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College Football Special Teams Strategy: Show No Mercy to the Rugby-Style Punter
A football coach’s fear of Brandon Boykin is the beginning of his wisdom, and, as Dawg2011 has noted, opposing coaches have wised up by employing the increasingly infamous "rugby-style" punt, which allows the punter to roll out to one side rather than drop straight back, thereby buying time for his...
One Yard = One Punt
Chalk this up to offseason ramblings... Last week, the news of Darr becoming a Volunteer got me wondering about how much a punter might actually affect a team's success. So, thanks to the ever-helpful stat tables that the NCAA keeps online, I started playing around with the punting and kicking...
Theorems and Stratagems of the Game, Week 9: How Not to Come from Behind
So you're coaching an unranked, 5-2 team in a conference game against a Top 10 (some say Top 5) squad. You're down by one touchdown with about three minutes left in the game. Your drive stalls at your own 36, fourth-and-9. You have one timeout. And you punt? Yes, if you're Mike Stoops, you punt....
Coach Zorn punting the punter?
[Note by Skin Patrol, 10/13/08 9:28 PM EDT ] Ugh I posted this and then read ReggieBullets' FanPost, which covers the same topic much, much better. He's got a full list of the free agent punters available. Good on Reggie for catching the story first. So Durant Brooks gets injured and now we're...
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