If you’re going to be a defense-and-ball-control team, you can’t suck at special teams. You just can’t.
If you thought Vanderbilt’s offense was a Deepwater Horizon-level disaster, the special teams unit might have been worse in 2015. The Commodores ranked 125th (out of 128 teams) in Special Teams S&P+.
That’s... horrendous. So naturally, former special teams coordinator Charles Bankins was dismissed and in his place steps Jeff Genyk, who served two stints as special teams coordinator at Northwestern (his most recent job) and also stints at Wisconsin and Cal. He was also Eastern Michigan’s head coach from 2004-08.