For grins: DC candidates

#126
#126
Orangepantsforever said:
It’s hard to even remember a competent defense at UT. Even Chief coasted quite a bit his last few years.
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Dont think the 08 D was that bad. The offense was just atrocious. Started three QBs in one season and If I remember correctly Crompton didnt cross the Auburn 45 in the 2nd half. The 07 D had some games where they gave up big points playing 3 Freshman DBs.
 
#127
#127
Woodlawn VOL said:
No he would go back to west coast first chance he got. He wasn’t a fit here the first time. I heard he let it be known he was going back to left coast.
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Well if Dooley had been coaching in California….. he probably would have fled for Texas or the SEC.
 
#131
#131
Woodlawn VOL said:
Muschamp isn’t leaving for Tennessee. He is Georgia man all the way.
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You throw enough $$$$ and what makes you think he is a GA man. He has been all over this Conference.
He is from Rome GA but has Coached @ TX, Auburn, SC, FL, LSU (under Saban) so never hurts to ask.
I believe that T Banks will be here for 4 years. He will either figure it out or get fired. Not going anywhere.
 
#132
#132
DenmarkVol said:
Letting Rodney Garner out of Knoxville would be a crime.
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Why do you think we would let RG go? I agree and it would be dumb.

We need to remember we are in a Rebuild. We need talented players and a system that refills and reloads.

We did not expect this to happen so fast but we will not change anything. Everybody wants to change coaches and that is knee jerk and what got us in this mess.

We need coaching stability.
 
#136
#136
sonofUT62 said:
Dont think the 08 D was that bad. The offense was just atrocious. Started three QBs in one season and If I remember correctly Crompton didnt cross the Auburn 45 in the 2nd half. The 07 D had some games where they gave up big points playing 3 Freshman DBs.
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‘05 was too. Forgot about that. There were just so many other putrid areas
 
#142
#142
lifeisdeep said:
Missouri held that mighty SC offense to 10 points. Kentucky held them to 24. Look up the recruiting classes for those two schools and tell me how their defensive talent compares to ours. A D-III defense could have done a better job against SC last night than we did.

By the way, Georgia State held SC to 35. As in, 28 fewer points than we gave up to them.
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On the bright side we only gave up 10 points more that Charleston and SCState!
 
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#143
#143
VolsFan-TX said:
Don’t think that would happen. He is still mad about not getting the HC role before. If he is interested, he could still be a HC in the power 5. Several opportunities will be available.
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He’s mad at a college because an AD, 4 AD’s and 13 years ago didn’t hire him? I’ve seen teenage girls hold less of a grudge than Gary P, if he would spurn us over bygones.
 
#144
#144
DenmarkVol said:
I’m an optimist and believe Coach Heup is smart enough to know that we need a defense if we are to compete for championships. I believe we might see a change in our defensive coaching staff in the off-season. Just for grins, I looked up the best performing defenses in college football this year…as measured statistically by the NCAA.

You can check out the stats here — NCAA FBS statistics 2022. I encourage you guys to check it out as the numbers are revealing, at least to me.

Defensive metrics I looked at, by team:

3rd down conversion percentage
1st down defense
Passing yards allowed
Red zone defense
Rushing defense
Scoring defense
Team passing efficiency defense
Total defense

A few teams’ defenses rank in the top 10 in almost all of these categories —GA, MI for example. But there are a couple who show up just as frequently in the 10 ten — IL and MN.

IL in particular is conspicuous in their defensive statistics.

IL is…

6th in 3rd down conversion percentage
6th in 1st down defense
7th in Passing yards allowed
19th in Red zone defense
7th in Rushing defense
3rd in Scoring defense
1st in Team passing efficiency defense
2nd in Total defense

If we had that defense, I am confident we would be in the playoffs with reasonable championship aspirations.

There are a handful of other schools present in the top 10 of these categories — e.g Iowa, Boise St., TA&M.

Personally, I have given up on Tim Banks and Willie Martinez. I hope to see them soon move on to greener pastures. So yeah…I’m nosing around looking for their possible replacements. We have a lot of free time here at Pelican Bay…
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Illinois is defending Big 10 teams. Nuff said
 
#149
#149
Allvols1996 said:
Illinois is defending Big 10 teams. Nuff said
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They’re in the Big 10. What other teams are they supposed to defend? Still held a current playoff team 19 points under their current average. Our DC gave up 60 to a team that scored 1/10th of that last week and only gave up 35 to a Sun Belt school.
 
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