Quinn Nordin back from injury

Submitted by Quail2theVict0r on

I was perusing Twitter this morning and just saw the Rivals guys posted a (free) article about the kicking competition this week. Most importantly the bit at the end:

https://michigan.rivals.com/news/michigan-football-harbaugh-says-kickin…

“We’ve been working extremely hard at it. ... Unfortunately, we missed three kicks in the ball game last week. We have confidence in our guys, yet we want to see that competition in practice. I feel if we make them in practice, we’ll be able to make them in a game. Guys are battling this week.”

And doing well, including freshman Quinn Nordin. Nordin had been working through an injury, but he returned to the competition this week.

“Quinn made both his kicks yesterday, in fact, and had a really good day yesterday. Kenny Allen made all his kicks; Ryan Tice made all his kicks and Quinn made all his kicks," Harbaugh said. "It will rage on again today.”

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Elmer

October 6th, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^

Anyone know if Nordin has been hurt since fall camp?  Just wondering if he didn't win the job in fall camp and then got hurt or if he never had a chance to compete for the spot due to injury.

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Michifornia

October 6th, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^

Game pressure for a kicker.  Making the team run extra laps if the kicker misses in practice is one tactic but in a stadium with 110,000 fans is a little different.

Hope one of these guys has the confidence to be the man.

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Njia

October 6th, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^

You can't simulate 100,000 screaming fans, but you CAN simulate a high stress environment. It may be better from a preparation perspective in learning to deal with the pressure to put kickers into high-stress situations and have them perform complex tasks that require focus to complete successfully.

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KC Wolve

October 6th, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^

Hopefully he is ok at least to hit the short kicks. We have no idea how he will respond to game pressure but if he can nail the short kicks consistently use him and have Allen try longer ones. Really need to hit the "guaranteed" kicks and get points on the board.



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Space Coyote

October 6th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^

Is that it really seems mental. Both kicks by Allen this past Saturday, as well as Tice's kicks, were actually well hit balls. All had good spin, had good trajectory, didn't tail off one way or the other, etc. But the first was pushed one way, and then the next was pushed the opposite direction. They're getting caught up in mind games thinking "ok, aim at this spot" or whatever, rather than trusting what they've done. They're hitting the ball right, but something is getting messed up in the aim or approach because they are overthinking it.

And once it's on a kicker's mind, it's damn near impossible to get it off of their mind during the game. But that's why you have competition in practice. Sometimes that gets the nerves going a bit and gets them over it so that they start thinking about it less in the game.

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COLBlue

October 6th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^

I tuned in to the Arkansas State-Georgia Southern game last night, a little before halftime.  The game was tied at 10-10, and Georgia Southern was attempting a 52 yard FG.   Their kicker made it, and they just acted like it was routine.  

It would be nice to have that level of confidence when watching Michigan's kickers...   :) Hopefully, this has just been a temporary slump...

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Kevin13

October 6th, 2016 at 11:34 AM ^

from a very good source that Quinn had asked to red shirt this year and that his injury really is not that big of a deal. My source was surprised he asked for this, but maybe after last week they are talking to him about needing him to play this year.

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pendingperil

October 6th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^

From his recruiting process he sounded like a guy who would want to play immediately, so that is surprising ("Nordin has said that he expects to compete with fifth-year senior Kenny Allen for the kicking job this fall.").  You gotta wonder if the thoughts of Michigan possibly resting its playoff hopes on his leg are pushing him to want the redshirt and get more acclimated.  Definitely a lot of pressure for a true freshman.

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RHammer - SNRE 98

October 6th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^

this little tid-bit was pulled from this morning's Baumgartner piece on the kicking situation, and, well... I'll let the quote speak for itself:

"We're looking for someone to put their iron jock on and put the ball through the uprights. We're looking for someone to get that done."

www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2016/10/michigans_quinn_nordin_is_back.html#incart_river_home

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jschulz79

October 6th, 2016 at 1:10 PM ^

Can someone explain to me why Harbaugh keeps saying it's "a bit much" asking one guy to kick FGs and punt?  I mean, I get it if you're just not good at one or the other, but is it really that physically demanding?

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soupnazi

October 6th, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^

Figured it was time to contribute, as I've been a lurker for quite some time. Rockford is in my back yard and the rumblings coming out are that it wasn't so much an injury with Nordin, but that Harbaugh felt an attitude adjustment was needed. I have no problem if that is the case; just hoping the message was received.

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