Bearish said:Tell us exactly, message board football genius, how Snow's "schemes are flawed."Timbear said:
These players are not at Baylor for years to play Snow's D once they've learned it, like a pro player would be. If the safety position is terrible again this year, and if our D can't at least statistically be ranked 90th, then that means the schemes are flawed. We'll see.
Points per Game per http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/team/_/stat/total/position/defense/sort/totalPointsPerGame
Temple:
2013 - 29.8 (83rd)
2014 - 17.5 (6th)
2015 - 19.2 (16th)
2016 - 17.2 (8th)
Baylor:
2017 - 35.9 (115th)
2018 - 31.2 (87th)
And really, 2017 is pretty much what Rhule calls "Year Zero." That was in no way a comparable season to 2013 Temple. I am willing to bet whatever you want that, by the above metric, Baylor improves substantially in 2019.
Points per game is a stat we should be really good at with our offensive time of possession. Also, the improvement between year 1 and last season is a freaking FG. That's a huge problem. If that was year 0 I want a refund. I still had to pay full price.
The safety issues might be talent, but their angles are designed to make tackles while running full speed at the RBs that are also running full speed but in the opposite direction. That's not a reliable strategy unless you can play really good seniors every year, which is hard to count on in college football. It's much easier to break down and make the tackle a little further downfield, which is what most players do around the country. It's significantly worse than our best case now but it also doesn't allow 40 yard runs and TDs due to missing the tackle.