BP Awards: The Skladany (Best Punter)

[LordJeffBuck]

This award was won in a landslide by Wake Forest's Ryan Plackemeier, who averaged 47.24 yards per punt in 2005. Congratulations, Ryan, for winning BP's inaugural edition of the Skladany Award as the nation's best punter!

The full results are set forth below, with the number of first place votes in parentheses:

Ryan Plackemeier (Wake Forest) - 217 (28)
Sam Koch (Nebraska) - 119
John Torp (Colorado) - 106 (2)
Daniel Sepulveda (Baylor) - 85 (2)
Danny Baugher (Arizona) - 71 (6)
Kyle Tucker (Kansas) - 38
Gordon Ely-Kelso (Georgia) - 29 (1)
Jim Kaylor (Colorado State) - 29
Nic Schmitt (VPI) - 27
Steve Weatherford (Illinois) - 25 (1)
Dave Brytus (Purdue) - 24 (2)
Kenneth DeBauche (Wisconsin) - 21
Michael Hughes (San Diego State) - 16
Tom Malone (Southern Cal) - 14 (1)
Luke Johnson (Southern Miss) - 14
Eric Wilbur (Florida) - 9 (1)
Michael Gibson (Memphis) - 8
A.J. Trapasso (Ohio State) - 7
Chris Miller (Ball State) - 4
Joshua Brazen (Kent State) - 4
Justin Brantly (Texas A+M) - 3
Brandon Fields (Michigan State) - 2
Brendan Carney (Syracuse) - 2
Justin Kucek (Minnesota) - 1
Chris Hall (Florida State) - 1

Note: Six points were awarded for each first place vote, 5 points for each second, etc.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Just wanted to say nice work getting this all together, LJB.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

very cool. wonder if we should let the school know about this honor :)

 

[osugrad21]

Just wanted to say nice work getting this all together, LJB.

Ditto. Thanks for the effort LJB.

 

[OilerBuck]

Spectacular work LJB! This is definately interesting.

Looking forward to the rest!

Don't forget that Ryan also had 20/67 punts land inside the 20. Astonishing rate!

 

[Deety]

Thanks, LJB. :)

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Thanks to everyone for voting!

 

[Sloopy45]

Ditto, LJB. I had the lone 1st place vote for Steve Weatherford of Illinois. He was by far the best punter I saw this season, and was quite impressive. The best player on the Illini this season, in fact.

 

[Bucklion]

Nice effort, LJB, and thank you. I would again suggest we cut this one down to 3 for next season, though. I consider myself an educated man, but I can't speak from much first-hand experience about the punting program at Wake Forest or Kansas :!

 

[Dryden]

very cool. wonder if we should let the school know about this honor :)

Probably should, I would think WF would like to know so that they can update their trophy case (from the Wake Flamers basketball thread):

 

[JXC]

awww, my Ryne Robinson vote got thrown out. He punted a few times this season and impressed me enough. Don't know enough about punters...but he definitely could have been a dandy if he wasn't SO GOOD at everything else he is.

McNeal for Texas A&M got votes for best runningback.