Penn State Kicker Anthony Fera Visiting the Longhorns?

by Scipio Tex on Jul 25, 2025 11:11 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

That's the current word on the unimpeachable Nittany Lion message boards, the internet's witness protection program for anyone being hunted by Reason.

With Fera visiting Texas this week, are any of our other kickers staying?

Who are you to deny the veracity of jmmstate, a man who still features a Joe Paterno avi on his profile?

Fera is a senior all-purpose kicking specialist who place kicked, kicked off, and punted for the Nittany Lions last year. He was 14 of 17 on field goals (a perfect 11 of 11 inside the 40) and averaged 42 yards per kick on 64 punts (18 inside the 20). His all-around performance was good enough to garner 2nd Team All Big 10 honors and 3x Big 10 Special Teams Player of The Week. His versatility makes him a useful remedy for whatever ails you in the kicking game.

Other relevant data points:

Fera is a Texas native (Houston St. Pius)
Fera hasn't announced his return to Happy Valley yet
Two of his sisters went to UT
We need help in the kicking game
When Mack was asked a direct question about going after Penn State players, he said "Oh, I dunno...people do lots of things" and then bit into an apple
If Fera kicks a deluge of field goals for us, I've got dibs on "Fera Faucet"

There are other teams in Texas that want his services, so a visit to Texas may not necessarily be a visit to TEXAS. And the University of Tennessee is going after him hard. So, yeah, UT. The possibilities for sitcom style misunderstandings are rich!!!!!

In any event, if possible, we should take him. It costs us nothing and making our kicking game rock solid is a necessary complement to a good defense.

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Penn St Seniors

The rule on Penn State transfers is that a team can take them this year even if the scholarship count is full, but then the next year the student’s schollie counts in the total. Is that right? If so, are seniors freebies since they won’t be around the next year?

Fera Freebie? Or we pay this year and lose one next year?

by canuckhorn on Jul 25, 2025 11:42 PM CDT reply actions

If a student-athlete transfers for the fall of 2012 to a school that has reached its scholarship limits, the school may exceed these numbers for the 2012-13 academic year, provided it reduces such limits proportionately in the 2013-14 academic year. For example, if one student-athlete transfers to a Division I school already at the legislated limits of 25 initial counters and 85 overall counters for 2012-13, the school will be limited to 24 initial counters and 84 overall counters in 2013-14.

by Scipio Tex on Jul 25, 2025 11:49 PM CDT up reply actions

OK, makes sense. I’m just going to hang up and listen now.

by canuckhorn on Jul 25, 2025 11:51 PM CDT reply actions

Gimmie

"Slammed that hoe on the counter like I just got 35 on the domino table!!"
Sherrod Harris

by AlDe2356 on Jul 26, 2025 12:06 AM CDT reply actions

Heck Yeah!

K has concerned me all offseason. With zero good news coming from any of the “insiders” about the kicking game, this is amazing news.

I believe.

by Zzzizzzy on Jul 26, 2025 4:50 AM CDT reply actions

Was that really Mack's response?

If so, it made me laugh… a lot. But I’m understandably a bit off the deep end right now.

Speaking of, gotta get back to it…

by Sasha is a Longhorn Dog on Jul 26, 2025 5:44 AM CDT reply actions

Lotsa coaches lookin

“The NCAA allowed it and the NCAA wants to give those kids the right to look around immediately,” the Texas head coach said. “The timing is very difficult for everyone. Could you get them in school? Would they have transferable hours? There are coaches talking to those kids right now that are still on their campus. I don’t think it would be considered unethical because the NCAA allowed it.”

The last line is particularly rich.

by canuckhorn on Jul 26, 2025 9:57 AM CDT up reply actions

You've uh ... you've go' a noice stadium heah, coach

We wouldn’ want anything to ’appen to it.

’Ow many kickers ya got, coach? Be a shame if someone were to uh, set fire to them.

Kickers burn, you know.

by SP!DER on Jul 26, 2025 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions

One of my favorite Python bits of all time.

by Scipio Tex on Jul 26, 2025 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions

More importantly

Can we get their quarterback and can he pass the ball?

by ransomstoddard on Jul 26, 2025 6:42 AM CDT reply actions

We don't want their QB

Huge step down from Ash.

by UPB13 on Jul 26, 2025 8:34 AM CDT up reply actions

A kicker's playbook is a pamphlet, quickly and easily learned

Any (other) skill position player stepping onto campus in the next few weeks is going to way behind in the Harsinwhite or Diaz systems, with only a few weeks before play starts. Kickers are interchangeable between systems, QBs not so much.

by HawkHorn on Jul 26, 2025 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions

"If Fera kicks a deluge of field goals for us, I've got dibs on "Fera Faucet"

That’s the tits

by ole tnhorn on Jul 26, 2025 7:03 AM CDT reply actions

If he balloons up I've got dibs on "Fera(l) hog."

by OJsApprentice on Jul 26, 2025 12:52 PM CDT up reply actions

In a post apocalytic world

he can be The Feral Kid.

Follow @BarkingCarnival

by Sailor Ripley on Jul 26, 2025 3:19 PM CDT up reply actions

There's a

Lee Majors/Major Applewhite joke in there somewhere.

Oh well, since it’s dibbed I’ll have to go with “Fear Fera” or “Fear a Fera”

by tdwalsh on Jul 26, 2025 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions

For us old f***s and our country's beneficent Chinese Lenders

I’ll go with “Happy Fera”

by densagain on Jul 27, 2025 1:44 PM CDT up reply actions

Interesting

I hadn’t realized that we would lose a scholarship for next year if we added a senior to this class. Not sure a kicker, or more specifically, another kicker, is worth it.

Then again, this may all be for not, as no one can be sure of the Feracity of this rumor.

by tronaldinho on Jul 26, 2025 8:09 AM CDT reply actions

You only lose a scholarship

If you go over 85 this year.

Its not really the loss of a scholarship, more like borrowing one from next year to pay for the overage this year.

If I heard right that Texas is at 84, then one additional scholarship player like Fera would not adversely affect next year.

@ccommand3r

by CMDR on Jul 26, 2025 9:44 AM CDT up reply actions

But it would be a bummer for whatever walkon was otherwise going to be allocated it this year

But with Berryhill leaving there may not have been any seniors in this situation anyway.

by Horncasting on Jul 26, 2025 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions

Stocked up, but no one plays

So at what point do we have as many or more kickers on scholarship, that don’t actually play, as we do have TE?

by Thor's Brother on Jul 26, 2025 8:19 AM CDT reply actions

I’d like us to take a look at their younger TE, was top-ranked out of HS and another obvious need for us.

Follow @txTDM

by txTDM on Jul 26, 2025 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions

What's his name?

I looked at their roster and there wasn’t a tight end who had been very productive in the passing game.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions

A younger tight end might not be a bad thing.

I wouldn’t expect much immediate benefit from any TE who would still have to learn the playbook and wouldn’t get enough reps before this coming season.

by BurntOrangeJuice on Jul 26, 2025 12:36 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

If close, low scoring games

are going to be the norm this year, a solid kicking game could swing several of them. No offense to the guys on campus, or soon to be on campus, but I will feel a lot better with a guy who has kicked field goals in front of 100,000 people before.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 9:32 AM CDT reply actions

Don't cost nothin'

by ballrific on Jul 26, 2025 10:15 AM CDT reply actions

"The internet's witness protection program for anyone being hunted by Reason."

Great line. It’s the little gems like this hidden in your writing that keep me coming back for more, Scipio.

Of course, with TexAgs still out there, there seems to be more than one hiding place available.

by Longhorn in Canada on Jul 26, 2025 11:38 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs

TexAgs

TexAgs is where people who have openly defeated reason congregate. Reason is hiding in fear from them.

by egad '01 on Jul 26, 2025 12:42 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Seems like a no brainer to me.

Does anyone know if we’re actually at 85 scholarships for this year? I don’t see how missing one scholarship for next year would negatively effect the program. I can see how not having a good kicker could cost us 2 or 3 games this year.

There are obvious losses like the ATM game last year without Tucker.

And then there are more subtle losses like giving up 10-20 yards of field position kicking and punting on a team with perhaps the best D in the country and an O that at best needs time to develop.

by texitect on Jul 26, 2025 12:03 PM CDT reply actions

Do

they have any good OT looking to transfer?

by ninjarobotpirat on Jul 26, 2025 12:40 PM CDT reply actions

A couple corrections

He is actually a RS Junior and would have two years of eligibility

We are at 83 scholarships right now. 82 if Graham med shirts as expected.

by Randy Watson on Jul 26, 2025 1:07 PM CDT reply actions

Thanks.

Saw that he was on track to graduate in December. PSU’s website calls last year his junior season. Odd.

by Scipio Tex on Jul 26, 2025 1:14 PM CDT up reply actions

That he is on track to graduate early might hurt us.

He would probably be giving up some upper-division hours if he transfers.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 1:18 PM CDT up reply actions

Assuming graduation is his goal,

he’ll need 60 hours at UT to get a UT degree.

by SP!DER on Jul 26, 2025 1:29 PM CDT up reply actions

Is that the rule for transfers?

If I were him I’d be tempted to play this year out, get the degree, and transfer for my senior year as a grad student. You’d also have to think that someone who is on track to graduate early places a higher priority on academics than your typical football player.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Yep

Used to, you could spend a year here and graduate, but now they want half the minimum credits done on-campus.

by SP!DER on Jul 26, 2025 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Here is the IT Roster Table

Just FYI in case anyone is interested.

http://insidetexas.com/football/football.php?pg=fb_roster

by Horncasting on Jul 26, 2025 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions

Do they have any stellar WR's?

"All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter."
Darrell Royal

by Snide Aside on Jul 26, 2025 1:30 PM CDT reply actions

Supposedly

He can transfer his last 30 hours from Texas and get a Pedo State degree

by Randy Watson on Jul 26, 2025 1:33 PM CDT reply actions

not funny

by conejito on Jul 26, 2025 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions

If you are referring to the Pedo State reference

I suggest you grow thicker skin, because you are going to be hearing it quite a bit.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions

Sill prefer Penitentiary State - Pen State for short...

"I was nice and didn’t go for a full cock shot" - LonghornEm

by UTLawGrad on Jul 26, 2025 9:20 PM CDT up reply actions

A very wise man once said,

“Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes from Penn State.”

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Thanks for the help with the link

Not sure why I couldn’t get it to work.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 2:12 PM CDT up reply actions

Scipio

Any TE’s that would be worth our time?

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 2:15 PM CDT reply actions

None that we have a relationship or connection with

by Scipio Tex on Jul 26, 2025 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Not unless one is roommates with Fera

by notsofst on Jul 26, 2025 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions

2 years ago, that would have been the end of the story

Wit the turnover in coaching staff, and the glaring need at the position, I don’t think the lack of an established relationship will stop our offensive staff from trying to improve our football team. I figured at this point you would have already broken down PSU game tape, and had several conversations with coaches/scouts in the area. You’re slipping. :)

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 2:44 PM CDT reply actions

Wow.

Calling out Scipio….Gutsiest move I ever saw. :)

by Stiendam Hall on Jul 26, 2025 6:06 PM CDT up reply actions

Let me ask you something. If you had to go into battle, would you want him with you?

"I was nice and didn’t go for a full cock shot" - LonghornEm

by UTLawGrad on Jul 26, 2025 9:22 PM CDT up reply actions

Maybe I should change my call sign to Maverick

But really, if I want a good opinion on UT football, this is generally where I come. It is just slightly disappointing that Scipio doesn’t seem to have one.

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 26, 2025 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions

Corrected

It is just slightly disappointing that Scipio ~~doesn’t seem to have one.~~ won’t give me the one I’d like to hear.

by Scipio Tex on Jul 27, 2025 12:34 PM CDT up reply actions

Tease

by I am conVINCEd on Jul 27, 2025 1:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Man The NCAA Fumbled This Piece of the Penalty

I will not knock the NCAA for the harsh penalty - certainly was an unprecedented set of circumstances. But wouldn’t the death penalty been safer and fairer? They allow all these transfers, restrict the schollies - who the heck is going to play next year? Basically unwanted kids, and non NFL seniors that want to finish the parchment (prolly one guy named Mortimer with a 31 inch inseam). Then you say line up in the B1G and take your beating? This aint touch football, and leaving a bunch of rag tag kids to be lead to slaughter is just wrong. Contrast this with a 2 year death penalty - where the kids get the transfer without the remainders getting killed. Then you tell the coaches to start scouting the JUCOs and get ready for the next 2 years.

Change isn't good or bad it just "is". Don Draper of Madmen

by realmccoy on Jul 26, 2025 7:40 PM CDT reply actions

Players still get "killed" after the "Death Penalty"

It’s just delayed until the first 2 years after the program comes back. Do you remember SMU its first 2 years back? Didn’t Houston put up, like, 138 points in one half on them, or something?

by Hoju on Jul 26, 2025 9:03 PM CDT up reply actions

I Guess You're Right

No easy way - was just thinking the coaches could have a more planned approach to the problem.

Change isn't good or bad it just "is". Don Draper of Madmen

by realmccoy on Jul 26, 2025 9:36 PM CDT up reply actions

You could not issue a death penalty this year.

The 12 teams on the PSU schedule would have no time to get an opponent, expect maybe the Ohio Little Sisters of the Poor. Once school starts it will all settle down because no more transfers will be allowed without the sitting out a year.

It will take them a solid decade to get somewhat reestabilshed in the Big 10, but that was the goal of the santions.

by RQ on Jul 27, 2025 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions