AFCAT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:10 pm
TomCat88 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:55 pm
There aren’t any areas of desperate need. I think Leighton was either injured or off his game late in the year. That needs to get fixed.
Need a special teams coach.
Yes!!!
Yeah, more than a punt returner maybe we just need a ST coach.
This is probably a question for a new thread but what exactly does a Special Teams coach do? There are a lot of various skills that fall under that part of the game: kicking off, kick off coverage, onside kicks, PATs, 2pt conversions, FGs, fake FGs, punting, punt coverage, fake punts, long snapping to holder, long snapping to punter, kick returns, kick return coverage, onside kick coverage, punt returns, punt return coverage.
Does an FCS ST coach really know how to coach all of these or does he leave a lot of the individual aspects up to the player (punting, kicking, catching kicks/punts)? I would assume a lot of other position coaches can handing coverage and fakes but the specialized aspects of ST would be harder to coach. Even the difference between catching a kickoff vs catching a punt might not be something a WR coach can help with. And who really knows how to help a kicker or punter with their form? I'm guessing it's not Vigen, our defacto ST coordinator.
Seems like you'd need a whole group of ST coaches, not just one. Maybe that's why some schools don't bother and just split up the work and hope for the best. If a ST coach really knows all that stuff then he's probably the most impressive coach on the team.
Am I overestimating how difficult special teams is or underestimating how difficult it is to coach as a whole?
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