I know I know I know
I have been a slacker with the blog this week
My normal Thursday story didn't get done so I am writing my Thursday story today and then I will write my Friday story--- well-----  Friday also
So if you read one read them both


Today I really want to talk about the hardest working kids on a football team(no) I want to talk about
the Jake Jamison's of the world.
Yes I am writing about the kicker
It is truly hard to measure who the best kicker in the area is because it is all based on a team not being able to put the ball in the end zone. Does a teams kicker get to kick field goals if the team scores touchdowns all the time ?
Why no they don't.
That's why Cory Munson rates as probably the best kicker in this area.
Northside does not score touchdowns. Too prove that I will tell you that Munson has scored 43 of the teams 146 points this year and has 13 field goal attempts in six games.
That's a lot of field goal attempts. To make things even better he has made 10 of them and he has a long of 51 yards.
Let me tell you what I know about this kid. I was sitting at the Northside against Henry County game and that had to rate as one of the most boring games of the year. Henry County is not good and Northisde was puddling around not doing much. So then we get to half-time and I was bored and messing around on my phone and halfway watching the band. Well at the end of the half, Munson comes out and starts to warm up and he went from 30 yards to 35 to 40 to 45 to 50 and I was like stop kid you don't have thant kind of leg. When he got to 50 the fans start noticing and he drills two straight from 50 yards. So he moves back to 55 and drills two more. By this time the fans are more interested in this show than they were the football game and they were cheering every kick. I was fairly confident that he wasn't going to dare move back to 60 yards but he did and he missed the first try. Ok kid nice try lets be done with that and not try anymore. But kickers aren't normal and he lined up for 60 again. And guess what, this junior in high school drilled it. And then he did it again. Yes two bombs from 60 yards at the half and he basically got a standing ovation.
I am finding that we have several great kickers in the area. Eli Mashburn from Warner Robins has 2 game winners in the last 10 seconds this year and gave me the most honest answer when I asked him how it makes him feel when a coach ices him. "I expect a coach to ice me once but after that it just kind of makes me mad and I know I am going to make the kick then." So coaches, don't piss off Eli because he will make you pay.
We also have the unique kicking situation at Mary Persons where Alexander Rivera is the field goal kicker who hasn't missed this year and has hot a 54 yarder and Dawson Daniel who kicks all the extra points and has not missed a single one this year. Brian Nelson says they are self taught kickers who basically coach themselves. He says they go to practice and he sees them stretch and punt and kick and then after that he sees them playing little kicking games for a bit longer. Coach Nelson lets them do their thing and it has worked out great for Mary Persons. These kids are just soccer players who came out to help the football team.
Some of the other strong kickers around Macon are Mitchell Fineran from Peach County, Bryce Pruitt from Tattnall and Jake Jamison from Stratford. Jamison is one of my favorites but well, Stratford scores touchdowns which has severely limited Jamison's opportunity to kick field goals. Wow what a problem that is lol.
In closing remember this
Koknowsports loves the kicker