I would like to read your response to them. IMO, these show that Bronco is an above average DC.

Since Bronco took the defense back from Hill ...
our defense has been ranked ...

2012 - 3rd
2011 - 13th
2010 - 24th (despite Hill starting the season with us rated over 100)

Prior Hill taking over our defense was ranked ...

2007 - 18th
Prior to 2007 haven't been able to find rankings.

Here are BYU's defensive stats for 2012 and notable games in 2010-11. These show BYU's defensive performance against each opponent and that opponent's offensive average for the year. The only bad game was when the defense gave up the 2nd half of the utah game in 2011.

2012 (left off FCS team)

Opponent / Yds against BYU / Opp Ave per game

WSU / 224 / -135
utah / 245 / -79
BSU / 261 / -130
Haw / 149 / -148
Ut St / 243 / -226
OSU / 450 / +19
ND / 389 / -23
GT / 157 / -284
ID / 273 / -42
SJSU / 364 / -82
NMST / 187 / -148
SDSU / 263 / -134

2011 (notable games)

TX / 289 / -104
utah / 481 / +170
UCF / 399 / -8
Ut St / 406 / -51
OSU / 365 / -9
TCU / 283 / -157
Tulsa / 272 / -168

2010 (notable games after Bronco fired Hill)

SDSU / 273 / -184
TCU / 381 / -96
utah / 296 / -93
UTEP / 233 / -127