It has nothing to do with attacking Tuiaki, rather its pointing out that we have had mediocre results since he's been in charge of the D. He has had his chance and for whatever reason it hasn't worked. Should we not be able to be consistently in the 40s at a minimum for both offense and defense? I think that is reasonable, even if we don't get the highest recruits. We've shown we can over perform and I think coaching is a crucial reason for current results.
Per Football outsiders BYU's Defensive rankings have been:
2016 - 31
2017 - 72
2018 - 63
2019 - 66
2020 - 9*
2021 - 83
2022 - indications are we should expect similar results