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Special Teams Elephant in the Room

I’d take better punt blocking and coverage for when we punt. We’ve been pretty good up until NDs big punt return on coverage (maybe I’m forgetting one). Of course punt blocking will always bring up bad memories for us

FG kicking has been pretty solid. Hard to complain abt that
 
ssvir said:
We do.
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In theory, sure. I guess we do. That math don't math because that coach aint coaching. Danny needs to gtfo. Completely useless.

Check out this resume:
  • Danny Kalter is entering his third season as the Miami Hurricanes’ special teams coordinator in 2026.
  • Kalter was promoted to senior quality control analyst in 2021 and served in that role through the 2023 season.
  • A south Florida native, Kalter spent three years as a graduate assistant (2017-19) before serving as a quality control analyst for the 2020 season.
  • He was a student volunteer at Miami for the 2013-2016 seasons.
  • Kalter graduated from the University of Miami in 2017."
He should not be the ST coach at Miami. Perhaps a job like Buffalo is more suitable. He's in way over his head, and has already ****ed a lot of **** up for us. His time to go has come, and I hope Mario sends him on his way, sooner than later.
 
edge said:
We need a better punter. Each week we seem to play a team with a better punter.
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That's not even remotely close to being true lol our coverage is terrible, but the punter is good. Point the blame in the right direction.

Joyce is 45th in the nation in yards per punt at 44.8 - he's 2 yards shy of being top 15 at 46.8

Notre Dame is 55th, Pitt is 70th, Stanford is 81st, CMU is 71st, FSU, Clemson, and UNC aren't in the top 100

Wake is 42nd at 44.9 yards per punt. The only team ranked ahead of us that we've played and Joyce was better H2H.

Joyce's average vs opponents' punters average H2H:

ND - 43.8 vs 40.6 - Miami had the better punter
UNC - 1 for 43 vs 1 for 28 - Miami had the better punter
Pitt - 49.5 vs 44.3 - Miami had the better punter
FSU - 41.65 vs 43.2 - FSU had the better punter (Joyce had the bad 30-yard punt + the facemask that was a killer and then punted from the 40 that went into the endzone hurting his avg FSU punted line drives that bounced and rolled favorably for them)
Clemson - 48.7 vs 35.8 - Miami had the better punter
Wake - 47 vs 44.5 - Miami had the better punter
Stanford- 44.5 vs 44.7 - Effectively the same - both fair caught inside the 20 - exactly what you want
 
Ric Flair Blitz said:
Mario needs to go and bring in an actual ST coach with NFL experience. Having a former GA on staff who "came up" is a nice hallmark story, but we've been deficient in ST for the last 5 years.
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We had that with Marwan Maalouf and he left in 2024 to be the Saints ST coordinator and is now on the Broncos as Asst ST coordinator. He basically follows Darren Rizzi and Rizzi got him the Miami job.

No idea how we went from that to what we have now. Our coverage units were very good under Maalouf and we obviously had Borregales and Headley at K and P.
 
It would be nice to attempt blocking kicks sometimes.

Also our blocking for our own points is horrid. Not to mention our coverage is just a joke. Personnel choices are odd too.
And we have out kicked the coverage at times as well.

Really quite inexcusable and Mario needs to be pressed why we don’t hire a real coach there.
 
Shooter McGavin said:
I'd like to nominate this to be the dumbest post of the year. What the **** is going through your head?
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Can I nominate this one?
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Mnhurricane said:
It would be nice to attempt blocking kicks sometimes.

Also our blocking for our own points is horrid. Not to mention our coverage is just a joke. Personnel choices are odd too.
And we have out kicked the coverage at times as well.

Really quite inexcusable and Mario needs to be pressed why we don’t hire a real coach there.
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Team is too stupid and it will just result in penalties for hitting the kicker. I'm fine with just getting the ball back at this point when we actually make a stop
 
TheATLCane said:
I’d take better punt blocking and coverage for when we punt. We’ve been pretty good up until NDs big punt return on coverage (maybe I’m forgetting one). Of course punt blocking will always bring up bad memories for us

FG kicking has been pretty solid. Hard to complain abt that
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I haven’t re-watched on TV, but watching live I thought there was a major hold by ND on that punt return. Overall though our special teams are mid and I fully expected ND to win that phase with at least one significant play.
 
Go Canes!! said:
We’ve excelled in FG kicking and punting for several years.

That’s what matters the most to me.
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Please for all of us explain why punt returns, kick returns, kick coverage, punt coverage isn’t as important as fg kicking and punting? Can’t wait for your response little man.
 
The elephant in the room is football acumen. Miami lacks it. Miami kids lack it. It is what is is. We've improved in our discipline. It's never going to be our strength. No excuse to get punts blocked.. but I do understand not going after them. Take the win. Next play. It can get better.. but will never be perfect.
 
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