I don't think it's sound logic to just want defense to be good if you want to win it all.
You have to score. Scoring puts pressure on other teams to score. This is USC's real strength. Florida and Oh.St could also score points. Most good teams have good offenses.
But yeah, D is very important but you can lose a low scoring game because of poor offense.
And who said they wanted "just wanted a defense to be good"? Nobody.
I did state that have a very good defense is FAR more important than having a good offense.
Quick, name the national champs that had a GREAT offense but a poor defense.....you can't.
Now name the national champs who had a GREAT defense but a so so offense....you can start rattling off some names. Florida this past year..Ohio State in '02.
But the one key thing all national champs have is good defenses...all of them. Some of them have not so good offenses.
Like I said...we could make marginal improvements offensively over last year but if our special teams is about the same and our defense is very good then you can take it to the bank that we'll win 8-9 games.
Auburn had a below avg. offense last year...but their defense was amazing.