Otherwise, the result of the final down includes turning possession of the ball over to the team that had been on defense.
The risk is that, if the play fails, the opposing team takes possession of the ball at a more advantageous field position than it would after a punt.
He led the school to multiple state championships with a heavily analytics-driven strategy.
After becoming Pulaski's head coach in 2003, he ran across a research paper by a Harvard professor who argued that punting made no mathematical sense.
Kelley responded by initially reducing punting to less than twice per game, and soon eliminating it altogether.