Overwhelmingly, all 18 Big Ten football coaches are against the NCAA’s new punting rule.
Pete Thamel, a senior college football writer for ESPN, called the rule “complicated” and revealed that every single Big Ten team has voted against it.
Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell hasn’t been in the Big Ten as long as some of these other coaches, but remember, he came from Cincinnati and certainly knows a thing or two about college football.
Fickell was part of the lopsided 18-0 vote by the conference against these new punting rules.
While Frank Wilson Jr. is an associate coach outside of the Big Ten (Tennessee Tech), he broke down the official video posted so fans can further understand what new rules are going to be in place, or at least have been proposed.
Major changes for college football team’s punting formation:
Wisconsin is far from a special-teams-focused team that sees its entire game plan go out the window because of this, but it’s yet another situation where the NCAA is stepping in and making what everyone believes to be unnecessary changes.
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Reporting by Jordon Lawrenz, Badgers Wire / Badgers Wire
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