Baylor’s Colin Brewer (4) celebrates after kicking a field goal against McCallie in October. He has been outstanding both as a place-kicker and a punter for the Red Raiders.Laszlo Toser III has been attending kicking camps and combines for several years. He’s ranked among the nation’s top high school senior kickers.
The winner of Tennessee’s 2014 Mr. Football award for kickers, Ooltewah’s Toser has been disappointed with college recruiters thus far. The trips to New Jersey, Las Vegas and Miami for camps and combines have yet to produce the desired results.
He might be better off, though, than Colin Brewer, the senior football and soccer player at Baylor.
The closest either has come to a football scholarship offer is a University of Tennessee invitation for Toser to come to Knoxville as a preferred walk-on, prove himself and maybe later get a scholarship. He is on an official visit there this weekend, while Brewer is visiting Birmingham-Southern. Next weekend Toser is scheduled to visit Alabama.
“There are about 35 Division I scholarships available each year. That’s all,” said Baylor coach Phil Massey, who has two former Red Raiders now kicking in NCAA Division I: Henrique Ribeiro at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Rafael Gaglianone at Wisconsin.