UNIVERSITY PARK -- Watching the SMU defense was an at times painful experience in 2017. It was among the worst in the country in yards allowed, in large part because of missed tackles that littered the field like bags of chips under a freeway overpass.
New defensive coordinator Kevin Kane is trying to change that with a new mindset: Attack.
When Sonny Dykes took the SMU head coaching job, he made defensive coordinator one of his biggest priorities. As he poured over the data and spoke to people in the industry, Kane, then the coordinator at Northern Illinois, kept coming up.