99, 99, 98, 97

[George S. Patton]

Those would be the scoring drives this defense has allowed this year to North Texas, Arkansas St., So. Miss. and Tulsa.

Pretty impressive. It's so downright bad, it's funny.

[DiamondM75]

Offense lost at Tulsa, not the defense. The defense handed the ball to the offense 5 times and they only scored 3 points.

Yes, the D has been bad this year, but they played one of their best games against a team this is ranked #3 in offense. The Tulsa defense is terrible and we couldn't consistantly move and score against them.

This loss goes to the offense, and the coaching staff.

[Treadway21]

The loss goes to the team. It was a team failure. You can throw out all the good things from the game when the offense fails to score from the one, and the defense can't hold on a 99 yard drive. And espcially given how little time was left. The coaching staff's failure goes without saying.

Remember there were some 90 + yard drives last year. Incuding another 99 yard drive. Bennett's job was to improve over last year.

[Ponymon]

The loss goes to the team. It was a team failure. You can throw out all the good things from the game when the offense fails to score from the one, and the defense can't hold on a 99 yard drive. And espcially given how little time was left. The coaching staff's failure goes without saying.

Remember there were some 90 + yard drives last year. Incuding another 99 yard drive. Bennett's job was to improve over last year.

Its ALWAYS a team failure. However, given the way the defense played for most of the game with a preponderance of redshirt freshman and freshman and the offense's inability to put the ball in the endzone most of the game, the weight of the evidence falls on the offense. Remember they were supposed to be the strength of the team this year. In my opinion, they have fallen WAY short of expectations.

[DiamondM75]

The loss goes to the team. It was a team failure. You can throw out all the good things from the game when the offense fails to score from the one, and the defense can't hold on a 99 yard drive. And espcially given how little time was left. The coaching staff's failure goes without saying.

Remember there were some 90 + yard drives last year. Incuding another 99 yard drive. Bennett's job was to improve over last year.

I sure am glad you are not the coach. The loss goes to the offense.

Any good coach/manager/etc. creates competition with in the organization. This makes people perform better. If you always blame the coachs or "the team", then no competition is created. If the defense fails then you better acknowledge the defense failure. If the offense fails, then you better acknowledge the offense failure. If the coaches fail, then admit your failure.

It is this striving to be better than the other guy, even if you are on the same team, that creates the better end result.

[Treadway21]

You have no clue. Pitting offense and defense against each is not what a coach should be doing. So the defense gets off scot free in the loss where they failed to execute in the last two minutes. The offense failed also. When both the offense and defense fail all in the span of 2 minutes, that constitutes a team loss. Do you think the defense shouldn't feel bad about the loss? They can just walk away and say it is the offenses fault when they had the chance to save the offense and coaches from themselves. I bet they feel just as responsible as anyone else. When they put the L on the chedule it goes to the team.

I imagine the one reason that PB went for it is felt that the defense could stop Tulsa from going 99 yards in two minutes if the offense didn't make it (or 75 for a feild goal to tie). PB made the decision to put his job on the line with the defense and guess what, he made a bad decision.

I am not trying to put this all on the defense. But they hard a part in it.

[PonySnob]

Any way that you look at it, this has been one of the worst (if not the worst) defense post DP by SMU. Yesterday was a TEAM loss.

[Charleston Pony]

Those would be the scoring drives this defense has allowed this year to North Texas, Arkansas St., So. Miss. and Tulsa.

Pretty impressive. It's so downright bad, it's funny.

This year's defense has been all about watching our opponents set records and have career days. 600 yds passing. 300 yds recieving. 300 yds rushing. what was it yesterday...the FR from Dallas caught how many balls for how many yds? maybe not records against us, but probably areer stats for that kid.