Maybe. But I still reckon that soccer isn't an ideal preparation for punting. It might help to identify kids with strong legs, but there'd be a lot of re-programming involved. If that has been a traditional breeding ground, then it isn't surprising that Aussie Rules players are making the transition so well.

Remember that any soccer players making the transition to the special teams unit of an American Football team would prefer to do the kicking rather than the punting, in the same way that Aussie Rules players would prefer to do the punting rather than the kicking. That means that the soccer players who do go into punting are 2nd stringers who go into punting only when they can't wrest the kicking position away from someone else.

I understand that entirely, but you're overrating the collegiate system, and UoH's team.

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College football came in as the 3rd most popular sport in the US in THIS SURVEY - just behind Major League Baseball, and ahead of the NBA. Five of the College teams play in stadiums with seating capacity for more than 100,000! None of the non-Victorian AFL clubs comes close to that.

In around 2008, University of Hawaii had an average home crowd of 41,325, and had a budget of US$29.6M, on the back of 12-1 and 11-3 years - see HERE.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see how I'm overrating college football or UH.

And by the way, Centrebet in Alice Springs is laying UH at 1.08 against New Mexico State at 8.25, and the start is at 19 points. You can't even bet on the VFL H&A matches, let alone Uni Blues or Uni Blacks ...

Some of that is a by-product of the regular schedule: College games on Saturday, NFL games on Sunday. Another element is the grass roots nature of college football: just about every college has a team.

Wasn't arguing UoH was an inferior college football team, more that all college football was vastly inferior to the pros. That should be a given.

Anyway, this is a complex and irrelevant debate. Kickers and punters are tapped up from anywhere because all they typically do is kick or punt. End of story.

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20 ways to see the world,
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Not good news?



I'd personally prefer Aisakie as a third pick to Matt Maguire.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Hi all.

Asaike has been here for at least the past 5 to 6 weeks. I wish we all did get to see what he had to offer AFL ( and the Blues especially ) but the only way he'll get that chance again is to have a solid , breakout, year in the VFL.
I dont know if it's Gospel that he's here to play footy or not but he's definately back living with Setants. They live just up the road from me and i've seen 'em mowing the lawns !

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Time for talk is over. Time to show 'em what we're made of !

Ratts has got them both playing alongside a Rover, hey?

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Maybe Aisake is back to start up a lawn mowing business with Setants !!!!!!!

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