Identity

Out of all the special teams units at Southern Illinois University the kickoff team may be one of the most important units to our football program. We strongly believe the kickoff team creates the identity and establishes the attitude of our football team. This unit must set the tone for the game. It is critical that this team send a message to the opponent that they will be in for a physical contest and that we intend to win. We want players who can run and will play with a tremendous amount of emotion and pride. We have one goal – hold our opponent’s average field position to the 25 yard line or less. We were number 1 in our conference and had only one kick off returned past the 50 yard line. In the three years we have been at SIU our special teams have never given up a touchdown. I would like to give credit to Jay Sawvel , who is our special teams coordinator. The biggest