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Monday, August 30, 2010
Miami has new starter at free safety
Junior Anthony Kokal, one of Miami University’s top defensive players last year, will be replaced as the starting free safety when the RedHawks open their season at Florida on Saturday, Sept. 4.
The new starter on the depth chart is sophomore Pat Hinkel.
“(He) is starting in place of Kokal,” Miami head coach Michael Haywood confirmed at the first of his weekly press conferences today, Aug. 30. “He’s had a much better camp and is playing more physical. Kokal is going to have to become a more physical player, and Kokal is one of the leaders we have on this team who usually plays really well for us, and he’s going to have to step his game up because the young guy is playing a little bit better than he is.
“I think that transition was made about a week ago,” Haywood said. “That was an on-the-field deal. Kokal came up, missed a tackle, Lance (Guidry, Miami defensive backs coach) left it to me and I said hey, do what you’ve got to do.
“Pat Hinkel is playing really well,” Haywood noted, “and he’s also playing on a number of special teams.”
Kokal caused the fourth-quarter fumble which helped preserve Miami’s only victory, over Toledo, in 2009, and he finished as the team’s second-leading tackler with 105, including a team-high 54 unassisted tackles.
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