With Brian Mason at the helm, Notre Dame seeks to ‘create chaos’ on special teams

When competition-focused special teams coordinator Brian Mason arrived at Notre Dame in January, there was little time to sit back and take it all in. The Irish had just lost their three-year starting kicker in Jonathan Doerer to graduation along with fellow three-year No. 1 punter Jay Bramblett to LSU. Not only were there too few bodies to breed competition, there were too few bodies to even call it a complete special teams group.