We Need to Go Back to Being a Defense-first Team Again

[South_Florida_Flip]

Our defense is good

Not sure what aspect of our D is "good" right now.

Let's see:

1) Non existent pass rush

2) Giving up 3rd and long too easy

3) DB's playing too soft

[The Great 8]

^ Everything you listed after 1 is a result of 1. It's a good thing we have a deep roster of LB's/DE's to coach up. Oh wait, there's a complete dearth of talent after Forte and Co leaves?

Edited September 16, 2012 by The Great 8

[SANJAY]

Part of our rope a dope strategy. Have the ther team tire themselves it with third down conversion after third down conversion in the first 3 quarters and allow us to mount the 4th quarter comeback.

Our defense is good

Not sure what aspect of our D is "good" right now.

Let's see:

1) Non existent pass rush

2) Giving up 3rd and long too easy

3) DB's playing too soft

[DELdaBull]

Some will say the defense spent so much time on the field because our offense sucks.

[El_Toro_86]

This defense lacks physicality. They're too soft.

I believe it has to do with the offensive system we run. The offense is some version of the spread....not sure even what to call it. So our defense never practices against a smash mouth NFL style offense, like Rutgers, Pitt, Ucon, Miami of years past, etc. In practice they never learn to be physical, instead we rely on our speed, and we don't have enough talent to overcome it. When we play teams like this we always struggle. CJL teams were more physical because they played with passion, albeit some times very undisclipined. This defense plays like its coach, soft and conservative.

Holtz needs to get some coaches in here from the NFL to learn how to be more physical.

[dabull80]

This defense lacks physicality. They're too soft.

I believe it has to do with the offensive system we run. The offense is some version of the spread....not sure even what to call it. So our defense never practices against a smash mouth NFL style offense, like Rutgers, Pitt, Ucon, Miami of years past, etc. In practice they never learn to be physical, instead we rely on our speed, and we don't have enough talent to overcome it. When we play teams like this we always struggle. CJL teams were more physical because they played with passion, albeit some times very undisclipined. This defense plays like its coach, soft and conservative.

Holtz needs to get some coaches in here from the NFL to learn how to be more physical.

Maybe he can get Coach Leavitt who is coaching the very physical SF 49s LBs

[Cow Pie]

We need to get back to strong D, and take it to the next level by adding depth...

The main difference between a SEC team and Big East team is the depth on one or both sides of the ball... SEC has it and Big East teams don't.

[Danm1983]

i agree our defense needs some help, but people acting like holtz will go anywhere anytime soon is nuts, they just extended him and i'm sure his buyout is beyond our means right now. and if they did buy him out, no money left over for any sort of good coordinator or coach. usf's bar of standard is set to 6-6, and not even on a yearly basis. if we go 7-5 one year and 4-8 the next, as long as we vary from 4-8 to 7-5, that's "good enough" for woolard and this university.

[TheBullies]

If (a) Selmon were still alive and ( we still had CJL, we would not be in the Big Least.

That is all.

[zarnozdabull]

If (a) Selmon were still alive and ( we still had CJL, we would not be in the Big Least.

That is all.

Leavitt has no one to blame but himself