“It’s Coach Korel,” head coach Willie Taggart said after FAU’s 45-14 win over Fordham last week. “That’s what he wants and the defense will give it to him."
During practice that week, redshirt senior cornerback Korel Smith [photo] sat in that same chair and wanted one thing: for the Owls defense to get to the ball and stop the run.
"I would like for us to swarm the ball more, like a sea of red," Smith said, remembering that phrase from a coach at FAU from one of his prior years with the school. "I'd like for us to get back to that and get all 11 attacking the ball, tagging off on the running back or whoever has the ball.