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I agree.  It was a mistake.  Setting up a return doesn't buy you anything since a great KOR doesn't help much.  At that point burning clock is more valuable than gaining points or yards.  Plus, if it is sent deep you just take a knee.  Worst case it is fielded at the 1 and returned to the 15, you run three times to take two minutes off the clock and punt it to roughly where KSU wound up recovering the ball anyways.

It's the first game of the season, and even the coaches are allowed to be a bit rusty.

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I agree.  It was a mistake.  Setting up a return doesn't buy you anything since a great KOR doesn't help much.  At that point burning clock is more valuable than gaining points or yards.  Plus, if it is sent deep you just take a knee.  Worst case it is fielded at the 1 and returned to the 15, you run three times to take two minutes off the clock and punt it to roughly where KSU wound up recovering the ball anyways.

It's the first game of the season, and even the coaches are allowed to be a bit rusty.

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