It’s more important that your kicker be able to hit his field goals. If we absolutely can’t live with Barth’s kickoff distance we can burn a roster spot without compromising our team on some guy with a strong leg who can’t hit the broad side of a barn on field goals. Plenty of those guys around every year.

But I’ve heard people talk up his ability to accurately place his kickoffs… he has good directional control. I don’t mind if he can only get it to the 5-10 if he can put them in a corner that allows our coverage team to pin them in better, especially if it’s someone dangerous in the return game. I wasn’t really watching how deep he was getting them during the game, but I did notice that they weren’t uber deep.

Of course nothing stops a return better than burying the ball in the back of the end zone. What about Colquitt, can he kick deep? Sounds crazy, I know. But I think it would also be crazy to get another kicker just to kick off and use Barth to kick FG’s. In that case it wouldn’t be Novak because he can’t kick deep either. I guess what I’m saying is I have no idea what to do about this, but I don’t think it should keep Barth from beating out Novak.