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Also have people forgotten how much better Stanford played defensively in the second half in many games this year?  He was being praised for his adjustments. My goodness it is amazing how coach centric people are. When they lose. He had half a defense vs TCU. No Holder. No Alfieri. No Cotton. I think Robinson went down. Then he loses Reid. Coaching is aligned with talent. It’s amazing how much “better” coaches are when they have superior talent to work with.

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2.) Has Lance Armstrong had a good year as DC yet?  Or is this subject taboo?  I know his recruiting in invaluable, but there's been a notable drop off after Mason and Fangio have left.

I don't know about Lance Armstrong's qualifications as a DC. But with Lance Anderson as Stanford's defensive coordinator:

*  the Card have always been in the Pac-12's top three in scoring defense. (1st in '14, 3rd in '15, 2nd the last two years)

*  no Pac-12 team forced more turnovers this year than Stanford. All the more amazing considering that two years ago, the Cardinal were 11th (out of 12) in that category.

*  speaking of the 2015 defense, even though they rarely forced turnovers, they were still 3rd in the Pac-12 in total defense (a stat I don't like using), and 2nd in third-down defense (a much, much more revealing statistic).

*  oh, and that 2015 defense played in the Rose Bowl. And didn't allow any points at all until that game was way out of hand.

*  besides reading box scores and watching football through a spreadsheet, football observers know that Lance is as good as it gets when it comes to making effective in-game adjustments. Ask the UCLA and Washington teams that faced Anderson's defense this year for their thoughts on this.

Seems to me that folks aren't wondering why Lance Anderson hasn't had a good year at Stanford yet not because it's a taboo subject, but because it's not a subject at all. Anderson has had better nights than he had in San Antonio (having a healthy Justin Reid certainly would've helped matters in that second half), but the assertion that he has not been a good defensive coordinator simply is not true, statistically or empirically.

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Also have people forgotten how much better Stanford played defensively in the second half in many games this year?  He was being praised for his adjustments. My goodness it is amazing how coach centric people are. When they lose. He had half a defense vs TCU. No Holder. No Alfieri. No Cotton. I think Robinson went down. Then he loses Reid. Coaching is aligned with talent. It’s amazing how much “better” coaches are when they have superior talent to work with.

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2.) Has Lance Armstrong had a good year as DC yet?  Or is this subject taboo?  I know his recruiting in invaluable, but there's been a notable drop off after Mason and Fangio have left.

I don't know about Lance Armstrong's qualifications as a DC. But with Lance Anderson as Stanford's defensive coordinator:

*  the Card have always been in the Pac-12's top three in scoring defense. (1st in '14, 3rd in '15, 2nd the last two years)

*  no Pac-12 team forced more turnovers this year than Stanford. All the more amazing considering that two years ago, the Cardinal were 11th (out of 12) in that category.

*  speaking of the 2015 defense, even though they rarely forced turnovers, they were still 3rd in the Pac-12 in total defense (a stat I don't like using), and 2nd in third-down defense (a much, much more revealing statistic).

*  oh, and that 2015 defense played in the Rose Bowl. And didn't allow any points at all until that game was way out of hand.

*  besides reading box scores and watching football through a spreadsheet, football observers know that Lance is as good as it gets when it comes to making effective in-game adjustments. Ask the UCLA and Washington teams that faced Anderson's defense this year for their thoughts on this.

Seems to me that folks aren't wondering why Lance Anderson hasn't had a good year at Stanford yet not because it's a taboo subject, but because it's not a subject at all. Anderson has had better nights than he had in San Antonio (having a healthy Justin Reid certainly would've helped matters in that second half), but the assertion that he has not been a good defensive coordinator simply is not true, statistically or empirically.

Troy C
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