The Andy Phillips and Tom Hackett Thread

[LA Ute]

These guys deserve their own thread.

UTAH'S UNLIKELY DUO: THE UNIQUE PATHS OF SPECIALISTS ANDY PHILLIPS AND TOM HACKETT (http://www.campusrush.com/andy-phillips-tom-hackett-utah-utes-walk-on-1351053711.html)

Football specialists, Utah assistant Morgan Scalley likes to say, get stigmatized for being strange. Kickers and punters are known for their quirks—a unique haircut, an eccentric hobby, a superstition no one else understands. They're often the oddballs of a group, dealing with a very particular type of pressure. A quarterback is criticized for a bad game; a kicker vilified for five bad seconds.
Yet even by specialist standards, a pair of walk-ons at Utah stands out. "They're weird," Scalley says, "in a good way."

[Rocker Ute]

I've often laughed at the Tom Hackett thing because he comes here and wins the top award for his position for some sport his country cares nothing about.

It's be like winning some positional award in badminton in Japan and then coming back to the US and toting it around to bars.


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[Applejack]

These guys deserve their own thread.

UTAH'S UNLIKELY DUO: THE UNIQUE PATHS OF SPECIALISTS ANDY PHILLIPS AND TOM HACKETT (http://www.campusrush.com/andy-phillips-tom-hackett-utah-utes-walk-on-1351053711.html)


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Poor timing for this thread. Let's let them have their first good game of the season first.

[Hot Lunch]

Poor timing for this thread. Let's let them have their first good game of the season first.

Ha, I thought the same thing. Special teams aren't living up to the preseason hype leading up to the start of the season.

[DrumNFeather]

I've always liked Tom. He looks like he has a party going on inside his head.

[Applejack]

Ha, I thought the same thing. Special teams aren't living up to the preseason hype leading up to the start of the season.

As in "special teams went from team strength to team weakness." It was nice to get a score on special teams every week.

[LA Ute]

Poor timing for this thread. Let's let them have their first good game of the season first.

Denied. Their last two seasons justify giving them this thread.

[hostile]

Hackett wins the Ray Guy award. Admits to being lazy and obese.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hECvolbHg

[LA Ute]

Has anyone won two years in a row before?


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[hostile]

Has anyone won two years in a row before?


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i don't think so. Tom Hackett, putting the foot back into football.

[Diehard Ute]

Has anyone won two years in a row before?


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Yes, he's the second. Ryan Allen won it in 2011 and 2012


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[U-Ute]

Immortalized in meme format.

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/12/10/d04153b58126ee1e3e2ee6009dcb5fda.jpg

[Applejack]

Ray guy x 2!!!!!!! :jig:

[concerned]

What is the standard, if any, for having a football number retired? If anybody qualifies, Hackett does.

From the ESPN blog:

To say that Hackett accomplished a lot during his time at Utah would be drastically overstating the obvious. But for all his accomplishments -- two-time Ray Guy winner for the nation's top punter, two-time consensus All-American and unanimous All-American, a spot on the Pac-12 All-Century Team -- his greatest contribution may have happened off the field.

[Diehard Ute]

What is the standard, if any, for having a football number retired? If anybody qualifies, Hackett does.

From the ESPN blog:

To say that Hackett accomplished a lot during his time at Utah would be drastically overstating the obvious. But for all his accomplishments -- two-time Ray Guy winner for the nation's top punter, two-time consensus All-American and unanimous All-American, a spot on the Pac-12 All-Century Team -- his greatest contribution may have happened off the field.

Numbers aren't retired in Football. With 105 players in fall camp and 85 on scholarship it's impossible to retire numbers in college.




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[DrumNFeather]

Numbers aren't retired in Football. With 105 players in fall camp and 85 on scholarship it's impossible to retire numbers in college.




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But...Utah should absolutely have a ring of honor of some kind. Lots of candidates for that.