Fordham punter named top in FCS by College Football Performance

[alvinkayak6]

College Football Performance named Fordham punter Patrick Murray as National Punter of the FCS. North Dakota State punter John Prelvitz won last year's trophy.

[Fordham]

Outstanding! Congrats Patrick!

[ngineer]

He certainly got a work out this year...But great to see he was so consistent.

[SammyHouston]

Soooooo..... For a team to have the best punter, that team must suck?

Think about it.

[danefan]

Soooooo..... For a team to have the best punter, that team must suck?

Think about it.

Not true.

Being the best punter doesn't necessarily mean having the most punts.

[Twentysix]

Not true.

Being the best punter doesn't necessarily mean having the most punts.

Drago was the best punter in the FCS in I think 07, I believe he was inelgible for the award because the bison did not have enough punts to qualify him.

You do have to punt a fair amount to be eligible for the award. But do not have to suck. Last year SHSU sucked they did not win the award, NDSU was a quarterfinalist and won 2 playoff games. Hardly constitutes sucking.

Few players at any level possess the strong leg that Dragosavich displays. The Bison punter has made a habit of kicking the ball for tremendous height, hang time and distance, but is still a work in progress in attempts to angle his attempts towards the sidelines on pooch punts.

Dragosavich jokes that he might as well be the Maytag repair man during his last two seasons, as he did not get many opportunities to kick, attempting just 30 punts in 2006 and 27 in 2007. He would have led the nation in punting average as a junior and ranked second as a senior, but did not have the minimum kicks required to be eligible for the punting title during those two campaigns.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/p...orical/1616852

NDSU some how has amazing punters

[Fordham]

Not true.

Being the best punter doesn't necessarily mean having the most punts.

Exactly. Purely a coincidence.

[alvinkayak6]

Soooooo..... For a team to have the best punter, that team must suck?

Think about it.

I did think about it, and I have no idea why that team must "suck". Of course, really, really good teams probably don't punt that much.

Did you watch LSU-Alabama? There was a ton of punting in that game...............

[ngineer]

A good punter is one heck of a defensive weapon. Lehigh's was very good this year. While he doesn't have the strongest leg, he is very good at placing the ball inside the 20, which is a very important skill that many punters cannot master. A team that starts inside it's own 20 will score only about 10% of the time.