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Introduction
Cue Sarah McLachlan singing, “I Will Remember You” as we watch Brent Pry walk out the door towards Blacksburg. An Altoona man with an Alabama accent, Pry orchestrated steady, reliable and occasionally dominant defensive units throughout his six-season reign as DC in Happy Valley. That level of consistency on defense was the Yin to the offense’s erratic Yang – explosive in 2017, plodding in 2020, one-dimensional in 2021. For his final act wearing blue and white, Pry and his talent-rich defense compiled one of the best statistical defensive performances in recent history…which we’re about to explore.
Our format for this Penn State Defense Year-in-Review will mirror what we did earlier this week with the offense: basic stats first, more complicated advanced stats second. Unlike the offense blog post from Monday, however, the stats/numbers in this defense article won’t need a NSFW warning. In fact, you might gain a newfound appreciation for Pry after reading this one.
As always – all data herein is only against FBS competition (sorry Villanova) unless otherwise noted.
