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No, Mark Fox says, Yante Maten or any UGA basketball player isn’t answer at kicker

The jokes on social media were just too easy after the woes that Georgia’s kickers have had this season trying to put a ball through the uprights.

Georgia forward Yante Maten (1) celebrates Georgia's 69-56 victory over South Carolina after an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, in Athens, Ga. (Richard Hamm/Athens Banner-Herald)

If Georgia basketball forward Yante Maten can boot a 44-yard field goal, get him out there on the football team was the sentiment.

Maten kicked one through from that distance during a team punt, pass and kick competition in a video posted by Georgia to Twitter on Friday.