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[L'Étranger]

What was Akron's defense like? First three Google hits:

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/22

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats ... lldef/2021

​​​​​​https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/ye ... fense.html

Avg 125 out of 130 FBS teams

(ETA: To be fair, their offense avg 111, so you can play 'the chicken or the egg' with that team)
 

[Necks2003]

What was Akron's defense like? First three Google hits:

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/22

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats ... lldef/2021

​​​​​​https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/ye ... fense.html

Avg 125 out of 130 FBS teams


 

Well, I am pretty sure we can't do any worse defensively than we did last year. Every game was primarily over by halftime to actually make our defensive stats look ever better than they should have.
 

[leatherneckcountry]

What was Akron's defense like? First three Google hits:

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/22

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats ... lldef/2021

​​​​​​https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/ye ... fense.html

Avg 125 out of 130 FBS teams



 

Well, I am pretty sure we can't do any worse defensively than we did last year. Every game was primarily over by halftime to actually make our defensive stats look ever better than they should have.
 

 

Plus his defense was very good at Chattanooga. 
 

[L'Étranger]

What was Akron's defense like? First three Google hits:

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/22

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats ... lldef/2021

​​​​​​https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/ye ... fense.html

Avg 125 out of 130 FBS teams




 

Well, I am pretty sure we can't do any worse defensively than we did last year. Every game was primarily over by halftime to actually make our defensive stats look ever better than they should have.
 


 

We'll have to agree to disagree there, and again Chicken or the Egg. Did our one-dimensional offense contribute to a higher % of 3 & Out, thereby grinding down the D, or was the D fully capable of %%$#@ing up on their own?

BUT to say "every game" is a bit much. E Wash, whoever we went to 2 OT with, and I think one of the other 2 #7 teams, (if not more) all went to the wire. THEN we screwed the pooch at the end.
 

[ST_Lawson]

Plus his defense was very good at Chattanooga.
 

That's true. Now, he did only coach the LBs for 1 year (2017), then was DC for 1 year (2018), before becoming DC for Akron, but they did have a somewhat decent defense when he was there.
Here's his bio from Akron's athletics site: https://gozips.com/sports/football/rost ... feeney/726
And here's the stats from Chattanooga in 2018 for you to peruse:

[GV Dad]

Jeremiah Wilson is now listed in the directory. Excited for this Coach

[leatherneckcountry]

Quinn Schafer is now in the directory he was the QB coach at U INDY but also looks like he was on Staff at Northern State with Myers. 

[Leatherneck57]

Quinn Schafer is now in the directory he was the QB coach at U INDY but also looks like he was on Staff at Northern State with Myers. 

 

This is really a nice addition to our staff.  He’s from Ft. Wayne, played at Valpo which gives us a recruiting connection in Indiana.
 

[L'Étranger]

For those scoring at home...assuming everyone mentioned here has signed on the dotted line

Myers Hendrickson- WIU '11, KWU '15
2012-2012    Auburn University (DQC)
2013-2013    Holmes CC (RB)
2014–2015    Kansas Wesleyan U (QB/WR)
2016–2017    Coe College (OC)
2018-2018    Northern State (QB/OC)
2019–2021    Kansas Wesleyan
2022–present    Western Illinois

Dyrell Roberts- Virginia Tech '12
2013-2015 Smithfield HS, VA (Asst HC/Co-OC)
2015-2015 ASA Jr College (WR)
2015-2016 Earlham College (WR/ST/S&C)
2016-2017 St Joseph's Coll of Indiana (WR/ST)
2017-2019 Norfolk State University (WR/ST/RC)
2019-      Western Illinois  (WR/ST)

Zach Grant- Illinois '16
2017-2019 Illinois (Off GA)
2020-    Western Illinois (RB)

Brandon Kreczmer- WIU '10/'12
2012-2013 Illinois College (LB)
2013-2019 Newman Catholic HS. IL (LB/DC--timeline?)
2019-2022 Newman Catholic HS. IL (HC)
2022-     Western Illinois

Jeremy Curry- WIU '12
2015-2016 Rochester Community and Technical College (LB)
2016-2017 Alfred State College - SUNY College of Technology (DL)
2018-2020 Buena Vista University (OLB)
2020-2021 St Louis Catholic HS, LA (DC)
2021-2022 Lake Charles College Prep (DL)
2022-      Western Illinois

Matt Feeney- John Carroll University '14
2014-2016 John Carroll University (GA--LB)
2017-2018 UT Chattanooga (LB)
2018-2018 UT Chattanooga (DC)
2019-2021 Akron (DC)
2022-     Western Illinois 

Jeremiah Wilson-Huntingdon College '09, FSU '17?
2010-2012 Amos Golby HS, FL (Secondary)
2013-2014 Florida State (DQC)
2014-2017 Florida State (Def GA)
2018-2018 UT Chattanooga (CB)
2019-2020 Tennessee (DQC)
2021-2021 Akron (DB)
2022-     Western Illinois

Quinn Schafer- Valparaiso '13
2012-2014 Chesterton HS, IN (QB)
2014-2014 University of St Francis (Asst QB)
2015-2015 Coe College (QB)
2016-2016 Coe College (RB)
2017-2018 Lake Forest College (QB)
2019-2019 Northern State (OC/QB)
2020-2022 University of Indianapolis (QB)
2022-     Western Illinois

 
 
 
 

[leatherneckcountry]

I'm very interested to see who we bring in as our line coaches i'm guessing curry will serve as the DLine coach . Outside of the DC position I think the line coaches will be Myers most important hires. I don't feel like we've had a good Oline coach since AJ left.