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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/TurbinePro on 2024-10-03 02:08:16+00:00.
So I’ve been sitting on this for a long time, ever since Blankenship for Georgia won a postgrad scholarship. It seems like every year one or two of these headlines come out, and it really blows my mind how teams treat these kickers that could one day make or break a season for them. Last year it was Gross from Washington, Nevada’s Talton won a scholarship for winning them a game, yada yada.
Teams only play around 12 games per year. Even if a good kicker only wins you one of those games on a field goal, isn’t that kicker someone you want to treat well? Whether he completes that kick or not tips the scale of millions if not tens of millions of dollars in future merchandise sales, future bowl game invitations, recruiting talent and more.
Your kicker is probably in the top 10 most important players of the team. a scholarship only costs around 20-80k depending on the university. Giving your starting kicker a scholarship really seems like a no-brainer.
Anyways, I might be preaching to the choir here, but please teams treat your kicker to a scholarship for gods sake before you feed him to the wolves in that 27-29 game you’re trailing in. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.