2024 Fall Camp Notes - Special Teams

Husker in WI said:
2022 Buschini was fine, and hopefully he can be that again. If the guarantee existed I would absolutely take a more consistent 40 yard average (ideally with hangtime) rather than gamble on Buschini finding his 2022 form instead of 2023. Consistency matters, and he had 4 games for 35 or less yards per punt last year, all with at least 4 punts. I can tolerate some inconsistency with a good average, but he didn't have either.

Of course there is no guarantee, and a true freshman is probably even more likely to be inconsistent. But 2023 Buschini was very, very bad and the open practice did not give a lot of confidence that 2023 was a fluke. There were guys in the portal - this guy averaged 47 a punt at Weber State, another one averaged 46.9 at Arkansas, 45 at Notre Dame. Now maybe they wouldn't have been interested anyway, and Buschini came in after averaging 46 at Montana so you can't be sure. But they definitely weren't going to transfer here with a returning starter embedded, so there's at least an argument that Buschini could have been encouraged to move on. It would have been risky, but so it sticking with him tbh.
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That is some good info on possible transfers. However, you are right that the coaches couldn't get anyone here with Buschini still at Nebraska. I know Rhule isn't big on moving on from guys that want to be here. I know Brian is on an award watch list for punters- not sure what the criteria is for it. 

I think the coaches were confident he could get back to his 2022 self. Let's hope he punts less than 50 times this year, which means our offense is generating points. Remember, Rhule is big on developing guys and making you better- we will see if it pays off with Buschini. 

 
Undone said:
Good point - it's almost a place where you'd want to view a player's punts on a scatter plot graph of some kind to better visualize the upper & lower bounds and their frequency, rather than just looking at an average stat.

And that's really what the original point was by whoever made it: the shanks are definitely costly.
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There you go.  Obviously this doesn't take into account field position or weather.  But it looks like 8 punts 30 yards or less, with one of those being a block at Mich. St.  Don't remember if that was a punter issue or a protection issue.

7 punts of 50 yards or more.

 
soup said:
There you go.  Obviously this doesn't take into account field position or weather.  But it looks like 8 punts 30 yards or less, with one of those being a block at Mich. St.  Don't remember if that was a punter issue or a protection issue.

7 punts of 50 yards or more.
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You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

 
BigRedBuster said:
Which is funny. Why the yellow jersey?  Nobody is touching a kicker in practice. 
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It also serves as a good reminder for the coaches. If Alvano is going a little slowly during stretches or runs, if he struggles to run off the field quickly during transitions, if he’s not cleared to participate during certain things, etc. If he’s in a normal practice jersey, it can be easy to forget he’s not cleared for everything.

 
Caliborn72 said:
It also serves as a good reminder for the coaches. If Alvano is going a little slowly during stretches or runs, if he struggles to run off the field quickly during transitions, if he’s not cleared to participate during certain things, etc. If he’s in a normal practice jersey, it can be easy to forget he’s not cleared for everything.
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Kickers do that stuff?

 
Let's just hope the Special Teams Unit can tackle.

We got new questions about the kicking game, and a Punter with no hang time...  Which is great for punt returners.   And it's not like he's punting 50 yards in the air.  

This will be interesting.  Special Teams.

 
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