pastorgrant

Take it to the Pie forum.

Just curious, how does this compare with other teams in our conference?

Mike Grant is the recruiting coordinator

Glad to help a brother

It really is, and a tough one, too.

Yes he is, I was talking about Michael Igwe

That's a huge exaggeration that these guys don't deserve. You are overreacting because we just played the #18 offense in the country and the #1 rusher and #7 rushing team last week. We aren't good enough at Defense to stop a team like that when they are also getting picks in our red zone, onside kicks, and taking 4 downs every time. Coleman averages almost 8 yards a carry on the year and they've played some good defenses. A lot of teams won't be able to keep them from scoring. Here are how we rank on all the major defensive statistics compared to WKU: Total Defense UNT #46, WKU #120 Scoring Defense UNT #77, WKU #114 Third Down Conversion Defense UNT #37, WKU #107 First Downs Defense UNT #27, WKU #107 Besides the obvious that it is not fair to our team to say this D is one of the worst defenses in FBS given the statistics, I would like to make a couple of points here. First, one of these rankings for the UNT defense is way out of whack from the rest—scoring defense. Why do you suppose that is? It is because our offense gave points and short fields away. Second, even if you take away our FCS game and let every other team in FBS keep theirs for stats, we would still be #96, 18 places above and nearly 5 points per game better than WKU. And that's our worst major defensive stat by far because of our hapless offense in the first 3 games, as I mentioned before. Yet besides all of this, you think we will give up more points to UAB than anyone else has, even an FCS team. We all need to give this team some credit and have some good ol' football faith that our defense will do enough to give us a shot to win.

We do have a 300 pounder but the 2somethings have beat him out. We do need some more size but it isn't everything

That stinks, ACL tears are really hard to come back from, but not impossible (look at Pegram). Wish him the best.

UAB's offense looked great last week, scoring 42 points, but they did it against a WKU team that is one of the worst defenses in FBS, giving up an average of 38.4 points per game. They put up similar numbers on a similarly bad Troy defense and FCS Alabama A&M. A decent but overrated FIU defense held them to 20 (they average giving up 20.5 but they've had 2 games against FCS teams that padded their stats, 26.5 per game against FBS opponents). UAB's offense is NOT anywhere near as good as Indiana's. If they put up 52 on us, like some of you think, then this defense's wheels have come completely off. That would mean our D played worse against them than winless (#108 defense) Troy, FCS Alabama A&M, and the #120 ranked D, WKU. I don't think our defense is that bad. La. Tech put up 42 on us, but our offense contributed a lot to that (we gave them the ball at the 2 and the 13 leading to 14 points), and La. Tech put up 48 on LaLa and 55 on UTEP. That's a seriously good offense. Outside of their game against Mississippi State where they scored 34, they have put up pretty close to what their opposing defense is averaging. That Mississippi State game is a heck of a game. Got to give them props for that offensive performance. On Defense, UAB is giving up 28.4 points per game, 32 per game against FBS teams. So what does that boil down to? I really have no clue how this turns out, but I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say UNT 34 - UAB 31. If we get blown out at UAB, we are probably looking at an ugly season.

I'm pretty pleased with the way we defended passes into the flats. Not a ton of positives on defense in this game, but that's one.

Dajon came with a lot of questions, I think, and was more of a risk. We saw the negative side of that in the offseason which kept him on the bench early in the season. But now that Dajon has stepped up and taken the leadership role, we are seeing the upside. I'll take Dajon.

Your weights are out of date. Jerrian Roberts is 240, Andy Flusche is 261, Linc is 275, Austin Orr is 277, Dutton Watson is 283, Sid Moore is 257, Polk is 231, and Malik Dilonga is 252. We also have Sir Calvin at 296, Tauaalo at 288, and Tillman Johnson at 243 who get some playing time. http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/ntex-m-footbl-mtt.html

What are you talking about? IU did not put their backup D in that whole game. And last I checked, a game is 4 quarters. It doesn't help your cause to manipulate the facts.

LOL, Travis, what did you think when you saw B'Ham?

Wow, digging up some oooooooooold posts. Bored and browsing, or pachydermish memory?

He used to be one of the first guys down the field on kickoffs, and made a lot of tackles

Tillman and Tauaalo seem like good pickups. Miller and Wegman next year too

I still don't count the La. Tech as a bad game for the defense. It was a mediocre performance by a D that was put in bad situations all game long. Our defense isn't bad, it is mediocre. We are all still spoiled by last year's defense. At IU they underperformed against an offense with a Heisman candidate that has and will put up huge numbers this year. We are not good enough to get away with underperforming against a good offense. Every game left is winnable if we play our best. There is enough talent on both sides of the ball to get it done--not enough to coast.

Fair enough, +1

Good stuff as always, guys. Surprise surprise, I'm with Adam on this team. We don't know what we have yet, except that we can't yet hang with a P5 with a high powered offense. I don't think we can be as down on them as Greg is right now. To quote my favorite curmudgeon out of context, "We will learn a lot this Saturday"

I basically agree, except that we really need to find some more weapons at WR.

Bloomington is an awesome little town. I would love to go see a Gus Macker tourney there again.

True, but they were AQ too.

Not making excuses for a poor performance at all. We played poorly and got our butts handed to us. I've just been pondering the question of just how much gap there is between the P5 and G5. CUSA is almost perfect against G5 teams and have laid an egg against P5, even though we have had some weak teams on the schedule. Last year Rice had ten wins and won CUSA and then got embarrassed against a middle of the pack, unranked, 6 win SEC team. Boise got spanked by 6 win Oregon State which was on a 5 or 6 game losing streak in their bowl. Houston got killed by Vandy. Only G5 victory over a P5 in a bowl was Louisville which was only on the outside for a blink (Big East to ACC). Edit: CMJ pointed out that AAC actually had an auto bid last year so Louisville's win doesn't count. I forgot UCF over Baylor, but that was an AQ team too. There were ZERO non-AQ wins over AQ teams in last year's bowl games. The wins are few and far between. How much difference is there, really?