Well I think people are over rating our offense as if we are great. Good yes but not great. Throw all the stats out you want, hype up tommie armstrong all you want. If you stare down your receivers, and you can't go through your progressions you can still be good at the college level but not great. You can get away with it some, but have we not noticed the untimely turnovers??? Tommie's shear talent over comes some of it which is why the offense is still good, but we will always be subject to turnovers like OT in Miami, unless that is fixed.
As for the defense. I'm not expecting any improvement from the defense. People just assume the defense will get better, they just disagree on how long it will take. I'm not convinced it will ever happen to be honest. I think the defense needs to find a pulse first before we start thinking about expectations. Right now I don't have any expectations for the team. I don't even expect bowl games anymore, in fact just the opposite, I think we will miss the bowl season from time to time. So why should our staff be ranked higher? It doesn't matter it you refuse to accept it or not. It is what it is.