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P Jesse Mirco (transfer to Vanderbilt)

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You absolutely cannot let the punter decide whether or not to go.. He should always be in GO mode until a coach says NO
Love the fact the kid's mindset was dead on

Reminds me of a similar story
I was coaching what turned out to be an outrageously good HS travel baseball team in NE Ohio
We were crushing some team... and my kid steals 2nd or 3rd when we're up a bunch
Opposing coach went Schiano on me
I did not signal for the kid to run... cuz.. I didn't have a sign for 'steal'.. I just faked all that..
My team rule was 'if you think you can take it.. go for it"
I asked him "why did you go?" he said "the catcher's a dick... bitched at me the whole time time up.. 'you get on, don't even think of going cuz I'll nail your ass'.. so f#$k him.. I went"
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
You absolutely cannot let the punter decide whether or not to go.. He should always be in GO mode until a coach says NO
Love the fact the kid's mindset was dead on

Reminds me of a similar story
I was coaching what turned out to be an outrageously good HS travel baseball team in NE Ohio
We were crushing some team... and my kid steals 2nd or 3rd when we're up a bunch
Opposing coach went Schiano on me
I did not signal for the kid to run... cuz.. I didn't have a sign for 'steal'.. I just faked all that..
My team rule was 'if you think you can take it.. go for it"
I asked him "why did you go?" he said "the catcher's a dick... bitched at me the whole time time up.. 'you get on, don't even think of going cuz I'll nail your ass'.. so f#$k him.. I went"
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That’s a great story. The only thing that would have made it better is if he was able to have stolen home. That would have been ice.

I’ve never coached football, but I know from decades of coaching lacrosse we have ‘GOs.’ That is, ‘if you see XYZ, you GO.’ Unlike football, lacrosse can be as much of an individual sport as it is a team sport. In those GOs the individual many times has such an advantage that the opposing team can’t recover and it’s generally very short lived so you have to GO. When things get lopsided we absolutely will call No-GO. Unless the opposing coach is a dbag, but I’ll admit to letting a couple of pine-riders go when I probably should have called no-go.

Anyhow… on topic… finally. The punt is the only play I can think of in football that is similar to lacrosse on this dimension. In every other situation I can think of, the team has to be on the same page. That said, I cannot conceive of a high performing college football team that doesn’t have a similar GO for the punter in this situation. Left completely undefended like that — absolutely — has to be a GO for him. Candidly, I’d be more than willing to bet that it is a GO play and the bench may have forgot to communicate the No-GO.

It was the right play. Bringing it back full circle, what would have been ice for Jesse would have been to jump up after getting blown the fuck up, pop his lid and yell ”Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!’ at Cruickshank.
 
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I absolutely agree with Micro taking that wide open turf and certain first down.

Putting that on film might actually prevent getting a punt getting blocked later this year, since some coaches will now call ‘punt-safe’ more often after seeing that.

On the topic that his running like that puts him at risk for an injury, I think he’s probably more likely to get injured in the future when he’s actually kicking the ball, than he is running into a wide open field and clearly getting out of bounds before anybody could legally hit him.
 
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ScriptOhio said:


Ryan Day said Jesse Mirco made the decision on his own to run on the punt.

Day said he asked Mirco: “Did anybody tell you to do that?” Mirco replied “No.” Day said “We’ll talk about that tomorrow.”
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Note that there was no indication as to what would be included in that conversation. It could very well be, “yeah, you got the green light there… I give zero fucks about the score… if you ever see that again, you’re green.”
 
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