House’s defense looked competent last year?

Last year I think we benefited from corners that were good in zone combined with DL that could set the edge and maintain rush lanes.

BJ Ojulari also masked a lot of issues by putting consistent pressure on the QB.

I also think the fact that there wasn’t much film in House’s tendencies matters.

House hasn't been anywhere more than 3 years with most of his stops being 1-2 years. Thats a big red flag. While he did good at Kentucky it may because of Stoops as it seems Kentucky always has a good defense under him.

We had better, way more experienced, players too. Brooks and Foucha were at Arkansas for years as starters. Garner was like a 5th year player and was big (6'2 215). Converse was also another big corner (6'1 205) that had tons of starting experience and was a senior coming from another power 5 school. We also had Jay Ward back that who was a LSU vet. I heard Kelly talk a few weeks back that House had added in more of the defense this year, but these DBs are brand new. Now he's tried to simplify it, and that won't work either. In all honesty, he needs to go to a lot more man. I think we have corners athletic enough to stick to their guy. What we need to force in their heads is to also turn around and look for the damn ball. We need more playmakers on the ball.