Saturday, August 16, 2008

FAMU kickers under microscope

Head coach Joe Taylor was only joking when he suggested to special-teams coach Juan Vasquez that he might have to make arrangements for three kickers to travel with the FAMU football team this season. The race to find a do-all kicker is really that close, though. The contenders are Troy Walker, Trevor Scott and Will Platt. None of them seem to be able to get a leg up on the other since practice began earlier this week.

"Right now we can't make a decision by looking at them," Vasquez said Friday. "To separate them, we actually have to record everything they do on film; watch the hang time on punts. It's the small things that are separating them right now." FAMU has not had such a battle in at least 15 years to find its starting kicker.

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