- January 9th, 2024, 10:11 am
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Defense is a game of layers and the first layer in the DL. I am not sure why we're losing Kendy to potentially just another G5. Is there a backstory there? Having this kid from Wake come in is potentially going to help. We still have Jennings from UNC right? I don't think he played much last year though. Carroll comes back along with Bush and Bazile. Hopefully, after some additional time with Coach Scott over the next 6 months, those guys progress even more. The best defense we ever had though was 2 years ago, when we were able to dominate the front vs. most teams w/ Johnson, Charles and Osagiede. That defense was legit. The turnover last year hurt, but I think we slightly overperformed on Defense if you ask me, primarily because of the takeaways in the secondary. We just have to get better all-around on that side of the ball though if we want to be able to maintain our status as one of, if not the top G5.
One other thing, does anyone feel like our recruiting has taken a step up? There seemed to be some hope that with us having the type of season we had that it would pay dividends in that arena. I'm seeing lots of noise about who JMU is adding in the portal right now, with transfers from P5 squads across the board, but on our end, it seems mostly limited to other G5s / JUCO still. Maybe it's just me... just curious how others feel?