On Tuesday, the Texas football program sent its coordinators out to meet with the media.
Unless an appearance in front of a microphone is mandated by a bowl game, UT head coach Steve Sarkisian does not allow his assistants to participate in press conferences during the season. Texas, though, usually does make its coordinators available at the beginning of fall camp each year. So with football practices set to begin at Texas on Wednesday, offensive coordinator Kyle Flood, defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski and special teams coordinator Jeff Banks spoke on Tuesday.
Here are three things that stood out about Banks’ press conference:
Who is in line to return kicks this season?
Last year, Texas averaged 15.88 yards per punt return and 20.52 yards per kickoff return. That ranked 11th and 53rd nationally.
But UT’s primary returner on punts last season was Xavier Worthy. He’s now with the Kansas City Chiefs. The primary returner for Texas on kickoffs was Keilan Robinson. He’s now a Jacksonville Jaguar. So who is up next for Texas?
“I have confidence in what I’ve seen on tape. With (Silas) Bolden and (Matthew) Golden, you have two very proven returners at the places they were at. That doesn’t necessarily mean I know what they’re going to do here, it just gives me a preemptive version of it and they’ve certainly been good at where they were and that’s certainly why we recruited them,” Banks said. “Jaydon Blue, Isaiah Bond, another transfer, Johntay Cook, DeAndre Moore, I think those are other players that will be in the mix. I don’t know that I’ve had that deep of a group, right? Obviously we’ve had some really good returners the last couple of years, I don’t know if we’ve had that deep of a group.”
Last season at Houston, Golden returned two of his nine kickoffs for touchdowns. Bolden averaged 23.06 yards per kickoff return at…
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2024-07-31 03:09:15
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