re: Bama hasn't had a top 5 scoring defense since 2017

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quote:It’s usually a great offense or a great defense. Very rarely is it both Truth. I've always wondered about that. It has to have something to do with the way they practice. Maybe the offense whipping the defense all the time carries over to games, and good defensive teams humiliate the offense all week at practice carries over ? That's all I got

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JMO but I think it has more to do with personnel and recruiting philosophy. An offensive minded coach throws all his recruiting resources into getting offensive players. He doesn’t look at defensive players every day, isn’t great at evaluating them and doesn’t waste his time and energy on recruiting players he’s not that great at quantifying. The defensive side of the ball including recruiting doesn’t get equal resources or attention to that side of the ball and the defense suffers to a degree.