but it seems like you are worried that our team will tank this year due to coaching.

Take a look at last year. We had many games that we lost where we scored plenty of points to win with our normal D. Now, the D had a horrible year, but when you look at it in context, we had a ton go pro and some early, we also lost a couple of starters due to off the field problems and one to on the field problems. Of the game we lost last year, just looking at scores, we would have normally only lost the ND game and the Miami game. The GT games would have been a toss-up.

Last year was an aberration. This year will be better.