it was halftime in the nw game.
but up until that point i had accountabilities attitude of "this defense has to be better than it was in 2012." and after wyoming and sdsu and the collapse against ucla i was pretty sure it was going to be a long season. then after minny, i was pretty afraid. good thing they figured it out though. we will see how they come out at the start of next year.
I never had that feeling about the defense last year. I knew they were probably more talented, but that the youth and inexperience would be an issue. The Wyoming deal really did not shock me. I was way more surprised by the offense's pants-crapping against UCLA than the defense's. But we saw glimpses of potential on that side of the ball. The Minnesota game was just the 2013 version of Bo's week. Outside of that we saw pretty steady improvement. Even before this halftime deal against NW, the defense had their way with Illinois and Purdue. Bad teams or not, they did what they were supposed to do.
You guys make it sound like a coach never asks his players their opinion on what is working and what isn't working. Only a stupid coach would be arrogant enough not to listen to and take into account what their players are telling them.
This happens all the time, it happens every game. Sometimes the game plan doesn't work, cause the other team has a game plan also.
