Bobby Petrino was not thrilled with Louisville’s defense for the majority of last season.
After a 2016 season where former defensive coordinator Todd Grantham orchestrated a squad that was often aggressive to a fault, replacement Peter Sirmon was well… worse. Sirmon’s defense was lackadaisical, boring, and lacked aggression- basically the complete opposite of everything Grantham was.
Brian VanGorder is Louisville’s 3rd defensive coordinator in as many years, and figures to be a happy medium between the previous two coordinators.
VanGorder is going to be less aggressive than Grantham- most everyone is- but will certainly light more of a fire under a defense that was lackluster a season ago.