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I was just watching my favorite TV show and they showed Urban Meyer's media conference. One person asked about what his thoughts were on a blocked punt or a blocked fg and its importance compared to a fumble or an interception. He said that blocking a punt or FG was far more paramount than any other type of turnover and he said as a young assistant he read a study that was done over a 25 year period in college football that showed a team that blocked a FG or punt, had an over 90% chance of winning that game! He said ever since then he knew he was going to have to dedicate A LOT of practice time to blocking kicks, and making sure that his team NEVER has one blocked!!!!

Boy that sure got me thinking about BG this year! Blocked punt against Wisc = L, blocked FG against OSU = L, blocked punt against Miami = L! I'm sure there are more examples from the GB tenure... can anyone think of more or am I off-base on this one?

Well, we had about 13 kicks blocked against Buffalo and FIU (or maybe just big returns) and we won those games. Even still, your point is correct. 1 out of every 3or 4? plays in a college football game is a kick of some kind. Special teams plays also are bigger for momentum than any other aspect.

This is all very obvious (to everyone but our coaches apparently), and our ST play is a huge reason why we have played so poorly the last two years. All it takes to correct is time + a coach than knows how to teach it. Athletic difference might be an okay excuse for having Wisky or OSU block something, but not in MAC play or against FIU and Temple. That's just plain incompetence.

We also blocked two of Miami's kicks and took the L.

I will agree that the emphasis on GREAT Special Teams play went west with Urbie.

We blocked a punt at UT in 2002 and lost....but yeah, our special ed teams have cost us dearly this year.

BGSUFootballFan wrote:I He said that blocking a punt or FG was far more paramount than any other type of turnover...

Did Urban really use the word paramount when describing a blocked punt or blocked FG as the prime pivotal preeminence of all turnovers?

I can't remember, I believe so but then again I was paraphrasing. Even if he didn't he made it damn clear that blocking a punt or fg was more important than getting an INT or fumble, and not having one blocked was more important than losing a fumle or INT.

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:Well, we had about 13 kicks blocked against Buffalo and FIU (or maybe just big returns) and we won those games. Even still, your point is correct. 1 out of every 3or 4? plays in a college football game is a kick of some kind. Special teams plays also are bigger for momentum than any other aspect.

This is all very obvious (to everyone but our coaches apparently), and our ST play is a huge reason why we have played so poorly the last two years. All it takes to correct is time + a coach than knows how to teach it. Athletic difference might be an okay excuse for having Wisky or OSU block something, but not in MAC play or against FIU and Temple. That's just plain incompetence.

1 kick out of every 3 or 4 plays. Thats impossible. If you go three and out every series of the game that is one kick out of every 4 plays.