re: "Pelini's defense can't handle modern offenses"

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Apparently they don’t run the spread in DIV II and no one in the Big 12 ran it when he was at Nebraska.

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Youngstown St is FCS, not D2. And he’s been a Head Coach since 2008. That IS NOT the same as facing modern spread teams as a DC and being directly responsible for game prep and practice. That unknown is a legitimate concern that we wouldn’t face hiring someone who is currently a DC.

This is not a knock on Bo’s coaching ability or his previous contributions here. He might re-adjust to the current P5 game quickly and smoothly, but you drum beaters do not know that for certain. No one can.

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I’ve seen people question whether or not he can adjust to the spread. Which is a reasonable question. I haven’t seen any flat out say that he can’t though. I don’t put it past the rant though.

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there was a time when the rant wanted to hire Cam Cameron as head coach to to replace Coach O.

Yea, that’s bullshite. No one wanted Cam for OC, much less head coach.

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design and run a bad arse aggressive defense, than I am all in.

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Delusional

IF Pelini is hired as DC, on the surface I hate the hire just like I hated the coach O HC hire.

BUT

Coach O has proven himself to be a NC coach and me wrong so if he says Pelini is the man:

Then I’m all in!!!

"Modern Offenses" - game is still won in the trenches with some running game.
If Burrow was getting heat and the OL allowed 5 sacks every game, that "modern" offense does not work. If CEH did not gain all those tough yards, that "modern" offense does not work.
Defense needs to bring the heat and control the line of scrimmage - that will stop a "modern offense".

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"Modern Offenses" - game is still won in the trenches with some running game. If Burrow was getting heat and the OL allowed 5 sacks every game, that "modern" offense does not work. If CEH did not gain all those tough yards, that "modern" offense does not work. Defense needs to bring the heat and control the line of scrimmage - that will stop a "modern offense".

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I agree 100%. It don't matter how pretty you dress it up. If your bigs whip my bigs and you close the windows in the secondary my day will be long and miserable. That's football 101.

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lol LSU won a NC his last year in Baton Rouge.

With the 17th ranked defense that gave up averages of 19 points per game, 106 rushing yards, and 180 passing yards per game.

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And he was directly responsible for LSU almost blowing their shot at that national championship.

8-5 (6-1 at the time) 2007 Kentucky stats (in regulation) in Lexington:

333 total yards
212 passing with 2 TDs (all woodson)
121 rushing with 1 TD

8-5 2007 Arkansas stats (in regulation) in tiger stadium:

428 total yards
100 passing with 1 TD (thrown by McFadden)
328 rushing yards with 3 TDs
McFadden: 180 rushing yards, 29 passing yards, 3 total TDs
Hillis 84 rushing yards, 1 TD
Jones 59 rushing yards

If not for being the year of absolute chaos, we play Hawaii in the sugar bowl because his defense shite the bed against barely bowl eligible teams.

That’s what concerns me. We started giving up lots of yardage & points to teams running spread concepts. I specifically remember Danielson saying during a broadcast that an unnamed OC told him they “think they see a flaw” in Bo’s defense that makes it vulnerable to the spread. I think this was when Ole Miss was giving us a game. No telling if he’s adapted since then, but it was certainly true at the time.

No, it's not a dumb comparison to make. I was pointing that it is ignorant to point to one or two games compared to an entire body of work to judge the effectiveness of a defense.

You just argued that Pelini's 2007 Kentucky and Arkansas games were equivalent to Aranda's 2018 A&M game.

We all believe Aranda is an elite DC. We know that at one time Pelini was an effective, possibly elite, DC. Is he still one? You can't answer that question focusing on two games in 2007.

I'm actually starting to think it is someone else.