The Deuce: Yep--and if you have to choose one over the other, choose offense

There is definitely a higher correlation between high level success and high level offense. But I don't get why he has framed it as an either/or in the past. Because it's also clear you have to have a top 25 defense to compete at the level he wants, and his teams simply do not produce that consistently.

Even at SFA, adjusting for the mid major level, he was producing elite offenses (relatively speaking) and atrocious defenses.

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Which I agree with, but if you're going to also go after so many less than athletic players, you need to have a scheme to at least be decent on the other end.

People started joking that we've turned into Fran's Iowa teams, but....yeah....maybe we are. A little higher ceiling maybe but the lack of D is concerning.