Some commentary and stats on UGA

Let's start with a solid balanced look at the Dawgs from Matt Hinton at Dr. Saturday. (ht - DawgSports.com)

Then we can move on to a stats oriented overview of the Dawg season so far from SicemDawgs.com. The stats are harsh, but they are what they are.

I only thing I don't like from his post is the comparison of the numbers of Van Gorder's defenses to those from Willie Martinez. I think that's somewhat unfair or misleading due to the apples to orange nature of the statistical comparison.

The SEC is a much tougher league today, and Willie doesn't have some of the horses that BVG had...many of whom neither recruited.

That's not to disparage what Van Gorder did (or SicemDawg's post for that matter). BVG was an excellent coordinator for us, and the product on the field was clearly better. It's just that the SEC today is tougher and more explosive offensively and defensively because coaching has been upgraded around us which makes the stats part of the conversation misleading:

• Bama traded Coach Fran and Mike Shula for Nick Saban = Upgrade
  
• Florida traded Ron Zook for Urban Meyer = Upgrade
  
• South Carolina traded Lou Holtz for Steve Spurrier = Upgrade
  
• LSU swapped Nick Saban for Les Milses and the results are the same or better

Personally, I don't care about our recent defenses vs. our past defenses. My concern is our current defense vs. our current competition. And that's pretty visible in the other stats on Sicemdawgs' site. It's also visible from ignoring the stats and just watching the tape.


PWD