re: Arkansas Football Summer Offseason Thread **WR Maleek Barkley finally announces transfer**

Not seeing Richardson at nickel is odd, but I am assuming he is starting nickel in pure pass situations, or when the personnel fits the situation better.

I am so glad with the defensive change we are doing.

I felt under the last staff that Derrick munson (the first guy to commit in 2016) would have never seen the field except special teams. Until I started seeing hints of this change, I had him pegged as a transfer candidate. The dude is fast as hell for his size, but is legit undersized for a LB, but is not quite the athlete to play safety. It seems we have decided to use a 4-2-5 defensive scheme, but the nickel is actually a star/jack lb. A safety/lb hybrid. Like what we had under petrino with Jericho nelson

Either way this first munson perfectly. Bert was too stubborn to ever try this defense. He only ran ancient base 4-3 or 3-4. This is the defense of the future. We need this type of defense to match up with these new spread offenses. We have moved that McClure kid to this position, and 1 other. We actually have a 3 deep playing this spot and I could not be more excited about it. We are going to Match up against these new offenses so much better.

Here is another example of bert recruiting guys, and not adjusting his system to fit his players. He recruited 300- 315 lb o line guys who weren't mailers and tried to keep the same offense. He recruited what seems to be now 3 guys who's natural position is this hybrid player (that tons of teams are searching for and have a hard time finding at times) to stop these spread offenses, and they would have rode the bench instead of helping this team.

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The defense was at its best in a 3-2-6 alignment (3 linemen, 2 linebackers and 6 defensive backs).

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he wasn't kidding about wanting to be multiple