As a college football defensive coordinator, Joe Lee Dunn was all about tendencies.
He didn’t have any.
That, at least, was his goal – to confuse and panic opposing offenses with the controlled chaos of his blitz-happy 3-3-5 alignment.
And, yes, there was a tendency for an offense to panic against a defense that might rush seven on one play and drop nine into coverage the next.
Dunn, who came to the University of New Mexico as a defensive coordinator in 1980 and was the Lobos’ head coach from 1983-86, died on Tuesday at his home in Columbus, Georgia.