The defense picked up right where it left off as Richmond limited the high-powered Elon offense to 10 second-quarter points last week, just 235 yards of total offense, and a meager 22 yards on the ground. The Spiders sacked All-American QB Scott Riddle three times and held All-American WR Terrell Hudgins to 78 yards and no TDs. That tandem averaged 347.0 yards passing and 134.0 yards receiving, respectively, last season. As a team, Elon put up 36.4 points per game and averaged 421.5 in total offense in 2007.

In addition to Huesman, coach Mike London retained Dave Legg and former Wahoo Byron Thweatt on the defensive coaching staff while adding Jeff Hanson to coach the defensive front and former Virginia assistant Vincent Brown to coach the linebackers.

While London retained Huesman, the expectation is that defense will have London’s mark on it. So while we can draw some conclusions and tendencies from the Spider defenses of the last five years, as was the case with the offense, expect the unexpected Saturday.

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