Joe DeForest was not in a pleasant mood after yesterday’s game, which is not a surprise. I’d wager heavily that meeting with the media so that he might discuss the defensive performance was at the bottom of his ideal itinerary.

But that’s our job and that’s his job and we did our jobs — and kudos to him for that because it would have been easier for him to not come out and face the questions. Someone else hid, so why not him?

Yet he was a little feisty and pulled the “You watched the game” card a few times to answer questions that — and I’m putting words him his mouth here — he likely did not want to answer.

And then this happened.

It was so bad, a sometimes speechless DeForest, who spent 10 minutes with the media after the game, began turning around and asking his own questions.

(Sorry Joe, we think we know, but we don’t know).

Of course, DeForest wasn’t asking for advice. He was trying to make a point.

“You guys ask me questions, I’m going to ask you questions. Do you look at the No. 1 offenses in the country? Can you list them? It’s Baylor, West Virginia, it’s Oklahoma State. What do they run? It’s the exact same thing. You have to measure success differently in this league. It’s not how many yards you give up, it’s not how many points. Obviously it’s not acceptable to do what we did (Saturday), neither one of those, but it’s the way of life versus those offenses. Ultimately, you have to make one more stop than they do, one more turnover than they do, and you’ll win the game. That’s what we did. It’s still not acceptable, but that’s what we did to win the game.”

I’m still digesting what to think of the defense — and certainly I’m as attuned as anyone about the flashy offenses and the changing way success is measured, given the amount of extrapolations I’ve scooped up and written.

Probably the most reasonable thing I’ve come up with is this: What WVU’s offense did to Baylor’s defense is what happens when the very good meets the very average in this league. No one is burning down the Baylor defense right now, so it’s likely fair to extend WVU’s defense, and Baylor’s offense, the same courtesy.