Texas Kick Returns

[FaninAma]

It is pretty obvious Texas' kick return teams are taught to tackle the defenders which puts the impetus on the officials to call it. It happened on every Texas kickoff return and was called once.

Risk reward is good: refs don't call it you get more yards and a good chance of a big play. Refs call it and you lose 10 yards from where you would have been tackled anyway.

[Jacie]

It is pretty obvious Texas' kick return teams are taught to tackle the defenders which puts the impetus on the officials to call it. It happened on every Texas kickoff return and was called once.

Risk reward is good: refs don't call it you get more yards and a good chance of a big play. Refs call it and you lose 10 yards from where you would have been tackled anyway.

Unless you break one for a touchdown and have it called back . . . which happened to the whorns.

[rock on sooner]

Anytime there is a return up the middle, holding is there and can be called. Returns to either sidelines will get the dreaded "block
in the back" call. It all depends on the mood of the officials.

[FaninAma]

But if Miller hadn' t have been tackled the returner would have been tackled inside the 25.

So the horns ended up losing 12 yards and if the official had kept his flag in his pocket, as they so often do, they would have had another big play.

Risk reward. They risked a 10 to 12 yard penalty on the gamble the official wouldn't flag the hold.

BTW go back to the 2008 game and count the number of holds on the Shipley return that kept Texas in that game.

[OhU1]

One thing you can count on the past few years, OU giving up a 100 yard kick return to Texas and OSU.

[Sooner_Tuf]

It is pretty obvious Texas' kick return teams are taught to tackle the defenders which puts the impetus on the officials to call it. It happened on every Texas kickoff return and was called once.

Risk reward is good: refs don't call it you get more yards and a good chance of a big play. Refs call it and you lose 10 yards from where you would have been tackled anyway.

I don't believe any coach teaches players to do things that can draw game changing flags. In fact it sounds as whornish as Texas Fans claiming OU teaches O-lineman to hold on every play.