WIU vs South Dakota (10/10/2015)

Western_101 · Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:22 pm

My hope for this game is no blocked punts, no blocked PATs, no breakdowns on kickoff's, and no interceptions thrown by TN. I hope Neilson is preparing the troops for our contest against the Yotes no different than if we were facing the Bison.

wiu712 · Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:35 pm

Game day forecast for Saturday:

Mostly sunny and 70. Winds SSW at 8 mph. Humidity = 56%.

wiu712 · Thu Oct 08, 2015 10:08 pm

Game preview as seen on WGEM Sports with Ben Marth:
http://www.wgem.com/story/30221881/2015 ... wn-coyotes

lovethenecks · Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:42 am

Regarding coaches for Special teams, no coach probably wants his name associated with our special teams because that would be career suicide with our UNspecial Teams. Common at the d3 d2 level as not a focus because most teams are lousy at them, equal playing field. As I understand from a few parents of the players around the tailgate lot, there is one coach that is or was kind of the coach, with some interference from a least one other or a few other coaches. They say there is not much experience or knowledge from the other coaches, but the interferers mess with the players, cause that is what they do. With most teams it is easy to tell who is special teams coach because they are on field prior to game with Kickers, Punters, Long snapper, no coach comes with our kids so Don't know! I will watch this week, you do the same and maybe we can figure out who the mystery coaches are.

wiu712 · Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:36 am

Updated weather forecast for Saturday:
Sunny and 71. Humidity = 57%. Winds SSW at 8 mph.

Tere North · Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:53 am

lovethenecks wrote:Regarding coaches for Special teams, no coach probably wants his name associated with our special teams because that would be career suicide with our UNspecial Teams. Common at the d3 d2 level as not a focus because most teams are lousy at them, equal playing field. As I understand from a few parents of the players around the tailgate lot, there is one coach that is or was kind of the coach, with some interference from a least one other or a few other coaches. They say there is not much experience or knowledge from the other coaches, but the interferers mess with the players, cause that is what they do. With most teams it is easy to tell who is special teams coach because they are on field prior to game with Kickers, Punters, Long snapper, no coach comes with our kids so Don't know! I will watch this week, you do the same and maybe we can figure out who the mystery coaches are.

If we don't have a dedicated Special Teams coach, that is an absolute travesty. This should be a guy/gal who can look at what is happening and move players/schemes around to prevent it. When they get good at that, they can then work on special strategies to turn special teams into play makers, scoring points for us. Good Special Teams are a tremendous asset to the team. Bad Special Teams can steal victory out our their own teams grasp.

lovethenecks · Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:23 am

To Tere North,

Bravo, Bravo, could not agree more. Thank you for your comments. How do you expect to be good if you only concentrate on 2/3 of game.

sealhall74 · Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:48 am

lovethenecks wrote:To Tere North,

Bravo, Bravo, could not agree more. Thank you for your comments. How do you expect to be good if you only concentrate on 2/3 of game.

My suggestion is this: score a touchdown on each and every possession of the ball. Special teams then become less of a factor. Interesting you brought up Coach Hendrickson in an earlier post. I will never forget one of his last games (probably the last one) at Hanson. One of our guys takes a kickoff about 5 yards deep in the end zone, brings it out heading directly toward the side line shooting for about the 5 yard line. That is when I immediately knew that Mark was done. Mark Bloom on radio said something like "Just when you think you've seen everything, ...". That was probably the end of Mark B too. Oh well, things are much better now (I think).

Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:52 am

sealhall74 wrote:
lovethenecks wrote:To Tere North,

Bravo, Bravo, could not agree more. Thank you for your comments. How do you expect to be good if you only concentrate on 2/3 of game.
My suggestion is this: score a touchdown on each and every possession of the ball. Special teams then become less of a factor.

Sounds good...no punts or FGs to block, go for 2 every TD (no XPs to block and run back for a TD). Now if we can just do better covering some of the kickoffs, I think we'll be ok.

Western_101 · Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:12 am

I'm not sure if when the Defense blocks a PAT and then runs it 100 yrds to the opposite end zone that is co nsidered a touchdown. Not sure, basically it would be the other team converting on a two point conversion, because after running 100 yards (give or take) the scoring only yields 2 points.

"Defensive 2 pt Conversion" I think. Doesn't really roll off the tongue.