Virginia Tech is peerless when it comes to special teams, especially blocking kicks. They blocked more than 60 kicks in the 1990s and you can bet that s the point of emphasis again this spring. Under Davie, Notre Dame wants to be as dominant on special teams as Virginia Tech has been, but it takes repetition, repetition and more repetition. Special teams played a major role in almost each Irish victory last year, and Davie said it must do the same this season. When you play on the road like we do early in the season, when you play the kind of opponents we play throughout the season, our edge has to be special teams because there are going to be a bunch of close games, Davie said.
Special teams has to be our edge.
We re going to work the heck out of that. We have all the units in place that are going to be in place in the fall. We re going to grind it hard. That s the only way to become special in anything.