Future Alabama Kicker Wins Georgia State Championship
by CB969 on Dec 10, 2011 12:44 PM CST
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PrintWith the game and season on the line, Calhoun kicker Adam Griffith calmly stepped up and kicked a 32-yard field goal in overtime to win the Georgia AA State Championship in the Georgia Dome on Friday afternoon.
He also kicked field goals of 29, 46 and 36 yards to beat the four-time defending champions Buford 27-24.
"I didn’t think about anything other than just kick the ball," said Griffith, "I wasn’t nervous. I was confident."
On the losing end was Alabama commits linebacker Dillon Lee and tight end Kurt Freitag of Buford.
The game almost ended in regulation with Calhoun leading 24-17 and set to punt near midfield with 47 seconds left. However, a low snap and pressure from the defense caused the punter (not Griffith) to fumble. The ball was snatched up by Lee and he took it back for a 40-yard touchdown to send the game into OT.
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Do you know how Lee and Freitag did?
I LOVE THE ASTROS. Now lets win something!
by ccislanders on Dec 10, 2011 12:56 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Dillon Lee had several tackles and of course the TD
Not sure about Frietag.
* I swear I must have posted this 5 minutes before J Tadpole did. B)
Thirteen and counting
I think you did, but still great news!
I LOVE THE ASTROS. Now lets win something!
by ccislanders on Dec 10, 2011 1:59 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Red'd to eternity
"We knew we had to turn it up or we would get beat. We ripped the knob off. We turned it up so much we broke the knob." - Roy Upchurch after beating Florida in the 2009 SEC Championship Game
by bearbryantwonit on Dec 10, 2011 3:49 PM CST reply actions
If he graduated early...
Would he be eligible for the BCSNC?
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
by TopDaddy on Dec 10, 2011 4:06 PM CST via mobile reply actions
No, from my understanding of the rules
a kid is not technically eligible to play out of high school until National Signing Day (to make it official), which is not until the first Wednesday in February. They can enroll early, and if they go to even one class, they’re locked into that school for one year unless they go through the transfer process (Kiffin tried to get some of his early enrollees to not go to class if they wanted to follow him to USC). But they’re not eligible to participate in any football activities until they sign their official letter of intent.
And in regards to JUCO players who can sign in December, they can’t play for two different teams in the same season in college football anyway.
So effectively, no.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~General George S. Patton~
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~General George S. Patton~
Is he, in fact, enrolling early?
Lee, too, I would hope so. Then he can’t change his mind.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Dec 10, 2011 6:47 PM CST up reply actions
Before you get too excited . . .
. . . don’t forget that Cade Foster was a 4-star recruit:
Actually,
Scout Rivals
Stars Position Rank Stars Position Rank
Cade Foster 4 3 3 10
Adam Griffith 3 1 3 3
But I agree we should not be overly optimistic—which I probably am.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Dec 12, 2011 6:42 AM CST up reply actions
Lil' help with the column formatting please?
This is showing that Cade was a 4 star in Scout and Griffith is a 3 star?
God bless our Dark Lord.
Yes.
Sorry. When I typed inside the message box, it looked perfect. No amount of editing after previewing could change the format.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Dec 12, 2011 8:53 AM CST reply actions
Oops!
But the reply fail is on me.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Dec 12, 2011 8:54 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah, SBN formatting doesn't handle tables (or white space) very well.
There’s probably some html trickery that you can use, but then again it might screw that up as well.
God bless our Dark Lord.
Hot Tamale Mona Lisa?
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
She sure is.
She’s like 16th century Girls Gone Wild!! Apparently she was even into animals. What a freak!
God bless our Dark Lord.
Her Tail My Lips?
"My favorite play is the one where the player pitches the ball back to the official after scoring a touchdown." Paul "Bear" Bryant
Also playing in the 5A Ga State Championship
was Grayson DE Robert Nkemdiche. I’ve posted about him before, but this kid is a beast. He’s a junior this season (recently rated #1 overall junior recruit). I couldn’t find a video of the play, but on one particular play, he blew up the OT, grabbed onto the ball carrier in the backfield while being held by that OT, then was attempted to be blocked off making the tackle by another player, and still made the TFL. By the way, he had 85 yards on 10 carries to go with it. He’s a DE by trade, but late in the season was used both ways some, he has 4.6 speed and is 6’5’’ 250 lbs. Did I mention he’s a JUNIOR?
In an interview after the game, he said his coach, former UA Bear Bryant Walk on of the year winner, Mickey Conn, told him before the game to drink plenty of water because he was going to go both ways, I like him…
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