P Ryan Hanson will walk-on at Houston

But they can’t even give the dude 3* despite being a pretty good punter! Shouldn’t punters and kickers be judged and rated according to how good they are to other punters and kickers?

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Of course they should.

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It’s one of the many flaws of the rating system. Beyond the very top guys, most of the guys rating the prospects have no idea what they’re doing.

I forget who said it, but a coach once said that if these guys were that good at rating recruits, they’d be hired by some school to go and recruit for them.

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https://twitter.com/CMKicking/status/1148045486923878400
https://twitter.com/CMKicking/status/1148045757234188288

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https://twitter.com/CMKicking/status/1153024731718836229?s=20

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Does he speak Australian? Hopefully, there’s a translator on hand to learn from the current puntah

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He looks better than the Aussie we currently have! Maybe because it is practice and he doesn’t have to face guys coming at him, but if he kicks anything close to what he is showing on these vids he is a considerable improvement indeed! Not to put Dane Roy down since he is pretty good in his own right, but this kid looks legit!

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It’ll be interesting to see how Dane does this year. He can boot the ball, but the last coaching staff was more concerned about not giving up a lot of yards on returns so they had him try to boot it in the 40 yard region and getting a ton of hangtime. Hoping this coaching staff let’s him boom it a little more.

Then again, I’m hoping we don’t have to see Dane all that often except to run out and hold the XP attempts.

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I’d always hoped they’d use Dane as run/pass threat in addition to punting as he used to played rugby and is s big dude. Hope CDH looks at that as a potential option. :+1::sunglasses::+1:
#GoCoogs!

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His fake punt against Louisville a few years back was masterful!

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The infamous punt against Memphis 2 years ago (the one that Memphis said they couldn’t believe we were punting it) was a 59 yarder. Supposedly it was a fake that got botched, Dane had to roll out and instinctively booted it as far as he could. Dude has a leg; coaches just weren’t letting him use it.

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I personally can’t wait to get a decent punter back on the field again.

Just glad we won’t be punting or kicking to Pollard ( Memphis) anymore.

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Levine recruited a punter named to the Georgia All-Decade team. I don’t recall if Richie Leone was as good as advertised.

Update: Apparently he was a 4 yr starter, three-time semi-finalist for the Ray Guy Award, and 2nd team All-American.

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Isn’t Ritchie punting in Canada?

Leone was the last good punter we had.

I havent seen any punts BOOMED for 60+ since he left.

Richie played several years in the CFL and may have tried out with a couple of Pro teams but don’t think he stuck with an NFL team.
WINNIPEG – When Richie Leone was immersing himself in the mechanics of punting, when he was figuring out how to maximize a natural ability to boot a football, his dad was learning along with him.

Over the years, Rich and Richie Leone were side by side as the kid soaked in information that allowed his right leg to launch footballs high and deep.

“It was just something me and my dad took pretty seriously,” said Leone prior to Friday night’s game against the Blue Bombers. “He understands everything about kicking and punting – techniques, fundamentals – we learned together. I had a personal coach I worked with 1-on-1, (my dad) learned when I learned . We’d work on the drills in the garage. We’ve been kicked off every field from this side of the country to the west side.

“In college, (my dad) used to have some signals for me if I was doing something a little wrong. Every now and then I’d look over and he’d give me a little hand motion. We joke about it now. Now that I’m 27, I still have that kid in me that wants to get better and work and train – it’s nice to have (my dad) on my side.”

The 6-foot-3 Leone figures he got his height off his mom, Anne.

“As I got taller, I morphed me into more of a punter because I have the long lever,” he said. “I played a little quarterback when I was young. When I got into high school, I demonstrated some natural ability to hit the ball pretty good.”

So far in 2019, Leone leads the CFL wth an eye-popping pace of 53.8 yards per punt (heading into Friday night’s game). The CFL record is 50.6, set by Jon Ryan in 2005. A year ago, Leone averaged 46.4 yards per punt with the Redblacks. The two years prior to that, he had 49.5 and 49.3 yards as a B.C. Lion.

“I’m a year older, a year wiser,” said Leone. “The whole off-season, I re-evaluated the way I did some stuff. I cleaned some stuff up, it’s a little sharper, a little crisper.

“There’s no astronomical number that I have in mind or anything. The idea is to hit good balls and flip the field. This is my fourth year in the league – it’s important to get off to a start like this, but even more important when the weather turns – I know last year I tried out some different things – I have to continue the good stuff I have going now.”

Leone spent a couple of weeks in the off-season working out with Winnipeg’s Justin Medlock in Jupiter, FL.

“He’s a really good buddy,” said Leone. “He’s somebody who really understands the ins and outs of the game. When we’re together, we’re on the golf course, we’re on the field, we’re training.”

For Leone, it’s important to feel like he’s part of the team. He doesn’t want to be pigeonholed into that whole, ‘He’s just a kicker’ stigma by those around him in the locker room.

“You have to prove yourself and you have to go out of your way to do it,” said Leone. “You have to show you’re working extra hard. (Kicker) Lewis (Ward) and I are the first ones on the field. When I first got to college, I had the mentality I wasn’t going to just be a punter showing up to kick the ball. I wanted to really bust my ass and make sure I finished at the top of drills. I wanted to show the upperclassmen I was there to work and gain some respect.”

Leone’s mechanics and routine continue to develop. He watches and listens to others who kick for a living.

“Andy Lee is tall and skinny – kind of like me, maybe a bit shorter – but he has this cannon (for a leg),” said Leone. “Funny enough, when I was in Baltimore, we practised with the 49ers and he was the punter there for a long time. I got to interact with him and see how he worked. When I got cut in Arizona, they signed him … that kind of sucked … but he was somebody I looked up to. Johnny Hekker – we train together in the off-season sometimes – and Ryan Allen – we’ve been friends for a long time … there are guys out there (I can watch).

“Everybody approaches things differently so it’s nice to just have a conversation. At this age, there’s no cookie-cutter way to do it. I’ve found things that work for me and don’t work for me. I’m kind of a product of everybody that’s helped me along the way.”

There have been the NFL looks – he participated in the 2014 NFL Combine – but Leone says he’s happy where he’s at.

“When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to play in the NFL and be a professional football player,” he said. ” I’ll tell you what, I may not be in the NFL, but I love it here. This country means a lot to me. It’s a beautiful game and beautiful people and I enjoy every day of It”.

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Side note: I don’t know if any of you hav ever met Richies parents but they are both short and his mom is shorter tan his dad. Not sure where the “Richie gets his height from his mom” comment comes from other than it’s funny if you have met her.

https://twitter.com/CMKicking/status/1189980434446372866?s=20

Sure is a lot of hate towards our current punter on this thread…you know the one that is our mvp this year.

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