[Hoot Gibson]

I watched the play in person and one the replay and the return happened in front of the Woodford bench not JC's. The kickoff in question takes place around the 3:32 mark on the replay. You can also tell that this is the one by listening to the Woodford broadcasters. I'm going to run this one by everyone,if this was intentional on the JC and kicker's part why would he run to the opposing teams bench? That would be the last place I would want to go. I believe there was two mistakes made by the kicker. One was obvious, he didn't make any attempt as the safety to bring down the returner and that needs corrected fast. I believe his second mistake was not wanting any physical contact which is a no no in football.

Like I said in a previous post the Woodford people were talking about this kickoff and the mod from the other site was talking about a defensive series. It later became known that he was listening to the WSIP broadcast. I feel this was an opinion by one of the broadcasters and not fact. JC played people in the second half that normally wouldn't have played while Woodford was playing a lot of upper classmen because of it being senior night. Look at the kickoff return for example, the kickoff was returned by junior Michael Rusher against JC's freshman kickoff team. You can see why that has a chance to look and be very ugly.
I agree with you Spike has no ax to grind, he's the best in the business in my opinion.

You're right about the kicker running off of the Woodford side of the field. He forgot where his bench was and he forgot that he was supposed to be the last line of defense on the return team. Strange play but freshmen make mistakes.