WHO’S GOT THE BEST SPECIAL TEAMS IN YOUR CONFERENCE?

At our first team meeting with our football squad in August before we opened camp I stated my goal as the special team’s coordinator was to produce the best special teams in the conference and win the national championship. When we finished our season we were co champions of the Midwest Football Association’s Western Division for which Saint Xavier University received the automatic bid to the NAIA Championship Series. In the final coaches’ poll Saint Xavier University was ranked 7th in the country. Needless to say after our season ended (2005) a couple of our special team players asked me how we finished in the conference with our special teams. I sat at my office desk and said “Ok Coach Slovick – Who had the best special teams in the conference?\" As a member of the Mid-States Football Association we are fortunate to have Larry Alter compile and publish all of our conference