Will John Chavis challenge the status quo?

[mj4president]

That's what we all need to know. Does he want to breathe that fire again?

[Flrazrback]

Actually I tend to believe he would. There is alot of positive energy in the program, we have young aggressive coaching on offense, and I can see it being very motivational. No doubt Coach Chavis has the knowledge and experience to work magic, he is an older guy but he ain't dead yet.. lol

[Rzback]

I think we need a good mix of older and younger proven defensive coaches, those that can stop the run and those that can attack the spread. Maybe co-DC's but doubt Chavis would agree to that.

[SultanofSwine]

I hope CCM challenges Chavis to tool and retool the defense until he can stop Morris' offense every day in practice. Iron sharpens iron and I get the sense that Chavis was held back at aTm similar to how BP held the defense back here

[Rzback]

I hope CCM challenges Chavis to tool and retool the defense until he can stop Morris' offense every day in practice. Iron sharpens iron and I get the sense that Chavis was held back at aTm similar to how BP held the defense back here

That thought crossed my mind too but why would Sumlin do that?

[HawgHawk]

That thought crossed my mind too but why would Sumlin do that?

Why did BP do it? More concerned with offense, and seriously thought they could always outscore the other team.

[Dr. Starcs]

Iron sharpens iron and I get the sense that Chavis was held back at aTm similar to how BP held the defense back here

Wool over eyes

[Ragnar Hogbrok]

Give him a couple of Red Bulls and let's see what happens.

[MuskogeeHogFan]

That's what we all need to know. Does he want to breathe that fire again?

Here's what he has done at LSU and A&M. I think his defenses do better when the defensive plays/gm are in the 60's, generally speaking. 70 or more and they seem to do worse.

Check the Pts/Yd allowed as well. I just wonder how he will do with our defense when the offense is running 70+ plays p/game next year, assuming he is announced. It's easy to say, "just get more 3 and outs", but I think we all know that is more difficult to do than to say.

Chavis                                    
                                    
Team   Year   Def Plays   Games   Play/Gm   D Yds/Gm   Scoring D   Pts/Play   Pts/Yd   D Rank   O Rank   W   L
LSU     2009      910         13         70.0        327.6        16.2         0.23       0.049       26       112      9   4
LSU     2010      822         13         63.2        307.2        18.2         0.29       0.059       12        86      11   2
LSU     2011      897         14         64.1        252.1        10.5         0.16       0.042        2        86      13   1
LSU     2012      897         13         69.0        307.6        17.5         0.25       0.057        8        85      10   3
LSU     2013      872         13         67.1        340.7        22.0         0.33       0.065       15        35      10   3
LSU     2014      845         13         65.0        316.8        17.5         0.27       0.055        9        77       8    5
A&M    2015      912         13         70.2        380.0        22.0         0.31       0.058       51        50       8    5
A&M    2016     1035        13         79.6        441.8        24.5         0.31       0.055        90        24       8    5
A&M    2017      943         13         72.5        408.5        30.7         0.42       0.075       78        57       7     6

For reference and in comparison, here is our scoring defense over the same period of time.

   Ark
Year   Scoring D
2009   25.1
2010   23.4
2011   22.2
2012   30.4
2013   30.8
2014   19.2
2015   27.4
2016   31.1
2017   36.2

[MuskogeeHogFan]

Look above and compare what Chavis has achieved (bad end this year) particularly with regard to scoring defense and compare that to what we have done. If he is the man, surely he can't do anything but help our situation.

[mj4president]

The longer this goes I think it could be Brent, he'd challenge the status quo for sure.

[Dr. Starcs]

The longer this goes I think it could be Brent, he'd challenge the status quo for sure.

Could we get that lucky?

[Torqued pork]

I don't think Morris would hire a coach if he didn't think the coach has considerable passion for the game.

[hoglady]

Chavis deserves majors props for his work at LSU - when their offense was abysmal most of his time there.

[WOOPIGDOOIE]

Could we get that lucky?

No. No we can not