So, If Mullen were to make changes...
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in a certain way by let them know stuff needs to happen and how important it is. I think some of that yelling may have been some tough love.
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Torbush specifically. Nobody else is going anywhere. Because he used a 3 man front sometimes? Is it because we had some terrible upper class DBs that Croom left us? Coaches should be allowed to learn from mistakes too, and it looks like they did their best to correct things. I'm sure most coaches would have started out with Anderson and Smith at first, before reverting to the rookies. I mean, it isn't like Torbush was the only coach with a deer in headlights look a few times this year. I don't think the team or coaches were ready for Auburn, and it's forgivable, given the circumstances.
I don't keep up with stats, but from a purely outside perspective it seemed Harbison's D last year got gouged just as much as Torbush's.....and that was with more experience and talent. Fact of the matter is we really have a young bunch of guys, SEC wise, playing defense for us this year. They'll only get better.
I don't keep up with stats, but from a purely outside perspective it seemed Harbison's D last year got gouged just as much as Torbush's.....and that was with more experience and talent. Fact of the matter is we really have a young bunch of guys, SEC wise, playing defense for us this year. They'll only get better.
I'd say wait until after the AFCA Convention Jan 10-13. All the bowl games will be over, and new staffs tend to take shape after the coaches convention.
At this point, it looks like everyone will be back... But you never know.
At this point, it looks like everyone will be back... But you never know.
You gotta give Torbush another year or two and let him prove it was the talent and not his coaching, because somewhere in the middle of the season he said you can only teach inexperienced players so much alluding to the lack of talent.
I do think his scheme will work better with strength on the front line. Maybe we ran a lot of 3 front because of lack of depth there. But next year we still have McPhee, Cox, Ferguson and probably some others I'm not thinking of returning with experience. Then you have Kaleb Eulls and James Carmon coming in. Maybe we see alot more 4 front that's going to provide the pressure that lets a zone type defense like Torbush's work.
I just saw some obvious flaws in the coaching still, things he CAN teach the players to be better defenders even the inexperienced ones. One is none of our DBs ever tried to use their 5 yards to jam the WRs. That makes a huge difference in play development. Another is when our players are defending the long pass, they play the receiver only and not the ball, and we got burned many more times than we had to for that reason alone. Lastly, it is widely known that you play man to man against the spread, and we played against the spread for most of our schedule, yet we played zone all the time. There may be a good reason for that, inexperienced players may very well be the reason. But at some point the experience in coaching has to show up as well. We can't ask Mullen and Koenning to match these high powered offenses TD for TD. I mean Mullen is a good offensive coach, but the defense has to do its part at some point, Mullen is not a miracle worker. No more getting beat on the run like Auburn, beat on the pass by Arkansas and Houston, and being totally dominated by Bama...no more. We are in the SEC and need to start playing SEC defense.
I do think his scheme will work better with strength on the front line. Maybe we ran a lot of 3 front because of lack of depth there. But next year we still have McPhee, Cox, Ferguson and probably some others I'm not thinking of returning with experience. Then you have Kaleb Eulls and James Carmon coming in. Maybe we see alot more 4 front that's going to provide the pressure that lets a zone type defense like Torbush's work.
I just saw some obvious flaws in the coaching still, things he CAN teach the players to be better defenders even the inexperienced ones. One is none of our DBs ever tried to use their 5 yards to jam the WRs. That makes a huge difference in play development. Another is when our players are defending the long pass, they play the receiver only and not the ball, and we got burned many more times than we had to for that reason alone. Lastly, it is widely known that you play man to man against the spread, and we played against the spread for most of our schedule, yet we played zone all the time. There may be a good reason for that, inexperienced players may very well be the reason. But at some point the experience in coaching has to show up as well. We can't ask Mullen and Koenning to match these high powered offenses TD for TD. I mean Mullen is a good offensive coach, but the defense has to do its part at some point, Mullen is not a miracle worker. No more getting beat on the run like Auburn, beat on the pass by Arkansas and Houston, and being totally dominated by Bama...no more. We are in the SEC and need to start playing SEC defense.