{"id":35525,"date":"2017-07-19T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T07:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=35525"},"modified":"2017-07-19T07:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T07:07:19","slug":"for-kicks-oklahoma-state-punter-has-own-heisman-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/for-kicks-oklahoma-state-punter-has-own-heisman-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"For kicks: Oklahoma State punter has own Heisman campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

For kicks: Oklahoma State punter has own Heisman campaign<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Everyone can get a real kick out of this Heisman Trophy campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is already a website with some cool classic graphics and at least one #sinor4heisman T-shirt \u2014 the one Zach Sinor wore during Big 12 media days. Oklahoma State’s 5-foot-10 junior punter, sporting a Fu Manchu moustache, even handed out colorful pamphlets touting his credentials for college football’s top individual award.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m supporting him 100 percent,” said Mason Rudolph, 22-6 as Oklahoma State’s starting quarterback and a top Heisman contender himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He only has a certain amount of money like all of us, so he has to budget the way he can, and use a bunch of his old Instagram pictures,” linebacker Chad Whitener said of the tri-folded, one-page pamphlet. “It was good, and all the stats on there are incredible.”<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the handout, opponents hate America’s No. 1 punter and animals love him \u2014 there is a picture of him with a dolphin and another with him getting licked on the face by his dog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sinor punted 56 times last year, and an FBS-best 63 percent of those were downed inside the 20-yard line. Opponents had only 15 yards on punt returns all season, less than one yard per game.<\/span><\/p>\n

When told he would be one of the four players representing Oklahoma State at media days on Tuesday \u2014 a very rare occurrence for a punter \u2014 he wanted to take full advantage to boost the Heisman Trophy campaign that he kicked off with a video last month.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I took it and ran with it,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked about his campaign budget, Sinor said it is “pretty expensive.” But he said he had run things by compliance officials to make sure he wasn’t breaking any rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

“They said this was fine as long as I wasn’t selling them. So that’s good,” said the Texas-born punter, adding that he has “another shirt I’m going to break out for y’all sometime.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Sinor was a quarterback in middle school, but missed all of preseason practice going into his ninth-grade year because he was playing in the Pony League Baseball World Series in Washington, Pennsylvania. That led to him becoming a punter.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When I got back, they said I wasn’t going to be the starting quarterback. I was obviously devastated,” said Sinor, who instead became a defensive tackle and third-string quarterback. “Then, my sophomore year, I was kicking the ball around one day. They asked who the punter was, and they said Zach was punting earlier.”<\/span><\/p>\n

After getting moved up to the varsity team for a scrimmage game, he had a punt of about 55 yards.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his first game for Oklahoma State, Sinor had a 65-yard punt in the 2015 season opener against Central Michigan. Cowboys fans eventually took to using the hashtag #Sinor4Heisman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas’ Michael Dickson, who was also at the Big 12 gathering Tuesday, actually led the league in punting last season with his 47.4-yard average. The Australian-born kicker said he would be happy if a punter won the Heisman, but has no plans for a campaign of his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’ll leave that to him. I don’t want to copy his thing. That’s funny, though,” Dickson said after looking at the pamphlet. “It’ll never happen. … Maybe as a quarterback\/punter or something, that’s really the only way it’s going to happen.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2017\/07\/19\/for-kicks-oklahoma-state-punter-has-own-heisman-campaign\/103820308\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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