2011 Bama Defense - Historical Comparison
by Bamapride on Jan 11, 2012 2:42 PM CST
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PrintIf you recall Kleph had a post back in October, providing a historical comparison for Bama defenses. I'm sure an in depth piece will surface later, but curiosity got the best of me.
Below is using the data provided in the previous post which someone has already updated (THANK YOU!). In order to keep this post short, I just looked at the best defenses dating back to 1961. The conclusion, and someone please check my data, is Bama's D for 2011 was ranked 3rd going all the way back to 1961. They out-performed both the 2009 and 1992 Bama defenses which have been used on many occasions for modern day comparisons.
Congratulations to an outstanding performance!!!
Details are after the jump.
Historical Comparison – Bama Defenses
Source: Alabama Defensive Totals
Year: 1961 | Games: 11 | PYPG: 75.4 | RYPG: 60.1 | PPG: 2.3 | Rank: 1
Year: 1979 | Games: 12 | PYPG: 92.1 | RYPG: 101.5 | PPG: 5.6 | Rank: 2
Year: 1992 | Games: 13 | PYPG: 147.9 | RYPG: 52.3 | PPG: 8.6 | Rank: 4
Year: 2009 | Games: 14 | PYPG: 168.6 | RYPG: 72.6 | PPG: 11.7 | Rank: 5
Year: 2011 | Games: 13 | PYPG: 111.5 | RYPG: 72.2 | PPG: 8.2 | Rank: 3
PYPG = Avg passing yds allowed per game
RYPG = Avg rushing yds allowed per game
PPG = Avg points allowed per game
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Good stats.
I loved the 61 team. But in fairness, football has changed so much since then that I think the 11 D is probably our best D ever considering the competition. Each generation plays the game a little bit different so it really is hard to compare, but in 61 I felt like (well I was an 8 year old kid) a 17 pt. lead, no matter where we were in the game was insermountable (sp?.) Today I feel like a 31 pt. lead puts the game out of reach.
I can promise you this…Monday night was the best single game defense in the history of Alabama…ever…when you consider the competition.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
I agree although I wasn't born until '61.
There is no way to tell how this team would fare against the offenses of prior seasons but with the overall emphasis on offense in the modern collegiate game, it stands to reason that a modern defense would have to be superior to post the stats that this team posted.
I am truly in awe of this years team.
"All I wanna do is drive around in my truck and drink Jack Daniels... and they just don't understand."- Kenny Stabler
Monday night, I felt like a 15 point lead was insurmountable.
Granted, that was in the fourth quarter.
God bless our Dark Lord.
By the look on the LSU players' faces...
They felt that way too ;-)
Talent can only get you so far. Give me a player who has less talent, but the heart of a champion and the will to succeed.
'11 D > ___ .
The game has evolved so much in the last ten years, let alone forty. More is asked of each player than back in the day. It’s hard to say how players on the older teams would fare nowadays with modern strength and conditioning and coaching, but I would still take this year’s group compared to any’s.
Remember
Those older guys played both ways too. I see players now grabbing for oxygen on the sidelines. They didn’t have oxygen or fans or air conditioners or domes to play in…etc.
I’m not inferring that the guys these days aren’t as ‘in shape’ because they are in better shape in a lot of ways. But I would put money that the oldtimers were ‘tougher’. Just reminding the younguns that, so as to not be dissin’ on the old guys. Now, I, on the other hand, would pass out today if I had to run one wind sprint, so, well, you know. Ha.
Attempting to remove humor from posts since August 30, 2011
Conjunction
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." -Coach Bear Bryant
"I thInk everybody should take the attItude that we’re workIng to be a champIon, that we want to be a champIon In everythIng that we do. every choIce, every decIsIon, everythIng that we do every day, we want to be a champIon."
-- Nick SabaN
by Tokeisch on Jan 12, 2012 11:09 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses....
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 13, 2012 7:44 AM CST up reply actions
There was one:
“F-F-F-U-U-U-U-U-U-D-D-G-G-G-E….”
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 13, 2012 7:45 AM CST up reply actions
Well, like, duh!
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 13, 2012 8:16 AM CST up reply actions
Sometimes . . .
you lead by 9 at the half and have under-produced on several scoring opportunities and you’re just waiting for the axe to fall. This time it felt like we were the ones with the axe.
We were the ones with Fat Man and Little Boy...
…let the reverse caption contest commence….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 13, 2012 7:46 AM CST up reply actions
I felt differently on 11/5 because of all the missed FGs
No matter how you count 'em, we've got more --- Roll Tide!
The 2011 Tide Defense:
The greatest defense in the history of college football.
I felt we had sealed the victory when we put together the scoring drive at the end of the first half. Little did I know that Marquis Maze cinched it with the final play of his college career.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 12, 2012 9:48 AM CST reply actions
i'll have more on this next week...
SB Nation's The Historical: Because all those games way back when matter.
You'll get no complaints from us...
…zereaux….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 12, 2012 10:31 AM CST up reply actions
Nice…
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." -Coach Bear Bryant
"I thInk everybody should take the attItude that we’re workIng to be a champIon, that we want to be a champIon In everythIng that we do. every choIce, every decIsIon, everythIng that we do every day, we want to be a champIon."
-- Nick SabaN
by Tokeisch on Jan 12, 2012 11:10 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Totally different game.
Since 1961, two platoon, freshmen can play, scholarship reductions, early exit to NFL, racial integration, rules changed to favor offense, innovative offensive schemes, bigger, faster players.
The 1961, 1979, 1992, 2011 teams were probably the best for their respective times.
If the 2012 D is as at least as good as 2010, and the O improves under AJ, our stable of RB’s, and hopefully Duron, and Adam is as good as we hope, we got a chance.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
(12-4)+2=12 hoping for a +1
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Jan 13, 2012 4:36 AM CST reply actions
I'm hesitant...
…to anoint the ’79 defense the same way, but I definitely agree about the other three….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 13, 2012 7:48 AM CST up reply actions
if you look at the numbers
1979 is legitimate.
SB Nation's The Historical: Because all those games way back when matter.
I'm aware of the team's numbers...
…but I haven’t seen the type of comparison between them and the other defenses of the era that I have with ‘61, ’92, and ’11 to draw the same conclusions I do with the other three defenses. I’m not ruling them out, I just haven’t seen the data.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 13, 2012 3:24 PM CST up reply actions
Also to end the season...
With such a dominant performance. The thing that irritates me the most when reading some of the articles out there is stuff like:
1) Play calling by LSU was horrible
2) Jordan Jefferson was horrible
3) No vertical shots downfield
4) Why no change of pace with J Lee?
Answers to the above:
1) Yes they tried to go with option reads/speed option to the edge to no avail – BECAUSE that’s the ONLY thing that has been remotely successful against this D all year!!!
2) A good defense is SUPPOSED to make the QB look bad. If he had more time, he would have looked better.
3) Again vertical plays downfiled require TIME to get them down there – WHICH JJ did not have – AT ALL.
4) Switch to J Lee – Sure do that – And re-live the pick six fiesta or worse – HEY LEE, THE PAIN TRAIN’S COMIN’!!! He has no scamble ability to you got yourself a QB who is one step a way from being put into a body bag!!
Talent can only get you so far. Give me a player who has less talent, but the heart of a champion and the will to succeed.
Another 1992 to 2011 comparison
In both 1992 and 2011, Alabama was not ranked #1 until after the championship game.
When will the voters learn?
Fourteen and counting
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