Lightbourn Punting
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I'm a little confused as to what is going on. He was instructed to rugby punt in which he's terrible at. Now we put in a kid that did a really good job last night but he was punting normal style. Regardless, we need someone in there that can punt it deep and not directly at a player. Whoever can do that job should get the nod.
Nebraska never use to give out scholarships to punters and we had good results for many years. Don’t understand wasting a scholly on someone who sucks at punting ie Lightbourn
I think doing both the kickoff and punting could be affecting him. Could be the reason we are 0-5.
I know that we don't hand these to punters but in Lightbourn's case, there's a lot of sensitivity. The kid was forced into playing early due to the most unfortunate circumstance. Having said that, I give him a pass for having a scholly until his eligibility runs out.
I'm okay with that as long as he's *not* punting. When you go for it on 4th and 11 because your punter is so bad that kid shouldn't be punting. At least we, hopefully, found a punter last night.
I will say Isaac Armstrong did pretty darn good for the first time in a game, punting that is, and probably had no intention of that
Can Lightbourne play linebacker?
His poor punting is frankly inexcusable at this point.
His poor punting is frankly inexcusable at this point.
I was confused by the rugby thing as well, has he ever done that in the past? I didn't really think Lightbourn had been that terrible up to that botched rugby kick. Not that he was GREAT, but he wasn't horrendous. I thought maybe the rugby kick incident gave him the yips or something.
He's not playing well right now (and last night seemed like just about rock bottom), but he was on the preseason Ray Guy watch list. I think saying he in general "sucks at punting" is a bit overstated.
Rugby style punting isn't his forte. I couldn't understand it either. Not sure if it was his idea or was told to. In any case, it wasn't working.
Yeah. At least he didn’t fall down while attempting a rugby style punt last night.
After watching Armstrong kick, Lightbourn should sit the rest out.
Armstrong's first punt was impressive. He pooch punted it, gets it out of bounds inside the 15 AND winds up averaging 53.5 for the game on 2.
We currently have 3 specialists on scholarship. 1 kicker 1 punter and 1 longsnapper.
Our scholarship longsnapper is no longer handling longsnapping and if Armstrong is the new #1 punter that means 2 of those 3 scholarship specialists are now the backup to a walkon.
Our scholarship longsnapper is no longer handling longsnapping and if Armstrong is the new #1 punter that means 2 of those 3 scholarship specialists are now the backup to a walkon.
I think he was told to rugby punt because our kick coverage is so bad. That's not really Lightbourne's fault.
Don't sweat it, with all the guys quitting the team there are still like 37 extra scholarships lying around.
Lightbourne has really had the yips at times. Feel bad for the guy but if he can't get it done they need to find somebody who can.
Decided to rugby punt because he was struggling to direct the punts outside the hashes - can’t kick everything down the center, makes coverage very difficult.
Seems like he just needs some basic coaching and direction. Not sure DeWitt is much of a kick game guru...
