Watch: NCAA QB's Stunning Punt Attempt May Be Worst Ever

By Ross Kelly November 7, 2018 at 11:25am

Once baseball season wraps up, midweek football returns to ESPN in the form of MACtion.

Saturday football for the Mid-American Conference becomes an outlier at this point of the season as the conference loads up its games from Tuesday to Thursday.

One of those games aired Tuesday night and featured Kent State (which came in with a record of 2-7) vs. Buffalo (8-1).

Normally this type of matchup wouldn’t generate headlines, but normally punts go more than zero yards.

The Golden Flashes were facing a fourth down on Buffalo’s 49-yard line when their coach sent in backup quarterback Dustin Crum to perform a pooch punt.

You can tell that was the plan as Kent State was in a regular formation instead of a punt formation. Crum backed up and went from shotgun depth to punt depth to give him some more real estate to execute the pooch.

But what Kent State didn’t factor in were wind gusts of 30 mph. It also didn’t help that Crum hit the ball off the side of his foot.

Instead of the ball landing somewhere inside the 20-yard line, it went about three yards past the line of scrimmage before bouncing backward and going out of bounds at the original line of scrimmage.

So, uh, Dustin Crum, backup QB, just attempted a punt directly into 30+ MPH winds.

It did not go well. pic.twitter.com/pFK2L44OlW

— Hustle Belt (@HustleBelt) November 7, 2018

As a result, Crum’s punt went zero yards.

He took the embarrassing punt in stride when someone joked about the play on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/Dustin_Crum14/status/1060023877005467649

Perhaps the motivation from Kent State’s coach to send in Crum was not only to surprise Buffalo but also to give his starting punter a rest.

Even with the 30 mph wind gusts, do you think you could have executed a better punt?

Derek Adams was quite busy on Tuesday night as he punted the ball nine times for 293 yards. Adams had 110 more punting yards than the Golden Flashes had total yards (183) in the game.

This special teams play didn’t go in Crum’s favor, but one he pulled off last week did.

Crum is also the holder for all PATs and FGs, and against Bowling Green he executed a beautiful fake field goal that resulted in a first down.

If that name sounds familiar, it's because Crum's also the same backup QB who nearly ran for a TD on a fake field goal run last week vs. BGSU. #MACtion, baby. pic.twitter.com/2a5uNl7HBq

— Hustle Belt (@HustleBelt) November 7, 2018

As for the game itself on Tuesday, Kent State as a whole didn’t fare much better than Crum. Buffalo defeated the Golden Flashes 48-14 and remained undefeated in the MAC.

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