I said it last year and all the “Punta Lovers” jumped all over me.
The fact that our punter cannot kick a spiral is an absolute joke.
When we are pinned deep in our territory, all the “Punta” can do is kick end over end wiffle balls.
Let me hear the experts defend this now.
He punts like a former ice cream salesman from down under.
While I love what Roy does for the program overall, this season has bee disappointing. He seems to have regressed from from last year. No hang time, appears to be kicking to the returner as opposed to away (last punt in 4th quarter a perfect example). He has the leg, but has definitely not been coached up in his time here.
Maybe some of the girls on the soccer team and their coaches can give him a few pointers. I know the ball is shaped differently. But goalies dropkick balls like punters do. There have been quite a few soccer players that turn out to be good football kickers. Just a thought, heck doesn’t Houston have a professional rugby team now? Rugby players do kick a similar ball. If I was a kicker or punter id be looking for tips and advice anywhere I can if I thought it would help me get better.
Thats what happens when the hc dont hire a special teams coordinator
We have a ST coordinator
Last year we didnt and james casey should only be coaching tight ends
Most ST coordinators in college are a position coach as well.
The good ones have experience
Casey played special teams the majority of his career in the NFL. He has plenty of experience from the player side.
Additionally, many of the Special Teams coordinators are the TEs coach. Alabama and Clemson for example do the same thing.
There’s a difference between having a special teams coordinator, and having someone who can actually teach someone how to punt a football. I’d bet that James Casey has no more idea on how to punt a football than most posters on this board.
That said, I think Dane does exactly what he’s been told to do. He focuses on hang time, which he’s pretty good at. That usually forces the returner to make a fair catch. His punts aren’t necessarily pretty to watch, but he’s effective.
My biggest complaint about our punting is that we don’t seem to be able to change field position-35 yard punts don’t make much of a field position change. especially when your punting from the 25 yard line.
Yep. He’s being coached to do that.
The man can kick a spiral when he wants to; the Memphis fake punt-not a fake punt last year showed that he can boom it out of there. Problem was that he outkicked the coverage and Memphis got a good return out of it. Coaches would rather see him kick those 40-41 yard, long hang-time punts that aren’t returned than seeing him boom it 50+ yards and give up 20-30 yard returns.
Not defending the coaching, and that shank tonight was ugly, just passing it along.
Exactly. He’s kicking to spots, and the objective is to limit returns. I haven’t looked at the stats, but I don’t remember any punt returns of any significance against us.
Also, those ugly kicks are more difficult to catch - returners hate them.
Woah your narrative didn’t work so you changed it 3 times when response was given. CMA is not leaving anytime soon. You non CMA believers might as well get your tums, get your drink on, whatever makes you happy.
4–1 is 4-1 which is where most of us had them at this point. It’s not going to be perfect out there… 11 men on other side of line of scrimmage trying to assure that. #GoCoogs
He had one bad punt. But he averaged over 40 yards per kick.
Nailed it.
I was wrong…I went and looked at the stats this morning…he is almost exactly where he was last year…around a 41 yd average gross and around 39 net, both rankings are around 50-60 nationally for FBS.
My complaint is that we don’t use him as a weapon. As brought up in an earlier post, I can’t remember the last we turned the field around on a punt…he has the leg to do it and it can be a game changer. I guess it is part of the overall conservative nature of CMA.
They also tend to take favorable bounces when allowed to hit the ground.
Where did they get the experience? Where they born with it?
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