re: Article on Brent Venables

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You look at more sophisticated stats that attempt to measure the quality of a defense by considering quality of opponent faced, filtering out garbage drives, etc, and Venables comes out looking great nearly every time. For example, the 2010 season at OU, his Defensive Fremeau Efficiency Index is 4th highest in the nation. His first year at Clemson is the only year his DFEI is outside the top 20.

Considering all the factors, Venables is probably my first choice. He's a very good to great Xs and Os guy, and an even better recruiter. And the latter might mean more than we expect if we were to lose David Beatty as some rumors suggest might be a possibility.