A little help?

In todays Daily, I wrote about the versatility of wide receiver Marquis Hamilton. The guy is catching passes, running the ball, hitting on special teams and almost threw a pass to Bret Meyer in the Cyclone’s game with Oklahoma. What a lot of fans don’t realize is that while Hamilton is out and about on special teams, he’s not the only starter. Senior wide receiver Todd Blythe is back in punt returns, Alvin Bowen is constantly roaming around, and Allen Bell is going after opponents full speed. Special teams was a problem coach Gene Chizik has been trying to fix all year. Alex Sandvig was having trouble handling punt returns, so he put in Blythe. They had trouble making tackles, he inserted Bowen. Now, what happens with kicker Bret Culbertson? Culbertson has made 8 of 14 field goal attempts on the season and Chizik said he has no one else. Earlier in the season he talked about how limited the Cyclones were in terms of depth. I think we’re really starting to see what he means by that now.