So much relies on the foot of a kicker in determining the success or failure of a college football game, yet until the past few years the recruitment of punters and kickers have not been a priority.
There have been many reasons why the college kicking game is such a crapshoot, not just for colleges, but right up to NFL teams. The conventional wisdom was that if you had a couple of open recruiting slots to fill and it was between a lineman or a kicker/punter, nine times out of ten, you take the linemen. Kickers and punters were left with walking on to the team or at best as a preferred walk on (PWO).