It’s a college football trope that anytime a team gets a new defensive coordinator they talk about how the defense is going to be more attacking. However, this time it’s almost certainly true. Ted Roof’s defense generally finished near the bottom of the country in Havoc Rate, a measure of a team’s tackles for loss, passes defended, and fumbles forced. It is used as a proxy of how attacking a defense is. On the other hand, Nate Woody’s Appalachian State defenses tended to finish in the top 30.
In this article Saint-Amour talks about the differences that he’s noticed after going through spring practice with Woody and new D-Line Coach Jerome Riase.