(09-26-2016 03:14 PM)svvandal Wrote: Why is Troy so much better this year? Scoring offense stats looks great and scoring defense isn't too shabby, either.
Second year in the system. Recruiting the last two cycles under brown has been much better. True freshman Jabir Frye has added a huge spark to the team.
Our DC was Clemson's DC from 2005 to 2008. He had Top 15 defenses at Clemson. The man can flat out coach. Head Coach Neal Brown was Texas Tech's OC from 2010 to 2012 and had Top 25 offenses all three years. Our DT coach was EMCC's DC (149 sacks over three years) during three national championship runs. We really believe we have the best coaching staff in the SBC. Our coaches P5 experience and results from those schools way outperform (to my knowledge) anyone else in the SBC. Nearly everyone on staff had been a coach at Troy beforehand. This is a dreamteam TROY staff through and through.
HC Neal Brown was Troy's OC/WR coach from 2006-2009, all four years were title years. DC Vic Koenning was Troy's DC 2003-2004 and had a 10th ranked defense one of those years. Vic was most recently North Carolina's DC.
Our OL coach Matt Moore was at Troy for one year during a title run, 2006 I think. He's been at MTSU, LATECH, and Texas Tech where he posted Top 10 in sacks allowed. We currently have only been sacked once, by Clemson.
Neal has also stressed recruiting length and size. Was are way bigger than 2014, and somewhat bigger than we were during Troy's title run. We are running a monster 231 back behind a line that's 6'4"+ 300+.
TL;DR: We caught a shooting star getting a staff with this much P5 success.