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Here’s what I don’t understand. Twice during game, kickoff return team appeared not to know the difference between kickoffs and punts and ran away from from the ball on a short kick. Wagner fell on loose ball.
High school kids make the mistakes on special teams we saw last night.
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High school kids do make these kinds of mistakes, but not veteran players at good HS programs — the kinds we are supposedly recruiting. Given the number of great football players in the nation — the relatively few who can play at the FCS level — we should never see something like this.
Totally coaching, and/or recruiting.
I actually saw a slow kickoff kicked at a player recently in a low-classification HS game. The player, a ninth-grader playing on varsity, had played in only three prior games, backed up and allowed the kicking team to recover.
I could understand it — but I’m sure it won’t happen again.
FWIW: Wagner’s kicking game was much betters than ours, too.
