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time to start thinking about one? penalties off kick returns really got us on saturday. i don't know if that's just discipline or if actually having a special teams coach would help.

...just throwing it out there. if you don't like it, throw it right back.

I don't like it.

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We had the #1 kickoff return team in the conference with the nation's leading KO return man on the bench for weeks.
We had the #1 kickoff team in the conference.
We had a top-tier punt team with the best punter in the conference -- I don't know how the final stats rolled out but going into Rice Morstead was #3 in the conference with .4 of a yard separating #1 and #3. Nobody we played this year boomed the ball like Thomas did.
Our punt block team blocked a punt this year and had a return for a TD called back -- some work to be done there.
Our FG team went what, 70%.
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It would be a mistake to point fingers at Special Teams. Special teams, defensive line and receivers all played extremely well.

I'l look elsewhere for possible imporvements

Morstead and Cunningham do an excellent job. Morstead is incredibly reliable and I was surprised he missed the long FG at Rice. He had MAJOR pressure on him during more than one punting situation, and he managed to stay focused and get the ball off in the nick of time.

Would a special teams coach do anything for SMU? I'm not so sure. The way PB deals with special teams is effective, as shown by our special teams performance. But what I wonder is would a special teams coach allow PB to utilize his time working our defense, and allow the other caoches to deal with everything else that is football.

Thats up for debate. We made alot of mistakes on special teams too!

I would say that our special teams has definite room for improvment. With Henderson our kickoff return game was awesome (but then again, PB was an awesome defensive coach when he had Newman in the secondary). Without Henderson, I would rate our return game average at best. A coach dedicated to special teams could give us the advantage in a very important aspect of the game.

PerunaPunch wrote:It would be a mistake to point fingers at Special Teams. Special teams, defensive line and receivers all played extremely well.

I'l look elsewhere for possible imporvements

Like O-Line and offensive playcalling?

when you are on the one yard line twice and both times you can't come out with a touchdown... theres something that needs to be fixed there

also, the kickreturn penalties are all holding calls and committed by the same guy, so it isn't a matter of bad coaching and more of mental errors

plus, if you notice on the kick offs... #44, i think is the number, is clipping our kicker's feet right before he plants to kick. its happened 4 times and its always the same guy... once again, mental errors that could be easily fixed