Tuesday morning, West Virginia head soccer coach Neal Brown made the choice to half methods with defensive coordinator Jordan Lesley, in keeping with Pete Thamel of ESPN. Particular groups coordinator/ inside linebackers coach Jeff Koonz will take over because the interim DC.
Can verify that WVU has fired Jordan Lesley as defensive coordinator. 247 first reported. Sources inform ESPN that Jeff Koonz will take over because the DC transferring ahead.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) October 29, 2024
Lesley’s unit at present ranks 113th nationally out of 133 FBS colleges in passing yards allowed per sport (261.1) and 84th nationally in complete protection (382.5).
The Mountaineers have struggled to search out solutions in opposition to the go all season lengthy and this previous Saturday, that was placed on full show as Arizona star Tetairoa McMillan went for over 200 yards receiving. McMillan placing up large numbers comes as no shock, however there have been two performs that ought to have by no means occurred, each of which concerned Lesley calling a Tampa 2 protection, that means linebacker Trey Lathan lined the deep center of the sphere. Each performs resulted in big features by McMillan, considered one of which was a landing.
“Not good protection,” Neal Brown mentioned of these two performs. “Perhaps when you get caught. What we’re doing is taking part in a Tampa 2 the place he’s operating the center. On the primary one, if we get to the quarterback, it’s a non-issue. He truly performed it fairly effectively however the scramble, he bought out-athleted. A kind of, okay, however we should always have by no means put him in that place once more. That’s not Trey’s fault.”
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