Punt return man consistently 15 yards to short, chasing balls over his head tried to catch one over shoulder that almost resulted in turnover. MAJOR ISSUE that needed to be addressed during game and never was!
Special Teams Coach?
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John Harbaugh and Bill Belichek both had 4 separate stints as Special Teams coaches prior to landing their head coach gigs. People who don’t think this is an important don’t realize some of footballs smartest minds are where they are because of their success as special teams coaches.
It appears it's -- Either special teams (overall) is an afterthought/lowest priority; or it's considered as important as any area, but is a failure in too much of the development/strategy.
Either way, if that's the weak link, and it continues that way, then you have to compensate by maximizing everything else so you don't have to rely on ST as a deciding factor.
Either way, if that's the weak link, and it continues that way, then you have to compensate by maximizing everything else so you don't have to rely on ST as a deciding factor.
Sean Snyder will be looking for work at the end of the season. He is as good as they come in that role.
Rob Wright Quality Control/Special Teams
Pretty sure quality control folks can't do hands on coaching. They just break down film, etc, and hand info off to on-field coaches.
Rob Wright Quality Control/Special Teams
Rob: "We stink."
CMC: "margins."
Glad to see that some more folks are realizing that we do have someone on the coaching staff with Special Teams as their designated area of focus.
Coach Campbell is addressing this. Does anyone seriously think that he doesn't know what the special teams issues likely cost him last year?
This is Rob Wright's first year on the staff.
Yes, for the last 3 years we did not have any coach with special teams anything listed under their authority.
Campbell's first 2 years coaching here he had Bryan Gasser.
I was curious and went to look at what the other teams on our schedule have on their staffs for special teams coaches or coordinators or whatever they want to give for titles.
3 teams have nobody listed in their coaching staff (including Oklahoma).
2 only had an analyst which I would guess is close in duties and what NCAA rules would allow a "quality control" staff member to do. There were some teams that also had an analyst in addition to their more formally titled coach, but I didn't note them along the way.
In the chart here I tacked on the "Years Present" that shows how many years they've been coaching Sp Teams at their current school, and "Years coaching" is their total years coaching in college football (sorry if my quick math got off by a year or if they happened to take a year off or something)
Coach Campbell is addressing this. Does anyone seriously think that he doesn't know what the special teams issues likely cost him last year?
This is Rob Wright's first year on the staff.
Yes, for the last 3 years we did not have any coach with special teams anything listed under their authority.
Campbell's first 2 years coaching here he had Bryan Gasser.
I was curious and went to look at what the other teams on our schedule have on their staffs for special teams coaches or coordinators or whatever they want to give for titles.
3 teams have nobody listed in their coaching staff (including Oklahoma).
2 only had an analyst which I would guess is close in duties and what NCAA rules would allow a "quality control" staff member to do. There were some teams that also had an analyst in addition to their more formally titled coach, but I didn't note them along the way.
In the chart here I tacked on the "Years Present" that shows how many years they've been coaching Sp Teams at their current school, and "Years coaching" is their total years coaching in college football (sorry if my quick math got off by a year or if they happened to take a year off or something)
| Team | Coach | Title | Years Present | Years coaching |
| Iowa State | Rob Wright | Quality Control/Special Teams | 0 | 6 |
| UNI | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Iowa | LeVar Woods | Special Teams Coordinator | 4 | 9 |
| UNLV | Scott Baumgartner | Running Backs/Special Teams Coordinator | 1 | 32 |
| Baylor | Matthew Powledge | Assistant Coach (Safeties/Special Teams) | 1 | 11 |
| Kansas | Jake Schoonover | Special Teams Coordinator | 0 | 11 |
| Kansas State | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Oklahoma State | M.K. Taylor | Special Teams Analyst | 3 | 6 |
| West Virginia | Jeff Koonz | Assistant Coach (Special Teams Coordinator/Inside Linebackers) | 1 | 17 |
| Texas | Jeff Banks | Assistant Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends | 0 | 23 |
| Texas Tech | Mark Tommerdahl | Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator | 2 | 36 |
| Oklahoma | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| TCU | Bobby McMillen | Special Teams Analyst | ? | ? |
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How many snaps do the special team players get the rest of the game ? Are any of them 1st team ? 2nd team ?
I was just going to post we should have snagged him when we could....but it's not too late!
Exactly, with special teams farmed out over several coaches its coaching by committee and tough to assign responsibility to an individual thus no one is responsible.
Great KU has a special teams coordinator - another game we lose in that phase of the game!! J k
Great KU has a special teams coordinator - another game we lose in that phase of the game!! J k
They did get a kick off return TD last year against us.
Yeah, it has been pretty disappointing to finally have decent offense and defensive players, and then blow games with special team failures. CMC is right, ISU is a team that needs to win in the margins. So far they are not doing that, but the nothing is more glaring than the number of Special team gaffs. The Iowa game was special. Twice didn't field the punt and twice fielded the punt inside the 10.
To me this just proves we have the least experienced person in charge of ST of those with data provided. The only reason we are having the groundswell of criticism is because it is a glaring weakness. If things were going ok no problem with what we have but there is a problem and what we have is QC guy with no years of ST coaching, which confirms what we are seeing on the field.
Sorry if the chart was a bit messy and disorganized. Rob Wright has 6 years of special teams coaching experience at the P5 NCAA level. The zero in the chart is because it's his first year at Iowa State.