The Union can’t defend, might as well attack

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY SportsDoes anyone remember the 1980s Western Athletic Conference in college football? Teams like BYU, Nevada, and San Diego State were constantly involved in high-scoring shoot-outs, with defense taking a back seat to 62-59 barnburners where the ball was thrown 45+ times a game and no one east of the Mississippi took them seriously at all. The stodgy old Big Ten teams, the still-relevant Big Eight powers, and the SEC all sniffed at the high-scoring games, the lack of defense, instead deriding them as “amateurs”. The traditional teams still ran the triple-option, the wishbone, or designed multiple off-tackle runs into stout defenses. They won boring 14-7 games while the WAC teams would lose crazy shootouts.

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