Defensive Coordinator Van Malone

[footballdad]

But would have been better off if he had!

Kicking himself now. Wife telling him....'why the h*ll did you wait so long'?

[Junior]

We should be thankful we had the lead at half Same players as second half, Malone just had no idea how to adjust to a different QB.

A&M faithful sure glad Sumlin didn't have the same attitude. New DC, same players, 180 degree turnaround. Hmmmmmm

At least we are consistent. Two DC's, same players, defense still sucks.

[SMU_Alumni11]

We need to understand this is year 1. Malone was given crap d-2/d-3 players. Let's see what happens when he's actually given some HCCM recruits before calling in the axe. We aren't the whorens.

[Dutch]

didn't have the talent for a 3-4 defense ( 3 years of worthless recruiting) THEN, SWITCH TO A 4-2-5 and expect the absolute worst defense in FBS to switch schemes with no additional personnel and then blame the coach? y'all are absolutely fracking [deleted].

our defense has 3 more interceptions this year than it did all last year.

you dumarses need to remember that your last savior went 1-11 in his first year too. then took us to 4 strait bowl games. chad is doing this with MUCH worse talent than June inherited. just STFU, stay at these games and cheer on the team. so tired of it.

[Stallion]

2014 Points: 133 (entire season)
2015 Points: 167 (5 games)

[NavyCrimson]

Agree

[Big Hoss]

We should be thankful we had the lead at half Same players as second half, Malone just had no idea how to adjust to a different QB.

A&M faithful sure glad Sumlin didn't have the same attitude. New DC, same players, 180 degree turnaround. Hmmmmmm

A&M at least had athletes that belonged at the D1 level, so they weren't working with a relatively bare cupboard like we are.

[Dutch]

Agree

with what?

[smupony94]

Yeah

[ebrooks11]

^^^^^^ this

[SMUstang07]

Well his former defenses always performed well. Oh wait...

This one was a head scratcher for me when announced but we should give him 2 years.

[PonyUp_62]

People keep saying he has nothing to work with, but the same could be said for Morris.. He had very little to work with and our offense has made great improvements. I don't think the main issue is the players, but the coach. I mean look at his credentials... His last coaching position was a cornerback coach for Tulsa...

[SMUer]

I'm sorry but the "doesn't have the players for 'his' defense" excuse is lame. Your offense is putting +40 on Top 10 teams, enough points that you COULD win those games...figure out ANY defense that slows the clip of their scoring points...that's your job!

If your baseball team is putting up 7 runs but you are losing because of bad fielding and poor throws, that's on the coach. If your soccer team is scoring +3 goals every game, but you are still losing by two, that's on the coach. I get it, you might need 3-4 years before the product on the field reflects "your style"...but put out something that is serviceable and supports your surprisingly productive offense (ignoring the ECU game). He talks about "little victories" which is okay if both sides of the ball stink equally; he needs to be thinking "stop the bleeding, any way possible".

[JasonB]

DE - Lawler - 2 star, not many offers
DT - Gentry - 2 star, not many offers
DT - Wood - 3 stars lower P5 and upper G5 offers
DE - McCleneghan - walkon
Will - Yenga - 3 star, lower P5 and upper G5 offers
MLB - Horton - 2 stars, no offers
Star - Shaq - 3 star, but only G5 offers
CB - H Richardson - 3 star on one service, but no offers
CB - Jesse Montgomery - 2 stars, no offers
S - D Richardson - 3 stars on one service, 1 P5, 1 G5 offer
S - J Wyatt - 3 stars on 2 services, 3 P5 offers

I know we like to rip on the offers and all of that, and we can all see the deficiencies out there. But FYI, this is about what we are going to see on every team in our conference. We had more 3 stars and better offers than the starters on ECU this week, especially on defense where they started like 4 walkons.

I know we are concerned about depth, but keep in mind that Wood going out is being replaced by a SC recruit. Horton going out is replaced by a more highly regarded player in Rhone. Injuries at corner mean that a Mizzou transfer gets to play.

Coming into the Fall and out of the Spring, the offense was awful and our defense was dominating. I don't expect a repeat of the UNT game by any means, but I don't think we are athletically as bad as we looked the last two games. For whatever reason the mobile QB aspect just kills us.

[leopold]

Gonna be hard to fire a guy after one year, especially considering how bad we were last year.

But we better get a lot better this year and early next...