Note – I said “Reese” when I meant “Reeves” in talking about our young TEs for 2017.
Just How Bad Have Our Defenses Been?
As I said above I think it is funny that fans who pilloried Paul Chryst for in-staff hiring of Matt House as the DC and then hated House with a passion… while we gave up only 26.3 ppg in ’15 and 27.2 ppg in ’14. In ’13 Chryst’s defense gave up 21… and that was without a real DC on board.
Let me go deeper – in 2014 we gave up 27.2 ppg against a strength of schedule rating of 3.49… compare that to last year’s giving up 35.2 ppg against a 3.51 SOS. So much for the “harder schedule” argument there.
| Year | Conf | W | L | SOS | PPG | Nat’l Rank | Coach | DC |
| 2016 | ACC | 8 | 5 | 3.51 | 35.2 | 106th | Narduzzi (8-5) | Conklin |
| 2015 | ACC | 8 | 5 | 3.78 | 26.1 | 54th | Narduzzi (8-5) | Conklin |
| 2014 | ACC | 6 | 7 | 0.97 | 26.3 | 59th | Chryst (6-7) | House |
| 2013 | ACC | 7 | 6 | 3.49 | 27.2 | 70th | Chryst (7-6) | House |
| 2102 | BE | 6 | 7 | 2.05 | 21.1 | 23rd | Chryst (6-7) | None |
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