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Jim MF'n Leavitt

FLounder said:
Found this little gem last night. The guy also had Strong replacing Kiffin at SC.






By Colin Anderson, texassports.com

Austin, Texas -- The Longhorns defense’s of past once game opposing offense’s nightmares but in recent times this hasn’t been the case, last season the unit was forced to play under two different defensive coordinators after Manny Diaz was fired and the Longhorns moved onto Greg Robinson and whilst under Robinson the team showed major improvements it still wasn't good enough for Robinson to keep his job under new head coach Chad Morris.

A few days ago Morris hired a young, inspiring offensive coordinator in Jeff Scott but today the 45-year old head coach looked more at age and knowledge when hiring Jim Leavitt as the new defensive coordinator for the Texas Longhorns.

As the head coach of South Florida from 1997 to 2009, Leavitt had a record of 95-57 and during that time he was heavily courted by the likes of Alabama and whilst his time at South Florida ended in controversy it didn’t stop Jim Harbaugh hiring him when he took over in San Francisco and under the likes of Vic Fangio and Jim Leavitt the 49ers have had one of the most if not the most feared defense's in the NFL and under the coaching of Jim Leavitt, Navorro Bowman has become an elite linebacker with the 49ers.

“Honestly, I wouldn’t have left the 49ers for any other job,” Leavitt said. “My passion has always been in the college game but when you are competing for Superbowl's it would have been hard to leave an organisation like the 49ers for anything less than what has been offered to me here in Texas.”

The Texas native Leavitt has agreed to a three year deal with the Longhorns to work alongside both Jeff Scott and Chad Morris.
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Is Colin Anderson, like, 14 years old? He needs to take some creative writing classes. Or something.
 
http://www.philsteele.com/Blogs/2016/APRIL16/DBApril06.html

11th most improved scoring defense in the country last year.

Most Impoved Scoring Defenses
Tm 2015 2014 Diff Rank
North Carolina 343 507 -164 1
Illinois 279 442 -163 2
WKU 363 519 -156 3
Georgia St 368 520 -152 4
Vanderbilt 252 399 -147 5
Toledo 249 396 -147 5
Ohio St 196 330 -134 7
Florida St 227 358 -131 8
Wisconsin 178 291 -113 9
Boise St 263 375 -112 10
Colorado 357 468 -111 11
 
J.R. Ewing said:
CU Points per game allowed on Defense:

2012 - 46
2013 - 38.3
2014 - 39
2015 - 27.5
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JL is a badass. Agree with S2S...won't see a similar point change, but a similar % change would be awesome! The D was good enough to win more games last year...the O and particularly the OL sucked hog balls.
 
That's the thing too. Even tho our offense will play faster, they should do so at a more efficient rate. All those 3 and outs put our defense on the field a ton anyway. As long as we can convert long, sustaining scoring drives, I think our defense can improve even with the quicker pace.
 
J.R. Ewing said:
CU Points per game allowed on Defense:

2012 - 46
2013 - 38.3
2014 - 39
2015 - 27.5
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FORTY-FREAKING-SIX??? I still have nightmares about watching that Fresno State game. Can't believe I watched that entire game. Seeing the team bust out a big ol can of quit, early in the first half, was demoralizing. On the plus side, we shut out Oregon in the 4th quarter. The fact that they already had 70, hardly seems relevant.
 
J.R. Ewing said:
CU Points per game allowed on Defense:

2012 - 46
2013 - 38.3
2014 - 39
2015 - 27.5
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My God those 2012 numbers were awful. AVERAGE 46 pts per game given up? I get angry every time I see stats like that and think about how far Jon Embree set this program back.
 
sackman said:
My God those 2012 numbers were awful. AVERAGE 46 pts per game given up? I get angry every time I see stats like that and think about how far Jon Embree set this program back.
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Considering our Pac opponents mostly pulled their starters early in the third, it could have been far worse.
 
bombay said:
Had a popular revolt not risen - and I think it came from here - it's entirely possible that Embree would have been back in '13.
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Damn straight.

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sackman said:
My God those 2012 numbers were awful. AVERAGE 46 pts per game given up? I get angry every time I see stats like that and think about how far Jon Embree set this program back.
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It also provides some perspective on the hole MMac had. Not providing excuses...as I think we should be further along...just perspective.
 
bombay said:
Had a popular revolt not risen - and I think it came from here - it's entirely possible that Embree would have been back in '13.
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I'd say it was as much an elite revolt as a popular revolt one...big time boosters had enough.
 
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