re: Why would any kid who plays defense ever want to play for Gus Malzahn?

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This leaves the defense with only one defensive option: to react. Reactionary defenses are, by necessity, on their heels. It’s not possible to be an aggressive defense when there is no time to call defensive plays or scheme & substitute for down and distance situations. All the defense can do is react by returning to its position on the field for a quick tempo snap or call timeout. Not allowing the defense to scheme, call defensive plays, and substitute to defend specific down and distance situations means “Best on Best” rarely occurs at crucial times in the game and the winner of the game is ultimately determined by which offense can get back to the line the quickest and run a string of consecutive plays in the shortest period of time – not which team has the better athletes.

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Seems to me that you're making the argument that players on D should want to play for Gus as opposed to playing against him.