I can’t disagree with that. We seen how a lack of a kicker last year cost us at least 1, if not 2 games last year. We went 5-7 but had we had decent to great kicker, we go 6-6 to 7-5 instead and that’s with a good to great kicker added in. I think Conner Culp will fix that issue from game 1 and him being here for a year, if not 2 years gives our true freshmen kickers time to develop. We added 3 true freshmen that were ranked 4 and half stars and one was ranked a 5 star kicker/punter (Crawford from Oklahoma).
Our defense has improved every year Chin has been here. When he got here, he literally took over the absolute worst defense in the BIG 10 and each year he has made our defense better. So honestly, I’m expecting and hoping for another jump this year in year 3. We have a good secondary, Dline has talent and depth and we got some talent and options at ILBs.
It’s our OLBs, can Jojo, Caleb Tannor, G Nelson and so on set the edges, get more pressure on the QBs and so on? I have a feeling Dawson will do much better with our OLBs then the previous OLB coach but by how much is left to be seen. We have some talent (some young still) and options there for Dawson. Let’s see how he attacks things. GBR