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Kane Wommack defensive stats. Is he good?

Posted on 1/16/24 at 2:56 am
Posted by koreandawg
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Posted on 1/16/24 at 2:56 am
Wommack has been a head coach for the past three years at S. Alabama and a DC for three different schools prior. Here are some stats on his defenses.

His first job as a DC was at Eastern Illinois in the FCS division.

2014- Defense ranked 2nd in the conference in scoring defense, third in total defense and third in yards per play

2015- Defense ranked 2nd in scoring defense, 2nd in total defense and 2nd in yards per play.


2nd job- South Alabama DC in the Sun Belt, 11 teams 2016, 12 teams 2017

2016- 7th in scoring defense, 6th in YPP and total yards

2017- 8th in scoring defense, 7th in YPP and 9th in total yards


3rd job- Indiana B1G- 14 teams

2019- 9th in scoring, YPP, and total yards

2020- Covid year, 4th in scoring, 9th in ypp, 5th in total yards


HC job -South Alabama, Sun Belt- 2021 10 teams 2022 14 teams, 2023 14 teams

2021- 5th scoring, total yards and YPP,

2022- 4th scoring, total yards and YPP

2023- 3rd scoring, 3rd in YPP and 2nd in total yards

As an actual DC, not a whole lot there that screams he was that great.

The S. Alabama defense was ranked 9th out of ten teams in YPP the year before he took over as head coach.

Pretty solid turn around the next three years.
Posted by AlterDWI
Durango, Colorado
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 1/16/24 at 3:01 am to
quote:

Is he good?


I dont know but you are definitely worried about it
Posted by Harry Rex Vonner
American southerner
Member since Nov 2013
35959 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 3:14 am to
I thought his numbers at Indiana were better than that, but I think they were a vast improvement over what Indiana had done previous.

Wommack's dad Dave Wommack is a former DC in the SEC (Ole Miss & Arkansas, along with Georgia Tech and Southern Miss), and was a guy who followed DC John Thompson often (Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Ole Miss, etc) - they were GA's together at some point for Lou Holtz at Arkansas, early 80's

Kane was probably drawing formations on a white board when he was 3


The former Fayetteville Purple Dog and Arkansas Razorback becomes DC at Alabama - The Cradle of Coaches strikes again
This post was edited on 1/16/24 at 3:40 am
Posted by Harry Rex Vonner
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Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 1/16/24 at 3:36 am to
DC at 1-AA Eastern Illinois, he was 27 years old, for Kim Dameron

DC at South Alabama, he was 29 years old - was that for Joey Jones?



Synopsis, his people - before he was born - came out of early 1980's Lou Holtz Arkansas, his dad Dave as a GA, John Thompson who he's known since birth as a GA, Kim Dameron, player at Arkansas then who hired him at Eastern Illinois, even vast connections through all that to the Ed Orgeron Mafia (Thompson/Northwestern State, but also Ed @ Arkansas under Hatfield, and those connections helping Bill Johnson to Arkansas after Bill (Thompson/NW St) and Ed (Thompson/NW St) both GA'ing at Miami under Jimmy Johnson - make this stuff up! )

daddy Dave under Jesse Branch, Arkansas/HC @ SW Missouri State...played and coached for Frank, and coached for Lou

Dameron in his 60's now, bringing back Fort Smith Southside High football as his swansong


Plenty of Ole Miss influence through the same people, his dad, John Thompson who he probably calls Uncle John

and thus also, aka, Houston Nutt peeps...later on

Kane got on early as a GA under Freeze (Tom Allen) at Ole Miss...yes, BeBe's name would have been mentioned in that interview, and some good laughs

when he was playing at Arkansas, his dad was the DB coach at South Carolina. That's a pretty good SEC pedigree



ETA: Kane's dad even coached for Southern Cal legend John Robinson at UNLV, when Kane was 5. THE John Robinson. And who did BeBe hire as a senior analyst at LSU? John Robinson.


Little Kane got a pedigree
This post was edited on 1/16/24 at 4:42 am
Posted by SmithsAuFan
San Diego, CA
Member since Jul 2013
1667 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 6:42 am to


Vs TJ Finley lead offense
Posted by bama1959
Huntsville, AL
Member since Nov 2008
4558 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 7:09 am to
2018 Indiana (before he took over): 81st in scoring defense, 97th in yards per play
2019 (first year as DC): 45th in scoring defense, 45th in yards/play
2020 (second year): 19th in scoring defense, 52nd in yards/play

2020 South Alabama (before he took over): 53rd in scoring defense, 104th in yards/play
2021 (first year): 61st in scoring defense, 50th in yards/play
2022 (second year): 26th in scoring defense, 37th in yards/play
2023 (third year): 27th in scoring defense, 22nd in yards/play
Posted by MacMan10
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2020
2126 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 8:57 am to
Holy Moly you are obsessed with some Alabama
Posted by jangalang
Member since Dec 2014
37069 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 8:57 am to
He makes the All-World Sweet Name Team
Posted by Pickle_Weasel
Member since Mar 2016
3819 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 8:59 am to
Is Kane planning on bringing the 4-2-5 to Alabama?
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