How in the world is Clemson's defense (and all NCAA teams really) so bad?

Yes. D backs are 5'11" and wide receivers are 6'3" and Tight Ends are 6'4".

rojo wrote:

If i was a college AD, I'd tell my coach, "Put at least half your best players on defense."

No you wouldn't.

77 total with 10:42 to go in THE Ohio State U vs. Clemson, so yeah.

Offense sells. It is what the fans want to see. It’s all about the Benjamins. $$$

You realize that most of these guys enter college with defined positions, right? This isn’t 7 year old soccer, the coach can’t say “hey Trevor, Travis, we’re getting killed on D, why don’t you guys get in and rush the passer”

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Offense sells. It is what the fans want to see. It’s all about the Benjamins. $$$

Alabama has one good offensive player. He catches passes from a fat QB with a broken leg. They are still a popular team.

It is hard to play effective defense. Less hard to play effective offense.

I've got a hunch that people who coach and play football know how to allocate their talent. Just a hunch

Dr Yuengling wrote:

You realize that most of these guys enter college with defined positions, right? This isn’t 7 year old soccer, the coach can’t say “hey Trevor, Travis, we’re getting killed on D, why don’t you guys get in and rush the passer”

You're responding to Rojo. He doesn't realize anything.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Offense sells. It is what the fans want to see. It’s all about the Benjamins. $$$

Alabama has one good offensive player. He catches passes from a fat QB with a broken leg. They are still a popular team.

Your complete lack of football acumen knows no boundaries.

malmo wrote:

I've got a hunch that people who coach and play football know how to allocate their talent. Just a hunch

Maybe but I see NFL coaches make really bad decisions all the time, particularly about going for it.

I think many of the guys probably don't want to play defense. They don't like hitting people.

So I imagine they can't get them to do it even if they realized it was a simple as I said.

rojo wrote:

malmo wrote:

I've got a hunch that people who coach and play football know how to allocate their talent. Just a hunch

Maybe but I see NFL coaches make really bad decisions all the time, particularly about going for it.

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Greg sees Letsrun making bad decisions all the time by not featuring him in a LRC podcast. That doesn't make his analysis correct.

NFL coaches, who have years of experience, and have an army of experts who use data and live analysis of on the field matchups to assist. Quarterbacks have years of experience seeing with 180° vision and making decisions in an extremely fast game -- in 2 seconds. You might think they're making bad decisions, but like Clint Eastwood said, "a man's got to know his limitations."

Offensive players are the stars. They get all the attention and glory. Everyone remembers who scored the touchdown but no one remembers the guy that made a tackle to stop one.

a simple truth wrote:

Offensive players are the stars. They get all the attention and glory. Everyone remembers who scored the touchdown but no one remembers the guy that made a tackle to stop one.

nobody that is, except those pesky NFL scouts and executives who then go out and pay those 'boring' defense guys millions and millions of dollars. Can't see why any young man would aspire to that

I don't agree. These are college guys who are highly skilled at what they do, not kids learning a game. The transfer portal would be very busy.

Uh, offenses have evolved so much in the last 20 years. They’re incredibly hard to defend now.

The offensive side of the ball is like 10 years in front of the defense. Idk of the defensive strategies will ever catch up this time without significant rule changes. That’ll never happen because offense sells.

This is a dumb post.

To state the obvious, offenses get to play offense. This means they dictate play such that it features their most talented player and exploit the defense's weakest players assuming the offensive coordinator is competent. As such they can thrive on a few key players as long as the rest of the offensive squad is reasonably competent.

Defense on the other hand is only as strong as their weakest match-ups and it is much harder to hide vulnerabilities.

At the NFL their is a general higher level of talent, but more importantly, the disparity in talent is lower than in the college game.

Ok so we get the dad getting soccer advice from someone solely because he’s English. Yep I just any random Indian for deep dives into cricket.

You also say the ADs should just tell the coach to put the best athletes on defense and boom instant elite defense!

New year. Same RoJoke. If nothing else during a pandemic at least we have Robert to tool it up on a consistent basis.

Monkeys typing wrote:

To state the obvious, offenses get to play offense. This means they dictate play such that it features their most talented player and exploit the defense's weakest players assuming the offensive coordinator is competent. As such they can thrive on a few key players as long as the rest of the offensive squad is reasonably competent.

Defense on the other hand is only as strong as their weakest match-ups and it is much harder to hide vulnerabilities.

At the NFL their is a general higher level of talent, but more importantly, the disparity in talent is lower than in the college game.

Good analysis