SMU @ Texas Tech

[Texas Chili Dog]

I was at the game in person, and I remember that Hunt guy standing out. Was he the one blocking kicks? Cause that mother er is huge!

haha you just missed my edit to include Margus Hunt. Yeah, he's a big mofo at 6-8. He had never played football before coming to SMU. He was an Estonian discus thrower. SMU's coaches convinced him to play football and he was used specifically to do what he has become so good at: block kicks. He only got I think 2 tackles last year. But he had SEVEN blocked kicks. The technique the SMU players have been using has been flawless.

[Blake]

I don't know how much SMU football you might have paid attention to last season, if any, but SMU has become a kick blocking machine since the beginning of the 2009 season. So Tech shouldn't feel discouraged because SMU did the same thing to many teams last year. Tech just became another victim to add to the growing list. SMU averaged about a blocked kick per game and I expect about the same this year. Margus Hunt's height and length is becoming a nightmare for opposing field goal units.

As far as our kicker goes, he's got one of a leg, as you saw. The weird thing is that we didn't use him for the kickoffs, which was a head scratcher. The other kicker was used and he couldn't get it anywhere close to the end zone.

I'm discouraged because we are still using the same weak legged kid that won the kicking contest to boot field goals. It was a nice story, but any FG 40 yards and out worries me.

That and tackling people on kick off returns is still a problem.