Your Teryl Austin Stat Crib Sheet

But, the truth is our D sucked this year and we ceraintly didn’t play as tough a schedule as Florida.

I understand why folks are upset that we may not be hiring Shannon, but I am more than willing to give Austin a chance and I think his resume’ looks pretty darn good.

was clutch?

Austin wasn’t overly impressive as DC down at UF. Despite the ridiculous talent he had at hand his defenses gave up over 30 points in half their SEC games, including against offenses as anemic as LSU (92th), South Carolina (50th), and Georgia (48th) . UF even gave up almost twice as many points to FSU as OU did, and OU’s defense is pretty average (not to mention OU took their foot off the gas and let FSU get a trash TD). Statistically UF looked a lot better than they actually were (on defense) thanks to all the creampuffs on their schedule, but whenever they played teams with similar talent they crumbled like a 10 day old cookie.

It surprises me a team with UT’s stature in college football didn’t try to do better than hiring Austin. Of course he hasn’t been OC for long so there is a lot of room for improvement. Still, weird that Mack would settle on this guy. This is a huge downgrade from Muschamp.

Don’t get me wrong, I worship at the altar or Boom and wish more than anything he stayed on and eventually ascended to HC for us, but when you’re analyzing these 2010 stats you have to remember a few things lost in the numbers, in my humble opinion.

First, Florida only scored ONE offensive touchdown all season. One. Florida still had a winning record and is going to a bowl. Guess what was happening on the other side of the ball to make that happen? And yes, like us, Florida lost a lot of talent on D as well coming into this season. Did our vaunted D carry us to the happy place?

On that note, our D, while full of potential, honestly seemed to quit in the UCLA game and several times later. I understand their frustration, given Greg Davis’ epic failures that put them in bad position after bad position but honestly Will has to wear that. Those were his troops and they didn’t show up to fight. Not saying that response isn’t human nature, but it’s not professional, and not up to the standards of an elite, winning program.

So, while I think most of us would rather that Boom never left the 40, let’s at least be a little grateful that Teryl Austin is even a name being mentioned, and respect what the man did at Florida.

Hook ’Em!