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For 2 years, and 1 of those years (his first) they were awful. The second year when their defense was good was 2020 and the B1G was a disaster that year due to COVID protocols.

they were 81st scoring d the year before he was the DC, improved to 45th year 1 and 19th year 2.

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Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq

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Posted on 1/16/24 at 12:06 pm to narddogg81

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they were 81st scoring d the year before he was the DC, improved to 45th year 1 and 19th year 2.

Again, I don't think we can take much from the year 2 ranking since the B1G had crazy COVID protocols and Indiana only played 8 games.

I also don't think rankings are a good way to measure things because offenses and defenses vary so much from year to year (as shown below).

With that all that said, there has been improvement in his Scoring Defense stats during his time at Indiana (as you mentioned) and at South Alabama (as shown below):

2020 (before Wommack): 27.3 points per game (53rd)
2021: 26.4 points per game (66th)
2022: 21.3 points per game (26th)
2023: 21.0 point per game (27th)

If his defenses can hold SEC offenses to 21 or fewer points, I think with DeBoer's offense, Alabama can win a lot of games. I really just want to see Wommack do it against SEC teams. Remember, Golding's UTSA's defense gave up 17 points a game (8th) in 2017 (his last year at UTSA). And in 2017, Bama gave up 11.9 points per game (1st). How times have changed