re: Sure You Wanna Speed It Up? Faster Offenses Lead To Weaker Defenses In The SEC

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But these numbers are hard to argue with on the whole. The more up-tempo an SEC team goes on offense, the less effective it will likely be on defense. Conversely, the slower a team plays on offense, the better its chances of playing well on defense.

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This is wrong and all the evidence I need is from watching Fran's last few years at A&M.

We played a slow paced, run based offense. The defensive numbers looked like they improved under Gary Darnell but in reality they could never get important stops or hold anyone on 3rd down.

If you have good talent and they are coached well the D will be good. The speed of your offense has little to do with it.

The problem with the formula MrSEC is using is they are assuming more yards and points given up = a worse defense. By pure numbers one could argue that but if you actually watch the games? Not so much.

If you want to see a better measure of a team's defensive capabilities you need to look at their 3rd down defense. Yards and points are ultimately meaningless when you can toss up 35+ points a game.