They looked much better by the end of the year. Had the offense been able to move the ball more than 200 yards/game the defense could have kept them on games. Look as the first half against most the second half teams we were in most games. They will be much better next year because the offense will not gas them by keep them on the field.
Except no one was talking about whether you can give them your support. Of course you can. You were criticizing someone else for not simply buying everything being sold without inspection.
We let teams rack up insane points in the first half of nearly every game. The idea that it was the second half that we lost because of being tired is insane. 5 games or nearly 50% of our games we allowed over 30 Points in the first half with a high of 42 first half points against Army. 8 games out of 12, the other team had over 20 points by halftime. Most of our games hard far less points in the second half as they put in backups because they had scored so much already.
Here's another way to look at it: If a team should have 5 drives a half, how many td's did we give up after the 4th or 5th drive? How many during the first 5 drives? That is where the wear down came, where you run out of looks to show the offense, etc. An offense could go 3 and out and know they would be back on in 2 minutes to try again. Eventually you make enough adjustments offensively and the D breaks down. That is why RE wanted to slow the game down because that was his only way he thought we could win.
Yes, I was criticizing the person who decided Mora shouldn’t have had the opportunity to choose his DC. I get that some here don’t think he has that right. I think Mora would back me. You can make sure this gets thrown at me next year.
Our time of possession was over 32 minutes in 2019, we still sucked on defense and Spanos was D coordinator.
The problem is we no longer have a new staff…we have retained a part of the staff that was responsible for a lot of the suck.
Where? Division 3 or HS ? all we did was lose. He was a fallback.
I try to look at it as a positive because Mora chose him. If we truly wanted him from the start then why didn't we announce it earlier? I wonder how much $money$ we offered the other options to be a DC before we settled on backup to the backup.
His resume says he doesn't suck. I don't care who you are coaching. If you don't have talent you can be Bear Bryant, Bill Belichick or Bill Parcells. Schemes only get you so far or did you forget Don Brown's first year?
If you think Spanos who was trying to become the permanent HC and allowed Horton to call plays with no input he’s incompetent or you need your head checked.
Who was responsible for getting the talent? (hint: the guy you are defending).
He works FOR the new coach.
People will say the defense was “young”. Same excuse they’ve used for yrs
It was young. It isn’t an excuse. It is another Edsall failure. He ran off the older players and didn’t replace them with transfers. We were playing a stupid number of freshman and sophomores all over the field. That’s was Edsall failing. That’s why we have a new coach.
No that would have been Randy Edsall or did you forget who was coach.
Is it that or were they just terrible football players and that's why they transferred to FCS or even D-2?
Spanos had 2 years left on his contract we were going to pay him either way!!!
Good Lord, please stop. Retaining the DC leading the 115th to 130th worst defense in FBS is plain ludicrous by any standard. And, it’s the University’s program, not his.
Best post of the night!
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