Yep. And I'll go even further and say in our league and most of college football in general, you have to have a good offense to win most games. There aren't many shut down defenses in college football. If you have one forcing a few punts a game and holding the other team to field goals a couple times a game, that should be good enough if your offense takes care of business.
We averaged 26 points a game this past year. That's down from 2014 where our offense was considered to be a disappointment by most standards and it was, by far, the worst we've put up since Hud has been here. Obviously that would mean that we would, on average, have to hold our opponents to under roughly 25 points per game just to have a net positive in point differential and we have not accomplished that type of defensive output for an entire season as long as I can remember. The defense was far from great but it wasn't the reason we got trounced by La Tech, App State and Troy and Akron
They were on the field because they couldn't hold on third and any yard.
True. But last year the defense was back on the field in under a minute because our offensive coaching sucked (recruiting, assessing, teaching, conditioning, discipline, adjusting, thinking, applying common sense, etc).
But there's always the "next year" after the "down year". There's always the "back to great year" after the "anamoly year"... or so they tell me.
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