[NU Sports] A ray of hope for our special teams

[Jeff Beamsley]

Special teams certainly put us in a hole, but not being able to run or stop
the run is what cost us the games.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 3:18 PM
To: Kaplan, Neil
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] A ray of hope for our special teams

Finally picking up a solid kicker would help our special teams play, but it
wouldn't be the end all solution as we'll still need good coverage on punts
and kickoffs (at least once in a while if we can't get a touchback).  Also,
will this guy punt and kick (Huffman did on occasion, although we all know
his FG woes)?

We need help in both areas, although Howells has been relatively solid this
year (including hitting 5/6 vs. PSU), but we still don't see too many
touchbacks on kickoffs.  I don't think I've seen any high booming kicks like
Michigan and Iowa got off, although our punters have done a good job with
directional punts on occasion - especially when they were trying to stick
the opponent in their own end.

Any small boost will help, though, as our special teams play is what gave
Michigan, Iowa, and OSU a big edge in the past weeks (just look at the
average drive starting position for NU and their opponent in those games).

Jonathan

On 11/14/05, Kaplan, Neil <neil.kaplan at carsdirect.com> wrote:
> http://my.highschooljournalism.org/az/scottsdale/hhs/article.cfm?eid=3
> 950&ai
> d=58673
>
> Proving that the net is perhaps the greatest time waster known to 
> mankind - attached is an article from his high school newspaper 
> touting our newest kicking recruit.
> Cleaning up this part of our game is the single highest impact area to 
> our improvement.
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