Very interesting, if true

[caneULM]

I know some of us like myself are still in rehab after the loss, but looking at this I wonder.......

 

[Yoyo423]

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Thread 'Toney Punt Return From the Five was a trick play that would have been an easy TD'

Jan 20, 2026

Look at the top of the screen. Toney was going to throw across the field. No one was within 50 yards of us.

Unbelievable that the ONE PUNT Indiana executed well was the one time we called that. I was wondering why Toney fielded that punt. Well… now we know

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[Jedi Master Cane]

I'll go on record as saying this. It was a HORRIBLE play call and a HORRIBLE decision to even CALL that potential trick play.

At what point is Danny Kitler going to get criticized on these boards? Nobody? Well...I'll do it.

This was absolute stupidity wrapped in nativity. You don't call a play that involves a throw back on a punt return when you're returning said punt from your own goal line. In other words, you don't call this play when the other team is punting from anywhere near mid-field.

Why? Cause it's easier for the punter to put more hang time on the punt which not only kills the trick play aspect of the play, but puts Toney in an impossible situation. He has to square his body early and get underneath the punt to even give the trick play a chance, then when the hang time does in fact happen and he doesn't have enough time to look across the filed to attemp the lateral, he's in a position where he doesn't want to risk getting out of the way of the punt last minute for fear it could ricochet off any part of his leg/body.

It was 6 levels beyond stupid. I also want to know what Kitler could possibly be teaching on his punt safe technique where Bauman thought he should have inside responsibility despite the fact he's the outside up-back.

Kitler deserves to be called into question on both of these sequence of events.

I know I know....let it go....but this sequence easily can be argued to be the sequence that doomed us.

 

[KANE]

It’s true.

 

[Groz73Cane]

It’s true.

Guess we will never know, just sayin’

 

[Hufftwoseven]

Shoulda woulda coulda

 

[Kn[]_[]ckles3o5]

I'll go on record as saying this. It was a HORRIBLE play call and a HORRIBLE decision to even CALL that potential trick play.

At what point is Danny Kitler going to get criticized on these boards? Nobody? Well...I'll do it.

This was absolute stupidity wrapped in nativity. You don't call a play that involves a throw back on a punt return when you're returning said punt from your own goal line. In other words, you don't call this play when the other team is punting from anywhere near mid-field.

Why? Cause it's easier for the punter to put more hang time on the punt which not only kills the trick play aspect of the play, but puts Toney in an impossible situation. He has to square his body early and get underneath the punt to even give the trick play a chance, then when the hang time does in fact happen and he doesn't have enough time to look across the filed to attemp the lateral, he's in a position where he doesn't want to risk getting out of the way of the punt last minute for fear it could ricochet off any part of his leg/body.

It was 6 levels beyond stupid. I also want to know what Kitler could possibly be teaching on his punt safe technique where Bauman thought he should have inside responsibility despite the fact he's the outside up-back.

Kitler deserves to be called into question on both of these sequence of events.

I know I know....let it go....but this sequence easily can be argued to be the sequence that doomed us.

I was ****ed when they hired Kalter to run specials. Dude was here for all the horse****. Started as a GA and was here 10 yrs. Literally one of the only holdovers from our most pathetic undisciplined teams. It was a lazy and uninspired hire and it probably cost us the Louisville game and the national championship. I will say that somehow Bryce prevented a fake punt against A&M so he wasn't all bad but for the most part our special teams were not a plus phase for us it was either a push or less in most games.