KNOXVILLE – There’s been a change in the rules.
That doesn’t mean Tennessee wants to change its ways.
The NCAA tweaked its rules regarding kickoffs for next season, but Charlie Coiner, the Volunteers’ special teams coordinator, said after Wednesday morning’s practice he’d like to keep most of UT’s schemes the same.
“My observation from the outside coming [is we] had an extremely good kickoff team here last year. Really good,” he said. “That’s a credit to coach [Derek] Dooley and the guys that were coaching here. We want to build on that and try and keep as many things the same so that we can carry that over.
“There’s enough things broken in this profession to where you have to fix them. If that’s not, we want to keep as much the same as we can. We’ve addressed all the rule changes and spent a lot of time on that this spring.”