[NU Sports] El Painful El Paso

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

Jeff B. writes...
Hard to disagree when you opponent spots you 22 points and you let them back into the game.

What about a 28 point lead that WV almost blew last night?  For those who argue that ball control would prevent the blowing of leads this is a good counter example.  WV barely passes, being almost entirely an option team, yet Georgia came back and almost won.

Our defense this year was porous, but they were also opportunistic and bend, but don't break.  They caused the 30 turnovers, which is the 2nd most in our history(33 in 1995).  Special teams were by far the number 1 reason we had tight games/losses this year -- bad placekicing, bad punting, bad kickoffs, and bad coverage.  Our porous defense and an offense that would go into funks for quarters at a time(see Q3 vs. UCLA, Q3/Q4 vs. Michigan) were also contributing factors.

Next season our defense has to improve to be competitive, but it does not have nearly as far to go as special teams.

Marc Linhardt
Tech '93


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