Why choose defense?

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It appears we are dead set on hiring a defensive coach and I have done some research on why I believe we are.

A vast majority of power coaches have offensive backgrounds. About 2:1

Nearly all "sexy" hires made are offensive coaches.


Now let's look at the breakdown for each of the 5 conferences:

PAC12: 3 defensive head coaches
ACC: 1 defensive head coach
Big10: 6 defensive head coaches
Big12: 1 defensive head coach

So that is Right at 75% of the coaches in those 4 leagues.

But now let's look at the SEC. Good or bad Saban is shaping the future of this league. He's making the coaching turnover have an alarming rate.

Right now the SEC has 3 out 13 head coaches that are defensive minded.

The last Sexy hires were just fired in KS and they were a very popular offensive guy when hired.

Jones and JM are two more failed offensive coaches.

Smart has proven to be a HR now but wasn't at the time of his hire.

None is the rest of these were sexy hires.

Stoops has done very well.


Odom did a great job this year.

Muschamp had a great year.

Coach O even had a decent year.

Mason is really the only recent defensive hire other than BB that was just fired to not have success and one could argue he has done just fine.


So to finalize the point. While the rest of the nation keeps hiring offensive guys the SEC is showing that hiring a defensive guy is the way to go and with 2 teams in rhe playoff it's hard to argue with that.
 
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Not surprisingly, 75 percent of the top 25 teams the last 3 years are also offensive coaches. They win, they make things exciting, fans love them.
 
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Rucker: Is defense-first really the best fit for Tennessee Vols football in this coaching search?

If Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee are consistently recruiting the same kinds of players for the same kinds of systems, the Vols will lose more of those battles than they win. That’s not pessimism. It’s a safe bet, and it’s based on historical fact. Perhaps a Pruitt or Venables could take the Tennessee job and generate enough momentum to consistently beat Alabama and Georgia on the recruiting trail, but I wouldn’t bet a mortgage payment on it.

Look at the head coaches of teams that beat Alabama in recent seasons: Gus Malzahn, Hugh Freeze, Kevin Sumlin, Dabo Swinney. All offensive-minded guys. Sure, Malzahn hiring Steele and transforming Auburn defense was great, and you could say the same for Swinney with Venables, but the kinds of teams that beat Alabama are still the types that spread the field and take the Tide out of the phone booth.

But as someone who respects Fulmer as much as I’ve always respected him, part of me wonders if the guys atop his head-coaching board are an extension of the mindset that got him fired from Tennessee nine years ago.

When I look at Tennessee’s current situation, I still see someone like a Mike Leach or Mike Norvell or Chad Morris being a better fit for the program. But I’m not the athletic director, and Fulmer has forgotten more about football than I’ll ever know, so perhaps it’s better to sit down, shut up and see whether he fixes it his way.
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