Re: ***2016 K Eddy Pineiro (JUCO) commits to Alabama***
Welcome Eddy. I'm not concerned with how far he kicks as how consistently he can put 40 yds and less between the uprights. Foster and Griffith both were kicking 60 yarders in high school also. Inside of 47, they were not automatic.
Agreed.
It's one thing to kick off the ground with no rush and the ball 100% stationary, the exact way you like it, held by a 100% reliable metal holder, and you get to kick it when you're dang good and ready.
Another thing entirely to deal with the snapper snapping the holder catching, spinning, and setting the ball down, maybe set the perfect way you want it, maybe not. All the while anywhere from 7 to 11 guys are grunting and yelling at the top of their lungs, trying to stuff that ball back down your throat, and 100,000 people are screaming their heads off, some for you to make it and others for you to shank it.
I hope Pineiro makes us all forget Van Tiffin. But predicting PK success is like deriving the Theory of Relativity, compared to predicting QB success (notoriously difficult) being Sally, Dick and Jane.
We'll see what he's made of when the heat is on in a close SEC game on a kick in the last 10 minutes. Not on videos of recruiting highlights.
