Long Snappers & Scholarships

[strigori]

If you can have a sure thing long snapper, by all means use a scholarship. Special teams is something we have been spoiled on over the years. What we take for granted, is not across much of college football. If you watch a full day of football on a Saturday, you can expect to see several bad long snaps. Which can be devastating.

 

[NUinID]

Kind of a waste of a scholarship. You ought to be able to find someone (or 30 someones) who can do that job on a 105-man roster.

On the other hand, we couldn't even find someone to do reglular snapping well last year lulz.

Long snapping is a lot harder than you think it is, it really is a skill. I long snapped throughout highschool and used to coach it. The basics have to come naturally. Coaching is really just refining the skill.

On par with kicking? No. Just no.

Where in my post does it say on par with kicking? Trust me some years we had great natural kickers on our team and struggled to find a good snapper.

 

[zoogs]

Sounds like Read was back in contact with Chris Rubio, same "long snap guru" where we got Gluhaich's name from and is looking at a couple more guys. Sounds like we're still after one for this class.

Yeah, that's interesting.

I wonder if that's going to be policy from now. It wouldn't be too surprising if a trusted special teams coach wants and will get his guys, but, are specialists even people?

I think we all get a little antsy anytime we see one of them offered, rather than preferred walk-on status.

At the same time, we're talking about a guy that is on the field for a lot of key plays. So out of 85 spots, there are worse uses of one of them than making sure that LS operation is in good hands & protected from injury to boot. Kind of a pro mindset I think. I wonder if we'll ever offer just a gunner, and how that would go down.