Quote Originally Posted by Goldendawg View Post
Other teams seem to feel that this is time well spent. Hail State!
Yep. It's a philosophy thing. Go check stats and find me a team that returns more than 1 punt for a TD in a season. Teams average punting about 55 times a season. So you're lucky if you get 1 punt return for a TD in 55 punts.

There were 293 punt returns in the SEC last year. This doesnt count fair catches obviously. In 293 punt returns- there were 7 returned for a TD with Bama and Georgia having 3 of them. So in the other 290 punt returns- there were 4 returned for TD. I'm willing to bet there were 30 plus penalties on punt returns combined.

My philosophy in HS? My teams try to block every punt. We make teams max protect so they cant cover like they want. We always get more out of punt block than any return. College is obviously different due to specialists and such- but its still something you can do to put pressure on teams.