re: The Illusion of Success: Gus Malzahn's Offensive Rankings

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The Defense is actually the primary driver of his offense.

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Now some will take offense... pardon the pun... at this but you can see an example of it with Army this year.

Their all everything DC built a top 15 defense (with Army recruits!) and that set up their ball control triple option offense. When he left Army dropped off the face of the planet.

They were hoping to reach a NY6 bowl game this year based on their top 25 finish last year and they now have to win out to have a shot at any bowl game.

Now then. Some of us are Gus defenders. And some of us Gus haters. But I respectfully, to both sides, suggest that Gus goes as his defense goes.

If Gus is our head coach and we put up a top 20 or top 15 defense than we will win 8-10 games. The worse our defense is the more games we will lose and we can lose a lot of games.

Does everyone trust that Gus will have a top 20 defense at Arkansas? Because if the answer is no then we are going to be fighting for bowl eligibility every year.

Yes, he will do better than Chad. My cat can do a better job than Chad though and she just spent the last ten minutes sniffing an empty plate of food in case she missed something.