By: Nick Marcinko -- July 30, 2024 Florida hired Special Teams Analyst Joe Houston this offseason in an effort to turn around the Gators’ special teams unit, which has suffered from concerning communication errors under Head Coach Billy Napier. While Florida felt like their specialists were good, they wanted to add another layer in Houston to help clean up some of the organizational issues within the unit. With the new NCAA rule allowing analysts to provide technical and tactical instruction to their players on game day, there should be a more clear and concise line of communication on Saturday’s. Joe Houston aiming to turn around Florida’s special teams unit | GatorCountry.com
all well and good, let's just hope for no confusion, no fumbled punt catches, no blocking of our punts. Meet those and we'll be much better. On another note, I prefer not to have a starter doing returns unless that's the only one with sure hands. Too many injured returners to knock out a starting WR or DB
Dear Lord please.... In any event, I'm glad Napier hired Houston. Interesting thing in his press conference he made an offhand mention of "guessing" right. I assume that means they thought that who they hired would end up being able to be on the field. Who knows, maybe he was talking about some goalie guessing right on a penalty kick lol. The guy is obviously on the same page as Napier... He even used the phrase "relative to," which I have always found annoying.
Coach Napier said something publicly, last Summer I think, about the NCAA rules would be changing but he wasn't sure when it would happen. Then it just kind of dropped. He thought it would be sooner rather than later though.
I’m hoping we false start ( or at least offsides) the opening kickoff with three guys with the same number. T let’s get this party started. Maybe we can kick over from behind the goalposts.
If we get a god awful stupid penalty on the opening kickoff I very well could pop. My tolerance after the last two years for special teams miscues is somewhere between zero and negative one.
