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Salt Lake Tribune: Punting game hurts BYU more than it helps
By Kurt Kragthorpe
The Salt Lake Tribune
Arlington, Texas • The occasion of BYU’s first punt-return touchdown in five years should have been worth celebrating Friday night.
In the end, all JD Falslev did was upgrade BYU’s special-teams effort from terrible to merely unacceptable in a 38-28 loss to Texas Christian at Cowboys Stadium.
Two fumbled punt snaps, accounting for 45 yards in losses, led to a pair of TCU touchdowns. In other misadventures, a partially blocked punt gave TCU great field position, the Cougars’ failure on a fake field goal cost them a scoring chance and the Frogs’ big punt return led to a touchdown just before halftime.
"I hate to say any one particular part of the game changed the outcome, but it certainly controlled field position, which controlled scoring," said BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall. "It was frustrating." ...
By Kurt Kragthorpe
The Salt Lake Tribune
Arlington, Texas • The occasion of BYU’s first punt-return touchdown in five years should have been worth celebrating Friday night.
In the end, all JD Falslev did was upgrade BYU’s special-teams effort from terrible to merely unacceptable in a 38-28 loss to Texas Christian at Cowboys Stadium.
Two fumbled punt snaps, accounting for 45 yards in losses, led to a pair of TCU touchdowns. In other misadventures, a partially blocked punt gave TCU great field position, the Cougars’ failure on a fake field goal cost them a scoring chance and the Frogs’ big punt return led to a touchdown just before halftime.
"I hate to say any one particular part of the game changed the outcome, but it certainly controlled field position, which controlled scoring," said BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall. "It was frustrating." ...
