The off-season coaching carousel decided to make one more stop at Notre Dame over the weekend with Brian Mason, the reigning Special Teams Coach of the Year, headed off to the NFL to be the special teams coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts.
Before Mason’s arrival, special teams were more of a liability than a weapon under Brian Polian, who followed Brian Kelly to LSU only to be removed from his special teams duties and placed in an admin role after a disastrous season of special teams for the Tigers. Blocked kicks were rare. Fair catches on punt returns, the norm.