[Orange Blaze]

How can you fault the kickoff kicker? He kicks it to the sideline when directed to. When directed to kick down the middle, the ball consistently goes inside the 15 yard line and at least one, maybe two were fielded inside the 10 yard line against Valley. I give you that the opening kickoff was ran back, but he's got 10 other players who are helping tackle.
What else do you want from the kicker? I haven't seen any that we have played against this year kick any deeper. Paintsville has a standout kicker, but I don't think you're gonna find too many others in high school who are putting it any deeper than Manis is.

I think he was referring to Raceland's tendency to kick it out of bounds on the kickoff. I can understand this if you are going against an elite return guy like Quinton Baker but but I doubt we will see any of those this year. It really just doesn't make much sense to give a team free field positioning like that.

I agree that there are 10 other guys out there and with their speed and athleticism they should never give up big returns. Raceland's Achilles this season is their poor special teams play. So far this season I have seen them give up way too many big plays on special teams and if they can't fix it sooner or later someone is going to make them pay for it and it may cost them a game.