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Nah, the argument is that Bois looked at every single kickoff that turned into a TD over the past I think 15 years and found exactly zero that worked out like the trombone game or the Sooner Schooner game (involving my alma mater!). The fact that in order to find an “exciting” return, you have to go back to college games from 40 years ago should have been a red flag, but dude did his research. The best case scenarios, the most exciting kickoffs, involve a guy making one cut and then outrunning everyone. People think of guys juking around and breaking tackles and all that on exciting returns but those basically only happen on punts.
FWIW Bois also did a deep dive on punts and found that teams tend to be excruciatingly conservative with those as well, although I think times may be changing on that front.
(ETA: I think the Sooner Schooner play might have been a “one cut and breakaway” play even at that; it’s just, stupid Oklahoma let out their stupid prairie schooner too early or perhaps at exactly the right time to allow the rightful Huskies to rightfully triumph)
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