Something not talked about enough imo

Gladstone · October 2020

Kawasaki is back to DC. He's probably the best DC in CFB, certainly better than Lake.

Not worried about the D at all.

RaceBannon · October 2020

Gladstone said:
Kawasaki is back to DC. He's probably the best DC in CFB, certainly better than Lake.

Not worried about the D at all.

I recall getting ripped for saying we regressed when Kawasaki stepped back for Jimmy

Good news is Jimmy can still be a great head coach and Coach K can help him get there with a stellar defense

TheRoarOfTheCrowd · October 2020

i’m with you all the way Gladstone, couldn’t agree more

guntlove · October 2020

Love Kawasaki. D should be really skrong the next two seasons.... but it will go to shit soon if they don't fire Will Harris and Bob Gregory.

dnc · October 2020

AGREE

GrundleStiltzkin · October 2020

In defense (lulz) of Jimmy, the defense improved over the course of last season.

chuck · October 2020

RaceBannon said:

Gladstone said:
Kawasaki is back to DC. He's probably the best DC in CFB, certainly better than Lake.

Not worried about the D at all.
I recall getting ripped for saying we regressed when Kawasaki stepped back for Jimmy

Good news is Jimmy can still be a great head coach and Coach K can help him get there with a stellar defense

I dont remember but I might have partly disagreed. My thinking was that Kwat wasn't going anywhere, may still have full or at least partial input on how the D was called, and that Lake had been running part of the defense for long enough that he should be on about the same page as Kwat even if his calls were fully autonomous.

As it turned out I was close, but not quite right. Lake didn't call the D as well as kawasaki and it was noticeable. It wasn't a huge gap and it's hard to account for all the variables (like personnel). I think we saw enough to know Lake was a small downgrade as the DC though. Kwat being back in his position makes me feel better.

RaceBannon · October 2020

We? have had a bad third down defense for a couple years. Kind of started against Penn State. That has been most noticeable to me. We couldn't get off the field against our Norte opponents except WSU and OSU of course

haie · October 2020

He had some major problems in 2014, possibly in parts of 15 as well.

dnc · October 2020

GrundleStiltzkin said:
In defense (lulz) of Jimmy, the defense improved over the course of last season.

Agree for most part. However, the defense improved over the course of the season, and was not the primary dark cloud of this shitstorm.

Sources · October 2020

dnc said:
AGREE

Sounds like you're just hear to beat your chest

dnc · October 2020

Sources said:

dnc said:
AGREE
Sounds like you're just hear to beat your chest

Welcome to 2013!

chuck · October 2020

RaceBannon said:
We? have had a bad third down defense for a couple years. Kind of started against Penn State. That has been most noticeable to me. We couldn't get off the field against our Norte opponents except WSU and OSU of course

I've gotten so used to UW being bad on third down I don't even notice anymore. I know it hasn't been 100% consistent all years, but I learned to assume third down was my least favorite defensive down way back in the 90s.