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I did acknowledge the defense did well against Liberty. Regarding UCF, they allowed 384 rushing yards and 6.7 yards per carry. UCF averaged 247 rushing yards per game and 5.7 per carry. That is concerning. I'll give you Texas State. 32 given by the defense isn't bad considering TxSt was pretty good on offense this year. Far from a shutdown defense, though. Worth noting in all of this is Sam Houston is 11th in time of possession. They ran the ball 525 times (30th ranked run offense) and passed 322 times (123rd ranked pass offense). We ran 359 times and passed 521 times. He won't have that benefit unless Morris changes his offensive philosophy.

I'm 31, not a boomer. You just can't think for yourself.

Reading is hard for you. I was referring to his failed defense at ACU. I put up the offensive rankings of Sam Houston's opponents earlier in the thread. That ranking has nothing to do with Cassity and everything to do with playing the 124th ranked strength of schedule with 7 opponents ranked 107th or worst in offensive sp+. Two of the 3 teams he faced in the top 50 rolled over Sam Houston's defense with it being Texas State who put up 39 points and UCF who put up 45. You see, when I read rankings, I use some investigative and critical thinking skills to try and determine the reason. I don’t just take face level information and run with it.

His defense got worst from 2022 to 2023. Total defense alone went from 51 to 117. Name someone who's better? I put 3 teams' who's DCs I'd have gone after and you're crying because of Texas ties.

I saw that in the description of sp+, thanks. Doesn’t change SHSU played mostly teams ranked in the bottom 30 on offense. Was SHSU's defense good or did they play atrocious offense? Other than Liberty, what decent offense did they do well against? The answer is nobody.

Define success. Can you use it in a sentence? 2023 rankings at ACU: 117 in total defense, 81 in scoring defense, 87 in 3rd down defense, 85 in red zone defense, 115 in first downs given up, 88 in tackles for loss, 102 in total sacks, 53 in total turnovers (yay top 60). This was out of 122 schools. Is that success? He had one good year against horrible CUSA competition and y'all are impressed. If this is how our leadership thinks, no wonder we're constantly bad. We could have hired anybody and some of you would have applauded it. Holy crap. I brought stats. Your turn. Also to add, literally who cares about Texas ties in 2024 for defense. Our last bowl win was under a defensive coach with zero Texas ties and that defense was damn good.

SHSU strength of schedule: 124 Opponent offensive SP+ ranks: 113 Rice, 48 UCF (allowed 45 points), 106 Hawaii, 124 New Mexico State, 26 Texas State (allowed 39 points), 132 UTEP, 88 WKU, 107 FIU, 125 La Tech, 134 Kennesaw State, 60 Jax State, 46 Liberty. For comparison, we played 21 Memphis, 25 Tulane, 29 Texas Tech, 42 Army, 44 S Alabama, 51 UTSA.

I would take 30-60 as a success overall but what I really don't want is a defense that gets absolutely steamrolled in any one game. Show me you can adjust during games to counter opponent's adjustments. I do put some of Caponi's failure on Eric Morris with his poor game management so I guess we'll see if he can do some soul searching this offseason.

One stop. 51st and 117th at ACU is not success. Stop lying to yourself. I'm bitching because this is an atrocious hire. Allowed 39 to Texas State and 45 to a bad UCF team which included being ran over for almost 400 yards and 6 TDs. I would have wanted one of the Co-DCs (or both) from Northern Illinois, Bowling Green, or Miami (OH). We could money whip any and all of their DCs. You want to see success that doesn't involve getting steamrolled for 40 like Cassity's defense, look at those teams. NIU: 7th in total defense, highest G5 ranking. Held now #5 Notre Dame to 14 and NC State to 24. Most points allowed was 25 to Ball State. They have co-DCs we could have doubled in pay for less than Caponi. Bowling Green (I brought them up in a thread a couple days ago, sorry you don't read other posts): 29th in total defense, have co-DCs one of which spent almost a decade as DC in DFW high schools (including Haltom City when Lance Dunbar was there). Held Texas A&M to 26 and now #3 Penn State to 34, both on the road. Miami (OH): 14th in total defense. Held Northwestern to 13, Cincinnati to 27, and Notre Dame to 28. Most don't have Texas ties. I don't think that matters as much in today's day. I'd like to know when's the last time Texas ties helped us in football anyways. It certainly doesn't stop the bigger Texas programs. What all those schools do have is low ressources and yet a demonstrated ability to hold their P4 opponents to respectable scoring outputs. Regarding Cassity, I put zero stock in his top 20 defense. That is 100% a reflection of the CUSA competition. Allowing 39 to Texas State and 45 to a 4-8 UCF team is unacceptable and shows what he's actually capable of. I was ridiculed for calling out our game management and highly inconsistent offense early this year only to be proven right. I'll take the hit here again but I don't want to read BS about what went wrong if and when he fails.

Looks like they took the top west coast brands available including Gonzaga. The new PAC based on current NET rankings: #3 Gonzaga #13 Utah State (they've gone up 1) #37 Boise State #49 Oregon State #62 San Diego State #69 Washington State #205 Colorado State #248 Fresno State This will be a multi-bid conference.

I do believe McNeese is a home/home. I'd love a conference "challenge" with the new PAC. I think they will be our greatest competitor in revenue sports moving forward as we'll both by vying for that next spot in perceived conference prestige. W need to beat them in basketball and football to keep enhancing our conference brand.

Nobody is putting Utah State 25 spots in front of UConn, it's not a poll ranking. It's just computer metrics, really not that deep. That said, there's a great website that shows you how every poll voter voted. It includes graphs and even highlights extreme picks when they put a team 5 or more spots away from their poll ranking. Several journalists voted USU in the top 25 along with UConn and Dayton both unranked. Who knows what their actual gap would be if those journalists ranked to 40. Below is the website. Click on a team to see that team's week-by-week ranking via graph, then scroll down to see where each journalist ranked that team. You can click on that journalist's name to see how they voted. I have fun on the website and hope you enjoy it as well! https://collegepolltracker.com/basketball/2024/week-5

Maybe he should wear a shirt that says "I did it."

Fair. Hope it works or we'll be having this conversation again next year but for head coach.

Does 1 year as an FBS DC count?