Quote Originally Posted by RezDog7 View Post
Why are you talking about a coach that's never coaching here again. We fired him. He didn't leave on his own.
Because people have an overinflated view of Arnett as the DC. It's as simple as that. A lot of people got this "he's one of us" mindset stuck in their head and can't let it go.

He fielded the following defenses:

2020: Total Defense Ranking: 57th. Gave up 28.1 PPG

2021: Total Defense Ranking: 62nd. Gave up 25.9 PPG

2022: Total Defense Ranking: 40th. Gave up 23.1 PPG.


He had ONE defense ranked 40th. The rest were not top 50. That is an average DC.


You also have to remember that those defenses had: Martin Emerson, Emmanuel Forbes, Jett Johnson, Nathaniel Watson, Shawn Preston Jr, Jalen Green, Jackie Matthews, Jaden Crumedy, Errol Thompson, Tyrus Wheat, and I could go on but you get the picture. Those teams had guys that could start on other SEC teams. We had MAYBE two that could start for another SEC team this year and MULTIPLE who couldn't start for a G5 team.