Hog Rushing Defense Among the Worst in College Football Dating Back Nine Years..

Terrible. That staff definitely has to be shaken up in the offseason.

It was around this time last year our run defense was ranked 11th.

The ultimate scenario would be for Strong to be fired from Texas and come here as DC to restart his career.

Even if he is here for 1-2 years before getting a shot elsewhere, it would be worth it for in roads with his recruiting connections alone.

We aren't dead last!

I'm not saying it's all due to scheme either

But our talent gap isn't as bad as what we've seen this year in the losses. I'm not an expert on the details of our schemes, but I just know that we returned 9 starters (losing Greenlaw obviously hurt a lot) and our defense has managed to still fall off from last year. The run defense is just embarrassing.

Well that's depressing.

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I'm not saying it's all due to scheme either

But our talent gap isn't as bad as what we've seen this year in the losses. I'm not an expert on the details of our schemes, but I just know that we returned 9 starters (losing Greenlaw obviously hurt a lot) and our defense has managed to still fall off from last year. The run defense is just embarrassing.

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What I've noticed is guys far to often are in the wrong spot, so that can be contributed to scheme or the wrong players being in the game, meaning they do not understand or know their assignments.

Ok so get these guys on the bench and put in guys who know what they are suppose to be doing, simple, right?

Even in games we've dominated TOP, the defense still tires out and gives up the big plays in the second half (A&M, LSU, TCU, etc) so this is likely a tell tale about the guys behind the starters, is it talent or knowing the system that is preventing them from providing depth during the game?

Kinda get the sense the current staff took the same approach as Petrino to fix the offense first then focus on the defense, the problem is they likely found the defense was much further behind what they expected like the offense was when they got here.

Looking at Gibson on the O-line who we beat UCA out for (IIRC) to walk-on, Go to south Arkansas, west Mississippi, and North Louisiana, recruit some athletes who will play on the defense side of the ball and frick the rankings. A walk on from Pine Bluff benched a 3 year starter at Texas, so simple statistics says there are more of these guys out there who can play positions like DT, LB, S, CB, etc...

If Brooks Ellis' strength is against the run (which is what all you Brooksy lovers fall back on) then why again is this one of the worst run defenses of the past 9 years?


I guess when you play 9 against 11 it's a little difficult to stop teams.

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What an absolutely pathetic stat... I'd fire Robb for that alone... It's a joke... Of course this is basically a result of having ZERO talent at LB for a decade... Outside of Spaight for 1 year... They haven't had a legit thumper in the middle since Nutt... Who coincidentally left 9 yrs ago.

Some of that stat is in Bobby, who didn't give a shite about defense... But Bert has been a total, complete, and utter joke.

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Some of y'all are completely misreading the reference of 9 years.

This isn't a compilation of program-level stats.

He's talking about one team in the context of all other teams from the last 9 seasons. In essence, he's saying that the 2016 Arkansas Razorbacks have the 1,110th ranked rush defense out of 1,113 teams measured over that time span.

All of the other Razorback defenses from 2008 to 2015 are ranked somewhere in there as well.