Agree on WKU offense, they are very sound fundamentally and with both teams running an up tempo scheme, I would've been surprised if they didn't get to at least 21 by the end of the game. We were very sloppy defensively, missed assignments, players not staying home on basic run plays led to several of their gash plays. Jurrell Casey misread the hole on a couple of their runs, Monster overcommitted to the pass and took himself out of the play leading to their largest run of the day(on the upside we saw McCullough has really good speed for someone standing at 6'5, 230) Sanguinetti misread a run and played counter on an inside zone. In his defense, that was a very well designed play, WKU pulled both their Guard and TE to fool the defense into thinking it was a counter but the point is, it turned what should be a five yard pickup into a gain of twenty. They've gotta clean up their their tackling and stick to their assigments the rest of the way, because Idk about y'all, but I don't think our offense will be able to bail them out against most of our future opponents.
I really wasn't very impressed with their defense though, we saw what Penix did to them last year, the biggest difference in our performance YoY was the guy distributing the ball. Our running backs and O-line showed that pound for pound, our players are more talented than theirs when they're executing even close to properly. Penix tore them apart last year and made it look easy. That game leaves me cautious for any optimism about Bazelak, he needs to be more consistent if we want a chance to compete against high quality opponents.
