ulukinatme
Carr for QB 2025!
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Yes, I did look at ranking, but lets go back to your original argument. You were asking "how do we explain last year's ST performance" if Booker was no good. Again, where were our strongest units in ST? My argument is that any success we had in ST had more to do with the injection of Sanders and Yoon and less to do with Booker. That's ALL I'm trying to say. The very high FG percentage is explained by Yoon's great kicking and not really an improvement in the FG team as a whole. The same goes for our Punt Return team and Sanders' ability to occasionally break a big return. We were one of the better teams in picking up big Punt Returns (5+ of 20 yards or more I think), but it's a small sample size and overall our average return yards came in at 70th in the country. Big returns are fun, but consistently being in the bottom half of the country in average return yards isn't what I'd call efficient.
You asked for an explanation, and I've provided it. Regardless if the team isn't allotted lots of time to practice special teams, Booker hasn't exactly lit the world on fire with his TEs either. The best TE he ever coached was Eifert, who was a prodigy and spent time under Parmalee who was hugely successful with turning this school into "TE U."
