Ah, special teams. At some point last season, you probably made some kind of comment about how the Hokies aren’t so special on special teams anymore. You were right. Statistically, the 2013 team ranked lower in special teams than any other Virginia Tech team of the ACC era.
This isn’t an analysis of special teams in 2013. This is a multi-part breakdown of special teams numbers since the Hokies joined the ACC back in 2004. We’ll break it down into four parts: coverage, returns, blocks and field goals. Today, we’ll begin with Virginia Tech’s coverage team, which in turn will be divided into two parts: kickoff coverage and punt coverage.
Kickoff Coverage
Virginia Tech’s kickoff coverage peaked from 2007 through 2009, but it has bottomed out twice since 2010.
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