Gators picking up a kicker
The Florida Gators didn’t have room to sign a kicker in the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class, but it now looks like they’re going to add one to the incoming freshman class.
According to the St. Petersburg Times, Marvin Kloss, a three-star kicker from Naples Barron Collier, has decided to accept a walk-on offer from Florida. Kloss was offered a scholarship and grayshirt by South Florida. As a grayshirt, he would not have enrolled at USF until January of 2011. Now, he plans to be competing for possible playing time this summer in Gainesville.
Kloss is currently going through the admissions process.
“If they can get me in, I’m going up there,” he told the Times. “I want to play right away, and they’re a lot better (than USF) scholarship-wise with just one kicker and one punter on scholarship.”
Kloss will have an opportunity to eventually earn a scholarship at UF.
His admission to UF appears to be just a formality. His grade-point average and test scores have already earned him a Florida Bright Futures scholarship.
Robbie Andreu has been The Sun’s college football beat writer since 1993. He covered every game of the Steve Spurrier coaching era. The only game he’s missed since he has been in Gainesville is the 2006 Florida State game in Tallahassee. He happily stayed home for that one because of the imminent birth of his second child. Before coming to The Sun in March of 1993, Andreu worked for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel for 10 years, covering a variety of sports, including the Miami Dolphins, the Miami Hurricanes, professional golf and baseball (playoffs and World Series). He also worked in Clearwater and Bradenton. He graduated from UF in 1977.
Imagine scoring everytime you’re inside the thirty yard line; that’s what a great kicker can do for a team. That was one of the biggest reasons FSU had a 15 year run of top five finishes. Hopefully, Kloss will be another Judd Davis. If you’ll recall Judd didn’t have a scholarship either, yet won the Lou Groza award.
by florida frankie
He was not a 3-star prospect. He was a 1-star prospect on Scout.com and not listed by Rivals. Do not expect much.
by st
Scout and Rivals don’t have a monopoly on scouting high school prospects. He was one of the highest rated kickers on ESPN’s recruiting site. Ranked #7 at the position and graded at 78 when the highest grade they have given a kicker in this class is an 80.
by lurkergator
Marvin Kloss is the # 1 rated kicker in the Nation acoording to the “Kornblue” fab 50. That’s good enough for me. The # 2 Kornblue rated guy (Basil who is going to Ohio State) is rated #6 in the nation by Scout. This is a great pick-up for the Gators. Another great job by our coaches!
by QOP Gator
#7 ranked kickers in the country usually get at least 1 athletic scholarship offer for the fall semester.
by st
I’ve noticed that the kickers who had to come in and earn their scholarships turned out to be the best ones. Anyway, Sturgess definitely needs the competition, very inconsistant last year. But his kick DID win the Arky game when it was on the line.
by TampaDave
florida frankie said……great kicker can do……biggest reasons FSU ……
HAVE U EVER HEARD OF WIDE RIGHT that is why the noles were good REALLYYYY?????? U sure it wasn’t the Fast D?
by Sambizle
From what I hear is that the guy is dead on 30 and inside and has kicked 60 yard FG’s. His touchback percetnage is pretty high as well AND if Coach Meyer is willing to let the guy come and walk-on with the opportunity to earn a scholly, it shows that the coaches once again know a little bit better than those who post on here.
by mike plant
Why is anyone complaining?
This is a no-lose situation. If the kid comes in and tears it up, he earns a scholly and kicks for us. If not, we’ve lost nothing.
by Lizardgrad89
to Sambizie: Janilowski, et al. by the way, Janikowski just sighed a four year, $16,000,000.00 contract with Oakland. $9,000,000.00 guaranteed.
by florida frankie
Great… Kickers are hard to rank anyways… they all can kick, but for some reason they loose and or gain confidence. If this kid has a strong leg, I would only think that as he gets comfortable with the UF program, he will become a star like all the others. It will be interesting to see what he can do. GO GATORS!
by BIO
Janikowski will need that $9 mil guaranteed to cover his annual legal fees. Typical FSU thug…went to the right NFL team.
by Denver Gator
Trust the coaches. If they encouraged Kloss to walk-on they know he has talent.
I never have seen one of us armchair QBs ever hitting a PAT let alone a game winning FG. ; )
by Bill
boo on you Denver Gator…Janikowski played for FSU quite a while ago…No one in their right mind likes the Seminoles but…give up the mean swipes…I’m pretty sure you’re not a saint. UF has had it’s share of bad apples as well
by akwallace78
focus your hatred on UT
by akwallace78
“Trust the coaches. If they encouraged Kloss to walk-on they know he has talent.
I never have seen one of us armchair QBs ever hitting a PAT let alone a game winning FG. ; )”
Well, actually…. I did
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5JlLJlL1AU
by Josh