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It’s time for Mario to hire an actual ST coach

edge said:
I would like to see it. How many coaches are we allowed now? The problem could be there is not a spot. But it needs to be addressed.
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we have like four defensive coaches not including guidry (joe, nick, taylor, jackson). one of them needs to be eliminated and add a ST coach. you dont need 3 front 7 coaches for ***** sake.
 
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With the extra scholarship limit increasing..I would absolutely scour the nation and give a scholarship to a KR/PR specialist imo. A guy whos only job is KR/PR and are **** good at it. Its a momentum changing position. All the air was let out of that stadium from Meesh Powells pick 6 after buddy took that KO return back the very next play. It absolutely halted our momentum. Thats what plays like that can do. Its absolutely worth a scholarship imo.
 
Jassid82 said:
With the extra scholarship limit increasing..I would absolutely scour the nation and give a scholarship to a KR/PR specialist imo. A guy whos only job is KR/PR and are **** good at it. Its a momentum changing position. All the air was let out of that stadium from Meesh Powells pick 6 after buddy took that KO return back the very next play. It absolutely halted our momentum. Thats what plays like that can do. Its absolutely worth a scholarship imo.
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Love that idea.
 
There isn’t a bunch of all world athletes who could just be designated KR/PR sitting around with no scholarship offers. If anything, we already have at least one guy like that in CJJ.
 
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supersaiyanshel said:
And it has always been a cornerstone of Hurricanes football.

He is well aware of that.

He should be livid we have no returns.
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Today's rule sets are specifically set up to essentially eliminate KR/PR.

I think the math would show probably near 1% of all kicks now.

Basically has become all risk-very little reward proposition for receiving team.

Interesting what NFL is doing though...player safety + at least trying to keep KR as legitimate part of game.
 
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Can we lure Chuck Pagano out of the retirement? Our ST was absolutely amazing in 1995-2000 when he was our ST coach under Butch Davis. 39 blocks in 59 games! 12 blocks in the 1996 season.
 
Cristobal always look to constantly improve each season. He don’t just sit on a problem , he tries to find a solution so I’m sure he will put a focus on it
 
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Ironmanfootball said:
Do you really believe there's "luck" in hiring? Especially with how long Mario takes to make a hire?
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Lol I'm simply just saying we have had horrible coaching at ST for YEARS. Waaaaay before Mario. Even when we hired the NFL guy. We still didn't see much improvement. We just suck at that department.
 
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DTP said:
You guys do know there is someone coaching special teams, right? He just doesn’t have the title “special teams coach”. Maybe he’s not doing a good job and they need to hire someone else but it’s not like there’s nobody coaching them.

Also, I’m definitely concerned with our kick coverage. We give up all together too many long returns but a lot of these special teams plays don’t impact overall results as much as fans may think.

Notre Dame leads the nation in blocked kicks (tied with Louisville) the rest of the list of teams near the top are mostly terrible teams with a few decent ones sprinkled in. There are 21 teams with 3 or more blocked kicks. Three of them are top 25 programs. FSU is tied for second nationally and they’re 2-9.

Kickoff returns is very similar. Oregon leads the nation in kickoff return average. The next closest top 25 teams are Boise who’s 27th and Miami at 29th. Nobody else in the top 30 in kickoff returns is any good.

Of the top 40 punt return teams, only three are top 25 programs. Tennessee is the highest at 11th. Indiana at 26th and Ohio State at 39th.

Kickoff return defense and punt return defense have more quality teams near the top so stopping returns seems to be more important than getting them yourself.

Miami is 123rd in kickoff return defense and 80th in punt return defense so those areas definitely need to improve.
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Following take: The lack of athletic ability on this team is evident in punt and kick coverage.
 
Get Darren Rizzi!
He obviously wont be retained past INTERIM HC of the Saints. Normally this wouldn't be a realistic option but he might be interested in a little family reunion down in beautiful Coral Gables for a year or two.
 
Bender said:
Following take: The lack of athletic ability on this team is evident in punt and kick coverage.
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I don’t think that’s the issue. Kick coverage is about discipline and doing your job. Memphis leads the nation in kick coverage. They’re not more athletic than we are.

We also do this weird angled kickoff where we overload one side of the field and angle the kickoff to that side. In theory that should help coverage but it’s clearly not working out for us. I don’t know if it makes keeping lane Integrity too difficult but we give up altogether too many long returns
 
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