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With a full off season to get better i think we will have a very good kicking game next year.
'11 MI K Kyle Brindza (Signed ND LOI-EE)
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MrIrishCanadian1
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Maybe we could make it a really loud video game that simulates 100,000 people screaming at you.
I wonder how Mike Leach did it and what kind of results he had...is there an article on that? (couldn't find one in a brief search)
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Wowzers
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....Wow.
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I guess we really are trying to emulate Alabama.
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as long as he paid for it...i'm good
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I see what you did there.
We don't have gold pants or championship rings to trade though either.
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Holy cow
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Will Brindiza be picking up the punting duties next year
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It looks like it.
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All depends on what he can bench press.
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Buster Bluth
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Oh god.
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I didn't know he loved the Philippines so much. Must have had a good vacation there.
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Not by much.
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Wowzers
damn that's insane. I wonder how long that took him.
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Agreed, and really who cares. It's his chest, he is the one who chose to have it on his body, who gives a sh!t if people get it or don't like it. Some people may not like the shirts that people wear because of the design or print but who gives a sh!t, it's your shirt and you choose to wear it. To me my tattoos are pieces of art, reminders/memorials and I'm sure not everyone likes the looks of them, hell my wife isn't crazy about all of them, but they are mine and they on MY body. I get it and don't get why other dont get it but who cares, the world would be dull if we all liked the same stuff.
As long as Kyle likes it that's all that matters.
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But we got dope helmets to trade. With Real Gold!
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Notre Dame's Kyle Brindza hits the road this summer
Notre Dame kicker Kyle Brindza will be racking up frequent flyer miles this summer while crisscrossing the country in hopes of making himself a better punter. The junior, who plans on traveling almost every other weekend in June and July, made his first stop in southwest Florida last week.
Junior Kyle Brindza lines up a punt during Notre Dame's Blue-Gold Game April 20.
Brindza and nine other collegiate kickers spent a few days to fine-tuning their mechanics with Brandon Kornblue, a member of the 1997 Michigan national championship team and a kicking specialist coach. Brindza has worked with Kornblue since high school when he was the ranked by some as the No. 1 kicker and punter in the country coming out of Canton, Mich.’s Plymouth High.
Punting is the least developed part of Brindza’s game. In high school he relied on raw leg power rather than technique to succeed. Now that former punter Ben Turk is gone from Notre Dame and Brindza is the top option on the roster, he has dedicated the offseason to becoming a technically sound college punter.
“Now I think I can call myself a pure kicker and pure punter,” he said at the end of spring practice in April. “I’ve finally worked on the fundamentals of punting. I finally understand if I hit a bad punt why that happened just like when I miss a field goal I know why it happened. It’s come a long way that’s for sure.”
Brindza worked with defensive coordinator Bob Diaco on his form during spring ball. He praised the coach for helping him focus on form and for picking up some of the nuances that a lifelong linebacker wouldn’t be expected to know.
Diaco equated the punting motion to tackling to help Brindza think about it differently. Tacklers have to slow down and gather themselves before exploding into a big hit. The same goes for punters who explode upwards suddenly rather than continuously accelerating toward their target like Brindza would on a kickoff. Analogies aside, Diaco doesn’t have the expertise that can make Brindza into a top tier college punter. That’s where Kornblue comes in.
“It’s not as easy to just see what they’re doing with the naked eye,” Kornblue said. “That’s why we do what we do with video analysis and break it down frame-by-frame. Once you get to that level the really minute tweaks are what they need.”
Their detailed approach is akin to analyzing a golf swing — trying to work out all the kinks and most importantly establish the muscle memory for a consistent movement every time. Kornblue said there is no doubt that Brindza has the power to be one of the best in the country if he can train himself to strike the ball the same each time.
That power was noticeably absent during Notre Dame’s Blue-Gold game on April 20, where Brindza and senior Jude Rhodes combined to average 31 yards per punt on seven attempts. It didn’t help that Brindza practiced without actually kicking the ball for much of the spring because the team was inside due to poor weather. Kornblue watched and saw the rust in his pupil’s game. He said he wasn’t surprise because of the two-year stretch when punting wasn’t a priority for the Irish kicker.
“It’s just one of those things like any skill where if you ignore and don’t focus on it as much you are going to digress from where you were,” he said. “There have been points in his career where he’s been a really good punter, but in the past couple years he hasn’t been expected to do that.”
Brindza averaged 48 yards per punt as a high school senior. Last week in Florida he logged a hang time of 5.43 seconds on one of his punts. The next best among his peers, who included Texas starter Antony Fera, was 5.18 seconds.
The challenge for Brindza over the next several months is to move forward in punting without neglecting his other duties with field goals and kickoffs. Kornblue said it’s no surprise that so few college and pro teams ask one player to handle both kicking and punting because of the difficulty in balancing reps for both motions while keeping your legs fresh from game day. Even without punting, Brindza said his kicks started to run out of juice late in the season during his freshman and sophomore years.
“Freshman year you could see I lost a little bit of form and my legs started wearing out,” he said. “Last year I started wearing down when it got a little bit freezing outside. It’s more of me keeping myself healthy. They’re always making sure I don’t kick too many ball and I’m making sure of that too.”
Kornblue said it will be important for Brindza and the Notre Dame staff to manage his reps throughout training camp and the regular season. Adding two new punters this summer — fifth-year transfer student Alex Wulfeck from Wake Forest and freshman Andrew Antognoli from Fresno, Calif. — should help give him a rest in some situations.
He will get plenty of work this summer with Kornblue while helping as an assistant at his camps on college campuses across the country. Brindza plans to make stops in North Carolina, Texas, Arizona and Chicago among other places in the coming months.
Notre Dame kicker Kyle Brindza will be racking up frequent flyer miles this summer while crisscrossing the country in hopes of making himself a better punter. The junior, who plans on traveling almost every other weekend in June and July, made his first stop in southwest Florida last week.
Junior Kyle Brindza lines up a punt during Notre Dame's Blue-Gold Game April 20.
Brindza and nine other collegiate kickers spent a few days to fine-tuning their mechanics with Brandon Kornblue, a member of the 1997 Michigan national championship team and a kicking specialist coach. Brindza has worked with Kornblue since high school when he was the ranked by some as the No. 1 kicker and punter in the country coming out of Canton, Mich.’s Plymouth High.
Punting is the least developed part of Brindza’s game. In high school he relied on raw leg power rather than technique to succeed. Now that former punter Ben Turk is gone from Notre Dame and Brindza is the top option on the roster, he has dedicated the offseason to becoming a technically sound college punter.
“Now I think I can call myself a pure kicker and pure punter,” he said at the end of spring practice in April. “I’ve finally worked on the fundamentals of punting. I finally understand if I hit a bad punt why that happened just like when I miss a field goal I know why it happened. It’s come a long way that’s for sure.”
Brindza worked with defensive coordinator Bob Diaco on his form during spring ball. He praised the coach for helping him focus on form and for picking up some of the nuances that a lifelong linebacker wouldn’t be expected to know.
Diaco equated the punting motion to tackling to help Brindza think about it differently. Tacklers have to slow down and gather themselves before exploding into a big hit. The same goes for punters who explode upwards suddenly rather than continuously accelerating toward their target like Brindza would on a kickoff. Analogies aside, Diaco doesn’t have the expertise that can make Brindza into a top tier college punter. That’s where Kornblue comes in.
“It’s not as easy to just see what they’re doing with the naked eye,” Kornblue said. “That’s why we do what we do with video analysis and break it down frame-by-frame. Once you get to that level the really minute tweaks are what they need.”
Their detailed approach is akin to analyzing a golf swing — trying to work out all the kinks and most importantly establish the muscle memory for a consistent movement every time. Kornblue said there is no doubt that Brindza has the power to be one of the best in the country if he can train himself to strike the ball the same each time.
That power was noticeably absent during Notre Dame’s Blue-Gold game on April 20, where Brindza and senior Jude Rhodes combined to average 31 yards per punt on seven attempts. It didn’t help that Brindza practiced without actually kicking the ball for much of the spring because the team was inside due to poor weather. Kornblue watched and saw the rust in his pupil’s game. He said he wasn’t surprise because of the two-year stretch when punting wasn’t a priority for the Irish kicker.
“It’s just one of those things like any skill where if you ignore and don’t focus on it as much you are going to digress from where you were,” he said. “There have been points in his career where he’s been a really good punter, but in the past couple years he hasn’t been expected to do that.”
Brindza averaged 48 yards per punt as a high school senior. Last week in Florida he logged a hang time of 5.43 seconds on one of his punts. The next best among his peers, who included Texas starter Antony Fera, was 5.18 seconds.
The challenge for Brindza over the next several months is to move forward in punting without neglecting his other duties with field goals and kickoffs. Kornblue said it’s no surprise that so few college and pro teams ask one player to handle both kicking and punting because of the difficulty in balancing reps for both motions while keeping your legs fresh from game day. Even without punting, Brindza said his kicks started to run out of juice late in the season during his freshman and sophomore years.
“Freshman year you could see I lost a little bit of form and my legs started wearing out,” he said. “Last year I started wearing down when it got a little bit freezing outside. It’s more of me keeping myself healthy. They’re always making sure I don’t kick too many ball and I’m making sure of that too.”
Kornblue said it will be important for Brindza and the Notre Dame staff to manage his reps throughout training camp and the regular season. Adding two new punters this summer — fifth-year transfer student Alex Wulfeck from Wake Forest and freshman Andrew Antognoli from Fresno, Calif. — should help give him a rest in some situations.
He will get plenty of work this summer with Kornblue while helping as an assistant at his camps on college campuses across the country. Brindza plans to make stops in North Carolina, Texas, Arizona and Chicago among other places in the coming months.
FearTheBeard
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We can use just about any and all help we can get on special teams. We can at least have solid kicking and punting right??
dublinirish
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that is provided these guys can do a decent job. If they can't then its not good!
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regardless it's win win....didn't waste anything...it's like betting w/ house money
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made the Lou Groza Award watchlist
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Bogtrotter07
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Kyle Brindza for All American!
Really, as important as any player has been in the last three weeks.
Really, as important as any player has been in the last three weeks.