 Hey, what's up you guys what is going on and welcome back to another rugby player reacts not to the NFL But hopefully one day it will be today's video is rugby player reacts to the pro kick graduates of 2020 today's date is um May 23rd and For the last two weeks it must be signing season for pro kick and for American colleges because you know it simply put It seems like every day or every second day pro kick announces that another one of their athletes Who's gone through the program been in talks with colleges for months put in the work for months and months and finally? Signed on the dotted line achieve the major goal or the first step of the major goal Which is to secure a spot at a div one NCAA college football program as a kicker or a punter or both And so you know being that I have some form of an association with pro kick You know I've gone down for two assessments in the past and actually more so in the last six months than than ever before But I've definitely received probably about one or two messages a month From athletes from Australian athletes usually who are looking at training with pro kick You know they've they've seen the journey that is possible they've most probably seen guys like Mitch Wyshnowski and Michael Dixon who've come through the program and who are you know at the moment very successful in In their venture so guys will you know see me through a quick message and just Ask what the assessment was like what kind of things they're looking for how I thought it went Why I'm not doing it anymore and questions like that So I've got absolutely no problem with getting back to each and every one of you who see me through a message And I want to say thank you. Thank you for that But here I am you know my first assessment with pro kick was in September of 2018 Unfortunately at that point I couldn't commit Life goes on Basically a year later August 2019. This is last year. I went down again. I was so close to to beginning training but I was put in a really compromised position when I was down there because I Had trained with a team called Monash Warriors and You know I was all ready to play Literally the first game of the season after training for three weeks first game of the season was on Sunday Right on Thursday. I was still in negotiations with pro kick I was messaging John from pro kick John Smith absolute legend of a man, but once again You know I kicked myself every single day for doing this But I simply had to John offered me another spot straight up on the pro kick Academy said right come down to training on Friday We'll see you there. This was the Thursday I was meant to be trained I was meant to be playing the game on the Sunday Pro kick had told me earlier that they don't train athletes that are playing sports for another team at the same time because of the risk of injury, which is absolutely Understandable I completely understand that but it's not something I really factored in so I'd gone I Was all ready to play this game and basically John told me look if you go and play that game We're not going to be able to train you but as well as that if you go and play one game of senior football That is going to reduce your eligibility for the NCAA from four years to three years. So that's going to be a really Big decision that you've got to make Jackie and guys basically what happened at that point. I said, right You know what? I cannot choose right now. I have my two children in Ella Springs. I don't have a lot of money behind me I've still got things to do in life. I cannot commit right now. I just cannot commit. I wanted to say, right Monash Warriors, I'm not playing for you guys anymore. I'm sorry, but I am committing to pro kick I was so close to doing that every single day. That's gone by since that day I've regretted it, but at the end of the day, I couldn't have done it because I couldn't afford it at the time now Another year on every single obstacle that was ever in my way I've sorted it took nearly two years guys. Like I said September 2018 I would have dropped everything and gone and trained with them at that moment, but I simply couldn't that's what life is like But when you've got something that you think about every single day and it doesn't go away You're either going to regret not doing it for the rest of your days or you're going to find a way to do it So with that being said that is my journey with pro kick so far and I would you know I'd love to say it's not over, but you never know anyway the main reason why I actually found pro kick originally is because I looked up On my journey into the world of American football what Australians or New Zealanders were playing in the league now at that point I think that was like June of 2018 and it was between the draft and the start of the regular season and in that time I Guy called Michael Dixon had got drafted. So I looked up a story Loved it looked up pro kick made contact with them and the rest is history But basically guys from there Michael Dixon went on to have a stellar season and another one So they call them big balls Dixon in Seattle at the moment And I'd have to say he does have big balls, especially especially when you got that fourth down conversion You know the one so Michael Dixon was a lot of fun to watch throughout 2018 Mitch Wisnowski came into it 2019 hell of a lot of fun to watch I back any New Zealander or Australian that enters the league I back any New Zealander or Australian that enters college football. I back anyone from our two countries that wants to back their ability Believe in themselves and try something new. I've got to say you're a fucking legend anyways guys today's video We're gonna look at all the legends that have graduated from pro kick and we're gonna look at what schools they're gonna go to This is something I haven't done specifically all I've done is see the the posts come up on a daily basis from pro kick or it seems like a daily basis and You know, we're gonna count the athletes and we're gonna look at all the schools that pro kick have have managed to secure scholarships for And it's gonna be really fun So I'm gonna open this this can of Epicness and I'll get Instagram up and we'll have a quick look all of that It's just perfect for your smile All right, let's get the screen recorder going we go to Instagram and Then we go to To accounts we're gonna go to pro kick which is the account of Nathan Chapman the head coach Then we're gonna go to Johnny Pka, which is John Smith the assistant coach or the other head coach Who focuses on the academic side of things because at the end of the day the journey with pro kick is not all about Playing in front of 50,000 people every week In fact a lot of these scholarships go to schools that may have a 5,000 seat capacity stadium or a 10,000 seat capacity stadium So what is focused on is maturity of the students Preparing them for life at an American college, but also, you know making sure that the education is Fundamental to their journey the education getting the degree and getting a good grade. You know what I mean? So that's what it's all about. Anyway, let's go Okay, so we'll scroll down and as we can see we've got a few pretty exciting photos here in fact in fact Wings this one That was eight weeks ago. Okay, so where would the first one have been? What was this? some pro kit Some pro kick No, is this the first one? This is the first one. Okay, here we go Boom Ohio State, too. I did see this one, but I couldn't remember pretty pumped to say and this is two weeks ago guys pretty pumped to say we have a student just commit to a high state his name is micro Jesse Mirko Well done micro and these coaches they usually have certain nicknames for players and Basically, just having a great time and that's why I absolutely loved it guys And I I kicked myself every day that I'm not down there training with the boys because it was so much fun It was so much fun. Okay, so Jesse Mirko for Ohio State and there he is there and I'm following him Fremantle boy from Melbourne to the Ohio State Now I hope these boys don't mind me looking at their journey, but you know Instagram is a public place so Ah, what do we go here? What's this 287 weeks ago? Holy shit. It's like five years ago Playing bit of AFL and again about five years ago still playing AFL He's in Beverly Hills. He's he's hit the States and this is 34 weeks ago That may well have been his trip over to check out some universities. What do we got here? Denver, Colorado At a Well, he's at the Pepsi Center. So he's gone to the States loved it Massachusetts Milwaukee a bucks game and so on and so forth so 13 weeks ago February 16th was his last update And here we are here. We are two weeks ago with an an Ohio State logo and a caption that reads Absolutely honored to announce I've committed and accepted a full scholarship to study and play football for the Ohio State University in 2021 Massive thank you to Nathan Chapman and John Smith for helping make this happen You're truly the best in the business although a also a huge thanks to Dave to Enivye of CQ athletic performance for all this work to coach Barnes and coach day I can't thank you enough for the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of fellow Aussie Cam Johnson and current punter D. Crispin 91 Can't wait to get to work now if that doesn't excite you guys and put a smile on your face. I Don't know what will good luck Jesse. Right. Let's go back. That was number one Jesse Mirko to Ohio State or the Ohio State And I love the Ohio State. So good luck buddy next one a week ago. We've got a post here Prokix said crazy how things play out Congrats to Mason his father Dustin and I were in the same draft year and both debuted in the AFL in 1993 So Nathan Chapman the head coach of Prokik played Australian football Which is Aussie rules. It's called Aussie rules in Australia. It's not played in any other country And it uses predominantly punting of the ball So that's why a lot of these boys who are going through the college system from Australia X AFL players Whereas a rugby player, you know that the I guess, you know, not every player on the field has to kick and so Generally that the kicking skills More so in the back line rather than the forwards on an AFL field. It doesn't matter where you play. You still have to kick the ball That's how you distribute it Throughout the team and up the field. So this guy's dad played with Nathan in the AFL and He says Dustin Dustin his dad went on to play 7,000 games for the great Essendon FC There's probably about 250 I on the other hand what wandered aimlessly through a few years of footy Yeah, here we are both excited for the journey his son Mason is about to embark on Go Bearcats is a great Bearcats football was a great play to great place to play football and live You need to work on your spelling there, mate You're confusing me. Anyway, okay, so Mason Fletcher is his name Do we have a tag? Oh, he's put it on Facebook Mason Fletcher excited to announce I've accepted a full scholarship to study and play football at the University of Cincinnati Can't wait to get started as a Bearcat And look at that edit man. That's a fucking sick edit, isn't it? Okay? It's a Mason Fletcher to the University of Cincinnati. Good luck Mason. Who's next? David Shanahan Extremely excited to announce that I have been offered accepted and committed to a full scholarship to play football and study dot dot dot Where's he studying pro kick this lad David Shanahan moved from Ireland Actually, I remember reading this move from Ireland just to train with Prokik, Australia And now he has to move to the USA to live out a dream of being a punter with GT Which is George Georgia Tech By being in Atlanta, he will be closer to home than he is here But that's still some serious frequent flyer miles for the rents. Nice work Irish nice work How fucking cool man this guy's like 20 years old. He sees Prokik. He decides, right? That's the journey. I want to go on he goes and does it he makes it happen and here we go He's committed to Georgia Tech, which is a big school. Let's check his page out Give him a follow old Irish What do we got here Georgia Tech football commit God, I'd like to you know, I'm pretty jealous, but I am extremely happy for this guy Extremely happy. So we've got some rugby here. It looks like and that's about three years ago three years ago He's playing some rugby there is on the right. So you might have might have a bit of height about him actually I Haven't had a lot of updates. Have you that's 41 weeks ago I'd say he would have been training with Prokik at that point What do we got here old man foley? I thought I thought I recognized that guy that he must be a must be an AFL player on the left Anyway, here we are six days ago guys seven days ago. Sorry With the original post extremely excited to announce that I've been offered accepted and committed to a full scholarship To play football and study at Georgia Tech Thank you to coach Collins coach Connor coach pop of it coach Popovich and Patrick Sueds for this amazing opportunity a massive, thank you to Johnny Pka John Smith and Nathan Chapman of Prokik Australia for all their hard work and dedication to make this all possible I'm so grateful for everything you've done for me. Also. Thanks to Dave Tuina vai of CQ athletic performance for all his work Finally to my family and friends, especially my mom and dad. I cannot thank you enough for always supporting me Can't wait to get to the ATL and get to work bra Good luck. That's all I can say Good fucking luck. So David Shanahan. He's not Australian. He's he's Irish, but he's gone through Prokik in Melbourne And received a full ride scholarship. Nice work All right on to the next This one's interesting. I'm gonna be making a separate video On James Evans. I Don't know anything about him But sitting here in Christchurch, New Zealand about two weeks ago There was a news story on the news six o'clock news about a kid from New Zealand who decided to dream big Went to Prokik and has now committed to Indiana University and he's from Auckland, New Zealand So I don't know the full story, but I do want to get my head around it due to the fact He is from New Zealand and a lot of these guys are from Australia There's another New Zealander that's just committed to a school too But he decided to go the other route and go to a juco Rather than you know train with Prokik and do what these guys have done and use Prokik for their connections Etc to get them the spot this other guy decided to do it on his own and I've actually got him to see me a little Piece of writing to explain his journey. So I'm really excited to bring that video to you guys But first James Evans yet another one well done James Wow, this is a fantastic place to study and play ball make the most of it big fella You shall do New Zealand and Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister proud. Thank you for trusting us with your future God that makes me happy James Evans usually excited. Let's have a look at his page following yes Auckland Melbourne Indiana What a journey. He's got two posts I'm hoping you're gonna sort that out Content is king bro content is king content content content If you're over in America as a New Zealander, bro, you could have half the country following your journey if you really wanted it So exciting anyways Let's read your post my friend and we just saw our old mate Kiwi kicker in the comments section Let's see what he wrote hugely excited to announce my commitment to play football and study on a full scholarship at Indiana University Thank you to coach T garden coach McKinney re McKinney McKinney and coach Alan for providing me with this amazing opportunity massive Thank you to John Smith and Nathan Chapman of pro kick Australia For providing me with this opportunity and taking a chance on a kid from New Zealand My family and I are eternally grateful. Also a huge. Thank you to Dave to a new of I of Conquest athletic performance for preparing me both physically and mentally for the challenges ahead Finally to all my family and friends especially my parents. Thank you for your constant love and support. Can't wait to be a Hoosier Can't wait to be a Hoosier a Hoosier Come January and following the footsteps of the great Hayden Whitehead, okay So we've got a few comments here and Kiwi kicker chimes in I'm gonna like his comment Congrats, mate legend looking forward to following your journey and to be honest, you know as Both being New Zealanders Kiwi kicker and I He is a legend in our country straight up. So well done James Well done next up the block Andrew Stokes What do we got here happy for this young bull Stokesy also known as Andrew Stokes We'll spend some time in Florida working on a degree kicking a ball with white stripes on either end They don't when you go halfway around Well, that's college football the big lad will take over after their current legend Trent Schneider Who's a perfect lad to gee Perth has some talent don't know seems they do Let's have a look at Stokesy Andrew Stokes. Well, I'll give you a follow and he looks as if he is about six foot four He looks pretty fucking tall actually Are they your kids? Let's see the reply. These ones are just my nephews. Unfortunately. I've never met my kids laughing face How long ago is that four weeks? All right Once again, I hope these guys don't mind me looking through their journey, but we've got him down supporting his local AFL team About 44 weeks ago. So that's yeah halfway through last year We've got a work snap about a year ago anything to do with American football, what's this? Well, well, well, we've got an action shot He's he's mossing someone as they say and that was two years ago So two years ago playing AFL Wow, we no regrets Was that Halloween costume or something Okay, two years ago playing AFL Here's about pro kit start training with them. I Can't see any posts in America unless this one is For some reason that looks as if it's in America But I couldn't be sure and we've got a pick-up game of AFL here. It seems around Christmas time and then lo and behold Two days ago. He posts a very cryptic Logo that a lot of his followers probably had never seen in their lives Super excited to announce that I've accepted a full scholarship to study and play football at the University of South Florida Thank you to coach Jeff Scott coach De Prato and Coach Gilchrist for giving me this amazing opportunity to follow in the footsteps of current Aussie punter Trent Schneider Massive. Thank you to Johnny and Nathan of Prokik Australia for all their hard work and countless amounts of hours. They put in huge. Thank you to Dave I'll get this name eventually to a nearby from CQ athletic performance for preparing me for this journey Lastly, thank you to my family and friends for all their support cannot wait to get started go balls and The balls are The University of South Florida. Well, if you see Leonard for net bro to say hi for me, right? Right What do we got now? What's that five? I hire a state Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Indiana South Florida and finally last but not least but it's probably not the last one because they'll continue to sign these guys Over the coming weeks, but this one Is a guy called Joshua And he's going to Texas Josh T. Sloan Extremely excited to announce that I've committed and accepted a blue shirt scholarship to study and play football at the University of Texas El Paso. Thank you to coach Dimmel and coach Robinson for giving me this opportunity And I'm sure he's gonna say thank you to coach John and Nathan and also, of course, he can't forget the strength and conditioning coach So there we go the University of Texas. That is number six. I've been doing some good work down there at Prokik man I've got to say Next we're gonna look up Johnny aka the Baron Who's a UK man now? Now for whatever reason it looks as if Johnny has put up a fair few more Posts, so we're gonna check them all out here. We're gonna go back About a month and see what we can find out So that's six weeks ago Johnny boy puts up a new highlight clip of one of his athletes kicking basically every single day And every time I see it I press like And I think fuck I wish that was me right now What have we got here evolution? What have we got here? What a man? Right He's usually all about cryptic stuff really cryptic posts That will have something to do with the athlete that's committing the next day and the first one that I noticed And I don't think this is to do with an athlete, but it was this one and It was a New Zealand flag and I've liked the comment because Johnny said Prokik, New Zealand Apparently there's gonna be a Prokik, New Zealand, so that's pretty interesting But anyway, let's have a look I think the first one looks as if it is this one here And that is a story about two football punters that are already playing so we can't Well, it's fucking cool story. They grew up best friends in Australia now They're two of the Southland Conferences best punters Can you imagine that two guys growing up in Australia playing Aussie rules together throughout school? Best mates and they both go on this journey and they're both land scholarships And they're both playing in the same conference and they can both catch up and get that photo in the stadium after the game You know what I mean? You know that photo the classic photo you've got to get what absolute legends What absolute legends alright, so this is the first one Jesse Murko that goes to a higher state. We've seen that What's all chappy up to? Just looking jolly um What is this? Sharks punt pays off any explanation. Let's have a look what that is Shark sharks punt pays off Prokik No, I don't think we're gonna be able to find that one. So Let's continue Who's this he's asleep. We've got the male graduate scholar athlete of the year From WKU something something university. Where's our first graduate Johnny? Ah See see He's put up a cryptic post before that Irish fella got signed and it was an Irish flag photo of Cincinnati He's not giving a lot away is he? This looks like the first post that he's actually given us a name Vasset Michigan State Mark Vasset. Let's have a look. I'll give you a follow He's committed to Michigan State. Oh Bra, let's have a look he playing AFL two years ago And here you are with Prokik about four months ago He must be training out of Melbourne because I don't know who that coaches And here we are two weeks ago. We've got a post from Mark saying I'm extremely blessed to announce that I've accepted a full athletic scholarship from the Michigan State University Thank you to coach Ells and coach Tucker for offering me this amazing opportunity I'm beyond beyond proud to be a Spartan and cannot wait to get started. Thank you to coach Nathan Chapman and Johnny Sorry Without you guys, this would not be possible and I can't thank you both enough. Also. Thank you to Dave Dave T from CQ athlete performance for preparing me both physically and mentally for college football Lastly, thanks to my friends and family for their support throughout this life-changing decision I hope I can make you all proud MSU football And I've just seen his stats here he's six foot four the big guy With a big leg And he's going to Michigan State. Well done, mate. Well done. Now Johnny if I could just bring you back there What's this one? I really wish you would say what you meant Johnny boy Here's his post about James came from Auckland, New Zealand to train with us now going to Indiana University in 2021 great work James. Thanks for putting your trust in us Great work James Does this mean Alex has signed with the Seminole's what did you do that last year? He's got a private account. I'm not gonna be able to find out But that's fine. Okay, so we've seen this one. This is the South University of South, Florida What's this one? UAB now I have no idea what that means. He's clearly already in his helmet. So he must be he must be an ex student So we won't go there But we do have two new ones here that I'm excited to bring you which are Josh Sloan who played professional AFL It looks like for Carlton Extremely excited to announce actually let's go on his page. Cheers Johnny Extremely excited to announce that I've committed and accepted a blue shirt scholarship to study and play football At the University of Texas our past actually we saw that didn't we blue shirt? That's and I want to know what a blue shirt scholarship means What does it mean to be a blue shirt recruit? The first red shirt college athlete was a Nebraska football player named Warren Afton in the late 1930s He practiced but didn't play for the Cornhuskers for one season In a red jersey without numbers. He was the first and probably the last college athlete to actually wear a red shirt Due to not playing today collegiate athletics has expanded its recruiting wardrobe to include a red shirt variation gray shirts green shirts and blue shirts We can quickly define what all the color terms really mean including blue shirt and why are they becoming more fashionable with college coaches, okay? blue shirt Blue-shirting is becoming a more popular but hardly common way to creatively manage the number of athletic scholarships Blue shirt rules allowed for unrecruited players to be awarded a scholarship at the start of freshman practice This allows a team that may have too many commits to essentially borrow against their next year's scholarship total The rules are rather strict in regard to what is defined as being unrecruited That means there was no official visit taken by the athlete the coach doesn't didn't visit the athlete at home There was no national letter of intent signed and no form of athletic aid Given those recruiting restrictions It is still a pretty rare occurrence for a student athlete to be considered for a blue shirt scholarship offer Okay, so I guess due to his Ability due to his obvious ability. It's been able to secure one of their 2021 scholarships Without actually Meeting them or something along those lines Josh Well done mate and good luck I've got one more post to look at guys and this is basically the reason why I started this video and That is because just today Johnny's put up another post 50 minutes ago, and I've already commented saying go hard Nick Habera Committed from Australia to is that Washington Something with a W. Let's have a look. Here we go three minutes ago guys Fuckin hell. This is fresh news WSU Cougars football who is that Washington State University Melbourne's Nick Habera a product of prominent Australian punting program commits to Washington State Oh, we'll read this when Nick Rolovich fired off his latest bat signal at 640 Friday morning Announcing Washington State had secured its seventh commitment in the 2021 recruiting class. It begged the obvious question Who would be on a recruiting call with Rolovich making a decision about their college future at such an early hour? By Friday afternoon WSU fans had their answer It was 11 40 p.m. In Melbourne, Australia when punter Nick Habera Informed Rolovich and the Washington State staff. He decided to join the Cougars becoming the third player to pledge in his many days And the fourth this week and here is his Twitter page So we'll open that Habera made a social media announcement at 4 p.m. Pacific and 9 a.m. On Saturday in his hometown of Melbourne thanking Rolovich and special teams coordinator Mike Gobriel Along with John Smith and Nathan Chapman who trained Habera at the renowned pro-kick Australia facility By offering him a full ride scholarship The Cougars are presuming the Australian will take over in 2021 for all-packed 12 punter Oscar D The third who's entering his senior season this fall Draguvich the third is the only listed punter on WSU's roster although red shirt junior walk-on Johann Zetterberg has split punting and kicking duties during his three seasons with the Cougars There is much information available on Habera other than Other than that he has a background in rugby and has spent years working with coaches at Pro-Kick Australia a program that has provided 75 scholarship punters and kickers 17 college all-americans and five Ray Guy award winners Notable pka products who won college football's most prestigious punting award include former Texas punter Michael Dixon Now with the Seattle Seahawks and former Utah punter Mitch Wichnowski now with the San Francisco 49ers according to a recent article in the Athletic Pro-Kick Australia estimates it has between 60 to 70 prospects on college rosters at the moment Rolovich's starting punter at the University of Hawaii Stan Godian Is also a Melbourne native who trained with the pka? program So Nick well done once again, that is absolutely incredible We're just gonna read your post here beyond excited to announce that I've accepted a full scholarship to play football and study at Washington State University Thank you to all those involved who made this possible and he's tagged all of the coaches that we've heard from from all of the other athletes Wow So guys that was My reaction to pro kicks 2020 graduate class and I want to say a huge huge Massive as big as you can imagine good Fucking luck good luck fellas go hard make your country proud whether that be Ireland Australia or New Zealand and just know guys that if you do happen to make The six o'clock news or you do happen to make the bleacher report or you do happen to make ESPN or anything like that I'm gonna grab that story and run it again on my channel So guys you've got all the support from me in the world You've got all the support from your own countries you've put in the work You deserve it now go and win that ray guy award take care guys Have a fantastic day and good luck to pro kick and all of your athletes currently training throughout the year of 2020 Good shit guys Incredible pro kick you are doing God's work for us down here