Punt of No Return

10 Ways to Guarantee Your Opponent Won’t Score on a Punt Return When your offense has stalled and you have to punt the ball away, the last thing you want to give up is a punt-return touchdown. We spoke with three experts about how to prevent such a disaster – Rick Sang, director of American Football Specialists/ Ray Guy Kicking Academy in Bowling Green, KY; Granville Eastman, defensive coordinator and special teams coach at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN; and Alan Dykens, assistant head coach, defensive coordinator, and special teams coach at Graceland University in Lamoni, IA. Sang, who coached the kickers at Arizona State and Eastern Kentucky and was a kicker himself at the latter school, listed 10 keys for producing the “punt of no return.” As you can imagine, given his background, Sang focuses largely on what the kicker himself must do. • First on Sang’s