Seems like this board has two kinds of people: those who ignore facts to dispute that Fleck is doing a better job than Kill, and those who ignore facts to overstate how much better Fleck is doing than Kill did.
Fleck's B1G winning percentage is definitely higher with too big a sample size for...
My post didnt say the defense was the problem, nor did it argue whether the 3 man rush was a good idea or a bad idea (though ive shared my thoughts on that elsewhere). I was just answering the question of what we did that was conservative, and 3 man rush on third and long certainly is.
It was stunning to see almost an entire team, coaches and players, all show up as disinterested and unprepared for a rival game against a team that, while we were underdogs, was by no means out of our league. I know not every week is your week, and sometimes you are going to lose one you wish...
Its 3-d chess. If we keep doing it despite it being an obviously a bad idea and proving time and again it doesn't work, eventually the other team will assume we cant possibly be dumb enough to keep doing it and they wont be ready for it.