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SlumpBuster · Wednesday at 7:44 PM

HUGE bomb dropped on RRS. So huge that Sip had to tease it.

45 minutes later, Dean drops the bombshell

Glad Dean pulled over to tell us (or did he?)...but apparently Sip didn't have enough info to write those 3 shocking paragraphs above.

Greatest piece of hard hitting journalism since Pies and Salsa IMO

SlumpBuster · Wednesday at 7:51 PM

LOL this was posted on Rivals 30 minutes before Dean's home run:

Ext. 55 · Wednesday at 7:59 PM

Dean out there doing Dean things. Where is that pic in the sparkly gloves???

doublewing · Wednesday at 8:20 PM

Dean pulling over to tell us about the puntimg situation like he‘s Cronkite announcing the JFK assassination.

I‘ll always remember where I was when Jack McWhothefuck left the program.

Jim14510 · Wednesday at 8:31 PM

SlumpBuster said:
HUGE bomb dropped on RRS. So huge that Sip had to tease it.

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45 minutes later, Dean drops the bombshell
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Glad Dean pulled over to tell us (or did he?)...but apparently Sip didn't have enough info to write those 3 shocking paragraphs above.
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Greatest piece of hard hitting journalism since Pies and Salsa IMO

He's working from his car folks! Unheard of.

Jim14510 · Wednesday at 8:32 PM

doublewing said:
Dean pulling over to tell us about the puntimg situation like he‘s Cronkite announcing the JFK assassination.

I‘ll always remember where I was when Jack McWhothefuck left the program.

I completely forgot about the guy prior to the posts today.

nja13 · Wednesday at 9:00 PM

SlumpBuster said:
HUGE bomb dropped on RRS. So huge that Sip had to tease it.

View attachment 52624

45 minutes later, Dean drops the bombshell
View attachment 52626

Glad Dean pulled over to tell us (or did he?)...but apparently Sip didn't have enough info to write those 3 shocking paragraphs above.
View attachment 52627

Greatest piece of hard hitting journalism since Pies and Salsa IMO

Pretty funny. Dean is acting like the big scoop here is that we will be rugby punting next year, which is apparently the info Sip didn’t have.

In reality, the actual news is the player who spent one spring semester here is leaving, which was indeed spoiled by the Tweet Sip posted.

Scarlet ObsessioN · Wednesday at 9:01 PM

doublewing said:
Dean pulling over to tell us about the puntimg situation like he‘s Cronkite announcing the JFK assassination.

I‘ll always remember where I was when Jack McWhothefuck left the program.

Great post.

I’m very glad I can get Husker news in many other places and no longer have to bow down to the great and powerful Dean.

nja13 · Wednesday at 9:14 PM

Jim14510 said:
I completely forgot about the guy prior to the posts today.

Here’s how much name recognition he has with me. I went from this thread directly to RSS where I saw a thread titled “Why did Jack McCallister move on from Nebraska” and I still clicked on it thinking it was about Jack McTrey, our Aussie basketball player from a few years back.
“Odd timing to revisit that. Must be an interesting story behind it to bring it up now,” I says to myself, I’s did.

Guess I had Aussies on the brain after reading about our possible new punter.

His name couldn’t stick with me for 30 seconds.

nja13 · Wednesday at 9:18 PM

Didn’t know he looked like this. I assume TCU is in the running because he’s a toad.

HerbRedman · Wednesday at 11:34 PM

HS FB coaches GITT...

How prevalent is the rugby style punter in America HS football? I know a lot of CFB programs grab these guys from Australia, just curious if this is being taught at a lot of high schools. Or is this something punters learn in college?

Jim14510 · Wednesday at 11:36 PM

HerbRedman said:
HS FB coaches GITT...

How prevalent is the rugby style punter in America HS football? I know a lot of CFB programs grab these guys from Australia, just curious if this is being taught at a lot of high schools. Or is this something punters learn in college?

@slattimer @Bootleg11

nja13 · Thursday at 12:24 AM

HerbRedman said:
HS FB coaches GITT...

How prevalent is the rugby style punter in America HS football? I know a lot of CFB programs grab these guys from Australia, just curious if this is being taught at a lot of high schools. Or is this something punters learn in college?

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it in Nebraska Class C football.

Jim14510 · Thursday at 12:24 AM

slattimer · Thursday at 4:51 AM

Jim14510 said:
@slattimer @Bootleg11

I see it a little bit. We had a kid last year that could do it...and did it well. Several years ago we had a kid that could also do it really well. He punted for the grapes.

Bootleg11 · Thursday at 8:19 AM

Jim14510 said:
@slattimer @Bootleg11

You don't see it a ton. But we do it. At the high school level if you don't have a traditional rugby punter it turns into just one of your best athletes back there running a little bit and then kicking it to the sideline. An effective rugby punt all but eliminates any type of return. We are a flexbone team where I'm at now and I feel like we are in a ton of 4th and under 3 yards and we're likely going for it...so we don't punt a whole lot.

At my last stop I was in charge of punt. We would actually mix it up. We had a soccer kid that was a hell of an athlete (pretty good slot receiver too). We'd come out on a 4th down in a traditional punt formation and punt it and then the next we'd come out in a rugby punt formation and rugby punt it.

The goal was to keep teams from getting into a punt block. So we'd wait for the ball to be set and then run the offense off and the punt team out and get the snap off quickly. It kept teams from running punt block/return teams on and basically made everybody play "safe" against us. Our punt formations were also pretty non-traditional which made teams either A) take extra time to work on punt return than normal or B) just not work on it at all and play base defense against punt.

We had zero punts blocked in 8 years and zero punt returns for touchdowns. It was really effective.

But not every kid could do either. The only time I've seen a rugby punt blocked is when a kid is indecisive about if he should take off running or punt it and just takes way too much time back there.

slattimer · Thursday at 8:39 AM

Bootleg11 said:
You don't see it a ton. But we do it. At the high school level if you don't have a traditional rugby punter it turns into just one of your best athletes back there running a little bit and then kicking it to the sideline. An effective rugby punt all but eliminates any type of return. We are a flexbone team where I'm at now and I feel like we are in a ton of 4th and under 3 yards and we're likely going for it...so we don't punt a whole lot.

At my last stop I was in charge of punt. We would actually mix it up. We had a soccer kid that was a hell of an athlete (pretty good slot receiver too). We'd come out on a 4th down in a traditional punt formation and punt it and then the next we'd come out in a rugby punt formation and rugby punt it.

The goal was to keep teams from getting into a punt block. So we'd wait for the ball to be set and then run the offense off and the punt team out and get the snap off quickly. It kept teams from running punt block/return teams on and basically made everybody play "safe" against us. Our punt formations were also pretty non-traditional which made teams either A) take extra time to work on punt return than normal or B) just not work on it at all and play base defense against punt.

We had zero punts blocked in 8 years and zero punt returns for touchdowns. It was really effective.

But not every kid could do either. The only time I've seen a rugby punt blocked is when a kid is indecisive about if he should take off running or punt it and just takes way too much time back there.

Rice teams rarely punt. He's a great dude. Have coached against him a number of times.

Bootleg11 · Thursday at 10:01 AM

slattimer said:
Rice teams rarely punt. He's a great dude. Have coached against him a number of times.

Correct. We do not punt much.

Scarlet ObsessioN · Thursday at 10:09 AM

Bootleg11 said:
Correct. We do not punt much.

Bootleg11 · Thursday at 10:11 AM

Scarlet ObsessioN said:

When you're constantly in 4th and short and you run a program that's comfortable fighting in a phone booth (like our HC does) you don't mind the challenge.

We also, coincidentally, are very good at defending 4th and short plays.

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