[Norm Peterson]

^^The reason I ask the above, is because, I know of a school (smaller classification than Southwestern) that had the following Def. Pts given up:

'10- 30.6/game
'11- 25.3/game
'12- 19.6/game

This same team had roughly 8-10 of these defensive players who also played offense. They literally never came off the field. Guess what the difference in each year was? In '10, they were Sophmores. 2011 they were juniors. 2012? You guessed it.

Is 19.6 even lights out? No. But in comparison, our 2A and 4A State Champions both gave up more than 15/game. Truth be told, if you aren't two platooning and/or just that much more athletically dominant than who you are playing, allowing less than 21 pts/game IMO is doing pretty dang well.

Point is, if Southwestern had a bunch of sophomores (or very few, if any seniors) on defense, then I wouldn't worry all that much.

It wasn't the players maturity. They had no chance to succeed in that scheme.