And again, he did it his way.
Well, his father’s way, which was Ray Pelfrey’s way, which can drive a current-day special teams coach nuts. CSU’s Jon Goodman doesn’t like the way Ryan drops the ball, but he wouldn’t dream of changing the style. Good thing, too.
“And I never let somebody change me,” Ryan said. “Ray Pelfrey taught a bunch of guys. That’s always been something he taught. I’ve never let somebody change that about me, because I think it’s unique. I like being different.”
For once, an understatement from Ryan.
The differing opinion all comes down to the underhand drop, with the hand under the ball instead of on the side. It is harder to master, which is why coaches don’t teach the style. It requires constant practice to become consistent so the release hand does not influence the ball.
Paul did it at Stanford. His brother John did it at Southern California. Ryan does it, too. They also have the adjective All-American attached to their resumes.
The brothers used to teach the technique at their camp, The Kicking Game, which still has an active website even though they haven’t held one for years. Go to thekickinggame.com and you can still find testimonials from coaches Bill Walsh, John Robinson, Paul Pasqualoni and Mike Price.
Paul will tell you most of his students would describe the camps as “boring.” They were four-days long, but held over two weekends. The first weekend they taught technique and sent the campers home to work. Then they brought them back the next weekend to refine.
“It’s the drop, and the drop has changed since we have trained,” Paul said. “When you talk about the drop, it doesn’t matter how you hold it, it just has to be consistent. If a kid trains the newer way or the underhand drop, it’s basically what they’re comfortable doing and making it a consistent, flat drop.
“The reason for the underhand drop is to give the ball lift, or to keep it from the first action going down. If you hold it the other way, where they hold it like a claw, the ball’s immediate reaction is to actually drop. You’re trying to give lift to the ball and keep it on its drop table as long as possible. The underhand drop was more of giving the ball a float, so you could eliminate how far it dropped. You’re supposed to make contact between your knee and your hip, so the higher you can have the drop table, the better hang time, the better distance you’re doing to get.”
These days, Paul said camps are one day and are more about rankings than teaching. It’s how kids get to college, and it is also the way they fall into the trap that average rules the day, not field position. The further a kid can kick a ball, the higher they are rated, the more visible they become to college programs.
But punting wasn’t something Ryan was drawn to immediately, and Paul didn’t push it. All he ever told Ryan was if he wanted to be good, he had plenty of people around him who could help him 24/7. Not just Paul and John, but another uncle, Jeff Banks, who punted for Washington State and is currently the special teams coach at Alabama.
Ryan was so into baseball, he didn’t decide to go out for football at Mater Dei High School until the night before the first conditioning practice. And the school already had a pretty good punter, so Ryan didn’t start until his senior year as he languished behind Elias Deeb, who became a Division III All-American.
That delayed the recruiting a bit, too. It gave him something more to prove, a task he enjoys almost as much as finding what next will capture his attention.
So when his girlfriend Jacie Cates told him about her involvement in rescuing dogs, he naturally wanted to know more. It was right in his wheelhouse, because what is a better group to stand up for than dogs at shelters who need forever homes?
Cates has been rescuing and fostering dogs since she was 16, and when she introduced Ryan to the process, he was immediately excited. And no, it wasn’t another guy trying to impress a girl he wanted to date. It also showed her Ryan is someone who latches on to anything he finds important.
“He really got into it. He cared a lot about the dogs, and I think it’s something he hadn’t really experienced before,” she said. “It was a new experience for him. I’ve never really met anybody is so involved with so many things and so good at everything. He’s definitely not scared to try new things.”
Ryan developed a slight problem where he was getting too attached and he wanted to start keeping dogs. Emotionally it was hard, but he’s replaced the feeling with the joy of seeing them go to happy owners who want them. He’s fostered one dog on his own and helped Cates with multiple others, eventually finding all of them homes.
Cates said he has become really good at getting dogs to come out of their shell (no surprise) and training them. He is completely involved in every part.
“It’s a really cool experience. You can see how you can change something’s life in a way you never thought,” he said. “It’s a really cool process, and the people involved are really special. They all volunteer, and the money they get goes to medical expenses for the dogs.”
Ryan wanted to raise money for the rescue process, and he had reached out to Colorado State’s compliance department about how he and Reiter could host a camp, with all the proceeds going to The Good Dog Rescue, which is the link included in his Twitter bio. It was close to happening, but then the pandemic hit.
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