Rutgers coach wants to eliminate kickoffs

Greg Schiano is starting the conversation of banning kickoffs. The Rutgers football coach has a valid reason to want to permanently remove kickoffs from the game because his player, Eric LeGrand suffered a spinal chord injury after attempting to defend a kickoff, and is now paralyzed from the shoulders down.
This is Schiano’s plan: Replace all kickoffs with a punting situation, including after the opening coin toss and to start the second half. So, as an example, when Team A scores a touchdown, it immediately gets the ball back on a fourth and 15 from its own 30-yard line.
It can punt it back to Team B — the most likely outcome and a safer play since the bigger collisions usually happen on kickoffs.
Or it can line up and go for the first down, essentially replacing an onside kick with an offensive play that would require more skill than luck.
Onside kicks work about a quarter of the time in the NFL, according to the website advancednflstats.com, a deceptive fig...

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