Yes it could. Keep in mind Shafer had a a depleted team after Doug got rid of 20 kids. He turned 2 star kids like Chandler and Thomas into studs. Former RB's in Houge and Smith into great LB's. I can only imagine how good Shafer's scheme would be with 4 or 5 star players.
3rd down stops early on were not luck. They were pretty effecient due to some guys making plays. We were a solid unit that showed huge progress from the year before. It got bad during the 2nd half of Wake, and the Louisville and BC games. It was some of the worse defense Ive seen. Im sure a lot of the stats came from those 3 games.
Dino has said that our def may be better than our offense this year...if you go by Hale's ratings, you'd say it's going to be a long year. I think Dino knows what he has. Even if you go with those ranks, I think the gap has become so small, that it'll be good enough for a bowl.
Yup he should be upset but its deserving. Hopefully this motivates them.
Of course it's a low blow...he's been posting them for years.That's a low blow and I am sure based solely on ED
Yup, all the games are on you tube. The difference in the defense from game 1 to 12 is astounding. It doesnt take much to see the difference. We havent been a good defensive team so when we actually do get stops, its pretty obvious and we were getting stops earlier in the season. We went from giving up 24 and 27 points to giving up 64, 56 and 42. I am as critical on our defense as any but I give credit when its due. We were actually looking like a decent defense at one point. Then it got ugly.
He was a good defensive coach. This good quality was washed out by his pitiful recruiting.
It's not worth it anymore. Shafer's hiring set us back. I personally think he gets too much credit for his defense. He was an average P5 DC no more no less in my eyes. He has himself to blame for Dungey's injury against Louisville no sane coach in their right mind leaves their starting QB in a game they are down 4 TDs in the 4th Q a week after pulling the same QB in the same situation at Florida State.
He said it was the T2, and was lit up for it.
He explains on rankings. Here
Looking at the composite we have a talent problem that Dino is cleaning up. He wasn't left depth. Last year's Seniors Ish/Irv/Zaire/Bennett were really huge.
It is good our QB/OL are trending up. However our biggest problem has been talent on defense. Dino hopefully has these underclassmen ready to contribute at the P5 level this year or at worst by next year.
Dungey is going to have to carry us to 6 wins.
No excuse for us not developing defensive talent to be competitve. If BC can do it we can soon. Dino has had to overhaul the defensive talent.
