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This not meant to knock or bring hate down on our coaches. Just some insight for people who are curious about what our defense "may" look like in the future. These stats are 99.9% accurate and I pulled them all off NCAA.org

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EDIT: SCORING defense is ranked 25th @ 20.6 PPG. My bad for the miscommunication. I originally put the scoring O.

Va: Not much improvement over a 6 year stretch. AG's defense averaged 391 YPG during his tenure as DC. His best year, the defense averaged 313 YPG and had the best scoring defense at 17ppg with a national rank of 17. One common trend was that the scoring defense averaged 22.3ppg during his tenure, which isnt bad but not great either.

Temple:

Obviously recruiting and ncaa scholarship limits played a huge role as well as temple being a doormat for life. By the end of year 5 everything dramatically had changed for the better(see above image) Scoring D was 16th in the land and allowed only 19 ppg.

Miami:

The only concern of mine and the many I speak with is the YPG and rushing yards given up. AGs defenses has never held opponents under 300 YPG for a season! Also he has never had a defense hold opponents under 100 rushing YPG! These are two vital components to being an elite team. It is a solid concern but I also think AG can crack those while being at Miami. There is obviously a bit of a learning curve coming from Temple and I think over time he will get it right. It may sound crazy, but AG is basically in the same boat as he was at Temple. NCAA mess at both schools and horrible rosters and depth. BTW just for good measure go look at this roster and compare it to ours... http://www.seminoles.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/fsu-m-footbl-mtt.html http://www.hurricanesports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28700&SPID=103763&SPSID=658368

Unfortunately we are not "back" yet like we ridiculously want to be, but we will soon enough.
 
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Defense will get there in due time. This is the final season for so many slow, and untalented dudes.

AQM will be going ham next season on QB's.
 
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So basically you are saying there is no precendence of being great. They obviously do not care about yards. Thats why they allow teams to accumulate them so easily. Dno is not leaving unless Golden leaves. One can only hope it improves. People say yards don't matter but yards equals one of two things or both. Either points or control of the clock. So u can have a small score to overcome but little time to do it.
 
Defense automatically gets faster this year on all three levels. Snaps taken up by Shayon, Jimmy and AJ will have to go to younger guys with more speed. Whatever we lose in "football intelligence" will be compensated for by the maturation of the class of 2011 & 2012 guys that move to the forefront. That is a good starting point.

We also are about to see a major infusion of talent on the defensive side of the ball with the class of 2014 and 2015.
 
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OBLIVION said:
Defense will get there in due time. This is the final season for so many slow, and untalented dudes.

AQM will be going ham next season on QB's.
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always thought next year would be the year but its here early and there over achieving too, im happy with 7-1 my only gripe is recruiting they gotta get the speed guys.
 
In 4 ACC games we are giving up 490 yards per game and 29 points.... Doesn't look much improvement to me
 
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Sandman211 said:
blackvern said:
In 4 ACC games we are giving up 490 yards per game and 29 points.... Doesn't look much improvement to me
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The difference/improvement is we are 7-1.
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That's a bunch of BS

WE just have had a shyttier schedule

We got blown out by FSU again and probably will back are way in to the ACC championship game again... MOrris has regressed
 
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One side:

Honestly, with our known depth and talent issues we have yet see our staffs efforts maximized. While AG and D were at Temple they pulled together a band of rejects to form a solid D in year 5. With the access to talent from SoFLA, we should absolutely have an elite defense. IMO, what we are seeing now is just the beginning. AG routinely says "we still have a long way to go" and Ill take his word for it.

Flip the coin:

Coaches always claim "players first then play". Well we certainly have not played to our strength as a unit. We generally are a fast twitch team with ridiculous speed that knows how to get after the quarterback. Teams would never dare running sideline to sideline on us. Do we have talent on defense? Sure, but we dont have abundance of it and there are many teams out there who recruit way worse then us but always play very solid D (VT being one), so whats are issue? Is the scheme to hard for kids to learn?
 
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