Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Who was in charge of recruiting the defensive side of the ball and why didn't it get better when Leach, Dudek, and Emerick all left? Only one common denominator there. You're basically criticizing Leach for not micromanaging the team.

Of course Leach's team won 9 games once in three years. He was basically following the same career trends he always had and would have continued to win 8-9 games had he lived.

TOP is the most worthless stat in the game. The job of the offense is to score. The job of the defense is to stop the other team from scoring. Period. I can think of several times in 2022 when Arnett's defense got absolutely gutted after the offense scored. If they needed the offense to sustain drives so they could rest they were a bunch of pussies like their DC turned out to be.
If you think the HC shouldn't be involved in recruiting the whole team and who is ultimately responsible, then if our decision makers think that way, therein lies one big issue.

The career trends thing don't apply to SEC. Leach said so himself. He wanted to see if he could do it in best conf in America. Doing that in powderpuff football ain't hard. Gald he got to go out on a winning note, but that trend wasn't going to happen in SEC. It was going to be bad regardless. He done said he didn't care if Johnson was there or not. You think talent is going to stay in NIL era with that approach?

TOP is fine if you score; problem is we were not scoring. We scored most our points in garbage time. Our D is all that kept us in most games. The only big points we put up was against the Samfords of the world.