Gave up 21 return yards all year!!!! That is beyond comprehension......
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Gave up 21 return yards all year!!!! That is beyond comprehension......
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That has to be a record?
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Unreal, great statOriginally Posted by BisManBison
Someone should send it to The Dan Patrick Show, for the "stat of the day". Paulie loves NDSU.
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What was their net average?
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And wasn't 12 of 13 yards of that on one punt retrun vs Towson? Amazing stat. No returns clearly sets up a dominant defense up for success.
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Who was the special teams coach?
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Lecompte is a freaking stud. 21 yards is unbelievable...Id say more dominating than the defensive stats.
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doubt it. Brown had 7 total return yards all season.
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Brown gave up 7 return yards on punt coverage or Brown accumulated 7 return yards on punt return?
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That's a great stat! There must have been a fair number of touchbacks because the net average was 4.3 yards (43.7 vs 39.4) less than punt average. The Bison had a 13.3 yard average per punt return but their opponent average punt difference was also 3.4 yards (40.8 vs 36.5). We had a very different punt average and number of returns compared to our opponents, but the difference between our gross and net average is the same. The only thing that could cause that is the number of touchbacks.
21 yards of punt returns for the entire season is still incredible! Yes, Townsend had 1 return for 12 yards. Looking back at the box scores this is what I found:
SDSU - 1 for 0 yards
UNI - 2 for 2 yards
YSU - 1 for 5 yards
Furman - 1 for 1 yard
Coastal Car - 2 for 5 yards
Towsend - 1 for 12 yards
This adds up to 25 yards (overall season stats has 8 for 21 yards) but still pretty awesome. In 11 regular season games we gave up 7 yards on 4 punts. In 4 playoff games we gave up 18 yards on 4 punts. Statistically that is a huge increase in a third of the games. I wonder what happened to cause such a huge drop off.
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