(10-06-2017 04:07 PM)Kaplony Wrote: (10-06-2017 03:44 PM)Dasville Wrote: (10-06-2017 03:19 PM)Kaplony Wrote: (10-06-2017 02:14 PM)Dasville Wrote: (10-06-2017 01:31 PM)Kaplony Wrote: Maybe on paper. From what I've sen this year a lack of physical talent is IMO the biggest problem you have as anything, and I have seen all or part of the Purdue, UNC, Clemson and now NC State games. I don't care who your defensive coordinator is when your defensive backs are physically unable to keep up with a WR making a double move there is absolutely nothing he can do.
And while your first team DL may be decent Clemson showed, and NC State to a lesser extent, that there is a huge drop off once you get to the second string and if you are disciplined enough to keep running the ball eventually you'll wear the Card defense down and you can start gashing them.
I know the popular thing is to blame Sirmon but this season was set in motion several recruiting cycles ago. You simply did not have the talent there to replace the attrition you had from last year's defense.
So you are saying UofL's D line is comparable to the rest of the ACC minus Clemson, FSU and Miami but the secondary personnel are at the bottom of the ACC? Regardless of Defensive scheme?
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Not at all what I am saying
At this point from what I have seen I would put the UL DL behind GT, NC State, Wake and BC as well.
And yes, your secondary is near the bottom of the ACC IMO. Alexander being healthy might help some, but he's only one part of a unit that hasn't been very good at all.
How many years have we been P5? That is what I am referring to. We used to represent the BEST of the G5 and now we are the last into the P5.
It truly is a whole new world. UofL is literally 4 years old at being "big time" in modern SemiProfesional sports.
A historic rise that will be documented in the history of sports!
Don't give me that BS. You were never a G5 school. You've been a P5 school as long as everybody else in the ACC because the P5 label started with the playoffs. You've been recruiting at the BCS autobid/P5 level since 2005. Your only year in the AAC they were still a BCS autobid conference and any limitations your conference status would have had at that point would have been overridden by the knowledge that you were moving to the ACC the next season. That's a friggin' cop out.
IMO the problem you have at the moment is the problem that everybody has who relies on JUCOs as heavily as Louisville does.....eventually you develop holes in your roster. It's impossible to build depth when you accelerate your roster turnover with two year players.
Kap does make some good points. I don't think that it's as much as JUCO's as a shift in the focus in recruiting. Strong focused heavily on defense & his best players were on defense, Pitrino is the opposite. You could see the drop off in the secondary when Clemons, Wiggins & Alexander came off the field last season. That drop off still exists even though Williams & Washington improved some over the offseason.
Strong didn't recruit OL & we still haven't filled all of those holes yet. While the BE was an AQ conference, recruiting has improved under Petrino & the ACC, by rankings anyway. The Cards are just now putting back to back top 30 classes together. We should start seeing greater depth develop, offensively anyway.
The defense needs to recruit better. I don't know if Sirmon can do it. He needs to get more aggressive in his play calling as well. Since we do have a weak secondary we need to pressure the QB more to cover up this weakness, it's what Granthem did but to the extreme. Sirmon defense seems to let the opposing QB carve up our secondary. What Granthem did well was disguising his blitz, blitz seems to be a dirty word to Sirmon. Our front 4 aren't talented enough to get adequate pressure by themselves consistently. I don't think that he is fully utilizing our LB's.
I would like to see more qualified assistants on the staff as well instead of filling it with Pitrinos' friends & family. An experienced/better WR, DB, RB, DL & LB coach would help. Sirmon defense is to vanilla & laid back. Our DB's aren't looking back for the ball. I couldn't believe how bad tackling was against the Pack, the fundamentals & proper angles are fading. Petrino seems to be having a hard time bringing in top assistants & coordinators. We need a high quality DC who can also recruit top talent on defense.
*1 note on recruiting, the Cards do have 4 4* recruits committed for next season with 2 of them being DB's according to rivals. We have 10 3*. That's a good class for Louisville this early.
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