re: A quote from another site confirms what we've thought all along

Some strange thoughts in this thread.

Let me just preface it by saying that I'm not thrilled with CTG.

With that said, this playbook stuff is mostly nonsense.

In 2010, Grantham's first year, we were 23rd in total defense.

In 2011, Grantham's second year, we moved up to 5th.

How come our entire squad was able to learn the defense by year 2 when he first started, despite 90% being recruited for a 4-3 and having never played in a 3-4 if the defense is too hard for kids to learn in a couple of years?

You guys are too blinded by your hate of CTG to realize how ridiculous it is to say things like "3rd and 4th year guys can't even learn it because it's so complex." Of course they can. Our entire squad learned it in 2 when he first got here. If a player doesn't learn it in 3 or 4, that's completely on them.

Further, I can't believe anyone is surprised that the defense has struggled. We replaced everyone. We're playing freshmen behind freshmen. What do you guys expect?

I've got some more news for you because I can look into my crystal ball here. Next year after Murray leaves, our offense is going to take a step back. It won't be as good. There will be times where Hutson Mason and the receivers look out of sync. Guess what, the year after that with a redshirt freshman, we'll be even worse. Our offense will stall regularly. It won't be because Bobo doesn't know what he's doing. It won't be because it's too complex. It will be because inexperienced guys make mistakes from inexperience and uncertainty.

Now, if you want to complain about how we don't seem to grasp that when we tackle someone we want them to move backwards, or that Damian Swann hasn't used his arms in a tackle yet this year, or how we have a terrible habit of leaving our feet for no reason and it causes us to miss tackles, or that when we blitz we too often stay engaged with the block instead of defeating the block, or any of the other multitude of mistakes we make repeatedly then I'm all for it.

But this playbook crap is mostly for the birds. If we hadn't self imposed sanctions down to 70 players a couple years ago and had a roster of up and coming JRs and SRs on the field on defense, you wouldn't see near as much confusion or other issues.