Statistically, how bad is the defense? NC2A stats:

[73Card]

Just how bad is the defense? Through 7 games. NCAA stats:

Scoring Defense:
#70
Passing yards allowed:
#93
Red Zone defense:
#75
First down defense:
#64
Rushing defense:
#57
3rd down conversion defense:
#52
4th down conversion defense:
#106
Passes intercepted:
#129
Total defense:
#73
Offense?
One stat:
Red Zone Offense:
110th

 

[Realville502]

Terrible 😢

 

[TheRealVille]

We're definitely struggling but we have faced great QB's so far. Not counting the FCS team, the weakest QB we have faced is Riley Leonard at ND. The dude from Jax State is killing it.

And we still have Castellenous at BC and Kubinek at Clemson and Holston with Pitt. We don't see below average QB's until the last two games against Stanford and UK.

Compare that to Indiana for example. Trade schedules with them we're undefeated and they have three losses.

It's so ironic how IU got out of playing UofL during the season they happen to have their best team in decades.

Brohm better get used to this though and find a defense that can handle it.

 

[the artist FKA zipp]

How good/bad is our scoring offense (ppg)? Most interested in FBS/P5 games.

 

[AnotherCFD]

We are 1 bad call a game away from undefeated possibly.

 

[Thecycle27]

The debate for me is can Louisville find a staff and players to have a good defense. I honestly don’t know. What I do know is this currently staff isn’t getting it done against good offenses and teams that play with pace. The data is pretty clear they haven’t been good on defense.

A bad defense can artificially inflate offensive numbers. Brohm has good offenses. They haven’t executed in key spots. The offense had a chance to win the SMU game but the defense was not good. It was awful for that matter.

 

[the artist FKA zipp]

As @Rollem Cards said or implied in another thread, this is the choice we made hiring a good head coach from the offensive side of the ball. We experienced it with Petrino as well, and the opposite with Strong.

The defense will only be as good as the D coordinator under Jeff. For anyone with short memories, we also played the revolving door game with coordinators in the past and without much success…

 

[Thecycle27]

I agree it is a slippery slope. My issue isn’t that Miami controlled the line of scrimmage that can happen against talented lines like Miami’s. Can’t scheme your way out of that. My issue is the defense scheme isn’t good and execution of their scheme is disorganized leading to blown coverages and assignments in their 2nd year.

I am not sure you can continue with this defensive staff because they haven’t proven the ability to develop and execute a defensive plan against the better offenses.

 

[AnotherCFD]

Obviously y’all have forgotten Petrino’s last year and all of Satt’s when teams had their way with us, UK putting up 50 and 60 with ease.
Nobody is arguing that English needs his walking papers which hopefully he’ll be given at the end of the year.