New NCAA Kickoff Rule will Cost Vols!!!!

#26
#26
rockydoc said:
Hey, don't try to confuse us with facts!! There are too many lawyers on this board to get away with that!:eek:lol:

I think those numbers are skewed by the fact that so many of Wilhoits KO's were not returned last year (zero return yardage), wheras moving the kickoff back 5 yards will be a killer for us.

(does anyone know, if when calculating average KO yardage, if a kick that is downed in the endzone figures in? Example: A team receives 4 KO's in a game, the first three sails thru the endzone: no return, But the fourth is returned for 100 yards. what is the average KO return yardage? 100 yards/game or 25 yds./game?)
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Wilhoit booming them deep definitely helped us, and I wonder how deep Britton can kick it. Hopefully he can get it at least to the goalline.

As far as I know, touchbacks and fair catches do not count toward the average.
 
#28
#28
GAVol said:
I would think that the average would be based on just the returns, but I'm not sure.

Wilhoit was not only good at banging it into the endzone, he was a also a good directional kicker. We abused Georgia last year kicking it into the corner at the 1 yard line and then pinning them deep.
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Yup, and it seemed that was the only game we did that too.
 
#29
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GAVol said:
I would think that the average would be based on just the returns, but I'm not sure.

Wilhoit was not only good at banging it into the endzone, he was a also a good directional kicker. We abused Georgia last year kicking it into the corner at the 1 yard line and then pinning them deep.
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He was very effective.....when the coverage was moving in the same direction of the kick.
 
#31
#31
JAllen18MVP said:
Wilhoit booming them deep definitely helped us, and I wonder how deep Britton can kick it. Hopefully he can get it at least to the goalline.

As far as I know, touchbacks and fair catches do not count toward the average.
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Britton hit a couple of 50+ yard field goals in practice. Kicking off of a tee is supposedly easier than kicking field goals. Colquitt will bang quite a few out of the back of the endzone.
 
#34
#34
rockydoc said:
We will get it fixed just as soon as we figure how to stop the QB draw(Tebow). Reminds me of when I was taking tests in college, when I finally figured out the answers they kept changing the questions!
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:lolabove:
 
#35
#35
you guys remember wilhoit angling them and kicking them high, so the returner would catch the ball at or inside the five, near the sideline, and we would stuff him before he got to the 15? that's why we were good on kick coverage for most of the year last, god knows why we went away from it after he kicked it out of bounds once.
 
#36
#36
wbarron said:
Yeah - I think that's what most of us are concerned with. We start every possession at our own 22.
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You're being generous. Our returns rarely make it to the 20. I would coach our guys to never take it out of the endzone.
 
#37
#37
kptvol said:
You're being generous. Our returns rarely make it to the 20. I would coach our guys to never take it out of the endzone.
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They are gonna have to learn how to run it full speed and break tackles you cant slow down once you meet everyone around the 15 or 20 thats what kills us, i really dont think we recruit very highly in the kickoff return department its like we just slap the job on a RB or WR, and with this new rule its gonna be crucial to learn this because not to many kicker are wilhoit puttin them out the back everytime, i look for alot of kicks to be fielded inside or around the 5 this season
 
#38
#38
bigtime said:
They are gonna have to learn how to run it full speed and break tackles you cant slow down once you meet everyone around the 15 or 20 thats what kills us, i really dont think we recruit very highly in the kickoff return department its like we just slap the job on a RB or WR, and with this new rule its gonna be crucial to learn this because not to many kicker are wilhoit puttin them out the back everytime, i look for alot of kicks to be fielded inside or around the 5 this season
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I'd say close to 90% of the skill position players UT recruits are studs in the return game at the high school level. At the college level, we have several guys every year that could be great. Unfortunately, we are terrible at setting up returns. Look at the guy that ran a punt back against us in the UGA game in 2005. He didn't do anything special at all. No Vols even touched him. There were probably 30 Vols on our roster that year that could have taken that punt to the house.
 
#39
#39
Yeah but i dont see anyone on our team like that kid from lsu last season he had speed and wasnt affraid to run at people or make the right move to get into the open, tennessee tech has guys that ran all over people in highschool, what we need is someone like a pacman(on the field of course) who makes it happen for them selves as well as use blocks
 
#40
#40
kptvol said:
I'd say close to 90% of the skill position players UT recruits are studs in the return game at the high school level. At the college level, we have several guys every year that could be great. Unfortunately, we are terrible at setting up returns. Look at the guy that ran a punt back against us in the UGA game in 2005. He didn't do anything special at all. No Vols even touched him. There were probably 30 Vols on our roster that year that could have taken that punt to the house.
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you coud say the same for the UGA game in 06
 
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