Liam Danitz

And now the special teams coordinator, Coach Ligasheski, can actually coach Sean West, Gavin Lom on those specific techniques.

Liam Danitz, uh, Carson VanDeeter, the guys on those punt blocks, he can actually dive into the technique.

So all credit to him, he's been fantastic.

And there's actual plays that can be run for a special teams as well.

They're doing a lot of things here, especially being aggressive on the punt block.

I mean, Liam Danitz is a problem off the edge there.

He was a former track star at Division III, All-American, terrific football player down there as well.

Obviously, wasn't able to really make a name for himself on the defensive side of the ball and getting in the rotation, but that seems to fit him well as a former track star.

And then not only did he block it, but he picked it up at the four and ran it in and gave Wisconsin a 17 nothing lead halfway through the first quarter.

That's the second straight game now where Wisconsin has blocked a punt because Liam Danitz was able to get his hand on one against Notre Dame, and Wisconsin put together its postgame notes package, and it's the first blocked punt for a touchdown by Wisconsin since 2009. against Purdue.

I mean, I didn't realize how long it had been, but it makes you realize how special those kinds of plays are.

So there were some other special teams plays, but that's certainly an area where it seems like Wisconsin has improved.

I know Barry's talked about that through the years, other coaches, particularly early in the season of first game.

I know there was the mistake on the kick return, but you get Liam Danitz getting his hand on a punt, and I think people are going, who? A young man from Hope College, a linebacker.

We'll see how much he sees the field moving forward on the defense, but to come in and make a play like that right away, that's a nice little start.

I think that's his first

They were not able to do that.

Wisconsin, not only threw the first punch with the Sebastian Cheek strip sack, the Liam Danitz punt that gave them the ball at the 37-yard line, and then they turned that into the Gavin Lomb chip shot.

Field goal to go up 3-0, but I was pleasantly not surprised by the defense, but just the way they were getting off blocks, flying to the football.

I mean, I'm sitting there at halftime with the way that defense was playing and the way both sides of the ball were winning in the trenches, in my opinion.

Northwestern did not give him credit for a block last night.

They did with, with Liam Danitz and that set up Wisconsin's first field goal from Gavin Lom and then Sean West.

I mean, he may have had the greatest punt of all time.

I know that that was the talking points uh online afterwards i've never seen a punt like that you were just he punts it it goes 70 yards but it drops inside the five and goes sideways and you're expecting at some point that ball which is oblong you don't know which way it's going to bounce and you're just expecting it to bounce into the end zone at some point and it just kept coming to the sideline come to the sideline coming to the sideline and then goes out like the one inch line it was perhaps the greatest punt in program history