Faulty Assumptions

[WildCard]

At what level of competition are those stats taken against?
How many yards per play were being given up?

I do know we played against some very poof offenses last season. The times that we played against decently ranked offenses we got blown out.
It was hardly ever our DB's that was the problem with our D. It's mainly been the front 7. It's either the coaches, players or the 3/4 sytem. It's one of them and everybody will point fingers at each one of them and blame them.... well might as well throw the offense in their as well. Since the inability of the D to get 3 in outs is the offenses fault.
Vandy stuffed us on 3 separate occasions in trying to score on their goal line. Do you think our D is capable of that? I know some of that was the offensive coordinator and the QB trying to get fancy but I doubt our D would have stopped those same plays.

Those numbers were against FBS opponents only.

FWIW, UK was #70 nationally in YPP Allowed in 2015 (5.6 YPP). They were #57 at 5.4 YPPA in 2014 and #104 (6.2 YPPA) the year before that. But I'm not sure "how" those numbers play into the discussion of "time on the field".

Without taking the effort to separate these numbers out by OOC vs. SEC games, I'll hazard the numbers are much worse for SEC games & a fair part of why we were only 5-7 the last two years. Net, I doubt too much is being made of it.

Well, against their 4 OOC opponents last year...

ULL ran 88 plays to UK's 60 plays. ULL had a TOP edge of 37:05 to 23:55
EKU ran 83 plays to UK's 78 plays. ULL had a TOP edge of 31:15 to 28:45
UNCC and UK each ran 73 plays. UK had a TOP edge of 32:12 to 27:48
UofL ran 66 plays to UK's 63. UK had a TOP edge of 31:24 to 28:36

So the 4 OOC opponents out snapped UK 310 to 274

Again, I'm not sure what to make of these TOP and Total Play numbers in the overall context of things. But they illustrate the apparent fact that the Cat's offensive performance in terms of snaps and TOP did not really contribute to "more time on the field for the defense".

Peace

 

[HedleyLamarr]

Man have you guys beat this one to death. The op makes a pretty good point. Stoops pedigree suggested that defense would set the tone, yet both sides have been pretty disappointing. It's time for some of that nasty d to start showing up. Otherwise, it's going to be a long long season.

 

[TBCat]

I totally agree with both of you guys. I threw these numbers out here because there are a number of fans that seemed to think the Cat's defense was on the field the whole game. On the average it was just a snap or 2 more than their opponents.

Now, field position is different subject altogether and is (IMO) a much more meaningful metric. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a stats site that logs this data so it requires considerable effort to dig it out of play by play summaries.

Peace

I'm going out on a limb and say number of offensive plays compared to other team won't look good for us.

 

[BigBlueTuckian]

Assumption: Stoops made the FSU defense good

Reality: the athletes at FSU made Stoops look like a good DC

Anyone paying attention had to know that FSU got those types of athletes for decades, and that Mickey Andrews in his prime coached a defense that was light years ahead of what Mark Stoops coached.