Vols are 119th, dead last in NCAA kickoff returns

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The #1 team in the country is ranked 87th
The #2 team in the country is ranked 110nd
The #5 team in the country is ranked 102nd
The #6 team in the country is ranked 83rd
The #9 team in the country is ranked 82nd
The #10 team in the country is ranked 109th
The #11 team in the country is ranked 118th
The #14 team in the country is ranked 97th
The #17 team in the country is ranked 105th
 
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thirdsaturday said:
You are just an angry little man aren't you? First off, I didn't say he slipped, I said he messed up. I am no apologist for what he did. And regardless of what happened, it was a stupid mistake.

Secondly, yes it is an average, but let me give you a little math lesson. Say we have returned ten kickoffs. Eight of them for twenty yards and two of them for two yards. We have a 16.4 average. But as the season goes on, we have twenty more, for an average of twenty yards. That is 564 yards ... now we have an 18.8 yard average, a 2.4 yard improvement. It is just a matter of getting more reps to make up for those blunders, and that is why these "Ainge is leading the nation in QB rating" are kind of premature. Talk to me after six games. We will climb up that kickoff return list. And Ainge will come down some from the top of the qb list (I am sure he already has some after Saturday).
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What the hell's that supposed to mean?

I'm saying Avergaes show when people make stupid mistakes. Like Morley's. Can't you people around here take a little truth, or do we all like to sugar coat everything.

I guess we have to be since we have to hope Florida will lose every year and always think of "whats gonna happen."

Some people around here need to grow a pair.

I mean I'm sorry If I don't agree on everything said in here, I'm sorry I'm not gonna sugar coat this crap we call special teams. Does that make me an angry little man, or an alternate opinion????

Don't be stupid.
 
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That being said it's not the yards on a return I'm worried about it's just getting yards.

D. Morleys mistake
Austin Roger fair catch
...both stupid

Lucas Taylor about giving it back to Air Force.

We make to many mistakes. IF we corrected those we'd be a lot better team.
 
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After watching the game live the other night and seeing from a view where the returner caught the ball and ran, ran right into traffic everytime.I know your suppose to follow your wedge/blockers but what I saw was with enough speed a returner might have actually slipped outside around punt coverage instead of punching it right up the middle everytime,(a little imagination)kind of like running the ball all night long and nothing there.:BANGHEAD2:
 
#32
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CoastieVol said:
If you think about it, I would rather not be very high on this list. That means you have been receiving more kick-offs. If you are receiving more kick-offs that means your opponent scored.
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It doesn't mean you are receiving more kick offs. We don't rank 116 in number of returns. It is 116 in yards per return.
 
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The bottom line, there isn't a very good correlation between kickoff returns yard and win losses. Nice to have, but its probably not going to be the dominating factor in a game.
 
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oklavol said:
The bottom line, there isn't a very good correlation between kickoff returns yard and win losses. Nice to have, but its probably not going to be the dominating factor in a game.
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Conversely, if you have a high average, that means you've probably broken a few for a TD. Special teams can make or break you. A kickoff that results in a 100-yard return TD can crush the will of an opponent.

Longer returns means that you're playing on a shorter field. A shorter field means more points scored. So, yeah, I would say that good special teams play is critical.

True that UK isn't in the upper echelon of teams, but excellent special teams play over the last 5-10 years has won its share of games. I think back to 2003, when Derek Abney's returns were responsible for a few wins en route to our last winning record.
 
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oklavol said:
The bottom line, there isn't a very good correlation between kickoff returns yard and win losses. Nice to have, but its probably not going to be the dominating factor in a game.
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It always is. Have you no knowledge of the game? There's a reason why every coach in history says the game is divided into thirds. Offense, defense, special teams.

I'd say we're going to need it if the rest of the SEC is going to go and push our offensive line around. The short field will help.
 
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