🏈 Greg Schiano wants to do away with Kickoffs

[Bo]

Linky Dinky

Schiano's proposal: Replace all kickoffs, including those to start each half, with a punting situation. Rather than kick off, a team would face fourth-and-15 at its own 30-yard line.
The team could either punt, the most likely outcome and considered a safer play given the belief that more violent collisions tend to occur on kickoffs. Or the team could go for the first down, essentially replacing the onside kick with an offensive play that requires more skill than luck.

I don't like it. What do yall think?

 

[bama29fan]

that would be a big change to the feel of the game....and takes the element of surprise out of some on-sdie kicks.

which i guess it would be just a fake punt at that point so maybe it wont affect that?

 

[CaptainTide]

It's an interesting idea, but I doubt it will happen…

 

[shipley00]

I can see it now. A packed BDS.... "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... what? We passed the ball?

 

[TerryP]

I can see it now. A packed BDS.... "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... what? We passed the ball?

:td::rofl:

 

[TerryP]

I don't care for it but that may be more because I see a few situations that confuse me.

Take into account (and we'll just use a hypothetical here) the average starting LOS after a kick-off is the 25 yard line for the opponent.

We are "kicking off." Ball is set on the 30, punter is back 14 yards from the LOS—26 yard line. IF we led the SEC in punting last season we'd have been right at the 40 yds per kick avg. So, we are basically giving the opponent 1st and 10 from their 30...heck, might as well just kick it out of bounds.

 

[AlabamaAubKiller]

They did this kinda thing for my sons jamboree game. and it's bad. real bad. i hated it. I know it's high school ball and a spring game but after watching that....football without kicking...just ain't football.
FYI: our kids got hosed 54-8. the lone td for Billingsley was due to a BLOCK my son threw. Kncoked the guy flat too. lol those guys have a loooong way to go b4 the fall. And those Elba kids...that's gona be a hell of a team this year.
But after watching even high school ball without kicking..... i can't imagine it in collage.

 

[TerryP]

I heard they plan on doing that to start the game as well. That I definitely don't like.

 

[JoshB]

They did this kinda thing for my sons jamboree game. and it's bad. real bad. i hated it. I know it's high school ball and a spring game but after watching that....football without kicking...just ain't football.
FYI: our kids got hosed 54-8. the lone td for Billingsley was due to a BLOCK my son threw. Kncoked the guy flat too. lol those guys have a loooong way to go b4 the fall. And those Elba kids...that's gona be a hell of a team this year.
But after watching even high school ball without kicking..... i can't imagine it in collage.

Elba alum here lol them boys gone be good.


but Schiano is special...apparently...

 

[LBS]

Quarterbacks with No_Touch Jerseys
Two-hand touch football
One Mississippi counts before rushing

Its a short step from Kick Off-less Football to the child's game we played before we played real football

But at least we all get Kool-Aid after the game a Jimmy's House ... (His sister is Hot )

 

[TerryP]

Elba alum here lol them boys gone be good.


but Schiano is special needs...apparently...

Corrected.

OT a bit, if there is one fan base I don't care for at all (the only person I know that dislikes them more than I do is Brandon, here) is the Rutgers fan base. FIU isn't far behind, mind you.

 

[JoshB]

Corrected.

OT a bit, if there is one fan base I don't care for at all (the only person I know that dislikes them more than I do is Brandon, here) is the Rutgers fan base. FIU isn't far behind, mind you.

special needs is what i meant... lol and yea i got a friend who goes to Rutgers, bunch of uppity pricks there.

 

[AlabamaAubKiller]

Elba alum here lol them boys gone be good.


but Schiano is special...apparently...

OT i know, but you know where i can get film on that game or hear of it pls let me know.
Anouncer said it would air on troy tv .... but didn't catch the station.
And can y'all count down there? from our side of the feild the yard lines went >>>> 50|40|20|20|10
I kid you not.

@ Terry, Is this no kick thing an NCAA wide consideration or just something some moron who thinks he's
top cotton is blabbering about?

 

[Cleburne]

I don't like it at all.

 

[TerryP]

UGA coach Mark Richt likes the idea?!?!?

Is his opinion skewed by the huge numbers of injuries that Georgia has dealt with the last few years?

Perhaps, just perhaps, he needs to look at his S&C program?

Off the top of your head...when's the last time—who and what school if you recall—we've seen a major injury on a kickoff in college football?

 

[planomateo]

Both guys are doing it because they have had to have some really painful/difficult conversations with parents and others about injuries during kickoffs. I can certainly understand not wanting to have these conversations again.

I think there are a few ways to solve it, one like you mention S&C program, better instruction/coaching, changing helmets, etc.

easy, Rutgers...LeGrand based on what I mentioned above and the article you posted

 

[TerryP]

By seen, I meant "saw it happen live." Sorry, wasn't clear.

I'd bet no one here has seen it happen...if some have, very few.