Yep. Competition is good. Makes everyone better.
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I always wondered what the hell happened to Brauchle. The guy was a f'n JUCO All-American and supposedly got beaten out by DePasquale. Makes a lot more sense now that Mullen tried to change his mechanics and f'd him up. Guys as good as Brauchle was supposed to be generally don't get beaten out by guys who struggle to kick it 40 yards out. Makes me even more pissed at Mullen for trying to pretend to be a ST coach for the last 4 years. He needs to stick to what he knows, which is the f'n offense, and move Sallach to an administrative role so he can go hire a real ST guru. That shit has cost us games every year so far and has to stop for us to take the next step. The fact we were literally the worst team in DI at kicking last season is completely inexcusable.
Mich. State has a senior scholarship kicker and is planning on giving a scholarship to a HS senior for 2015. I guess he sees that he won't get playing time.
He probably googled "school with worst kickers" and found us. Glad he did.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/inde...er_jj_mcg.html
Hutchins' uncle told me that Mullen overworked their legs in practice and about 3 or 4 weeks into the season they couldn't do much. If you go back and look at that first season there is a steep decline in averages at about that point.
He also said that they were all afraid to say anything to him about it.
I know little about coaching special teams, but I do know that specialists are not to lift weights or anything of the nature. The only workout they're suppose to do is inclined running, but our guys were squating and shit.
That's interesting...he had to have learned that from somewhere.
Let's just hope he's realized at this point that ST is not his specialty and just let someone else control it. That will help our ST and will also help our offense because he can essentially become more of an OC/QB coach and let Collins run the D. That's how a lot of HCs work now anyway.
Assigning a new special teams coach looks like it is paying dividends already.
WOO HOO!!!!! Best news of 2014.