Sioux94

If I was coaching the punt team I'd likely run punt safe 75% of the time and maybe put two guys back to field the punt. There are many times, particularly early in the year where the one guy back didn't field the punt and it would roll for 10-20 yards. If two guys are back and punt safe is on you are likely to be able to field the punt, and maybe......just maybe....you know pick up a positive 5-10 yards on an actual return. If we receive 6 punts a game and we get a net 10-15 yards better field position out of it from fielding it and getting a small return you are looking at 60 plus yards a game. Take that over 11 games, that is 700 plus yards you are giving up. We are a field position team, play punt safe a majority of the time, get a decent return and go from there. On occasion send the house for a block. Probably more successful then too because they would be lulled into our punt safe with no rush and then all of the sudden we come with the house. That has honestly bugged me all year, especially at the beginning of the year where we could hardly field a punt....but we had 3 guys rushing by the punter basically doing nothing. I think we did get one bock or partial block this year. I'll take the 700 plus yards of offense over 1 blocked punt a year.

I have nothing against him personally and he may be perceived to be a good coach and well liked. But at some point you are what your record says you are. Our kick return coverage was poor this year, and punt team very very poor all year and cost us two games. So it's not like it was just on Saturday and a one time thing, consistently poor punt team all year long. Sounds like punt safe was on, so you can't say that was a bad decision.....but I would say it's a reflection then of poor coaching the players as to what punt safe is. There were two UND guys right by the punter as he punted, and one of them ran into him...if we were truly on punt safe why did we have two guys seemingly going nearly all out to block it (from what I recall) The player certainly has to take some accountability though for not using his head.

Totally agree with you there, mentality next year needs to be that we need to dominate any team that is average or below average and win by 3 scores.

Oh I agree there are a lot of factors that come into play, and living so far away from home is not always ideal for some people. It was more just an initial thought thinking about the huge contrast between living in Hawaii and North Dakota. Having his brother at UND definitely puts a plus in our box when doing comparison's. Hopefully we can get him, all of the top quality guys we can get in the secondary the better!

We thought we'd start out 2016 with an edge due to the previous years playoff snub and the #LeaveNoDoubt mantra.....but we came out of the gate pretty poorly. I sure hope it's a much better start next year.

Living in Hawaii.....or North Dakota.......hmmmmm. His brother going to ND sure helps though.

Punt team had a direct hand in 2/3's of our losses this season. I believe after that SB game when we got the punt blocked and people were pissed, somebody commented it wouldn't happen again. Uh well it did. Let's not forget that we gave up a punt return for a TD as well last night but there was a penalty. I went to the bathroom during the punt and missed it so I'm not sure if it was a good flag, or if we lucked out and got saved by that penalty.

Prior to that...on their previous TD.....when they shifted at the line of scrimmage and sent three guys wide out to the left and we only had two guys out there covering I was standing up yelling to take a freaking time out!!! It was obvious the ball was going over there, especially when we only had two damn guys in that entire area....ridiculous.

I do, minus the special teams coaching...horrible and horrible decision to go for the block.

All coaches and players deserve credit for this epic meltdown/failure in thr last 18 minutes.

Fire special teams coordinator more than Rudolph. Honestly speaking I think I may be able to do a better job than the sh*t show I've seen with our punt team this year. And the decision t keep Seibel returning punts when you have Reed as an option.....seriousy??

Hope whoever ran into the kicker feels like crap, because now we all do....that completely turned the game. If he doesn't do that we likely win.

Hope the announcer says choke because this was an epic choke job.

Haven't seen a team !@#$ the bed this bad in a while.

We don't deserve to win the way we've played in 2nd half.

Man we are trying to give this game away. Offense better do something on this drive.

All we had to do was play smart football the rest of the way, roughing punter and bone head coverage on 3rd and 1 just put them right back into the game. Unbelievable....thought we prided on being smart.

That roughing the punter may go down as an epic bone head play if we don't win. Just plain stupid!

I agree....just no big plays in second half or turnovers. Let's grind this one out!

Controlling the game and boom just like that...idiotic coverage and we are all tied up

Geezes how do you let a guy get 10 yards by you!

Totally agree!!

Are you pretty confident it's on channel 789? I called a friend who has DirectTV and asked them to check since I can't get it and they said they looked and didn't think they could get it. Would the channel number in AZ but the same as up there? Maybe they are different.

If you have Roku, do you still have to give your internet provider information? I have CenturyLink and they do not support ESPN3 in any fashion. I just bought Amazon Fire TV today so I'm going to hook that up, but still thinking since my Internet/TV provider is CenturyLink I won't be able to watch.

I have CenturyLink and I can't get ESPN3 even on my computer, thought I was doing something wrong but I called them last night and nope even when i sign in with my CenturyLink information I can't watch ESPN3....totally blows.