I am surprised I haven't seen a thread on this yet. Longest field goal in MSU history.
Kyle Ferrie
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Time to bring it back...
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FOOTBALL | Kyle Ferrie 55-Yard Field Goal - Mississippi State
Kyle Ferrie nails a 55-yard field goal.
Beat Artie Crosby by 1 yard. He had 60 yards in that kick. It didn’t just leak over the bar.
Yup. Just have to figure out roughly 20 more positions and we’re good.
Yeah. He might kick a longer one this year. That one yesterday was a bomb
I can't imagine him nailing a 60 yarder or something to beat Texas or UGA
Here is MSU luck. He hits a 56 yarder as time expires to beat one of those teams, but it's nullified by some stupid penalty like illegal formation or a false start. They back him up 5 yards and the next kick hits the cross bar.
I was expecting him to miss an XP after hitting that one. Or miss the 30 yarder right before half. Would’ve been par for the course for our kickers historically. He’s quietly been one of the better ones we’ve had in recent memory, it’s just been exclusively on bad teams. There have been years where we had decent teams that lost multiple close games because our kickers were terrible.
Lock this up… first rule of having a good kicker is we don’t talk about having a good kicker
If Ferrie was a few years older, Mike Leach would’ve had back to back 9-win seasons.
I think a decent portion of our fan base only started in the Mullen years. They don’t really take the injuns seriously.
About Cosby’s55-yard kick. We were playing Memphis. They had tied their last 2 games. We were tied with Memphis having 4 down with seconds left at their own 38. They went for it. Pass was incomplete & Cosby kicked the 55-yard FG.
I was at that game, but didn't remember the details. I did remember the kick.
I figured he was also their FG kicker. What an athlete that guy was.
Met a guy years ago who had kicked in HS and was on the team at Southern as a defensive player. He was thinking about getting in the mix as a punter. All it took was seeing this freshman named Guy hit a single kick about 75 yards and he gave up his college kicking dreams.
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He could have played DB in the NFL but Al Davis wouldn’t let him because he was too valuable to risk. He was Oakland’s emergency QB most of his career. And he was a drafted in baseball twice. Struck out 260 batters in 220 innings at USM. So yeah. He was a great athlete.
It wasnt just pass incomplete. IIRC, the Memphis State QB was flagged for intentional grounding on the play. Back then, intentional grounding was a 5 yard penalty from the spot of foul, plus loss of down. Thats why we got the ball at the 38 instead of the 50.
I also seem to remember a Memphis State receiver dropping a sure TD pass on 3rd down.
After reading this you are right they had 4th down at midfield. Tried a Hail Mary, but we got to the qb & he threw the ball away.
Good for him. The one thing he lacked was his ability to hit longer FG. Seems to have worked on that this offseason.