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Here is a winning coach with some serious stones.....

Rivals High - Arkansas coach punts traditional game plan

He never punts and does an onside kick 75% of the time.

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Well now,

That's an interesting read. Thanks for posting the link.

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Interesting, the statistics the high school coach used en route to his state championship were put together by the same professor who put together a study about 4th down probabilities which was scoffed at by nearly everybody in the NFL. The exception that took a serious look at the study? Bill Belichick.

Incremental Analysis, With Two Yards To Go

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In every sport I ever played, I loved a coach with stones like this guy has.

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Okay now I only have one question left. Why hasn't Bob Kraft hired that Berkley Professor?

The combined brain power of him, BB and Ernie.

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Well, we don't know exactly what Ernie does for the team. Maybe he's already 'liberated' the data...

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the firt person in the NFL to stop punting on almost every 4th down, will easily go to the playoffs....

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Personally I think the most interesting dynamic is the onside kicks.

Lets say you build a true onside kick recovery unit. Not a unit that practices 95% of the time a regular kick off and has onside kicks as an after thought. But a unit that is gear to onside kick recovery with 5-10 different plays and formations.

And let say you could recover the ball 25+% of the time and the rest of the time you are giving the other team 15 yards of better field position.

1. An extra 2 possession per game would more than offset the field position.

2. Teams will need to spend valuable prep time each week prepping. Much like the wildcat did for the Dolphins.

But I also like the no punt approach because what it does to third down. You just need to move the ball you don't have to make a 1st.

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Not to splash too much cold water on this, but there is one thing that needs to be accounted for--someone has to hold the ball for the Ghost. . . .

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It is about time Kevin started earning his paycheck.