re: Bo Pelini's Nebraska defenses in the Big Ten & Youngstown defenses in the MVC

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I mean I'm not going to label Nebraska a "bad program", especially when Pelini arrived.

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That’s fair, maybe I shouldn’t have called it a “bad program”. It all depends on the time frame you look at. Bo won 71% of his games there while his predecessor won 55%.

Regardless, I don’t think his win % as a head coach matters in the context of a discussion about his defensive coaching ability. My larger point was that I’ve seen a lot of LSU fans on Tiger Rant (maybe some people around the SECr as well) saying “but it’s a different era now!” As if he’s never coached, with success, against up-tempo/spread offenses before.

Maybe some of the RPO concepts are newer developments. But there seems to be a perception that, since LSU and Alabama just started spreading things out, it must be “new”.. it’s not.