Zach Von Rosenberg on Radical Transformations, Pitching and Punting, Overcoming Failure, and Taking the Micro View
Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports
LSU Sports
4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
No one's story is quite like Zach Von Rosenberg's.
The 29-year-old punter played six years of professional baseball before joining LSU in 2016, where he bounced from quarterback to tight end to, finally, punter.
Now, he's one of the best in the country, a field-flipping weapon who consistently pins foes deep in their own territory and who holds field goals and extra points for one of the top-scoring offenses in SEC history.
His unique journey has given him unique insight into LSU's rise to the top of college football, and we dive deep into both. We discuss all things special teams – Greg McMahon's impact on the room, Cade York's development, his breakthrough in 2017 at Tennessee – but we also dig into his story: how he overcame the first failure of his life after six years of college baseball; how he bounced between positions and gained and lost weight to try and find his role with the Tigers; how he's watched Joe Burrow turn into the best quarterback in college football from the front row.
This is one of the most interesting and unique conversations I've had on this show all season. Sit back, grab a glass of red wine, and enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Fighters, Hey, Fighting Tigers, Fight all the way. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hey Fighten Podcast, the official podcast of |
| 0:19.8 | LSU football. |
| 0:20.7 | As always, I'm Cody |
| 0:21.7 | Worcstrom, digital media reporter for LSU athletics. Very excited about today's show. We'll get |
| 0:26.1 | straight into it. Sat down with LSU junior punter, Zach von Rosenberg on Tuesday, had a really |
| 0:33.8 | good conversation with Zach, who's not only a very, very good punter, second |
| 0:37.7 | team all SEC last year, third nationally, a net punning a year ago, picking up right where he left |
| 0:43.1 | off this year, although he's not punning quite as much as he did last year because the offense |
| 0:47.2 | has been so good. And set down with Zach after a game in which he did not punt a single time. |
| 0:52.3 | So we talked a little bit about that. But he also has a really interesting story that predates his football career, a guy who was a six-round |
| 0:59.2 | draft in the major league draft coming out of high school, played a few years, six years, I think, |
| 1:04.6 | of professional baseball at the minor league level, didn't work out for him. He talks in a good, |
| 1:09.5 | he talks in depth in this episode about overcoming |
| 1:12.6 | that, that setback, which really was the first setback in his life. And it was a really good |
| 1:17.2 | conversation with Zach. He also gives some insight into what it's like playing with Joe Burrow |
| 1:21.8 | and what it's like being a year younger than Joe Brady, who is on staff now for LSU and had a huge part in the |
| 1:29.6 | offense. So really good stuff from Zach. He's got a unique perspective on things because of what |
| 1:33.9 | he's been through, because of his experiences. And I thought it was a really good conversation. |
| 1:37.8 | So without further ado, let's go ahead and throw it to my interview with LSU punter, Zach von Rosenberg. |
| 1:54.2 | All right, happy to be joined today by LSU punter, Zach von Rosenberg. |
| 1:56.5 | Zach, I'm excited about this conversation. |
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