Backup kicker leaves Nittany Lions
For the second time in three days, a player has left the Nittany Lions.
Backup kicker leaves Nittany Lions
For the second time in three days, a player has left the Nittany Lions.
Backup kicker Matt Marcincin, a redshirt freshman walk-on, was removed from Penn State's official roster on Thursday morning. It is unclear why he left.
Redshirt junior wide receiver Shawney Kersey left the Nittany Lions for "personal reasons," coach Bill O'Brien announced on Tuesday via Twitter.
Marcincin never appeared in a game, but O'Brien said on Tuesday that Penn State's kicking competition is open every week. Sophomore Sam Ficken has won that competition every week.
In last Saturday's loss to Virginia, Ficken missed four of five field goals -- including one from 20 yards. O'Brien kept Ficken in the entire game, though, including a 42-yard attempt in the last second of the game.
-Emily Kaplan
Comments (16)
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— nuggett- He likely left because he grew weary of playing for a team that enabled a pedophile. Maybe he also realized his degree with that name on it will be tainted forever. Good move by him. Kudos.— thingfish
- Let me guess...you work for the Phila housing authority after your Temple degree fast tracked you to irrelevant government work (try not to steal any more $$, now).
Or....you sell Chevys on Delaware Ave...only b/c your cousin got you the job.— Larz13 - He probably left because he understood that he would never get in a game. If he couldn't get in after Ficken missed 4 field goals and an extra point, he was never going to get in.— OldCityJoe
- @thingfish - thankfully ignorant trolls such as yourself are never put into positions that require you to hire for any position higher than head grill cook at McD's. Anyone with a college education would know that employers at respected institutions will not extrapolate what happened as an incident within the athletic department involving a limited number of people to the entire student body and academic institution.
Congrats on being the most ignorant person in the room!— PhillyIllini - thingfish, you are a bonehead. The current team had nothing to do with Sandusky, and I'm making 1% kind of money with my Penn State degree. You see, people in business are smart enough to judge a person and an institution on more than your narrow, warped view of the world.— akh
- Joe, unlike Ficken's kicks I think you're dead on!— owl87
- The truly scary thing is that there are actually oxygen thieves like thingfish out there. Name one football player who enabled Sandusky. Name one lacross player. Name one swimmer. Name one student. None. But all of them are being unfairly punished and have had their lives ruined. You hit any In thingfish's twisted little world, when innocent people are victimized, the only remedy is to deliberately victimize hundreds more innocent individuals. Genius.— SammyMaudlin
- akh
One percenters don't respond to ignorant comments like that.— Kerz - sorry thingfish...my PSU degree has served me extremely well. I've been gainfully employed since i graduated in 2006. I own a fantastic home in a great neighborhood and i have the respect of my peers at work. contrarily, your comment merely exposes you as an ignoramous.— AndyReidsMustache
- Upon hearing the news that more defection have hit Penn State, the sanctimonious NCAA Bigwigs scheduled their next get together to laugh and joke about killing a program without the Death Penalty. I bet the Pink Squirrels will be going down smooth that night!— cooperhawk
- Good for him... the guy was smart enough to see he was getting the shaft... Pedophile State University and Especially its student body deserves the Worst for choosing football over child abuse.— Ashburn072
- Hey lar13 , why the knock on Temple. I went to both Penn State and Temple. Both are great schools !— jimbojum
- Poor judgement that O'Brien did not bring in a backup kicker to kick the gamer winner. Fricken has gotta live with that and would have felt a lot better had Marcincin came in and missed. Had he made it, O'Brien would have looked like a smart guy (see Bill Belichick). O'Brien said, "It's never always about the kicker; the kicker is always the one to get blamed, but it's the whole operation: the snap, the hold, the kick." That was his explanation for sticking with Frickin' Fricken? After 4 misses, if its the snapper or the holder, then replace that cog, and if it's the kicker, for the LOVE OF GOD! let someone else lose the game for you!— tornadochaser
- If he was simply a back-up non-scholarship walk-on, maybe he decided he wanted to spend more time with his girlfriend than kicking a ball on the practice field.
Or don't any of you chuckleheads realize that young men this age develop interests other than football?— Willie Green
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Joe Juliano has been a staff writer for The Inquirer for 20 years, covering college sports, golf and the Penn Relays.
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
Joe Juliano
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
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