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Sunday, 12 February 2012 08:31

'You know an SEC punter when you hear him'

Published By: Mark

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LEXINGTON -- Kentucky's kicking game got a boost on signing day with the signing of kicker Landon Foster out of Thompson Station, Tenn. Foster is listed as both a kicker and a punter.

Kentucky will be looking at all options next season with the graduation of long-time punter Ryan Tydlacka, who made the Cats one of the best punting units in the SEC.

Coach Joker Phillips told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the Kentucky coaches knew Foster was a good kicker, not from the moment they saw his 6-foot-1, 198-pound frame, but from the moment they heard him meet the ball.

"You know an SEC punter when you hear him," Phillips said of Foster, who averaged 41.3 yards per punt last season for Independence. "You know an SEC kicker when you — you don't have to see it, you can close your eyes and walk past and it's going to sound different than a pee– wee punter. This guy is an SEC punter, high character kid, intelligent, right look in his eyes."

Foster also had 50 of his 56 kickoffs last season go for touchbacks. Four of the others were on-side kicks.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/12/2065553/notes-cats-address-special-teams.html#storylink=cpy

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Mark Maynard is an award-winning sportswriter from Ashland, Ky. He has covered University of Kentucky sports and Kentucky high school sports for 35 years. Maynard has won more than fifty writing and design awards from the Kentucky Press Association. He lives in Ashland with his wife, Beth. They have two grown children.

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