re: Fire Pete Golding

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This begs the question of whether he's just hamstrung by having to run Saban's defense and concepts?

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That's a whole 'nother discussion in and of itself. I'm of the opinion that the defensive scheme needs to be overhauled. Not scrapped, but revised significantly. We KNOW our two biggest areas of weakness are mobile QBs and a hurry-up style of play which limits substitutions -- two areas that play havoc with a complex defensive approach that requires all 11 players to handle their assignments perfectly to execute properly.

I think Pruitt was seen as so successful because he was able to simplify the defense as needed to allow the players to be more aggressive. Honestly, I think that's the only real difference now between Georgia and us -- Schumann (and Lanning before him) is apparently good at that, and as a result Georgia's players rarely look confused or are out of position.

If our players understand what to do, and do it correctly, we're as close to perfect on defense as you can be in this day and age. The problem is, I don't believe all 11 players regularly know what to do on any given play, and even when they do, they don't do it correctly. It doesn't happen on EVERY play; we're still very good. Just not as good as we all know we CAN be, especially with a veteran-laden squad.