MURRAY —Throughout the season, Murray State Head Football Coach Jody Wright, along with Racer Nation in general, have been rather alarmed with the team’s kicking game.
Specifically causing heartburn has been the performance of place kicking — I.E. field goals and extra-point tries. To say the least, these have been areas of the kind of uncertainty a tight-rope artist has when his wire starts bobbling.
It has been a bumpy ride, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, kickers simply have missed the target. Sometimes, bad snaps have destroyed timing. Other times, either by low kicks or complete destruction of the protective line, there have been blocks.
So when things do go right, it is reason for celebration, such as Saturday. At one of the toughest home fields in all of the Football Championship Subdivision — not to mention, the mighty Missouri Valley Football Conference — and not only because of crowd decibel levels, Murray State kicker Tyler Dorn made Wright a very happy coach, drilling three field goals (and having another be ruled no good, which Wright disputed) to account for all of the points in a 42-9 loss to a South Dakota State team that is one of the top contenders to win an ...