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Oct 23, 2019
10:07:58am

Corn Pop All-American

It was by the late '80s that LaVell's defenses took a step back and were only

occasionally good after that.

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I still see lots of posts that want to dismiss the struggles of the defense with

Unibro

10/23/19 9:00am

Those numbers will automatically be adjusted with the back end of the schedule

Wingnut

10/23/19 9:01am

They weren’t against Toledo and usf

10/23/19 9:02am

Our D only allowed 21 against Toledo.

Dangerous

10/23/19 9:20am

Right. Not great against them

10/23/19 9:22am

It's true. Look at 2014. They had a few low scoring games to help an otherwise

10/23/19 9:21am

The crazy thing is when a team allows 29 ppg, they usually have several games where they allow 40+

Indy Coug

10/23/19 9:03am

It looks like its by design. That is what is maddening.

Unibro

10/23/19 9:04am

It's the offense job to win and the defenses job to not lose, at least it seems

cougaman

10/23/19 9:07am

BTW, 29.7 ppg would have been 81st in the nation last year. So when saying "historically bad" that's a bit hyperbolic

Indy Coug

10/23/19 9:04am

I think he means by BYU’s history

10/23/19 9:05am

Irrelevant. It's still the same point.

Indy Coug

10/23/19 9:06am

Not really

10/23/19 9:07am

I guess if you have no regard for apples and oranges...

Indy Coug

10/23/19 9:07am

What about points per possession?

cougaman

10/23/19 9:19am

He's talking about BYU specifically...

CoachSpeak

10/23/19 9:40am

RE: He's talking about BYU specifically...

Indy Coug

10/23/19 9:41am

Oh I saw that the first time...

CoachSpeak

10/23/19 9:47am

It's a bit hyperbolic because it is a mid-season metric compared to full season

Unibro

10/23/19 9:44am

The Bronco years got us all accustomed to great defenses & meh offenses

Odysseus

10/23/19 9:14am

One thing many younger guys may not realize...

CoachSpeak

10/23/19 9:43am

well, for most of the time. The 93 defense was horrible

BlueK

10/23/19 9:51am

I did say "70's and 80's"...

CoachSpeak

10/23/19 9:55am

I agree it was very good most of the time on Lavell's teams

BlueK

10/23/19 9:56am

Those defenses coincide with Fred Whittingham

mcnasty

10/23/19 10:10am

It was by the late '80s that LaVell's defenses took a step back and were only

Corn Pop

10/23/19 10:07am

true. but it also coincides with the rest of the conference getting better

BlueK

10/23/19 10:36am

Our offense also gave TD’s to Toledo and Washington. Might want to factor that.

Dangerous

10/23/19 9:19am

BYU has given up 28 points directly off kick/turnover returns, plus a TD on a turnover on an INT return to the 2

Indy Coug

10/23/19 9:22am

Historically bad?

Norge Coug

10/23/19 10:02am

I agree that one was worse. But the offense was also scoring way more points.

Unibro

10/23/19 11:39am

What is the points per game in regulation, omitting Overtime from the equation.

SlantRoute

10/23/19 10:45am

You'd have to delete the following

donnerstag

10/23/19 10:59am

Which puts you right at the magic 24 point number that Bronco calculated.

SlantRoute

10/23/19 12:33pm

Everyone agrees they aren't good enough on offense...

CoachSpeak

10/23/19 12:57pm

Our defense has allowed fewer points per drive than the opponent’s average in regulation in every game except Washington

mvtoro

10/23/19 11:37am

This is spot on. Our defense played well enough for us to beat Toledo and USF.

Cougar76

10/23/19 12:15pm

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