cant do better. Yes, there probably are people that can punt better than Hintze that isn't you or me, but they either didn't sign-up, or weren't good enough at the time they were being recruited or trying out as a walk-on.

Tell me what you wanted Wells to do, given our personnel. You want Aaron Dalton, to come out probably barely able to walk on his own power recovering from surgery?

We deal with the punters we have. And it's not even saying "you punt it". Athletes, especially football sacrifice a lot. As fans we haven't done anything to help this team prepare. We weren't spending late nights at the stadium, we didn't have to balance school, football while often times sacrificing relationships and the ability to earn income to support ourselves.

The vast majority of the student body doesn't even show up to games, which unlike many schools students have easy access to. We wouldn't be able to sell out if we gave out the rest of the tickets. It's obviously not the performance of the current team (past teams, yes). As fans we have the EASIEST job- show up when you're somewhat nearby.

And we cant even do that.

So maybe lay-off any of the players, until we can sell out a game.

Aaron Dalton can walk. He was at the game.

As was said before, it's important to remember Hintze isn't a punter - he was Eberle's backup. Losing Dalton sucked, but it happens. I say give Hintze a break. He's been generally serviceable, and as good as one could expect from someone who hasn't played the position before. He's graduating and moving on after this season anyway, so let's just deal with what's here now and move on.

Ultimately, winning and losing doesn't come down to one or two plays anyway. It's a culmination of a lot of things, and the entire team could've done much better. We've seen everyone perform better before, so let's not lay the entire blame at the feet of one position.

On the bright side, maybe another loss and not competing for a championship is enough to scare other schools away from Wells

AgMac wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 10:31 pm

Is Wells out of his effing mind to keep sending Hintze out to punt? Holy !%@%@% I'm losing my mind.

It was Lee; and by the way, it is always appropriate to discuss how a player or coach performs on the field. Good or bad! The day that players can’t be praised or criticized for on field performance is the day no one shows up. This isn’t high school football.

The last reference was for Imakeitrain

Poor punting certainly didn't help but Love's telegraphed interception in the first quarter in our own territory completely flipped the momentum of the game and we really never got it back.

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November 25th, 2018, 10:01 am

AgMac wrote: ↑

November 24th, 2018, 10:31 pm

Is Wells out of his effing mind to keep sending Hintze out to punt? Holy !%@%@% I'm losing my mind.

It was Lee; and by the way, it is always appropriate to discuss how a player or coach performs on the field. Good or bad! The day that players can’t be praised or criticized for on field performance is the day no one shows up.

The last reference was for Imakeitrain

You're not just criticizing and I have seen 0 praise in this thread. Criticism would be constructive. What technique has ben criticized? Zilch. What credentials do you have on punting? No one likes or wants bad punts. But we certainly aren't the ones to go around fixing it. Because that's why USUBlue makes the big bucks right, his experience in punting?

Constructive critiquing isn't all negative. But our fans are being negative after barely losing to a ranked Boise team on their field when they were wearing all blue (except shoes).

I remember when Gage had a big deflection during chat and people were like "Gage got lucky"... NO.... Gage was in position to make a play and he did.

We as fans didn't do our part by even doing something as simple as showing up to games, so NO. we really don't have any room to criticize.

Everyone knows the punting wasn't very good. But unless you offer a solution with your "praise and criticism"- step off.