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

If you are a kid currently playing defense in high school and you're good at it - reading this thread - beware of what's going on in college football. Your defensive skills are being neutralized by high speed no huddle offenses run by offensive minded coaches that won't give your coach a chance to teach you how to play a pro defense. You will become a reactive player always on your heels reacting only - never aggressively attacking the line of scrimmage like NFL defensive players.

Your skills will be devalued and all the coach will care about is that you stay trim and fast so you can react to what you see - never think, or scheme, or attack. You'll never be part of a plan in a complex defensive strategy. You'll just be another chump - a throw away defensive neanderthal with ZERO long term value or potential to any team.

That's the future for defense players in the HUNH era.