The Miami Hurricanes Special Teams Coach Joe Panunzio (scroll all the way down on the link) expects to see an improvement in their punt return game after a drastic slip between 2005 & 2006, when the Hurricanes punt return averaged 7.1 yards per punt return (good for 91st in D-1) vs. 2005's team average of 11.0 yards/ return. This is the equivalent of driving up to the restaurant in your Ferrari lookin' real good and then having the valet bring you that 1982 Yugo after dinner & drinks.
Of course, 2005 was helped by the fact that the Hurricanes had the Human Bullet himself, Devin Hester, who decided he was bored scaring other collegiate teams and went on to wreck havoc on the NFL and unsuspecting Fantasy Football League players galore. In his last year at The U, Hester averaged 14.2 yards per punt return and had a TD against Duke in 2005--all while nursing a bad hammy.
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